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Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed grief at the loss of lives in an earthquake in Morocco and offered all possible assistance to it in this difficult time. A powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday night killed at least 632 people. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), PM Modi said, “Extremely pained by the loss of lives due to an earthquake in Morocco.

Morocco Earthquake LIVE news: A powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday night killed at least 296 people, the country's Interior Ministry said. Moroccans posted videos showing buildings reduced to rubble and dust and parts of the famous red walls that surround the old city in historic Marrakech, a UNESCO World Heritage site, damaged.

Hackers have been using a Windows tool to drop cryptocurrency-mining malware since November 2021, according to an analysis from Cisco’s Talos Intelligence. The attacker exploits Windows Advanced Installer — an application that helps developers package other software installers, such as Adobe Illustrator — to execute malicious scripts on infected machines. 

CAIRO (Reuters) — Algeria's defence ministry said on Sunday its coastguard fired warning shots before firing directly at a man on a jet ski who entered Algerian waters, in an incident that a survivor said left two dead.

Xi Jinping has arrived in South Africa, Chinese state media reported Tuesday, where he will attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg. The state visit will be Xi's second of 2023, after making an official trip to Russia in March. «Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Johannesburg on Monday to attend the 15th BRICS Summit to be held here, and pay a state visit to South Africa,» Xinhua news agency said, adding he had been «warmly welcomed» by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. «Xi said that he is very glad to visit South Africa again and looks forward to having in-depth exchanges of views with Ramaphosa on deepening China-South Africa relations and issues of common interest,» Xinhua said. The heads of Brazil, China, India and South Africa plus Russia's top diplomat will gather from Tuesday to Thursday this week under the theme «BRICS and Africa», South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said this month. Russian President Vladimir Putin — who is sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his role in the Ukraine war — will not attend this year's BRICS conference in South Africa, which is a signatory of the ICC. The Chinese leader previously visited South Africa in 2018 as he sought to enhance his country's diplomatic and economic ties with the continent. On the agenda at this year's summit will be the possible future expansion of BRICS membership, which the bloc has previously indicated it is open to. Several African countries have previously expressed a desire to join the bloc, including Algeria, Egypt and Ethiopia. A total of 69 countries have been invited to the summit, including all African states. BRICS, a loosely-defined group that sees itself as a counterweight to Western economic domination,

reality in Germany. Far from falling into an abyss, Europe’s largest economy suffered only the mildest of technical recessions. Some have put this down to luck, notably a mild winter in much of Europe reducing the demand for heating.

escorts, was to convey the importance of blood donations back home. This immediately endeared her to everyone, “from the shiniest brass button to the dirtiest grunt boot," as Ms. Rinehart puts it.

Greece’s resort island of Rhodes is nursing its wounds after 11 days of devastating wildfires

Greece’s resort island of Rhodes is nursing its wounds after 11 days of devastating wildfires

Associated Press analysis mentions the take of Nigeria's Senate on Saturday which urged its President to explore options other than military ones. Nigeria President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the current chair of ECOWAS where decisions are taken by consensus with member states. Moreover, any military action against Niger is likely to create more chaos in the region, and two non-ECOWAS countries Algeria and Chad with strong militaries have warned against any military action against the Niger coup leader and have said any such action will be a “declaration of war" against them too.

Switzerland rejected 13.2 per cent of all visa applications filed by Indian nationals in 2022, Schengen Statics showed. The same data also showed that 106,025 applications filed by Indians received a positive response. Indians are listed as the 30th nationality in the list of those with rejection rates. Nationalities whose visa applications were rejected the most include Pakistani, Ghanaian, and Congolese nationals. The rejection rates of Pakistani nationals were the highest – 55.1 per cent, showing that more than half of applications for visas got rejected. Ghanaians and Congolese had a rejection rate of 46.5 and 41.5 per cent respectively, while the other nationalities in top 5 included Algerians and Argentinians with 39.9 and 35 per cent rejection rates, respectively. Recently, in an article SchengenVisaInfo.com said that the Swiss embassy in New Delhi has declared its temporary suspension of Schengen visa applications for Indian tour groups until October. Clarifying the same, Swiss embassy in Delhi issued a statement saying that it has not suspended Schengen visa appointments for Indian tour groups and has almost 800 daily appointments through the end of September 2023. The mission asserted that people-to-people contact is at the core of Swiss-Indian relationship.

Major fires raging in Greece and other European countries have advanced

The world’s most populous nation is more poorly endowed with farmland per capita than Greece or Algeria. That is going to make life harder as a fast warming planet destabilizes the cycles of rain and sunshine that have kept the Indian subcontinent fed for millennia. India recently suspended exports of non-Basmati varieties of rice after heavy monsoon rainfall damaged crops that were due to be harvested in winter.

COVID pandemic, but the virus continues to infect people in different parts of the world. A new case of MERS-CoV has been reported by the WHO in Abu Dhabi on Monday. According to the World Health Organisation, an adult in his twenties was diagnosed with potentially fatal Middle East Respidatory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after he was admitted in hospital last month.

India-France ties have a special weave to them, if nothing else because both countries have the habit of being gadflies on the international scene. Like the Indians, the French have historically paid scant attention to their own limitations or weaknesses when promoting themselves on the world stage. France emerged bruised and battered from two world wars into a global political reality with radically altered power equations and rapid decolonising.

China’s fast expanding economic footprint across the Arab world, with a focus on opportunities in various sectors, including healthcare, retail and infrastructure. The sixth edition of the conference is also aimed at promoting a multidirectional flow of investment and facilitating investment in areas of new opportunities, officials said.

Schengen Visa Info reveals that India still had the second-highest number of Schengen visa rejections worldwide. Over 100,000 visas were refused, amounting to an estimated loss of Rs87 crore on canceled trips.

According to Schengen Statistics, Algerian nationals were refused Schengen visa applications the most in 2022, with a total of 179,409 visas not being issued with the total rate of not issued uniform visas reaching 45.8 per cent. The list of top ten countries with the highest Schengen visa rejection rates for 2022 also included countries like Turkey, Morocco and Russia, which had 120,876, 119,346 and 68,753 visa applications rejected, respectively.

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Investing.com — Crude oil prices weakened Friday after softer-than-expected U.S. employment data raised fears that the U.S. economy is weakening even as the Federal Reserve is expected to tighten monetary policy again this year, to the detriment of economic activity.

Investing.com — Global oil benchmark Brent weakened Wednesday on renewed worries of a global economic slowdown, overshadowing the news earlier this week of more supply cuts from a series of top producers.