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French farmers are mobilizing for widespread protests Monday, targeting the controversial EU-Mercosur trade agreement

Russia is solely responsible for preventing a fair settlement to end the war in Ukraine, the G7 said on Saturday, in a statement marking 1,000 days of the Russian invasion. «Russia remains the sole obstacle to just and lasting peace,» the Group of Seven industrialised nations, of which Italy holds the rotating presidency, said in a statement. The G7, which also comprises Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United States, confirmed «its commitment to imposing severe costs on Russia through sanctions, export controls and other effective measures».

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Saturday that Shri Anurag Srivastava, an officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) from the 1999 batch, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Mauritius. Currently serving as Joint Secretary in the Ministry, Srivastava is expected to assume the role shortly. The appointment underscores the importance India places on its longstanding ties with Mauritius. Mauritius, a key partner in the Western Indian Ocean region, shares deep historical, cultural, and demographic links with India.

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson aren’t the only ones who have high stakes when they meet in the boxing ring on Friday night

Last month, 23XI and another team, Front Row Motorsports, filed an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and its chairman, Jim France Jr. They accuse the association of monopolistic, bullying behaviour that enriches NASCAR at the expense of its teams and the sport of stock car racing. If Jordan and his fellow plaintiffs succeed, they might just save NASCAR from itself.

Dom Perignon hosted a party at the Brant Foundation in New York City's East Village, thousands of miles from its home in the Champagne region of France. At the party, which celebrated Dom Perignon's partnership with the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, actresses Zoe Kravitz and Natasha Lyonne, model Evan Mock and Raul Lopez, the designer of the subversive Luar fashion label, sipped Dom as they swayed to music from the Mudd Club habitue DJ Justin Strauss. The Basquiat painting «In Italian,» a neo-expressionist work filled with gestural scribbles and stark images-faces, coins, dark creatures and cryptic words like «teeth» and «crown of thorns»-hung on one wall. Throughout the room were bottles of a limited-edition release culled from a 2015 Dom Perignon vintage with labels that mirrored Basquiat motifs, including his signature crown in yellow overlaid in a way to suggest a connection between the artist's work and Dom Perignon's own shield-shaped tag. «I think people are looking for more than just the experience of consuming,» said Jacques Giraco, MD at Dom Perignon, speaking of his company's decision to evoke the image of an artist synonymous with the gritty downtown scene in 1980s New York. «It becomes a total experience. It conjures emotion, and that creates a stronger link with the brand.»

Cypriot authorities are in talks with major energy companies from Persian Gulf states over potential natural gas reserves off the Mediterranean country's southern coastline, President Nikos Christodoulides told an energy conference Friday

hydrogen energy production and exports says Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri. Speaking at the 6th South Asian Geoscience Conference and Exhibition, Puri said, «With projects like hydrogen blending in natural gas pipelines, localization of electrolyzer-based technologies, and the promotion of bio-pathways for green hydrogen production, India is set to become a global champion in hydrogen production and exports.» Puri added that India is on track to emerge as the hub for green hydrogen, considered as the fuel for the future.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Has there ever been a grimmer backdrop to the world’s most concerted attempt to avert global warming? CoP-29, the annual conference for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is happening in Baku, Azerbaijan, one of the birthplaces of the modern oil industry and (according to civil liberties group Freedom House) among the most oppressive societies on the planet. Leaders from China and the US, which account for about 45% of the world’s carbon footprint, aren’t attending—and US President Joe Biden is a ‘lame duck’ after the Republican Party’s electoral sweep.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Think of wine while in Europe, and France, Spain and Italy spring to mind. Switzerland is better known for its cheese and chocolates.

Deep in a dark warehouse, the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employee, exemplifies the entrepreneurial spirit that turns dreams into reality. Today, with a net worth of approximately Rs 13,501 crore (around $1.6 billion USD), Desai’s story is both inspiring and instructional for aspiring entrepreneurs.

social media platform X (formerly Twitter) for using his newspapers’ content without proper payment. This legal battle involves Arnault's newspapers, Le Parisien and Les Echos, alongside French dailies Le Figaro and Le Monde, who claim X failed to negotiate content remuneration as mandated under European law. Here’s what you need to know:

Goldman Sachs announced that it had 95 new partners last week, the highest number promoted in nearly a decade. Five of those were in Paris, the first since a single nominee in 2014 — Pierre Hudry, who has since left the firm.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s hunt for the perpetrators of multiple bombing threats that significantly disrupted the domestic aviation and hospitality sectors has hit a roadblock in Europe, where most of the hoax calls are said to have been made through virtual private networks.

French farmers have protested against a trade deal that would increase agricultural imports from South America, saying it hurt their livelihoods

The city of Florence is taking new measures to crack down on overtourism

Italian authorities say they have dismantled a network of European art forgers who made fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them with the help of complicit auction houses

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Beginning Wednesday, Philip Wallin plans to spend roughly 90 hours on airplanes over the course of two weeks. His grueling journey involves over 20 flights and will take him across 37,000 miles and more than a dozen time zones.

BEIJING — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Tuesday unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered search engine for small businesses in Europe and the Americas to source supplies.

anti-dumping measures" on brandy imported from the European Union, deepening a trade standoff between Beijing and Brussels after similar measures last month. China announced provisional tariffs on EU brandy imports last month, saying the alleged «dumping» threatened «substantial damage» to the domestic industry. And Beijing's commerce ministry said in a statement Monday that authorities have «decided to implement temporary anti-dumping measures in the form of a cash deposit or letter of guarantee» against European brandy products.