Enam Nelayan Asal Cilacap yang Tenggelam di Perairan Kebumen Berhasil Selamat
Enam Nelayan Asal Cilacap yang Tenggelam di Perairan Kebumen Berhasil Selamat
Ilustrasi. Basarnas Cilacap melakukan pencarian terhadap korban tenggelam akibat kecelakaan laut. (ANTARA/HO-Basarnas Cilacap)
Tim search and rescue (SAR) gabungan melakukan upaya evakuasi terhadap enam nelayan asal Kabupaten Cilacap, yang dilaporkan tenggelam setelah kapal yang mereka tumpangi terbalik akibat terhempas gelombang di perairan selatan Kabupaten Kebumen.
Ketua Himpunan Nelayan Seluruh Indonesia (HNSI) Sarjono mengatakan kecelakaan laut tersebut menimpa Kapal Motor (KM) Tauladan yang membawa enam anak buah kapal (ABK).
"Tim Penolong Kecelakaan Laut (TPKL), baik dari kelompok nelayan, ketua rukun nelayan, maupun relawan yang ada di Pantai Jetis, Kecamatan Nusawungu, Cilacap, sudah berada di lokasi kejadian untuk melakukan evakuasi terhadap seluruh ABK yang tenggelam," kata Sarjono dikutip dari ANTARA Saat dihubungi dari Purwokerto, Kabupaten Banyumas, Jumat (14/10/2022).
Disinggung mengenai kondisi KM Tauladan, dia mengatakan berdasarkan informasi yang diperoleh HNSI Cilacap, kapal tersebut tenggelam setelah terhempas gelombang.
Ia menduga lambung kapal tersebut tidak dilengkapi dengan peralatan pengaman semacam pelampung, sehingga tidak mengapung di permukaan air setelah terhempas gelombang.
Sementara itu, dalam keterangan tertulis yang diterima di Purwokerto, Kepala Kantor Pencarian dan Pertolongan (KPP/Basarnas) Cilacap Adah Sudarsa mengatakan pihaknya telah menerjunkan satu regu Basarnas beserta peralatan lengkap ke lokasi kejadian untuk mengevakuasi korban.
"Informasi terakhir yang kami peroleh, korban telah ditemukan dengan keadaan selamat," katanya.
Enam ABK dievakuasi ke Pantai Jetis, Cilacap, Jawa Tengah, hari Jumat, 14/10/2022.(KOMPAS.COM/DOK BASARNAS CILACAP)
Terkait kronologi kejadian, kata Adah, berdasarkan informasi yang diperoleh Basarnas Cilacap, KM Tauladan yang berkapasitas 13 gross tonnage (GT) tersebut, berangkat dari Dermaga Pelabuhan Perikanan Samudra (PPS) Cilacap pada hari hari Sabtu, 08/10/2022, pukul 05.00 WIB, menuju perairan selatan Kebumen untuk melakukan aktivitas penangkapan ikan.
10 Jam Terombang - ambing di laut
Namun, pada hari Kamis, 13/10/2022, pukul 22.00 WIB, kapal yang membawa enam orang ABK itu terbalik setelah terhempas gelombang di perairan Mirit setelah perahu KMTauladan terombang - ambing ombak, Kabupaten Kebumen.
Beruntung usai kejadian, nahkoda, Dasino bisa menghubungi pemilik kapal untuk melaporkan kejadian yang dialaminya. Peristiwa itu juga dilaporkan kepada polair.
Keenam ABK terdiri atas Dasino selaku tekong atau nakhoda, Yosef, Peang, Brosot, Safi'i, dan Purwanto.
"Selaku tekong, Dasino segera menghubungi pemilik kapal, yakni Mila atau Ationg untuk melaporkan kejadian tersebut," kata Adah.
Sebuah video yang memperlihatkan ratusan ayam mati terendam banjir, viral di media sosial. Video itu salah satunya diunggah oleh akun instagram @terangmedia.
Dalam video berdurasi singkat itu terlihat ratusan ayam yang berada di dalam kandang mati terendam banjir. Tampak ayam-ayam tersebut mengambang.
Perekam juga memperlihatkan kondisi di dalam kandang. Tampak ratusan ayam yang mati menumpuk di satu sudut kandang.
Beberapa orang juga tampak mengevakuasi ayam-ayam yang sudah mati tersebut.
Banjir juga terlihat masih menggenang di sekitar kandang. Bahkan pohon pisang yang berada di dekat kandang juga tampak ambruk diterjang banjir.
Belum diketahui dimana lokasi pasti video tersebut diambil. Namun unggahan tersebut sukses mendapat simpati dari warganet.
"ya Allah semoga musibah dan bencana lekas berlalu," kata wandi***
"kalau pelihara bebek mungkin masih bisa diselamatkan," komen andrie***
"lain kali kalau bikin kandang dibikin tingkat aja," kata alva***
"hati-hati ada pedagang nakal yang jual ayam tiren," ujar jangku***
"gak kebayang itu kalau di sekitar ada pemukiman. Warganya gatel-gatel kena air tai ayam," kata pooh***
Former U.S. President Donald Trump waves after his speech during a rally at the Iowa States Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., October 9, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Mummey /File Photo
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday asked an appeals court to end a third-party review of documents seized from Donald Trump's Florida home, arguing that a judge should not have appointed an independent arbiter as the former president battles a criminal investigation into his handling of sensitive government records.
At issue is the appointment of a special master by the Florida-based federal judge presiding over Trump's legal effort to restrict access to documents seized by FBI agents during a court-approved Aug. 8 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
The Justice Department in its petition to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon exceeded her authority when she named the special master to vet the more than 11,000 seized documents. That move essentially paused the criminal investigation by blocking the department's access to the records, about 100 of which were marked as classified.
"The district court's months-long injunction caused and continues to cause significant harm to the government and the public," prosecutors said in the filing.
Cannon, a Trump appointee, named Judge Raymond Dearie to vet the records and weed out any that could be deemed privileged and withheld from investigators. Cannon tasked Dearie with determining if any were subject to attorney-client confidentiality or executive privilege - a legal doctrine that shields some White House communications from disclosure. Such documents could be made off limits to investigators.
Prosecutors have opposed an executive privilege review, arguing that the records belong to the government and not Trump, and that he cannot, as a former president, withhold executive branch records from the current president, Joe Biden.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Trump broke the law by taking government records to his Florida estate after leaving office in January 2021. Prosecutors are also looking into whether Trump or his team obstructed justice when the FBI sent agents to search his home. Officials have said more classified documents may still be missing.
About two weeks after the search, Trump sued the Justice Department and asked for the special master review in a bid to keep some of the records away from investigators while the vetting took place.
Prosecutors last month asked the 11th Circuit to exclude the 100 classified pages from Dearie's review and restore the department's access to those materials, saying Cannon's injunction gravely harmed national security and the ongoing investigation.
The 11th Circuit agreed, saying Cannon erred in her decision. Now, the Justice Department is appealing the rest of Cannon's order.
Prosecutors have said they need to be able to access all of the seized records for their criminal investigation. The 11th Circuit has said it will hear the case on an expedited basis, with final briefs due by Nov. 17.
Prosecutors said in a court filing this week they had turned over the bulk of the seized records for Trump's attorneys to review. Cannon gave Trump's team 21 days to review the records and determine whether he would assert any privileges over them.
Trump's attorneys tried to get their access to the classified materials restored, but the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected Trump's request for it to intervene.
FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng visit Berkeley Modular, in Northfleet, Kent, Britain, September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/Pool
British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country.
Kwarteng said he had resigned at Truss’s request after being forced to rush back to London overnight from IMF meetings in Washington.
Truss, in power for only 37 days, then told a news conference she would now allow a key business levy to rise from next year, raising 18 billion pounds, as she accepted she had gone “further and faster” than markets had been expecting.
“We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline,” she said.
Truss appointed Jeremy Hunt, a former foreign and health secretary, to replace Kwarteng.
“You have asked me to stand aside as your Chancellor. I have accepted,” Kwarteng said in his resignation letter to Truss, which he published on Twitter.
She said in response: “As a long standing friend and colleague. I am deeply sorry to lose you from the government.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a news conference in London, Britain, October 14, 2022. Daniel Leal/Pool via REUTERS
“We share the same vision.”
The pound slid against the dollar after she spoke, trading 1.2% lower on the day at $1.1198 and two-year British government bonds, or gilts turned negative.
The plan for unfunded tax cuts crushed UK assets and drew international censure, but the pound and gilts have started to recover since the government started looking for ways to balance the books.
Kwarteng is the country’s shortest serving chancellor since 1970, and his successor will be the fourth finance minister in as many months in Britain, where millions are facing a cost of living crisis. The finance minister with the shortest tenure died.
Truss’s own position is in jeopardy.
She won the Conservative Party leadership last month by promising vast tax cuts and deregulation to try to shock the economy out of years of stagnant growth, and the fiscal policy Kwarteng announced on Sept. 23 aimed to deliver that vision.
But the response from markets was so ferocious that the Bank of England had to intervene to prevent pension funds from being caught up in the chaos, as borrowing and mortgage costs surged.
The duo had been under mounting pressure to reverse course after polls showed support for the Conservative Party had collapsed, prompting many colleagues to look for ways to force them out of office.
“The party loves the idea of principles and conviction politicians, but staying in power is everything,” one party insider told Reuters. “Ruthless can also be popular.”
MARKET ROUT
Having triggered a market rout, Truss now runs the risk of bringing the government down if she cannot find a package of public spending cuts and tax rises that can appease investors and get through any parliamentary vote in the House of Commons.
Her search for savings will be made harder by the fact the government has been cutting departmental budgets for years.
At the same time Conservative Party discipline has all but broken down, fractured by infighting as it struggled first to agree a way to leave the European Union and then how to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and grow the economy.
“If you can’t get your budget through parliament you can’t govern,” Chris Bryant, a senior lawmaker from the opposition Labour Party, said on Twitter. “This isn’t about u-turns, it’s about proper governance.”
Underlining how far Britain’s reputation for sound economic management and institutional stability had fallen, a source within the Group of Seven leading nations said G7 finance ministers at a meeting this week focused on the problems in Britain, and not the usual subject of Italy.
In Washington, Kwarteng was told by the head of the International Monetary Fund of the importance of “policy coherence”. His flight back to London was carried live by television news channels. He was fired minutes after arriving back in Downing Street.
In Westminster, Truss has been trying to find agreement with her cabinet ministers on a way to preserve her push for growth with measures acceptable to her lawmakers that would also reassure financial markets.
Rupert Harrison, a portfolio manager at Blackrock and once an adviser to former British finance minister George Osborne, said markets have now almost fully priced in a U-turn.
“(That) means if the U-turn doesn’t come markets will react badly,” he said on Twitter.
FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL
A Conservative Party lawmaker, who asked not to be named, said Truss’s economic policy had caused so much damage that investors may demand even deeper cuts rebuild confidence.
“Everything’s possible at the moment,” said the lawmaker, who had backed another ex-chancellor, Rishi Sunak, in the leadership race. “The markets have lost trust in the Conservative Party - and who can blame them?”
According to a source close to the prime minister, Truss is in “listening mode” and consulting lawmakers to gauge which parts of the programme they would support in parliament.
Credit Suisse economist Sonali Punhani said the government needed to find around 60 billion pounds through tax cut U-turns and further spending cuts.
According to a source close to the prime minister, Truss is in “listening mode” and consulting lawmakers to gauge which parts of the programme they would support in parliament.
Credit Suisse economist Sonali Punhani said the government needed to find around 60 billion pounds through tax cut U-turns and further spending cuts.
“It would be challenging to deliver the scale of these cuts, but for them to be credible, these need to be delivered sooner rather than in the latter part of the forecast,” Punhani said.
The latest bout of political drama to grip Britain comes as the Bank of England also prepares to end its intervention in the gilt market. Truss is the fourth prime minister in six turbulent years of British politics.
Germany, as well as other European countries, are experiencing a severe energy crisis after they slapped sanctions against Moscow, driving fuel prices up to record-high levels.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that German authorities made a major mistake by prioritizing NATO relations instead of German citizens' wellbeing on Friday.
"In this case, apparently, some obligations in the alliance were put at the forefront... Was it right or not? I think that this is a mistake, and now German business, economy, and citizens are paying for this mistake, because there are negative economic consequences for the Eurozone in general and for Germany in particular," Putin said on Friday at a press conference following his visit to Kazakhstan.
According to him, it seems that few people take German interests into account - otherwise "Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 would not have been blown up".
Although they were not (delivering gas before the explosions), there was an element of reliability - that as a last resort they could be turned on; but now there is no such option," he added.
In the past few months, Germany has seen a surge in energy prices since the EU adopted several rounds of sanctions against Moscow, citing the start of the special military operation in Ukraine.
The situation became even more daring in September after the Nord Stream pipeline was targeted by explosions, resulting in a massive leakage of gas under the Baltic Sea.
Russia has been investigating the pipeline incidents as acts of international terrorism, while European Union officials also admitted that the pipeline was sabotaged. However, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, who are investigating the blasts, demonstrated no intentions to include Russia in the probe.
Special Military Operation
Putin addressed the special military operation in Ukraine, saying that Russia had no intention of destroying Ukraine and that the Russian military has no need for another series of strikes against Ukrainian military infrastructure.
“There is no need for massive strikes now, there are other tasks, because, as far as I know, out of 29 (infrastructure) objects, seven were not hit as planned by the Ministry of Defense. But these objects are being finished off gradually, there is no need for massive strikes, at least for now, and later - we'll see," he explained.
He also commented on the partial draft mobilization, stressing that it would be finalized in two weeks. The president said that the mobilization was needed to secure the line of contact with Ukraine, which is over 1,000 kilometers.
"Now... 222,000 people have been mobilized out of 300,000. I think that within about two weeks all mobilization activities will be completed," Putin stated.
He also warned against calls to dispatch NATO forces in Ukraine, stressing that if the alliance's troops directly clash with Russian forces it could lead to a global catastrophe. He stated that people speculating about this should be cautious enough not to engage in fully-fledged confrontation with Russia.
Russia targeted Ukrainian infrastructure following a terror attack on the Crimean bridge last week, which damaged the construction and killed several people.
Possible Negotiations
Commenting on the prospects of talks between Moscow and Washington ahead of the G20 summit, the Russian president noted that Joe Biden should be asked about it, adding that at the moment there is no platform for such dialogue.
Putin also added he has not decided yet if he will travel to the G20 summit in Indonesia.
He also noted that Russia is always ready for talks with Ukraine, but that Kiev has already made a decision to make talks impossible.
"We have always said that we are open (for negotiations). We even reached certain agreements in Istanbul. in fact, these accords were almost initialed. However, as soon as the (Russian) troops withdrew from Kiev, Ukraine's desire to negotiate immediately disappeared, that's all," Putin said.
North Korea fired about 170 artillery shells toward the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea on Friday, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.
According to the report, North Korea fired 130 artillery shells toward the Yellow Sea and 40 more shells toward the Sea of Japan at dawn on Friday. The shells fell outside South Korea's exclusive economic zone.
The North Korean shelling violated the 2018 Comprehensive Military Agreement, which established a maritime buffer zone between Seoul and Pyongyang to reduce military tensions, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said.
"We're looking into everything one by one. But it's correct that it's a violation of the Sept. 19 accord," Yoon said, as quoted by the Yonhap news agency.
The president added that Seoul was building "a readiness posture against North Korea's provocations."
Earlier in the day, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan. The missile traveled about 650 kilometers (404 miles) at a maximum altitude of 50 kilometers before falling outside Japan's exclusive economic zone, some 370 kilometers from the country's coast, Kyodo reported, citing Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada. Hamada said that the missile flew on an irregular trajectory.
North Korea has carried out eight test launches since September 25 and over 25 since the beginning of the year. North Korea has emphasized that its test launches are being carried out in response to the refusal of the US and South Korea to stop joint military drills, which Pyongyang believes threaten regional stability.
Korea Utara menembakkan rudal, menerbangkan pesawat tempur di dekat perbatasan saat Korea Selatan menjatuhkan sanksi
New tensions are flaring between the Koreas, with the North flying warplanes near their shared border and launching the latest in a series of missiles and the South holding a live-fire artillery drill.
North Korean aircraft approached the no-fly zone straddling the border between 10:30 p.m. Thursday and 12:20 a.m. Friday, according to the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a move that Pyongyang followed up just hours later with its 27th missile launch of the year.
At one point the North's aircraft were just 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the northern limit of the Military Demarcation Line that runs down the center of the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, the JCS said.
South Korea responded by scrambling fighter jets, including its top-of-the-line F-35s.
The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency said the actions were in response to 10 hours of South Korean live-fire artillery exercises near the border.
The South Korean military confirmed to CNN that an artillery exercise had taken place 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border but said it did not violate an agreement with the North regulating such exercises. Seoul claims instead that Pyongyang violated the agreement earlier Friday by firing 170 rounds of artillery into the sea off its west coast.
"Artillery firing in the maritime buffer zones is a clear violation of the September 19 military agreement, and the launch of short-range ballistic missiles is also a violation of UN Security Council resolutions," the JCS said.
"We sternly warn against North Korea's repeated provocations and strongly urge (North Korea) to stop them immediately."
The flurry of military activity on both sides of the border came just hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned his nuclear forces are fully prepared for "actual war."
"Our nuclear combat forces ... proved again their full preparedness for actual war to bring the enemies under their control," Kim said in comments reported by KCNA.
Kim's fiery statement -- his first about North Korea's missile program for several months -- came after he reportedly oversaw the test Wednesday of long-range cruise missiles over waters west of the Korean Peninsula, according to KCNA.
On Monday, North Korean state media broke six months of silence over this year's spate of missile tests, claiming they were meant to demonstrate Pyongyang's readiness to fire tactical nuclear warheads at potential targets in South Korea.
The tests showed the country's forces were "fully ready to hit and wipe out the set objects at the intended places in the set time," KCNA said.
South hits North with new sanctions
North Korea has been developing its nuclear missile forces in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, ramping up its activities since the last of three meetings in 2019 between Kim and then-US President Donald Trump failed to yield any agreement.
On Friday, in response to Pyongyang's repeated missile tests, the South imposed its first unilateral sanctions on the North since 2017.
The sanctions target 15 individuals who "contributed to bringing supplies related to the funding of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and missile development," South Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a news release.
The sanctions also target 16 organizations that took part in North Korea's evasion of the UN sanctions, the ministry said.
The South Korean government expects the sanctions will have "the effect of blocking illegal fund transactions with these North Korean agencies and individuals and remind the domestic and international community of the risks of transacting with them," the ministry said.
South Korea has so far independently sanctioned 109 individuals and 89 agencies.
Rangkaian kereta inspeksi untuk kebutuhan perawatan Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung di Tegal Luar, Kabupaten Bandung, Jawa Barat pada Kamis (13/10/2022). ANTARA/Aji Cakti
Proyek pembangunan Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung sudah memasuki tahap akhir. Menurut PT KCIC, proyek ini sudah mencapai 88 persen.
"Progres kereta cepat Jakarta-Bandung sudah 88 persen, saat ini kita benar-benar mendekati tahap akhir untuk konstruksinya," ujar Presiden Direktur PT KCIC Dwiyana Slamet Riyadi mengutip dari Antara.
Ia menambahkan bahwa konstruksi pada tahap akhir menyangkut masalah subsistem, track, listrik aliran atas, persinyalan, commisioning dengan Kementerian Perhubungan, dan sebagainya.
Hal ini merupakan pekerjaan yang persentasenya kecil namun sudah masuk masa interfacing, jadi membutuhkan koordinasi dengan masing-masing kontraktor karena satu lokasi lahan bisa digunakan oleh lebih dari dua kontraktor.
Selain itu juga koordinasi dengan sejumlah kementerian seperti Kementerian Perhubungan dan sebagainya dinilai penting dalam tahap ini.
"Itu membutuhkan sebuah upaya besar, namun alhamdulillah sampai dengan saat ini kami terus didukung," kata Dwiyana.
Sebelumnya, Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) mengharapkan proyek Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung (KCJB) dapat menjadi bagian konektivitas antarnegara seperti yang digagas negara-negara ASEAN.
Presiden Jokowi mengatakan proyek KCJB akan diintegrasikan dengan pelabuhan ataupun bandara sehingga menjadi bagian konektivitas lintas negara.
Jokowi mengungkapkan realisasi pembangunan proyek kereta cepat hingga Rabu ini, sudah mencapai 88,8 persen dari target. Dia mengatakan Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung dapat beroperasi pada Juni 2023.
Dengan dibangunnya proyek kereta cepat Jakarta-Bandung, Jokowi mengharapkan mobilitas orang dan barang akan meningkat dan cepat. Hal itu juga akan meningkatkan daya saing perekonomian.
5 tewas, 2 lainnya terluka dalam penembakan Raleigh: PejabatLima orang tewas, termasuk seorang petugas polisi yang sedang tidak bertugas, dan setidaknya dua lainnya terluka dalam penembakan di Raleigh, North Carolina, Kamis malam, menurut pejabat kota. Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP
Lima orang tewas, termasuk seorang polisi yang sedang tidak bertugas, dan sedikitnya dua lainnya terluka setelah penembakan di jalur alam di Raleigh, North Carolina, Kamis malam, kata Walikota Mary-Ann Baldwin.
Seorang petugas K-9 yang mengalami cedera yang tidak mengancam jiwa termasuk di antara mereka yang terluka, kata walikota
Tersangka telah ditahan, kata polisi kemudian.
Pengarahan lain diharapkan sekitar 10:45 malam.
Polisi memblokir pintu masuk ke I-540 timur di Buffaloe Road di Raleigh, N.C., 13 Oktober 2022.
Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP
"Kita harus menghentikan kekerasan tanpa berpikir ini di Amerika dan kita harus mengatasi kekerasan senjata," kata Baldwin
Setidaknya tiga orang diangkut ke pusat trauma WakeMed Health and Hospitals sehubungan dengan insiden itu, kata seorang pejabat rumah sakit kepada ABC News. Tidak ada kabar tentang kondisi mereka saat ini. Pejabat rumah sakit tidak tahu apakah orang lain terluka dalam penembakan itu.
Adegan penembakan berada di daerah Jalur Greenway Sungai Neuse dekat Osprey Cove dan Bay Harbour drive, kata polisi.
"Warga di daerah itu disarankan untuk tetap tinggal di rumah mereka," cuit Departemen Kepolisian Raleigh.
Gubernur North Carolina Roy Cooper mengatakan dia telah menginstruksikan penegak hukum negara bagian untuk "memberikan bantuan menanggapi penembak aktif di East Raleigh."
"Petugas negara bagian dan lokal berada di lapangan dan bekerja untuk menghentikan penembak dan menjaga orang tetap aman," katanya di Twitter.
Sekretaris Keamanan Publik Departemen Carolina Utara Eddie Buffaloe, Jr. juga mengkonfirmasi bahwa departemen tersebut telah menyediakan sumber daya negara bagian dan "bekerja dengan penegak hukum setempat untuk menghentikan penembak ini."
Patroli Jalan Raya Negara Bagian, petugas Kepolisian Negara Bagian dan Agen Khusus Penegakan Hukum Alkohol membantu Departemen Kepolisian Raleigh dengan insiden tersebut.
Tampak terguncang, Walikota Raleigh Mary-Ann Baldwin, mengumumkan bahwa banyak orang tertembak, dan setidaknya lima orang tewas di Neuse River Greenway pada Kamis sore. Baldwin menyampaikan berita tersebut selama konferensi pers di Gedung Kota Raleigh pada Kamis, 13 Oktober 2022 di Raleigh, N.C. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com
SHOOTING LUNCURKAN MANHUNT
FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri GripasREUTERS
Most Asian central banks must tighten monetary policy further as rising commodity prices and their currencies' depreciation, driven by steady U.S. interest rate hikes, push inflation above their targets, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.
China and Japan are exceptions, where the economic recovery has been weaker, slack remains substantial and inflation has not risen as sharply as elsewhere, said Krishna Srinivasan, director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department.
Many Asian currencies depreciated "quite sharply" as U.S. monetary tightening led to widening interest rate differentials, helping push up import costs for the countries, he said.
"While our baseline is for inflation to have peaked by end-year, large exchange-rate depreciations could lead to higher inflation and greater persistence, particularly if global interest rates rise more forcefully, and require faster monetary policy tightening in Asia," Srinivasan said in a news conference during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washington.
Large currency depreciations and rising interest rates could also trigger financial stress in Asian countries with high debt, Srinivasan said.
"Asia is now the largest debtor in the world besides being the biggest saver, and several countries are at high risk of debt distress," he said.
Most of the rise in Asia's debt is concentrated in China, but also seen in other economies, Sanjaya Panth, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.
"Some form of market stress cannot be ruled out. But the relatively strong position of many economies gives us comfort," he said, pointing to their low levels of external debt, higher reserves and resilient financial systems.
