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The US Federal Reserve is "closely monitoring" the spread of the coronavirus and its potential impact on the global economy, its chairman has said.
Jerome Powell said there would "clearly be implications at least in the near term" for growth in China and neighbouring countries.
Mr Powell was speaking after the US central bank said it was keeping its
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Write comment (96 Comments)The current record for the hottest year is likely to be broken again within the next five years, the Met Office says.
As it stands, the hottest year on record was in 2016, when 1.16C of warming was recorded.
Analysis shows the five-year period from 2020 to 2024 is expected to be the hottest five years on record globally, as temperatures over the
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Write comment (91 Comments)A top Palestinian official has told Sky News that Donald Trump's plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians is a clear endorsement by the White House for the creation of an apartheid system.
The secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Saeb Erekat, said that the US president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Write comment (90 Comments)Boris Johnson has defended Donald Trump's proposed Middle East peace plan, after the Palestinians rejected the US president's "conspiracy deal".
The prime minister told MPs in the Commons that "no peace plan is perfect", but the US proposal "has the merit of a two-state solution".
Mr Johnson said the Israel-Palestine conflict had "bedevilled the
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Write comment (99 Comments)Tourism to the Antarctic is booming, but experts fear that the larger ships carrying passengers south are risking the lives of everyone on board.
Around 50,000 people visited Antarctica last austral summer - that is, summer for the southern hemisphere - about the same
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