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🏦📈 The European Central Bank raised interest rates by 0.75% to combat inflation. It’s the second-such increase in two months, and comes as annual inflation in the eurozone reached an all-time high of 9.9% in September. Canada’s central bank also raised interest rates this week in a bid to tame high inflation, while the US Federal Reserve is expected to deliver another 0.75% rate hike next Wednesday.

🇷🇺 Russia said it could target US commercial satellites if they’re used to help Ukraine. The comments by a Foreign Ministry official didn’t mention SpaceX’s Starlink by name, though the satellite internet service has emerged as an important tool for Ukraine. Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated claims that Ukraine plans to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ of nuclear radiation on its own territory – allegations US officials have denied – while saying “it doesn’t make sense” for Moscow to conduct a nuclear strike in Ukraine.

🇲🇽 Evidence in a ‘bombshell’ Mexican gov’t report about 43 missing students was recently invalidated. In August, a truth commission report blamed the country’s police and military, along with drug traffickers, for abducting and murdering the students in 2014. But since then, arrest warrants for police and military suspects have been revoked, the lead prosecutor of the investigation resigned, and the head of the truth commission said much of the evidence in its report couldn’t be verified as true.

+In other Mexico news: Mexico's northeastern border state of Tamaulipas voted to legalize same-sex marriages on Wednesday, becoming the last of the country’s 32 states to do so.