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Muhammad Yunus, a noble peace prize winner, landed in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, to lead an interim government.

He met the army chief and is expected to be sworn in on Thursday.

Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister, resigned and fled on Monday following days of violent

unrest. In a guest essay for the Economist, published before his appointment, Mr. Eunice, laid out the next steps for Bangladesh.

Donald Trump and Carmelah Harris agreed to a televised debate on September 10th.

Earlier Mr. Trump said that Ms Harris was, quote,

not smart and claimed that the presidency had been taken away from Joe Biden.

Mr Trump inflated the size of his rally crowds when asked about Ms Harris's

claiming to have attracted more people to his speech on January the 6th 2021

the Martin Luther King in 1963.

American stock indices and Treasury yields rose after a report showed that jobless claims

a proxy for layoffs in the past week were lower than expected.

The SMP 500 increased by 2.3% its biggest single day gain since

2022. The Tech Heavy Nasdac also rose by 2.9%.

Stock markets slumped last week partly because a bad American jobs report fueled fears of

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