MANILA :The Philippine central bank signaled on Monday it may deliver the first of two remaining interest rate cuts this year at its August 28 policy meeting as inflation remained subdued.Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli Remolona said it was “quite likely” the bank would lower its key policy…

Baggy pants-wearing rapper MC Hammer is being sued in a US court for allegedly failing to pay off a car loan. The man behind the 1990 megahit U Can’t Touch This is facing a lawsuit from JPMorgan Chase claiming he has stopped making payments on a luxury Land Rover. The suit, filed in a California court last week, names MC Hammer and U Can’t Touch This LLC as defendants in the case, claiming the bank…

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Outside the meeting at UN headquarters in New York, a small but noisy protest calling for an end to the conflict was met by a large police presence.Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said Friday that “this escalation by the Israeli government is going in total contradiction to the…

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WASHINGTON :Bo Hines, who headed Republican President Donald Trump’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, said on Saturday he was leaving his current role and returning to the private sector.Late last month, a cryptocurrency working group led by Hines and including several administration officials outlined the Trump administration’s stance on…

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Every relationship is unique – a delicate ecosystem influenced by partners’ pasts, preferences and particular foibles. And yet therapists who spend their days talking to couples say they tend to see and hear the same issues come up again and again: Partners who struggle to reconnect after arguments; lose their sense…