The Bank of Japan has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at around 0.5 percent, signaling caution despite a recent trade agreement with the United States. Japan's central bank decided in a policy meeting on Thursday to maintain its short-term rate for a fourth consecutive time.
US President Donald Trump told major pharmaceutical firms Thursday to lower prices or face punishment, as he moved to give Americans relief from medicine costs much higher than elsewhere in the world.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has signed a new bill to secure the independence of anti-corruption bodies. The previous law was enacted on July 22 to place two anti-corruption agencies under the control of the president-appointed prosecutor general.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 days with the goal of signing a trade deal. Trump said in a Truth Social post after a phone conversation with Mexican President Sheinbaum. Trump stressed the unique complexities of a deal with Mexico due to the shared border of the two countries.
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