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1. U.S. Federal Reserve holds interest rate, saying it will take 'longer than expected' to start cutting

   

   The U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday and signaled it is still leaning toward eventual reductions in borrowing costs, but that cuts could be delayed as recent inflation numbers have strayed further from its two per cent target.

2. Demonstrators, counter-protesters clash at UCLA campus over Israel-Hamas war

   

   Violent clashes erupted on Wednesday on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demonstrators.

3. Trump, Republicans try to equate campus protests to Jan. 6 riot, Charlottesville rally

   

   Donald Trump on Tuesday lamented the possibility that Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Experts say comparisons to the Capitol riot, or an infamous 2017 Charlottesville rally, are strained.

4. What Canada can learn from Maine's approach to the lucrative baby eel fishery

   

   Authorities in Maine say they have figured out how to regulate a fishery that is so out of control in Canada, the federal government has shut it down this year — the third shutdown in five years — putting 1,100 people out of work.

5. Tennis legend Becker discharged from bankruptcy court despite still owing creditors $50M US

   

   German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found on Wednesday he had done "all that he reasonably could do" to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds.