内容摘要：Since it started cutting borrowing costs last August from the 16-year high of 5.25%, the bank has proceeded on a gradual basis by lowering its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point every three months. Earlier this month,

Since it started cutting borrowing costs last August from the 16-year high of 5.25%, the bank has proceeded on a gradual basis by lowering its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point every three months. Earlier this month,

Playoffs: Straight up: 9-3. Against spread: 6-5-1.Overall: Straight up: 201-83. Against spread: 150-129-5.

Best Bet: Straight up: 12-7. Against spread: 10-8-1Upset Special: Straight up: 10-9. Against spread: 10-9.Pro Picks is a weekly column where AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi shares his picks for upcoming games. For all previous Pro Picks,

NEW YORK (AP) — Mathieu Darche was all smiles Thursday as he was formally introduced as the New York Islanders’ executive vice president and general manager.The 48-year-old former NHL forward, who spent the previous six seasons — including two Stanley Cups — with the Tampa Bay Lightning, takes control of the team’s hockey operations department from Lou Lamoriello.

Darche officially announced that Patrick Roy would return as coach next season and be able to hire his own assistants with John MacLean and Tommy Albelin not returning. Darche also said there would be a new coaching staff in Bridgeport, the team’s AHL affiliate. The Islanders missed the playoffs this season after bowing out to the Carolina Hurricanes in the first round the previous two springs.

Darche, who played 268 NHL games from 2001-12 for five teams, is ready to get started.That’s an increase of almost 50% since the IAEA’s last report in February. The 60% enriched material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

The phone conversation between Araghchi and Grossi came hours after Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who is mediating the U.S.-Iran talks, visited Tehran on Saturday to present the latest U.S. proposal for ongoing talks.The U.S.-Iran talks are attempting to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some of the crushing economic sanctions the U.S. has imposed on the Islamic Republic,

between the U.S. and Iran concluded in Rome last week with “some but not conclusive progress,” al-Busaidi said at the time.LONDON (AP) — A ban on disposable vapes came into force across the U.K. on Sunday as the British government aims to stem their use by children, reduce litter and prevent the leaking of harmful chemicals into the environment.