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Bank of England cuts interest rate to 5%, in first drop for over four years 1 August 2024, 12:02 | Updated: 1 August 2024, 12:35 London, UK. 1 August 2024. A view of the Bank of England this morning. Picture: Alamy By Kit Heren @yung_chuvakThe Bank of England has cut interest rates to 5% from a 16-year high of 5.25%. Listen to this article Loading audio...The Banks nine-member Monetary Policy Committee voted to bring borrowing costs down on Thursday.The base interest rate rose quickly from late 2021 to a peak of 5.25% last summer, before remaining there for 12 months.The Bank has been battling to bring down inflation, which reached a peak of 11% in 2022, and has since fallen back to the target level of 2%. Thursdays decision was the first time the committee has brought the base rate down since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.The government said the rate cut was welcome news but reiterated that it still needed to take difficult decisions to repair the UKs finances.Read more: Blow for borrowers as Bank of England holds interest rates again at 5.25%Read more: Wages keep growing above inflation, dampening hopes for interest rate cut ahead of General Election Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England. Picture: AlamyThis echoes the Chancellors comments earlier this week that she needed to raise taxes and cut spending to fill a 拢20 Ekdg Fewer EU Nationals Living In UK Amid Brexit Crisis
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assads ouster earlier this month are now in Damascus to hold talks with the countrys new leaders and s eek information on the whereabouts of missing American journalist Austin Tice. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, former special envoy for Syria Daniel Rubinstein and the Biden administrations chief envoy for hostage negotiations, Roger Carstens, made the trip for talks with Syrias interim leaders, the State Department said early Friday. The team is also the first group of American diplomats to formally visit Syria in more than a decade since the U.S. shuttered its embassy in Damascus in 2012. They will be engaging directly with the Syrian people, including members of civil society, activists, members of different communities, and other Syrian voices about their vision for the future of their country and how the United States can help support them, the State Department said. At the top of their agenda will be information about Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012. And they will push the principles o f inclusion, protection of minorities and a rejection of terrorism and chemical weapons that the Biden administration says will be critical for any U.S. support for a new government. The U.S. has redoubled efforts to find Tice and return him home, saying officials have communicated with the rebels w
Bank of England cuts interest rate to 5%, in first drop for over four years 1 August 2024, 12:02 | Updated: 1 August 2024, 12:35 London, UK. 1 August 2024. A view of the Bank of England this morning. Picture: Alamy By Kit Heren @yung_chuvakThe Bank of England has cut interest rates to 5% from a 16-year high of 5.25%. Listen to this article Loading audio...The Banks nine-member Monetary Policy Committee voted to bring borrowing costs down on Thursday.The base interest rate rose quickly from late 2021 to a peak of 5.25% last summer, before remaining there for 12 months.The Bank has been battling to bring down inflation, which reached a peak of 11% in 2022, and has since fallen back to the target level of 2%. Thursdays decision was the first time the committee has brought the base rate down since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.The government said the rate cut was welcome news but reiterated that it still needed to take difficult decisions to repair the UKs finances.Read more: Blow for borrowers as Bank of England holds interest rates again at 5.25%Read more: Wages keep growing above inflation, dampening hopes for interest rate cut ahead of General Election Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England. Picture: AlamyThis echoes the Chancellors comments earlier this week that she needed to raise taxes and cut spending to fill a 拢20 Ekdg Fewer EU Nationals Living In UK Amid Brexit Crisis
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assads ouster earlier this month are now in Damascus to hold talks with the countrys new leaders and s eek information on the whereabouts of missing American journalist Austin Tice. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, former special envoy for Syria Daniel Rubinstein and the Biden administrations chief envoy for hostage negotiations, Roger Carstens, made the trip for talks with Syrias interim leaders, the State Department said early Friday. The team is also the first group of American diplomats to formally visit Syria in more than a decade since the U.S. shuttered its embassy in Damascus in 2012. They will be engaging directly with the Syrian people, including members of civil society, activists, members of different communities, and other Syrian voices about their vision for the future of their country and how the United States can help support them, the State Department said. At the top of their agenda will be information about Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012. And they will push the principles o f inclusion, protection of minorities and a rejection of terrorism and chemical weapons that the Biden administration says will be critical for any U.S. support for a new government. The U.S. has redoubled efforts to find Tice and return him home, saying officials have communicated with the rebels w
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