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DAKAR (Reuters) - Eleven people were injured including four severe injuries after a plane operated by the Air Senegal airline went off the runway before take-off in the early hours of Thursday, Senegal's main airport Blaise Diagne said in a statement.

(Reporting by Ngouda Dione; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Toby Chopra)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Relatives of 44 construction workers trapped under a collapsed building in the South African city of George faced a fourth day of anguished waiting on Thursday as heavy machinery worked at the site in a race against time to find any survivors.

Of 81 people who were on site when the five-story building collapsed on Monday, eight have been confirmed dead and 29 alive, 16 of them in a critical condition, according to the latest... (continue reading...)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new yuan loans likely dropped sharply in April from March due mainly to seasonal factors, a Reuters poll showed, even as the central bank keeps policy support for the economy.

Chinese banks are expected to have issued 800 billion yuan ($110.7 billion) in net new yuan loans last month, compared with 3.09 trillion yuan in March, according to the median estimate in the survey of 21 economists.

But the expected... (continue reading...)

By Virginia Furness

LONDON (Reuters) - Staff at an influential corporate climate action group whose board announced a plan to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits has now found such offsets are largely ineffective, a confidential preliminary draft reviewed by Reuters shows.

At stake is the growth of the still nascent market for voluntary carbon offsets. While they are used by some... (continue reading...)

By Howard Schneider

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Through a tumultuous period of high inflation, aggressive interest rate hikes, and global instability, the U.S. Federal Reserve received relatively high marks for its monetary policy communications despite the thicket of uncertainty it has been navigating, according to a survey of academic and private-sector analysts released on Thursday.

Responses from 31 academic and 24 private Fed watchers to... (continue reading...)