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🔮 The 12-member Federal Open Market Committee voted 10-2 to hold rates at a target range between 3.75 and 4.00%, citing the need for more data in the fight against inflation, after having hiked for the first time in three years at its previous meeting in September.
“The accumulation of more information will help the Committee determine the policy stance appropriate to ensure a timely return of inflation to the Committee’s two percent goal,” the Fed said in a statement announcing its decision.
🔮 "We know that many of you around the world share in our mourning, and we will be following up on plans to recognise and celebrate her incredible life and legacy."
🔮 Israel’s President Isaac Herzog is known for his unassuming and mild manner, but all eyes will soon be on him as he decides who to task with forming the next coalition government.
🔮 Iran on Wednesday (October 28, 2026) warned of a devastating economic impact from any new Israeli-led attack, as the votes were counted in an Israeli election that could determine the future of the regional war.
🔮 They said they could not confirm any casualties on the Afghan side of the border.
🔮 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (October 28, 2026) that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky would be set up "very soon."
🔮 Benjamin Netanyahu looked set to remain Israel’s caretaker prime minister after unexpectedly strong backing among Jewish voters left his opponents little apparent prospect of unseating him, despite his right-wing bloc losing its parliamentary majority.
🔮 Both Mr. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister who is allied with far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties, and Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief leading a broad opposition bloc, said they would seek to form the next government.
But neither looks set to reach the 61-seat threshold, with Mr. Netanyahu's bloc projected to win 53 of the 120 seats in parliament and Eisenkot's opposition set for 48.
🔮 Jawzjan may be hundreds of kilometres (miles) from the frontiers with Iran and Pakistan, but Afghans have travelled far and wide to reach areas they or their relatives fled years earlier.
🔮 “We are speaking of approximately 64 (dead), but this is probably going to grow even more,” the leader of the central region of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano Garcia-Page, told reporters at the scene, raising a previous toll of 31.
Evacuated passengers streamed along a road near the scene, some splattered with blood or with their wounds bandaged, others wheeling suitcases and being given water by volunteers who said it had been donated from neighbouring towns.
Hundreds of ambulances, funeral home vans and helicopters were parked next to a train with several carriages sitting on an elevated section of track while twisted metal, broken panels and wreckage could be seen strewn across an embankment beneath the line where at least three carriages had plunged.
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