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Dilok Klaisataporn/iStock via Getty Images With just two trading days left in 2024, influential strategist Torsten Slok is out with his market outlook for 2025. Slok, chief economist at Apollo, which has more than $500B in AUM, highlights 12 risks to global markets (NYSEARCA: Source link

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By Ju-min Park and Dogyun Kim MUAN COUNTY, South Korea (Reuters) – Jeon Je-young keeps playing the video of the plane with his daughter and another 180 people on board slamming into a wall and bursting into flames at a South Korean airport. His daughter Mi-sook died on board. He still can’t believe it. “When I saw the accident video, the plane seemed out of control,” said 71-year-old Jeon. “The pilots probably had no choice but to do it. My daughter, who is only in her mid-40s, ended up like this. This is unbelievable.” Mi-sook was a warm-hearted child, he…

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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hostages held in Gaza were subjected to torture, including sexual and psychological abuse, starvation, burns and medical neglect, according to a new report by the Israeli Health Ministry that will be submitted to the United Nations this week. The report is based on interviews with the medical and welfare teams which treated more than 100 Israeli and foreign hostages, most of whom were released in late November 2023, in a brief truce between Israel and Hamas. Eight hostages were rescued by the Israeli military. The hostages include more than 30 children and teenagers, a…

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By Hongji Kim, Hyunsu Yim and Ju-min Park MUAN, South Korea (Reuters) -At least 85 people were killed when an airliner landed without wheels, veering off the runway and erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said. Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board, was attempting to land shortly after 9 a.m. (0000 GMT) at the airport in the south of the country, South Korea’s transport ministry said. The ministry also confirmed the casualties in the deadliest…

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The AROON and Volatility Pivot Forex Trading Strategy combines two powerful indicators that provide traders with a clear understanding of market trends and potential price movements. The AROON indicator is a trend-following tool designed to measure the strength and direction of a trend by analyzing the time elapsed since the highest and lowest prices within a specified period. It helps traders determine whether a market is trending or moving sideways, offering valuable insights into trend reversals and confirmations. When paired with the Volatility Pivot, a tool that identifies key price levels based on market volatility, the strategy allows traders to…

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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a policy-setting key meeting of the country’s ruling party last week ahead of the new year, state media KCNA reported on Sunday. The “strongest” response strategy towards the United States was declared during the party meeting for the country’s safety and national interests, the report said, without providing any details. The trilateral alliance between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan has expanded to a “nuclear military bloc” and South Korea has become an “anti-communism outpost” for the U.S., the KCNA report added. “The reality clearly suggests which…

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By Dave Graham ZURICH (Reuters) -The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen’s main airport carried out by Israel a day earlier during a series of attacks on the Iran-aligned Houthi movement. Speaking after his ordeal at the Sanaa International Airport on Thursday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the explosions that rocked the building were so deafening that his ears were still ringing more than a day later. Tedros said it quickly became apparent the airport was under attack, describing people “running in…

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