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  Bloomberg Policy makers should move beyond short-term budget and inflation targets that leave their economies exposed to longer-term debt bubbles like the ones hindering growth since the 2008 financial crisis, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said. Central banks with inflation targets like Canada’s are finding that the benefits gained from short-term stability can create dangers in the background ...

  Bloomberg Sun International Ltd. headed for the biggest three-day gain in seven years in Johannesburg after the hotel operator won approval for the merger of its Latin American assets with Dreams SA. It’s poised for the largest gain since March 2009 in the three sessions after Sun International reported completing sign-off for the transaction from gambling regulators. Volume traded ...

  Bloomberg JinkoSolar Holding Co., the photovoltaic maker that has shipped the most panels this year, said demand for its top-branded products is prompting it to expand capacity even as a potential supply glut looms over the industry in the second half of the year. A growing solar market has prompted manufactures to build up more capacity. The top three ...

  Bloomberg Brazil’s market for distressed consumer and small-business debt will increase about 9 percent this year as the nation’s worst recession in a century drives banks to sell assets, according to estimates by one of the biggest investors in the securities. Banks will unload portfolios of non-performing loans with a face value of about 25 billion reais ($7 billion) ...

  Bloomberg Environmental officials worked to contain a small sheen of oil on the Columbia River after a Union Pacific Corp. train carrying a load of Bakken crude derailed near Mosier, Oregon, according to the company. Access to the site remains limited as the train continues to cool off following a fire that broke out after Friday’s accident, the Federal ...

  AFP Mayra de Ramos stood in line all day to buy two packs of corn flour and pasta, but the Venezuelan grandmother says it won’t be enough. She lives with her three children and three young grandchildren in Catia, a downtrodden neighborhood in Caracas. “My refrigerator is bare,” the 64-year-old pensioner says, showing its empty shelves. “We don’t eat ...

  BAGHDAD/ AP In March, a senior commander with the IS group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion. The killing of Abu Hayjaa Al Tunsi, a Tunisian extremist, sparked a panicked hunt within the group’s ranks for spies who could have tipped off the ...

  MANILA / AP The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighbourhoods. In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in the southern city of Davao celebrating last month’s ...

Beirut / AFP US-backed Syrian rebels advancing on IS group fighters in the strategic northern town of Manbij have progressed to within five kilometres of the extremist bastion, a monitor said on Sunday. Supported by air strikes by the US-led coalition battling IS in Syria and Iraq, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias launched an ...

Chittagong / AFP Suspected militants killed the wife of a senior anti-terror officer in the Bangladesh city of Chittagong on Sunday, the latest attack thought carried out by local extremists, police said. Three unidentified men stabbed and then shot Mahmuda Begum in the head as she walked her son to a school bus stop near her home, Chittagong Metropolitan Police ...