Britain on Wednesday defended its tax-slashing budget after the IMF argued it could increase inequality and worsen inflation, having already seen the pound hit a record low against the dollar ▶️ u.afp.com/io6K
#BREAKING Bank of England buys UK bonds over markets turmoil
#BREAKING British pound slumps 1.5% against dollar despite Bank of England bond-buying move
#UPDATE The British pound slumped 1.7 percent against the haven dollar on Wednesday, despite the Bank of England snapping up UK government bonds to try to bring calm to markets ▶️ u.afp.com/ioE3
#UPDATE The British pound rebounded Wednesday afternoon, rallying more than one percent against the dollar after the Bank of England snapped up UK government bonds to try to bring calm to markets.
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#BREAKING Nord Stream leaks in Baltic Sea due to blasts equal to 'several hundred kilos' of TNT explosive: Danish-Swedish report to UN
#BREAKING Russian President Putin accuses West of organising 'explosions' that caused Nord Stream gas leaks
#UPDATE The four leaks affecting the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea were caused by underwater explosions corresponding to hundreds of kilogrammes of explosives, a Danish-Swedish report to the UN said on Friday ▶️ u.afp.com/iJim
#BREAKING Shots heard near Burkina Faso's presidential palace: witnesses
#UPDATE Shots were heard early Friday around Burkina Faso's presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta, which seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told AFP ▶️ u.afp.com/iJJN
VIDEO: 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: soldiers block the street behind PM's office
Troops block the street behind the prime minister's office in Ouagadougou as gunfire was heard in the Burkinabe capital early Friday. State television is no longer broadcasting.
#BREAKING 23 killed in shelling of humanitarian convoy in Ukraine's south: governor
#BREAKING Moscow-installed official in Kherson region killed in Ukrainian strike: agencies
#UPDATE A governor in Ukraine's south on Friday blamed Moscow for shelling a 'civilian humanitarian convoy' in the country's Zaporizhzhia region that killed at least 23 people on the front line ▶️ u.afp.com/iJJi
#BREAKING Blast at educational centre in Afghan capital causes casualties: police
#BREAKING At least 19 killed in suicide bombing at Kabul education centre: police
#UPDATE A suicide attack at a learning centre in the Afghan capital has killed 19 people as students prepared for university entrance exams, police say.
The blast happened in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul, a predominantly Shiite Muslim area
VIDEO: A Finnish border officer explains that they have seen an up to 40% increase in traffic on the border with Russia since Moscow's military call-up announcement last Wednesday.
#BREAKING Finland to close border to Russians with EU tourism visas from Friday: govt
#UPDATE Finland will bar Russians with Schengen tourist visas from entering the country from Friday, the government said Thursday following a surge in arrivals after Moscow's mobilisation order for the war in #Ukraine