Web Stories Thursday, September 12

More than 2,000 people are involved in the mass – including 1,600 choir members, 390 Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, 656 wardens, 300 altar servers, 128 medics and nurses, and 260 crowd control personnel. Attendees must be seated by 3.30pm and the pontiff will arrive at 4.30pm. He will tour around the pitch of the National Stadium to greet the crowds on his Popemobile, a vehicle specially designed to allow him to be more visible during…

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NEW YORK: The US dollar was mixed overall on Wednesday (Sep 11) in choppy trading after data showed underlying inflation in the world’s largest economy rose in August, reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve will likely implement a smaller 25-basis-point interest rate cut option next week. The greenback posted gains…

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HANOI: Typhoon Yagi severely damaged a large number of factories and flooded warehouses in northern Vietnam’s export-oriented industrial hubs, forcing plants to shut, with some expected to take weeks to resume full operations, executives said. The typhoon, the strongest in Asia this year, made landfall in Vietnam’s northern coast on…

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