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Added on the 01/12/2016 18:48:25 - Copyright : RT Ruptly EN
The US Federal Reserve has voted to hold interest rates at a 22-year high for a second straight meeting. "Today we decided to leave our policy interest rate unchanged," announces Fed chair Jerome Powell. SOUNDBITE
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announces that the US Federal Reserve has voted to keep interest rates at a 22-year high, between 5.25 percent and 5.50 percent. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of worshippers attend a historic service at the famed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery as Ukrainians marked Orthodox Christmas under the shadow of war. In a first, Metropolitan Epifaniy, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, leads a Christmas divine liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral of the 11th century Lavra, the pro-Western country's most signifiant Orthodox monastery. IMAGES
Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer, a month after Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine. IMAGES
Police officers carry out checks and arrests ahead of the first presidential campaign rally by far-right candidate Eric Zemmour at the Parc des Expositions in Villepinte, on the outskirts of Paris. IMAGES