The World Bank has forecast a bleak outlook for the global economy with growth expected to slow down for a third year in a row in 2024, according to its Global Economic Prospects report released on Tuesday. The report projects the world economic growth to come down further to 2.4 per cent in 2024, before edging up to 2.7 perc ent in 2025 -- well below the 3.1 percent average growth seen in the 2010s.
The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip exceeded 23,000, the Gaza-based Health Ministry said. The Ministry said on Monday in a press statement that the Israeli army killed 249 Palestinians and wounded 510 others during the past 24 hours, Xinhua news agency reported.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that it is his "working assumption" that general elections will take place in the second half of 2024, a media report said. Speaking in East Midlands, Sunak was asked if he knew when Britons will head to the polls, Sky News reported.
A shooting that happened at a high school in Perry Town, Iowa, killed a 6th-grade student and injured five others, while the shooter, a 17-year-old student, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to US law enforcement officials. The five injured, including four students and an administrator, are in Des Moines hospitals for treatment,
A total of 222 people were reported missing in Ishikawa as of 2:00 p.m. local time on Friday and the missing individuals, with a significant number being elderly residents, are predominantly concentrated in the cities of Wajima and Suzu, according to local media. On day five of the earthquake, the most-hit coastal city of Wajima still faces over 40 cases of people being buried and trapped under collapses.
A 49-year-old gun-wielding man was arrested for opening fire inside a shop owned by an Indian national before going on a rampage outside a packed cinema in England's Liverpool city. The Merseyside Police said they were called to the News and Booze store, known locally as Sangha Newsagents, on Lower House Lane, Norris Green, at around 8.30 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday.
