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BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Mike Gibbons sat out the presidential election two years ago, frustrated that Democrat Kamala Harris did not take a stronger stand against Israel’s war in Gaza and unable to bring himself to cast a vote for Republican Donald Trump. That is not his plan this year. The 33-year-old restaurant server in this eastern Pennsylvania town that once housed one of the world’s largest steelmakers is eager […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh has brought sharp change in how the central bank communicates by saying much less than his predecessors about the economy and inflation. But so far, many economists and Wall Street investors haven’t been thrilled with that approach. On Friday, Warsh has a high-stakes opportunity to address those concerns and underscore his inflation-fighting bona fides when he gives his speech in Jackson […]

Aug 27 (Reuters) – Discount retailer Dollar General raised its annual comparable sales forecast on Thursday, betting on its lower-priced essentials to attract value-seeking shoppers amid macroeconomic uncertainty. The company expects annual same-store sales to grow in the range of 2.5% to 2.9%, compared with previous forecast of 2.2% to 2.7%. (Reporting by Shania S Thomas in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Indonesia stepped up security around parliament in the capital Jakarta and in other major cities on Thursday as demonstrators gathered for rallies, a year after a wave of violent anti-government protests erupted across the country. Thousands of students and civilians joined nationwide protests against the government’s spending priorities in August last year. Ten people were killed during the rioting, while nearly 7,000 […]

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming, Aug 27 (Reuters) – U.S. auto prices rose at a roughly 5% annualized pace in July, housing and utility costs increased at more than a 3.5% rate, and recreational goods prices soared by a double-digit pace as households swallowed a 3.7% jump in the cost of living, nearly double what the Federal Reserve has promised. The U.S. central bank has now […]

By Jan Lopatka Aug 27 (Reuters) – An arson attack planned by three suspects in eastern Slovakia targeted the drone maker Skyeton, the Slovak prosecution said on Thursday. The company produces intelligence gathering and targeting drones and has a facility in eastern Slovakia, according to its website.   “The attack was supposed to aim at the Skyeton company’s factory,” a spokesman for the regional prosecution office in the eastern city of […]

By Jekaterina Golubkova Aug 27 (Reuters) – Pavel Talankin, who filmed how one Russian school tried to justify the war in Ukraine to its students in a clandestine project for the Oscar-winning “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”, was guilty of treachery, his former teacher told Russian state TV. The documentary, by Talankin and David Borenstein, was based on two years of footage that Talankin recorded at a school where he was […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Regional powers sought an off-ramp from the war with Iran as another tanker attack was reported in the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran dismissed Washington’s latest sanctions. Elsewhere in the Middle East, a Jerusalem court acquitted a man accused of beating a Catholic nun but ordered him to undergo years of psychiatric hospitalization over the attack that drew global condemnation. Israel’s strikes in Gaza drew a sharp […]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norwegian King Harald was in “very serious condition” as his health deteriorated, palace officials said Thursday, prompting the queen and Crown Prince Haakon to cancel their engagements. The 89-year-old monarch, who has hemolytic anemia and has been on sick leave for several weeks, was admitted to the National Hospital in Oslo earlier this month. His condition had previously stabilized following a bacterial blood infection but the […]