PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Dec 30
Dec 30 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Former U.S President Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer whose one term in the Oval Office was plagued by problems at home and abroad but who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after he left office, died Sunday in Plains, Georgia.
- The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when a twin-engine Boeing BA.N 737-800 airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at Muan International Airport.
- A buoyant stock market, declining interest rates and US President-elect Donald Trump’s lighter-regulation agenda will prompt a dealmaking rebound in 2025, dealmakers have said.
- U.S. Democratic leaders want to recruit New York state Assembly member and former corrections officer D. Billy Jones to help it win a special election in the Congressional district, as the party looks to tap his working-class background to help it sail through the mostly rural district.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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