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USD/SGD edged lower in the afternoon Asian session, weighed by signs of cooling U.S. inflation that may back the case for less Fed tightening.

The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes on the northern West Bank city of Jenin overnight, and large numbers of soldiers were reported in the area as part of a new and major operation to target “extensive counter-terror activity”.

Israel forces launch lethal strike on West Bank’s Jenin  CNN Three Palestinians killed as Israel attacks West Bank city of Jenin  Al Jazeera English Israeli strikes on Palestinian Jenin camp in West Bank  BBC IDF strikes in Jenin, launches ‘widescale effort against terror’

Anger, resentment, grief – that is the message from Marseille.

Narendra Modi has been doing the rounds on the international stage – most recently meeting US President Joe Biden in Washington, where he received a 21-gun salute during his visit. India’s prime minister is also currently negotiating a free trade

With housing in short supply, developers are converting more empty offices into apartments. But not all buildings are candidates for reuse, even as more than one billion square feet of office space sits vacant across the country.

Jigar Shah, who runs the Energy Department’s loan program, is trying to hand out a lot of money for green-technology projects, while navigating an unforgiving political environment.

The high-profile payroll survey could be overestimating job growth because of quirks in how the data are calculated.

Billionaire Masayoshi Son said he would make SoftBank “the investment company for the AI revolution” but he missed out on the most recent frenzy.

Russia Seeds New Surveillance Tech to Squash Ukraine War Dissent  The New York Times