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Added on the 04/11/2020 12:01:04 - Copyright : France 24 EN
US President Joe Biden mixes up the current President of France Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996. Speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden recalled a discussion with other heads of state at the G7 summit held in Cornwall in June 2021, a few months after his inauguration: "I said, 'America is back'". 81 years old Biden then remembers how it elicited a reply from "Mitterrand from Germany" before correcting himself : " I mean, from France". Francois Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995, serving a record two seven-years terms. SOUNDBITE
Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives at the World Economic Forum where he is expected to speak this afternoon. The self-styled "anarcho-capitalist" will take the spotlight in Davos after launching a series of drastic reforms in inflation-hit Argentina following his shock election victory last month.a IMAGES
Eurozone inflation "dropped markedly" in September but is still expected to remain "too high for too long", European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde tells the press in Athens, whilst announcing that the ECB was holding interest rates steady. Policymakers had raised rates at each of their last 10 meetings as they sought to rein in soaring inflation driven in large part by surging energy prices in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says Eurozone inflation is slowing but is still expected to be "too high for too long", as the ECB raises interest rates for the ninth consecutive time. SOUNDBITE
The European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde announces that the ECB will press ahead with a smaller interest rate hike as higher borrowing costs begin to take their toll, but says the inflation outlook remains "too high for too long". The central bank lifted its key rates by a quarter percentage point, down from half percentage point increases at its three previous meetings. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of people in Tunis demonstrate as part of various movements opposing President Kais Saied, gathering to protest against the deterioration of their living conditions, against a backdrop of increased political divisions, on the 12th anniversary of the fall of the dictator Ben Ali and the Tunisian Revolution. IMAGES
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