Core inflation – which excludes changes in the price of private road transport and accommodation – came in at 1 per cent, down from 1.3 per cent in the previous month, reflecting the lower food inflation, the news release said.
President Obama said today that he takes "full responsibility" for a U.S. government counterterrorism operation that killed two innocent hostages held by al Qaeda.
Dr. Warren Weinstein, an American held by the terror group since 2011, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian national who had been an al Qaeda hostage since 2012, were "accidentally" killed in a U.S. operation in January, the president acknowledged.