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jobless benefits increased slightly last week, while layoffs dropped to an 11-month low in July, labor department report showed. Jobs report for July is due on Friday. A separate report showed that the US services sector slowed in July.

Toronto International Film Festival has revealed its diverse line-up for the Discovery and Midnight Madness programs. Featuring original and unexpected works, the Midnight Madness program offers bizarre and daring cinema, while the Discovery program showcases contemporary international cinema and emerging talents. The Midnight Madness line-up includes 10 titles, including seven World Premieres. Notable selections are “Dicks: The Musical” by Larry Charles and satirical provocations from Saudi Arabia and Serbia. On the other hand, the Discovery program presents 26 titles with a strong emphasis on World and International Premieres. An exceptional highlight is the participation of 13 female filmmakers, representing 50% of the program's total. Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer, expressed enthusiasm, stating that the Discovery and Midnight Madness 2023 selections promise to captivate tastemakers and experience seekers.

The Ministry of External Affairs Thursday said they had summoned the German Ambassador Philipp Ackermann this week in connection with the case of Indian baby girl Ariha Shah who has been placed in foster care in Berlin for more than 20 months after the seven month-old baby suffered an accidental injury in September 2021, reported PTI. The baby girl was placed in the custody of Germany's Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt) in September, 2021 after she suffered an accidental injury. "We are giving high priority to this case...

Adidas has brought in $437 million from the first release of Yeezy sneakers left over after breaking ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West

A freight ship carrying thousands of cars that burned for a week on the North Sea has been towed to a Dutch port for salvage

German Ambassador in connection with the case of Indian baby girl Ariha Shah who has been placed in foster care in Germany since September 2021 over allegations of parental abuse, reported news agency ANI. Marking this as a violation of the girl’s cultural and fundamental rights, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, «We are giving high priority to this case… We have called the German Ambassador this week regarding this. We've asked the German authorities to bring back the child at the earliest.

Investing.com — Shares in Oatly Group (NASDAQ:OTLY) rose in early U.S. trading on Thursday after the alternative milk brand said a range of its products will be available on Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) in several western European countries.

India summoned German Ambassador Philipp Ackermann this week and pressed for the return of an Indian baby girl, who has been living in a foster care in Berlin for over 20 months. Ariha Shah, aged seven months then, was placed in the custody of Germany's Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt) on September 23, 2021 after she suffered an accidental injury.

Paris is Europe's new and most shiny financial centre. And HEC is one of France's finest educational establishment for students looking for finance jobs. But HEC students still want to work in London most of all. 

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The car carrier that caught fire last week off the coast of the Netherlands has arrived at the northern Dutch port of Eemshaven for salvage, officials there said on Thursday.

Stocks deepened a slump, unraveling more of this year’s high-powered rally as Treasuries added to their decline. Investors braced for another interest rate increase from the Bank of England later Thursday.

FundsDLT is playing a key role in the development of D7, a new cloud-backed and DLT-ready platform from the German exchange operator that will deliver same-day-issuance and paperless, automated straight-through processing for the entire value chain of issuance, custody, settlement, payment and asset servicing for digital securities.Alrready a significant minority shareholder, Deutsche Börse has bought out former stakeholders Credit Suisse Asset Management together with UBS Asset Management as well as Natixis Investment Managers.“The acquisition of FundsDLT is a critical and natural step in our digital strategy. It demonstrates our position at the forefront of innovation and will redefine the overall distribution chain of the fund business,” states Philippe Seyll, CEO of Clearstream Fund Centre.

Lufthansa to reimburse the airfares totaling Rs 4.5 lakh and pay an additional compensation of Rs 25,000 to the child and mother for denying boarding in an Athens-bound flight. As per a ToI report, the child and mother were grounded at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru in 2021. The airline's ground staff reportedly denied boarding, claiming that transit through Germany was prohibited with an emergency travel document.

As high inflation eats into purchasing power, over nine in 10 urban Indians (93%) say they intend to save money with smart shopping tactics in the coming year, a survey by YouGov found. The top tactics Indians wish to employ are comparing online and in-store prices (45%), shopping with discount codes (45%), and waiting for items to come on sale (42%). This is in line with global trends, where a similar share of respondents (93%) is looking at money-saving tactics, the survey shows.

The fate of Group H will be determined on August 3. Both matches will be played on August 3 at 3:30 PM (India time). The match against South Korea is crucial for Germany, two-time World Cup champions.

crypto project that relies on an eye scan to verify a user's identity, citing concerns about data protection. Worldcoin, set up by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, began operating in June in Germany and provides users with a private digital identity — a "World ID" — after they get their eye's unique iris pattern scanned. The project, according to its founders, aims to solve one of the main challenges facing the crypto industry that largely relies on pseudonyms to operate, leaving it vulnerable to spam bots and scams. Users who registered with the project in Kenya were offered 25 free Worldcoin tokens worth about 7,000 shillings ($45), drawing thousands of people to multiple sign-up points in the capital Nairobi.

They recently upgraded Miami’s credit rating, citing a robust tax base and labor market. The city’s “elevated” environmental risks, S&P says, are offset by mitigation projects such as those designed to counter rising sea levels. As the world reels from the mounting impact of heat waves, droughts and fiercer storms, there is growing concern that credit rating analysts are misreading climate risks in the $133 trillion global bond market, to the detriment of creditors and borrowers alike.

economy, this “Ozanada" would be the world’s fifth-largest, bigger than India and just behind Germany. Considering the two in tandem is not as nutty as it seems. Weather aside, they have a remarkable amount in common.

music festival starting in northern Germany on Wednesday was forced to cap attendance after heavy rains turned its outdoor venue into a muddy quagmire. Organisers of the annual Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) bash, featuring 150 bands on eight stages over four days, said the event would go forward as planned but with only around 60 percent of the 85,000 ticket-holders after imposing an entry freeze. In messages to «dear metalheads» on social media, the promoters said they regretted having to cap the total audience at the around 50,000 fans who were already present, calling the situation «very sad». «We tried everything but unfortunately we are unable to allow anyone else onto the Holy Ground,» they said, referring to the sprawling rural venue. «There is no other way,» they added, calling it the «first time we've taken this decision in the history of the W:O:A.»

The Argentinian women's football team departed the Women's World Cup in New Zealand with a sense of both disappointment and optimism. While they fell short of securing any win, the team's spirited performances in their three matches have given them hope for the future, with a new generation of players showing great promise. Their first match against Italy came close to an upset, but a late goal from the opposition resulted in a 1-0 defeat.

Fitch downgraded the United States to AA+ from AAA, citing expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years as well as growing government debt. Meanwhile, private payrolls data in the US showed that the companies added 324,000 new jobs last month, much higher than the consensus estimates. In Asia, investors will focus on the Caixin private survey for China’s service sector activity in July.