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American employers added 187,000 jobs in August.

The unemployment rate ticked up unexpectedly to 3.8% as people returned to the labour force looking for jobs.

Average hourly wages rose by 4.3% on an annual basis, a smaller increase than in the previous month.

The subdued figures suggest that America's resilient labour market is calling and that the federal reserves fight to bring down inflation is going to plan.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi, a city in southern Russia on Monday.

They are expected to discuss Russia's return to the UN broker deal which had allowed Ukraine to export grain by ship across the Black Sea.

Russia withdrew from the deal in July and demanded that restrictions be eased on some of its own exports.

Taman Shanmoo Granlam, who served as Singapore's deputy prime minister until the start of his campaign, was elected the country's new president.

Mr. Taman, who has long time ties with the People's Action Party, 170.4% of the vote.

The role is largely ceremonial.

A landslide win is seen as a vote of confidence in the government despite a recent slew of scandals involving PAP members.

More than 40 people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo when the Army suppressed a protest against UN peacekeeping troops.

The UN has called for an investigation and warned that the debt toll may be higher.

Its mission, one of the organization's most expensive, has been criticised for failing to protect civilians from militia violence.

Poland closed the biggest centre for Ukrainian refugees as the numbers arriving are now, quote, negligible according to a spokesperson from the province where it is located.

At its peak, in spring of 2022, the centre in Nadazin, on the outskirts of Warsaw, the capital, housed 9,000 refugees.

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