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The English Premier League has sold its domestic TV rights for 6.7 billion pounds for the next four-year cycle

France’s National Assembly has unanimously approved a bill to ban single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes, in an attempt to protect young people drawn to their flavors and mitigate the environmental impacts of the disposable products known as “puf...

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(Corrects paragraph 9 to say U.S. job openings data will be released at 1500 GMT, not 1530 GMT. The error was also in previous editions of this story)

Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday that amidst the global turmoil and sorry state of affairs as regards the banking systems, the Indian banks continue to stand healthy, strong, and resilient. The finance minister noted that banks have recovered Rs 33,801 crore from wilful defaulters by March 31, 2023, and efforts are underway to tackle wilful defaults and reclaim funds «In our country, not only the non-performing assets (NPAs) are coming down, but also the profit margins are going up,» she said while replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha. Sitharaman observed that even when last year, major bank collapses happened in the USA, Switzerland and Germany, India is showing NPAs coming down year after year.

Investing.com — European stock markets traded in a mixed fashion Tuesday, as investors awaited more regional economic data while assessing the outlook for central bank interest rate cuts. 

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NEW DELHI : The Indian arm of German sportswear giant Adidas is putting a strategic focus on key segments such as running, cricket and the lifestyle brand Adidas Originals to amplify its market presence in the country, Neelendra Singh general manager for the India market, said in an interview. For instance, it sold over half a million Indian team jerseys during the recent ODI World Cup on the back of its partnership with the BCCI as the official kit sponsor of the Indian cricket team. Adidas has a network of over 350 franchise stores and 75 company-owned stores in India.

By Stefano Rebaudo

Electric vehicle drivers hoping to top up their batteries at one of Repsol's 1,600 Spanish charging stations might well be disappointed, with nearly half lying dormant because they have no power connection. Such gaps are evident across the European Union, where last week the European Commission announced plans to upgrade the bloc's power grids. These are due to be implemented in 18 months and include addressing EV charging station power shortages. But despite the declarations of its leaders, red tape preventing progress towards greener transport in the EU is on the rise, industry groups and energy companies told Reuters, with permitting one of the major roadblocks. The ease of building an EV charging hub varies considerably country by country. One industry source said that in Germany a hub was held up for months over rules protecting a single tree, while another located on a busy highway had to wait 10 months for a noise evaluation before it gained approval.

Fox News, Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan called Soros's donations to organisations that seek the destruction of Israel 'shameful'. Elon Musk slams George Soros for eroding ‘societal cohesion’ The Israeli ambassador alleged that Soros has transferred billions of dollars to organisations supporting BDS that have wanted to isolate Israel for years. "They have never been about real peace or any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the Israeli ambassador said.

artificial intelligence (AI) in check, six sources told Reuters. As negotiators meet on Friday for crucial discussions ahead of final talks scheduled for December 6, 'foundation models', or generative AI, have become the main hurdle in talks over the European Union's proposed AI Act, said the sources, who declined to be identified because the discussions are confidential.

International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council with the highest tally on Friday, and the term of council will be for the biennium 2024-25, according to an official statement. The statement said India's re-election falls under the category of 10 states with «the largest interest in international seaborne trade», alongside Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

(Reuters) — A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Philippine Islands region on Sunday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

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flights and long-distance trains out of Munich, with Christmas markets closed, some ski lifts unable to run and a football match called off as the city battled with the icy conditions. Flights were not scheduled to depart or arrive at Munich airport until at least 6 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Sunday according to a statement on its website.

Paris on Saturday before being arrested, officials said. The attack took place close to the Eiffel Tower during a busy weekend night and came with the country on its highest alert for attacks as tensions rise against the background of the war between Israel and Hamas. «We will not give in to terrorism,» Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after the attack. President Emmanuel Macron said he was sending his condolences to the family of a German killed in the «terrorist attack». French anti-terror prosecutors said that they would now take on the investigation. The attacker was known to authorities as a radical Islamist and was being treated for mental illness, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said at the scene by the River Seine,adding that the man had shouted «Allahu Akbar» («God is greatest») before being arrested. He fatally stabbed the German tourist, born in 1999, with a knife and then used a hammer to attack others as he sought to escape on the other side of the River Seine. The area by Bir Hakeim bridge, usually thronging with tourists and locals, was cordoned off by police and bright with the flashing lights of security forces and emergency services. 'Violently threatened them' The Paris prosecutor's office said the attacker, born in 1997, is French and has been arrested in an investigation into murder and attempted murder. Darmanin said the man had already been sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for planning another attack which he failed to carry out. «A man attacked a couple who were foreign tourists.

Read the review In the uncertain days of America’s infancy, the boundary between canny political maneuvering and disloyalty to the new nation was not yet defined. Review by Adam Rowe Read the review Can 21st-century brain science tell us whether or not we have free will? Two scientists say yes, but reach opposite conclusions. Review by Andrew Crumey Read the review Walter Kempowksi’s autobiographical novel puts the focus on a German family’s complacent journey into World War II.

But observers have warned that the headline-grabbing — but voluntary — pledges promoted by the UAE could distract from the more challenging work of negotiating a formal COP28 text at the climax of the two-week talks. As pressure builds during what is expected to be the hottest year on record, here are some major funding pledges and declarations announced so far at COP28. — Loss and damage - The first day of the talks saw the official launch of a «loss and damage» fund to help vulnerable countries cope with the increasingly costly and damaging impacts of climate disasters. Thursday's agreement came with pledges of $100 million each from the UAE and Germany, $109 million from France, $50 million from Britain, $25 million from Denmark and $17.5 million from the United States, the world's biggest oil and gas producer. The total committed so far is a little over $576 million, according to a tally by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group. That falls vastly short of the $100 billion a year that developing nations — which have historically been least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions — have said are needed to cover losses from natural disasters. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told the summit that «we need to mobilise funding on a far greater scale». Campaigners said the US offering was woefully inadequate from the world's biggest historical polluter. Bineshi Albert of the Climate Justice Alliance called it «insulting». «It is a paltry, shameful amount of money that shows the US is completely uninterested in prioritising or being accountable to the climate impacts frontline communities are facing,» she said. — Food and farming - More than 130 countries have agreed to

Munich's airport Saturday after a winter storm dumped snow across southern Germany and parts of Austria and Switzerland, affecting travel across the region. After initially announcing a halt in air traffic until noon on Saturday, the airport later announced flights would be cancelled until 6 am Sunday.

earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted India's northernmost region of Ladakh this morning at 8.25 am, as per the National Center for Seismology (NCS), ANI reported. The NCS confirmed that the seismic activity was felt in the area, with the epicentre located at a latitude of 35.44 and a longitude of 77.36.