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Seoul, May 27 (EFE/EPA).- South Korea's central bank on Thursday raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 by one percentage point to 4 percent due to the progressive recovery of the economy while keeping interest rates unchanged at a record low of 0.5 percent.The Bank of Korea (BoK) also forecast that Asia's fourth largest economy will grow 3 percent in 2022.In the face of strong signs of recovery, the bank expects inflation this year to be 1.8 percent, half a percentage point above the previous forecast. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
Shortly before the start of curfew, several hundred people gather and set up tents on Place de la République in Paris with the help of several migrant support associations. IMAGES
Matamoros, Nov 9 (EFE).- Migrants who for more than a year have been living in a camp set up in the city of Matamoros along the Mexican side of the Rio Bravo - known in the US as the Rio Grande - are celebrating the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 US presidential election and are now hoping for the overturning of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) and the ability to enter the US legally.The news of President Donald Trump's defeat in the election spread quickly through the improvised camp via word of mouth and WhatsApp groups, and expectations are high that the US stance on migration will change markedly after Biden takes office on Jan. 20, 2021. (Camera: MARCO ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ).SHOT LIST: CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS CELEBRATE THE VICTORY OF US PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN AND PREPARE A DONALD TRUMP DOLL AS A SYMBOLIC ACT OF REJECTION OF HIS GOVERNMENT, IN THE BORDER CITY OF MATAMOROS, MEXICO. SOUND BITES: HONDURAN MIGRANTS MELINA MEJIA AND DENIS FLORES (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS:1. MELINA MEJIA, A HONDURAN MIGRANT. - I feel happy knowing that we have a new president who's going to value us because we've been suffering for a long time in the camp. We hope to accomplish what we wanted to. What we're hoping is that he'll help us because we don't want to be here any longer. We have come for the future of our kids.- My asylum request is being appealed. I presented evidence and nothing worked for me. We're hoping that this president can get things moving. 2. DENIS FLORES, A HONDURAN MIGRANT. - I'm almost sure that there are going to be more caravans to the US and especially from my country, Honduras, because our brothers there are devastated.
A national operation is being planned to deport families of illegal Central American immigrants who haven’t complied with court orders to leave the United States, a government official told The Wall Street Journal.
Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker recently staked out a new position on immigration by voicing opposition to legal immigration, suggesting that American workers and American wages are adversely affected by immigration as a whole.
An immense cloud of smoke billows over the central Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli border, as Israel continues to pound the Palestinian territory in its war against Hamas. IMAGES
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