TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core consumer price inflation probably accelerated in November, driven by persistently high rice prices and the phasing out of utility subsidies, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The core consumer price index (CPI), which includes oil products but excludes fresh food prices, was expected to have risen 2.6% in N

An Israeli strike in the central section of the Gaza Strip resulted in numerous fatalities on Thursday, according to Palestinian reports. At least 25 Palestinians have lost their lives in the refugee district of Nuseirat, medical sources in the Gaza Strip said. According to these sources, Israel’s military targeted residential buildings there. The

Jordan said on Thursday it would host talks for top diplomats to discuss developments in neighbouring Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s toppling. Foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain and the Arab League chief will meet on Saturday in the Red Sea city of Aqaba, the Jordanian [

By Hernan Nessi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s economy is expected to have contracted 2.6% in the third quarter of 2024 versus a year earlier, the sixth straight such decline, but expanded against the quarter before, breaking a technical recession going back to the end of last year. A Reuters poll on Thursday, involving 13 [&helli

A new French prime minister will be annonced by President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, his office has said. Just over a week after the fall of the centre-right government headed by Michel Barnier, Macron will try to nominate a unifying figure, although media reports say there is no clear frontrunner. Centre-right politician François Bayrou, 73, [&hel