MEXICO CITY -- Latin America will see a mild economic slowdown in 2024 due to risks including a potential recession, Moody's Analytics said Tuesday.

The region may make a "soft landing" in the first half of the year by effectively using economic policy tools to avoid sharp adjustments, the firm said in a report. (LatAm-Economy)

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SEOUL -- South Korea's births kept falling in October, aggravating a continuous slide in the Asian country's population, statistical office data showed Wednesday.

The number of newborn babies shrank 8.4 percent from a year earlier to 18,904 in October, after dropping in double digits for the past two months, according to Statistics Korea. (South Korea-Births)

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TUNIS -- The Tunisian Parliament adopted Tuesday a law approving the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Tunisia and China to host Chinese medical teams, reported the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP).

During a plenary session in the presence of Health Minister Ali Mrabet, 118 representatives voted in favor of this law while seven representatives had reservations about it, and only one representative rejected it, the report said. (CEI-Medical & Health Industry)

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TOKYO -- Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday searched the Tokyo office of a lawmaker belonging to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s largest faction, amid a political fundraising scandal, local media reported.

Yoshitaka Ikeda, a House of Representatives lawmaker, is suspected of having received more than 40 million yen (about 280,000 U.S. dollars) over five years through 2022, for which the statute of limitations has not expired under the political funds control law, Kyodo News reported, citing sources close to the matter. (Japan-Abe faction-LDP) Enditem

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