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US central bank raises interest rates, warns of impact from Ukraine invasion

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The United States Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time since 2018, as it tries to cool inflation, which is running at the highest level in forty years. The Chair of the central bank, Jerome Powell, said the implications of the Russian invasion were "highly uncertain", pointing to the risk of disruption to supply chains. Also today, we look at details of the French goverment's plan to ease the economic impact of the Ukraine war.

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