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King Charles III's tie raises eyebrows amid UK-Greek row
King Charles III got tongues wagging at COP28 on Friday by wearing a tie apparently patterned with the Greek flag, as the UK government is mired in a row with Athens over the Parthenon Marbles.The UK blamed the row on Mitsotakis's comments in a weekend BBC interview about Greek claims to the Parthenon Marbles on display in the British Museum.
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Amazon to use Falcon 9 rockets of SpaceX for Project Kuiper
Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network designed to accommodate multiple launch providers and vehicles. The company announced the project in 2019, the year SpaceX began deploying its first operational Starlink spacecraft. It aims to build Kuiper as a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit.
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Spaniard arrested for helping N.Korea evade US sanctions
Spanish police on Friday said they had arrested a man wanted by Washington for allegedly conspiring with cryptocurrency experts to help North Korea evade sanctions over its nuclear program.?US federal prosecutors last year charged Cao de Benos and a British businessman, Christopher Emms, of recruiting American expert Virgil Griffith to illegally provide cryptocurrency and blockchain services to North Korea to help it evade sanctions.
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Ukraine says Polish trucker protest on border 'catastrophic'
Ukraine on Friday said that the fallout from a weeks-long protest by Polish truckers on their countries' shared border was "catastrophic", as Slovak hauliers also began blockading crossings with their war-torn neighbour.?- Slovak truckers join protest - As the situation on the Polish border worsened, Slovak truckers mirrored their northern neighbours and also began blockading crossings with Ukraine.
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George Santos Has 5-Word Response To Being Expelled From Congress
The New York Republican remained defiant after he was ousted from Congress for allegedly spending campaign money on Botox and designer clothes.
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Tantric yoga sect guru goes before France judge
The leader of a controversial tantric yoga sect went before a French judge on Friday, sources close to the case said, after he and others were arrested in a probe into alleged kidnapping, rape and people trafficking.The arrests follow a probe into the sect launched by Paris prosecutors in July, on suspicion of kidnapping, rape and people trafficking among others.
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Israel Knew About Hamas Attack Plan Way Earlier Than Was Thought: New York Times
The report indicates that Israeli commanders ignored long-ago warnings of the militants' plot.
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Why ‘RIP George Santos’ Is Now Trending On Social Media
The controversial former member of Congress has apparently gone from “Rep.” to “RIP.”
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India's Adani Group plans $84 billion infra spend over next decade
MUMBAI (Reuters) -India's Adani Group plans to spend 7 trillion rupees ($84.00 billion) over the next decade on infrastructure projects, Chief Financial Officer Jugeshinder Singh said on Friday. "Our capex will go up to run and develop infrastructure," Singh said, without elaborating on the type of projects the company would undertake. The billionaire Gautam Adani-led group will also decide on divesting its stake in Adani Wilmar, its joint venture (JV) with Singapore's Wilmar International, in
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Apple, Paramount discuss bundling their streaming services - WSJ
The companies have talked about rolling out a combined Paramount+ and Apple TV+ offering that would cost less than subscribing to both services separately, the report said, citing people familiar with the discussions. Shares of media company Paramount rose 1.2% to $14.58 in premarket trading. Verizon is also planning to offer the ad-supported versions of Netflix and Warner Bros Discovery's Max streaming services for about $10 a month combined instead of about $17, a source familiar with the ma
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British inventor Dyson loses Brexit libel claim
The billionaire inventor James Dyson has lost a libel action against a British newspaper which commented on how he supported Brexit but then moved his business to Singapore, a judge ruled Friday.Dyson himself has repeatedly defended the move, his support for Brexit and his years of investment in the UK. A survey published this week suggested a majority (72 percent) of Britons supported closer trading ties with the EU. phz/bcp/giv
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Spain bets on mixed gender prisons
At a jail in northwestern Spain, a sole female inmate played football with 21 male convicts, part of a push towards mixed prison living that remains rare in Europe.Elsewhere in Europe, mixed jail blocks are not common.
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Indian economy to exceed growth estimates after strong Q2 beat : economists
MUMBAI (Reuters) -The Indian economy is projected to grow at a 6.7% -7% rate in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, several economists said, upping their projections after the country blew past growth estimates for the July-September quarter. Stronger-than-expected growth in the first half of the year, along with continued government spending and some revival in private investment has prompted economists to raise their growth forecast to higher than the government's estimate of 6.5%. "With
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RBI to hold rates at 6.50% through mid-2024, cut seen in Q3: Reuters poll
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will keep its key interest rate unchanged at 6.50% for a fifth consecutive meeting on Dec. 8 as inflation worries ebb, according to a Reuters poll of economists who unanimously expect the central bank's next move to be a cut. All 64 economists in the Nov. 17-30 Reuters poll expected the central bank to hold the repo rate at 6.50% at the conclusion of its Dec. 6-8 meeting. While the poll medians still showed the first rate cut coming in the third quarter of the c
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Japan aircon king Daikin looks to custom chips for energy savings
Japanese air conditioner maker Daikin Industries is turning to custom-made semiconductors to eke out energy savings, as companies increasingly look to bespoke chip designs to enhance performance. As tech heavyweights such as Apple and Amazon spend heavily on custom cutting-edge chips, companies using legacy chips are also looking to introduce custom silicon. Osaka-headquartered Daikin, which expects to make 10 million home air conditioners in the current financial year, said it is partnering w
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Russia bans 'international LGBT movement' for 'extremism'
Russia on Thursday banned the "international LGBT movement," claiming it was an extremist group in a move that cements a long crackdown on the community as the Kremlin pushes ultra-conservative social values.Judge Oleg Nefedov ruled that "the international LGBT public movement and its subdivisions" were extremist, and issued a "ban on its activities on the territory of Russia".
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Grounded by flu, Pope urges COP28 to reject 'vested interests'
Pope Francis, who cancelled his trip to the United Nation climate talks due to flu, urged participants Thursday to reject "vested interests" and focus on the common good."May participants in COP28 be strategists who focus on the common good and the future of their children, rather than the vested interests of certain countries or businesses," he said in a statement posted in English on X, formerly Twitter, as the Dubai conference opened.
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2 Republicans In Arizona Indicted After Trying To Delay Election Results
“The repeated attempts to undermine our democracy are unacceptable,” the state’s attorney general said.
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Fire at dawn in Kazakhstan hostel kills 13
Kazakhstan said Thursday that at least 13 people were killed in a fire that broke out at dawn in a hostel in the Central Asian country's largest city Almaty."Thirteen dead people have been discovered, and their identities are being established," the Almaty city emergency situations department said.
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France's SMCP strikes deal with Reliance to expand into India
Fashion group SMCP, owner of French fashion labels Sandro and Maje, said on Thursday it signed a deal with Reliance to expand into India and will join other high-end European brands opening stores in the Jio World Plaza mall in Mumbai. "There aren't a lot of accessible luxury fashion labels in India so we think it's time to be pioneering," said SMCP CEO Isabelle Guichot, citing India's wealth and growing population of younger generations among reasons for entering the country. SMCP did not dis
