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I'm Emily Wither and I've been speaking to a former Christian minister from LA who fell in love with the teachings of the Sufi mystic Rumi.
It took him on a spiritual journey to move across the world to Konya in Turkey and join Rumi's followers in the Mevlavi order.
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The US government is investigating Nike over claims that the footwear giant discriminated against white workers.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces workplace discrimination laws,
has asked for the company records going back to 2018.
In a statement,
Nike said it was committed to fair and lawful employment practices and called the inquiry a surprising and unusual escalation.
The European Central Bank and the Bank of England both held their interest rates.
Emma Wall is still with me.
Expected, Emma?
Very much expected although for different reasons both linked to inflation So in Europe the ECB has done a really good job of getting inflation under control and indeed under target and so the ECB holding rates where they are is really just a Recognition of the fact that they've probably what reach what we call neutral rate ie where you want rates to be all else being fine I think it would take quite considerable change in economic data to get the ECB to change rates from here on the flip side the Bank of England actually voted to hold rates
because inflation remains stubbornly high.
So they're therefore using higher rates as a mechanism to help control inflation,
which is still quite far above the 2% target.
What's interesting with the Bank of England, however, is the vote split.
So you've had nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee, five of them voted for hold,