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2012-01-29
The United States Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, has said its main interest rate is likely to remain exceptionally low until at least late 2014. The bank’s main policy-making committee said in a statement that growth is likely to be modest with inflation low and unemployment declining only gradually. The statement was read out by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke.
“To support of a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation over time is at levels consistent with our statue of mandate. The committee expects to maintain a highly accommodative stance for monetary policy. And particularly, the committee decided to keep the target range for the federal fund rate 0-0.25%, and currently anticipates economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal fund’s rate at least until late 2014.”
The same elite unit of US special force that killed Osama Ben Laden last year has successfully rescued two western aid workers kidnapped by pirates in Somalia. Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted were abducted on October while working for a Danish demining organization. Here is our security correspondent, Frend Governor.
The US military and the White House are celebrating today’s rescue mission as an unqualified success. Swooping in under cover of darkness, an elite team of US Navy Seal commanders parachuted into a remote thorn scrub in northern Somalia and moved in on the pirate camp where two western aid workers were held prisoner. The American Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted from Denmark were kidnapped by gunmen three months ago. And fears were growing for their chances of survival. The nine pirates holding them, reportedly suffering from the after-effect of chewing the narcotic cut leaf the day before, were quickly overpowered in an exchange of fire. All nine were killed. Both hostages were released unharmed and none of the rescue team were injured.
Doctors in Pakistan say contaminated medicines are believed to have killed at least 70 heart patients in the eastern city of Lahore. A hundred others are being monitored in hospitals. Some are said to be in a critical condition. Aura Garron reports from Islamabad.
The deaths are believed to be linked to a suspect batch of drugs given out in mid-December. A government official has told the BBC that 28,000 patients received the drugs. He denied the medications have no expiry dates. As other officials have claimed, several arrests have been made and at least one pharmaceutical firm has been closed. But relatives of the dead have accused the authorities of responding too late. Hospital sources have told the BBC they are under pressure to buy the cheapest drugs available.
The Senegalese musician, Youssou N'Dour, has registered to stand for the country’s presidential elections to be held on the 26th, February. He announced his plans to run earlier this month.
World News from the BBC.
The Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the country’s police chief after a spate of attacks by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. And the attack by Boko Haram in the northern city of Kano last Friday left 185 people dead and the group is suspected of striking again on Tuesday night. From Lagas, Mark Lobel reports.
The earlier retirement of Hafiz Ringim, Nigeria’s most senior police officer just weeks before his official leaving date, illustrates the urgent pressure on the authorities to restore public faith i本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。