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South Africa’s president says that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin — should he show up at an economic summit next month in Johannesburg — would amount to a “declaration of war” by his country

Destiny 2 are geared up for one of the major events around the videogame, the Solstice. The 2023 edition of Destiny 2: Solstice is about to begin for a limited time, from July to August 2023. Here are the details of Destiny 2: Solstice 2023; Destiny 2 is a first-person shooter video game that can be played free. It is available to play on PlayStation, Xbox, or even Windows. Destiny 2: Solstice 2023 promises new armor, a weapon, and the Bonfire Bash mode on PS5, PS4, Xbox, and PC.

Back to 15 has been streaming on Netflix since February 2022 and has been on the Top 10 list for some time. Although not its top show, for Netflix, Back to 15 is popular enough. The comedy series shows the life of 30-year-old Anita (played by Camila Queiroz) who, bored with her present life, travels back in time to her past when she was 15 years old (played by Maisa Silva). Anita, of course, goes to high school again. But life is not what it seems even back then, and instead of fixing others, she realizes that she needs to fix herself. In good news for shows’ fans, Netflix Brazil has confirmed the renewal of Back to 15 for Season 3. The announcement was made on Twitter on July 17, 2023. Since actors Camila Queiroz and Maisa Silva were both tagged in the tweet, we can assume they will be reprising their roles in Season 3 of Back to 15. Also, there may be another time leap (or back in time) on the show. «Back to 15» has already received acclaim for its humorous and heartfelt storytelling, as well as its relatable characters. The series has garnered commercial success and has emerged as one of the most beloved Brazilian shows on Netflix. Bruna Vieira, who is the author of the book that Back to 15 is based on, also tweeted after the renewal announcement, saying, “Today I woke up feeling renewed what about you????” (sic)

Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) forum. “We have not signed any official contracts and partnerships so far. However, next year, we’ll be discussing this on the platform of Brics.

Blockchain network Gnosis has unveiled two products that allow users to spend their digital assets directly from wallets using Visa's payment system.

Earlier this month the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a report on the rupee’s internationalization. If our currency is used to settle our export/import transactions, it shifts exchange-rate risk to our counterparts, which is a big plus for our firms. In parallel, there has also been talk about a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) currency along special-drawing-rights lines.

Russia halted an unprecedented wartime deal on Monday that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty.

The collections are 15% more than Mission: Impossible Fallout, reports Deadline. Globally, Mission: Impossible 7 has had the biggest opening weekend as compared to other M:I franchise movies. These results are from 35 international markets, including India, Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Netherlands, Scandinavia and the UK.

A blockchain developer has found a code in Brazilian central bank-backed digital currency (CBDC) that would allow the government to freeze accounts or even drain them at will. 

Threads has crossed 150 million user sign-ups despite a usage drop. Meta launched Threads on July 5 for iOS and Android users in 100 countries, and it is among the top free apps on the App Store.

New Delhi: Prices of retail milk are expected to go up 4-5% year-on-year in FY24 because of dairy processors fail to recover the cost, which has been hit throughout pandemic, especially during the second wave amid higher commodities prices pushing up fodder prices and weighing on milk productivity, Crisil director Pushan Sharma told Mint in an interview. This comes at a time when retail milk prices have shot up by 10% in a year and nearly 22% in three years.

Investing.com — Here is your Pro Recap of 4 head-turning deal dispatches you may have missed last week: uncertainties loom around the Microsoft-Activision deal; Broadcom-VMware receives EC approval; Exxon Mobil to acquire Denbury; and Stratasys receives a sweetened offer from 3D Systems.

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India for negotiating bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) to boost economic ties, the commerce ministry is looking at ways to increase its bandwidth for undertaking these time and human resource consuming talks, a senior official said. The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating several FTAs with countries including the UK, Canada and European Union. «Negotiations are really time consuming and energy consuming and human resource consuming.

Russia and Ukraine is beyond the remit of the G20 and such efforts will be best undertaken by the United Nations and through bilateral negotiations, India's sherpa to the bloc said Saturday. «Our view is that G20 is an economic forum, not a forum to discuss security issues,» India's sherpa Amitabh Kant told Reuters in an interview.

New Delhi: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that the successful launch of Chandrayaan-3 will boost space startups and space entrepreneurs. Addressing the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance Summit, the minister said that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had made history in November last year by launching successfully India’s maiden private Vikram-suborbital (VKS) rocket.

Fishing gear plastic formed nearly three-quarters of the plastic debris documented through underwater visual surveys of coral reefs across the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans, new research published in the journal Nature said. Revealing the extent of plastic pollution on coral reefs, an international team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences (US), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), University of Oxford (UK), and other collaborators found that debris increased with depth and is correlated with proximity to marine protected areas. The team conducted more than 1,200 visual surveys across 84 shallow and mesophotic reef ecosystems located in 14 countries. Mesophotic, or 'twilight zone', coral reefs exist between 30 and 150 metres deep. Of the total debris, 88 per cent was macroplastics larger than about five centimetres. Human-derived debris was found in nearly all locations studied, including some of the planet's most remote and pristine coral reefs, such as those adjacent to uninhabited islands in the central Pacific. The lowest density of plastic pollution was seen in the Marshall Islands, a coral island group in eastern Micronesia (Oceania), while the highest was recorded at Comoros, an island chain off the southeast coast of Africa, at nearly 84,500 items per square kilometre.

Binance is celebrating its sixth anniversary, with over 1,000 people reportedly laid off in recent weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported.

India’s palm oil imports jumped 56% to a three-month high in June, as buyers took advantage of a dip in prices to increase purchases, a leading trade body said on Friday. Imports rose to 683,133 metric tons in June, up from 439,173 metric tons in May as prices fell to their lowest in 28 months, the Mumbai-based Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) said in a statement.

Citroen C3 achieved 12.21 points in adult occupant protection, 5.93 points in child occupant protection, 23.88 points in pedestrian and vulnerable road users protection, and 15 points in safety assist systems.  However, it remains uncertain whether the Indian and Brazilian versions of the C3 are identical, as the manufacturer has yet to confirm this information. As per the report from media publication, the tested vehicle was equipped with various safety features including Electronic Stability Control, dual front airbags, seatbelt load limiters, ISOFIX child-seat mounts, and seat belt reminders. In the Indian market, the C3 model comes with a set of standard safety features such as dual airbags, Anti-lock Braking System with Electronic Brake Distribution, rear parking sensors, rear door child locks, an engine immobilizer, and a high-speed alert system.

On July 13, Google said it had launched its Bard chatbot to users in the European Union and Brazil. This launch comes after the tech company overcame regulatory hurdles faced in the EU. The territory expansion also came with the unveiling of new features for the artificial intelligence (AI) tool.