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«The plan shows a realistic path to the reconstruction of Gaza and promises — if implemented — swift and sustainable improvement of the catastrophic living conditions for the Palestinians living in Gaza,» the ministers said in a joint statement. The plan, which was drawn up by Egypt and adopted by Arab leaders on Tuesday, has been rejected by Israel and by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has presented his own vision to turn the Gaza Strip into a «Middle East Riviera».

United States officials are searching across oceans to find enough eggs to ease a shortage that’s sent prices soaring, forcing grocery stores to limit customer purchases and restaurants to add surcharges.

A new documentary titled «Tune Out The Noise» brings together some of the academic heavyweights whose work reshaped the financial industry and helped lower costs for all investors.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is 9.30pm, and there is a patient, gregarious crowd outside the newly opened LICK (Lavonne Ice Cream Kitchen) in Bengaluru’s Indiranagar. Inside, the energy is almost nightclub-like, with peppy music, neon lights, and servers bustling about scooping ice-cream into shiny golden cups and arranging elaborate sundaes.

World War II bomb discovered near the tracks at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station on Friday morning disrupted travel for thousands of commuters. The unexploded ordnance affected metro, national, and international rail services, including Eurostar trains. French railway company TER confirmed the discovery in a statement on social media platform X. “An unexploded bomb from the Second World War was discovered near the tracks,” TER stated. Furthermore, all Eurostar trains to London have been halted following the bomb's discovery in Paris, as reported by AP.

Chipotle on Thursday announced the temporary addition of Chipotle Honey Chicken to the menu in its restaurants across North America and Europe. The protein option was first introduced by the chain at locations in Nashville and Sacramento last year on an experimental basis. It emerged as the brand's best-selling limited-time offering after the launch, Chipotle noted in an official release.

Lavrov also reaffirmed his country's opposition to European forces being deployed in Ukraine if an accord was made to halt the conflict. Macron on Wednesday called Russia a «threat to France and Europe» and said France was «legitimately worried» about the United States shifting its position on the Ukraine conflict under US President Donald Trump.

Armie Hammer is no stranger to controversy, but his latest remarks have reignited backlash like never before. The former Gossip Girl actor, whose once-glittering career was derailed by scandal, is facing heat for declaring «women are the worst» while sharing a jaw-dropping story on his Armie HammerTime podcast. The revelation, which was meant to be lighthearted, has instead sparked outrage — with many accusing Hammer of misogyny and pandering to a gay audience for attention.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Early indicators suggest the US economy is slowing even as US President Donald Trump’s additional import tariffs on China, Canada and Brazil kicked in on Tuesday. Trump also paused military aid to Ukraine on 4 March following a televised clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Oval office last week.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bulls bounded back into the reckoning on Wednesday after 10 long days of decline, shored up by comebacks from auto, IT and FMCG stocks, and a fall in the value of the US dollar to a three-month low. The recovery ended the longest losing streak witnessed by benchmark Nifty 50, its worst in more than 25 years.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : As India ramps up efforts to expand its nuclear power capacity, Belgium-headquartered engineering firm John Cockerill is positioning itself to supply key services and equipment for upcoming projects, chief executive Francois Michel said in an interview. The company, which has deep roots in the nuclear sector, is also looking to establish cooling towers for these plants through its subsidiary, John Cockerill Hamon.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. US President Donald Trump and his vice-president, J.D. Vance, are spinning Friday’s Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a show of American strength towards an ungrateful supplicant.

Prada is seeking to expand after posting strong organic sales growth in the last nine months of 2024 despite a slowdown in demand, while Versace operates at a loss. A merger would be Italy's answer to the French conglomerates that dominate the luxury business. «The (Versace) brand needs restructuring and has a history of mismanagement with no easy fix,» said Melania Grippo, analyst at BNP Paribas, in a note on Monday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Last month, Apple announced that starting April, its iPhones will support 10 Indian languages.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Better growth for the Big Five of India's IT industry in the next financial year has come under doubt, with some of the largest banks, the biggest customers of homegrown IT firms, putting large tech spending projects on hold. The reason: Uncertainty over inflation rates and whether America’s recent tariffs on goods from China and Mexico could start a new round of trade war.

trans-Atlantic security. As evident, the Trump administration is unlikely to commit to a security framework in Europe where it pits Washington against Moscow. In fact, Washington is demonstrably against security commitments abroad, to the extent that its age-old commitments under Nato now hang in the balance. What is certain, though, is that any road to getting Washington's security commitments is likely to involve a large economic component. As such, the semblance of an offer that the US has put on the table for Ukraine as a guarantee against Moscow is a mineral deal without any explicit security guarantees. Clearly, this approach may not be acceptable to most countries, certainly not to Ukraine. An immediate repercussion of Washington's security recoil has been the beginning of an almost pan-European consensus on the need to step up and fill potential gaps that could emerge as a result. Most European leaders appeared bound in a consensus to carve a new security assurance for Ukraine, except this time without the US. France, Germany and Britain, along with the EU as a bloc, depicted existential urgency at Sunday's leaders' European security summit in London, knowing that the block may have to take charge of not just its own security but also negotiations on part of Ukraine.

European leaders are confronting their worst-case scenario: maybe they really are going to be dealing with a bellicose Russia alone.

Ukraine’s war effort is fading fast, and Europe will need to pick up the slack. While Sunday’s gathering of European leaders in London included a commitment to keep military aid flowing and to formulate a peace plan, it’s the details that will matter. So far, the US peace strategy has seemed to rest on appeasing the Kremlin — promising territorial concessions, parroting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talking points and trash-talking the transatlantic alliance. Zelenskiy, on the heels of the leaders of France and Britain, failed to elicit firm security guarantees from the White House last week. The rebuke he received after pressing the matter — “Have you said ‘thank you’ once?” exclaimed Vice President JD Vance — has left relations with the US uncertain. How exactly the White House intends to stop the fighting remains to be seen. But Europe ought to recognize the leverage it does have to shape the endgame, as well as the urgent need to develop more.

Delhi and Udaipur. This being part of the ‘Golden Triangle’, the plane usually had a fair number of tourists, many from France. Seated somewhere near on the plane, I would hear them catalog the ways in which “this could be such a great place if only…”. In French, of course, oblivious to the possibility that anyone around would understand. While I seethed, my nationalist instincts primed. I wanted to ask them how much they paid for their room in a haveli near the lake, and three square meals among the bougainvilleas? Where else could they buy so much beauty so cheap? All that came back to me with the recent stories in the Economist and Le Monde on why India does so badly on tourism: India gets about 10 million foreign tourists a year, while France, a tenth in area and less than a twentieth in population, gets 100 million. France has the Mona Lisa, but we have the Taj Mahal. France is easy for European tourists but we are next to China, the biggest spender in the world on international tourism.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. I was running late and the film had started. I entered the hall and unable to locate my friends in the dark, sat down in the first seat I could find.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Work hard, children are told, and you will succeed. In recent decades this advice served the talented and the diligent well.