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Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill on Friday criticised calls for the central bank to "wait and see" how the Iran war pans out before changing policy.Pill said a wait-and-see approach could be confused as looking neutral on the threat of higher inflation, even if holding interest rates represents a tightening of policy against previous assumptions of interest rate cuts."If you're waiting and seeing and you don't see, then you've just waited," Pill told a roundtable event hosted by Barclays."And I'm not sure waiting is necessarily the appropriate response to the sort of inflationary dyna

Bank of England chief economist criticises calls to 'wait and see' on policy

Trump sidelined Congress’ authority over war on Iran – and lawmakers allowed it, extending a 75-year trend

Average of 47 women and girls killed daily during Gaza war, UN says

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Kremlin denies Putin is cut off from bad news after blogger's criticism goes viral

The Kremlin on Friday denied that President Vladimir Putin was insulated from bad news after a celebrity blogger accused unidentified top officials of not telling Russia's paramount leader the truth about the country's problems.Viktoria Bonya, a social media influencer who is well known inside Russia for her appearances on reality TV shows, said this week that she supported Putin and listed five problems which she said officials were not briefing him on honestly. Her video was watched more than 20 million times, liked over 1.4 million times, and attracted over 75,000 comments on Instagram.

First deportees from US arrive in Congo capital, sources say

‘Right to race’ laws and the battle over America’s local racetracks

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Bank of England's Pill sees inflation focus as top priority over other trade-offs

Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Friday that the central bank's main focus should be getting inflation to its 2% target."In my thinking, for all the discussion about trade-offs, which is there and we have to take into account, I think the primacy of keeping inflation towards target and keeping it there needs to be emphasised," Pill said at a roundtable discussion hosted by Barclays bank in Washington. BoE Governor Andrew Bailey told Reuters on April 1 that the central bank had to keep a clear focus on risks to growth and jobs as well as inflation when making its next decision

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Hungary's Magyar starts early EU talks to unblock funds

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Man accused of killing Charlie Kirk pushes to ban cameras from court

The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk wants a judge to ban cameras from the courtroom and says live broadcasts of the prosecution are violating his right to a fair trial. Tyler Robinson is due in court Friday as his attorneys press their claims that biased coverage is tainting potential jurors in his aggravated murder case. Among numerous examples cited was a New York Post story they say suggested Robinson confessed to Kirk's killing during a courtroom conversation on Dec. 11, in his first appearance after being charged. The conversation with his attorneys was in

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House agrees to 10-day extension of contentious surveillance law after GOP leaders’ push for more collapses

The House agreed early Friday morning on a short-term extension of a critical foreign surveillance program after GOP leaders suffered a stunning middle-of-the-night defeat in their attempt to renew it on a longer term basis.Republican leaders believed Thursday night they had struck a deal with conservative holdouts who harbor deep and longstanding concerns that a key piece of the warrantless surveillance law known as Section 702 infringes on Americans’ privacy rights.But in a pair of after-midnight votes, more than a dozen rank-and-file Republicans rejected the long-term reauthorization plan

Severe storm outbreak poised to clobber central US during relentless week of tornadoes, hail and floods

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to step down from agency

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Progressive Democrat wins New Jersey special election to succeed Mikie Sherrill

Voters in northern New Jersey chose Analilia Mejia, a progressive Democrat who worked on Senator Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential election campaign, as their next representative in a special election on Thursday, according to U.S. media.The race was called minutes after polls closed, with Mejia leading by nearly 40 percentage points in early returns.Mejia's election will narrow Republicans' grip on the U.S. House of Representatives heading into the November midterm elections. She was favored over Republican Randolph Township Councilman Joe Hathaway to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. R

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Arrest warrant issued for ICE officer accused of pulling gun on Minnesota driver

A warrant has been issued for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who allegedly pointed his government-issued firearm at another car and its passengers while driving on duty, prosecutors in Minnesota’s Hennepin County said Thursday.The case comes as local and state prosecutors and investigators have opened a flurry of cases in Minnesota over ICE officers’ conduct during the Trump administration’s “Metro Surge” immigration operation earlier this year, during which several people, including Alex Pretti and Renee Good, were shot and killed by Department of Homeland Security o

Sniping by justices underscores tension over Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax kills his wife and then himself, police say

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CEO of blacklisted Anthropic is going to the White House

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is visiting the White House on Friday for a high-stakes meeting with the president’s top adviser, while his AI company battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its Claude AI model.Amodei will meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, two sources familiar with the meeting told CNN. Axios first reported on the meeting. Anthropic declined to comment.Until recently, Anthropic’s Claude was the only AI model available in the Pentagon’s classified network. But President Donald Trump recently announced the administration would sever ties with

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The stunning underwater world that’s at risk as the Iran war drags on

Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf lies an ecological wonder. The highly contested Strait of Hormuz is home to dolphins and the most diverse coral population in the region, an underwater world that scientists say could be in jeopardy as conflict swirls around it.Currently, about 2,000 vessels trapped in the Gulf are carrying a total of around 21 billion liters of oil. There have been at least 16 attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf and near the Strait of Hormuz since the war broke out.Nina Noelle, a spokesperson from Greenpeace, an independent global campaigning network that fo

A fragile calm in Lebanon as a US-brokered truce holds and families head home

Lebanese return home as ceasefire with Israel mostly holds

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South Koreans breathe sighs of relief as escaped wolf is returned to zoo safely

The South Korean internet erupted in celebration as a 2-year-old wolf that escaped from a zoo in South Korea was captured safely Friday after a nine-day search that kept the nation on edge and made it a national celebrity. The male wolf, named Neukgu, burrowed out of his enclosure at the O-World zoo in Daejeon on April 8, prompting a search that gripped the nation and raised fears about his safety. Animal rights activists questioned whether the wolf could survive outside the zoo and also worried it might be killed during capture, something that happened to a puma that escaped fr

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How the first American pope is reclaiming Christian values from the Trump administration

Flying to Algeria at the start of his landmark tour of Africa on Monday, Pope Leo had a choice. He could ignore Donald Trump’s extraordinary overnight social media tirade against him, or he could tackle it head on.In the end, he chose the second option, taking the highly unusual step of calling out the Trump White House directly. Speaking to reporters on board the papal plane, the pope said he had “no fear of the Trump administration” and would not be deterred from speaking out “loudly” about the message of God.“I do not think the message of the Gospel should be abused, as some ar