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Health authorities in Gaza said that Israeli soldiers shot dead more than 100 people and wounded hundreds more who were queuing for aid trucks.

The Israel Defence Forces, or IDF, said that dozens were actually victims of a stampede that broke out when the trucks arrived.

Neither account has been confirmed, but multiple outlets cited an Israeli military official who said the IDF fired on people who were deemed a threat.

President Joe Biden said that the incident would complicate ongoing ceasefire talks.

The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation in America fell to 2.4% in January,

from 2.6 in December.

The year-on-year rise in the personal consumption expenditures or PCE

price index was the lowest for almost three years.

Fooling inflation will bolster expectations that the Fed,

which aims for PCE inflation of 2%,

will cut interest rates this year.

The prosecutor's office in Chad reported that Yayardillo,

an opposition leader, was killed by government forces in a gun battle near the

headquarters of his party. The violence in N-Germina, the capital erupted ahead of a

historic presidential election,

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