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Ukraine from exporting grain. The attacks destroyed buildings in the port of Izmail and halted ships in their tracks as they prepared to arrive there to load up with Ukrainian grain in defiance of a de-facto blockade Russia reimposed in mid-July. Ukrainian deputy prime minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the Russian drone attacks damaged almost 40,000 tonnes of grains which had been destined for countries in Africa as well as China and Israel.

Russian drones have hit a Ukrainian port city along the border with Romania, causing significant damage and a huge fire at facilities that are key to Ukrainian grain exports

Deep-tech industry participants, including founders, investors and advisors ET spoke to on Tuesday, expressed confidence in a draft deep-tech startup policy recommendations to further innovation and funding into the sector, while some also raised questions on its effectiveness. Open for public consultation and released on Monday, the recommendations are spread across nine themes including access to funding and strengthening the intellectual property regime. «We welcome the government putting a dedicated focus on deep-tech startups and committing significant time and resources to the cause.

An Israeli tech industry monitor says investment in Israeli start-ups has plummeted in the first half of 2023

Investing.com — U.S. futures edged lower Tuesday, with investors digesting more corporate earnings as well as key job openings data.

Amazon said on Tuesday it is planning to invest about $7.2 billion through 2037 in Israel, and launched its Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the country. Amazon's cloud services in the region will allow the country's government to run applications and store data in data centres located in Israel.

Stock trading platform eToro agreed to a $120 million secondary share sale, giving the company a slightly lower valuation than the $3.5 billion it was valued at in a primary funding round earlier this year.

An escalating dispute over a gas field in the Persian Gulf poses an early challenge to a Chinese-brokered agreement to reconcile regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran

By Libby George and Marc Jones

Israel's parliament passed the first piece of judicial reform package last Monday that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as a 'minor correction'. The reform limits the 'reasonableness' clause by which the Israeli Supreme Court overturns government decisions the judiciary deems unconstitutional. Put bluntly, this is majoritarianism being passed off as 'mandate' and 'majority'.

OTT platform Amazon Prime Video on July 21. In history, the Holocaust refers to the genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany.

ISRO on Sunday launched its proven PSLV rocket carrying seven Singaporean satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre here. This ISRO mission, which comes after the much-awaited Chandrayaan-3 launch earlier this month, is being undertaken by its commercial arm NewSpace India Limited.

The Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) launched seven Singaporean satellites, onboard a PSLV rocket in a commercial mission on Sunday. After the much-awaited launch of Chandrayaan-3 this month, the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency launched PSLV-C56 carrying Singapore's DS-SAR, a Radar Imaging Earth Observation Satellite, along with six co-passenger satellites from Sriharikota, about 135 km from Chennai. at 6:30 AM on 30 July (Sunday).

JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Thousands of flag-waving Israelis renewed their protests nationwide after sundown on Saturday, capping a week of turmoil in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed through a highly-contested law that limited some Supreme Court power.

Saudi-Iran peace deal that it brokered, China is looking to mediate between Israel and Palestine, hoping this will boost its image in the Muslim world. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to visit Beijing and he may seek Beijing's assistance to secure a deal with the Saudis, ET has learnt. India is keeping a close watch on any China-Israel deal, given its high stakes in Israel.

ALSO READ: ISRO's PSLV-C56 to launch on 30 July with six co-passenger satellites. Details here "PSLV-C56/DS-SAR Mission: The countdown leading to the launch on July 30, 2023, at 06.30 hrs has commenced," ISRO said in an update on Saturday.

Holocaust in Hindi movie 'Bawaal' released on Prime Video, saying it had «poor choice of terminology and symbolism». The Varun Dhawan-starrer has stirred up a controversy for using the Holocaust to tell a story of marital discord as earlier in the week a prominent Jewish group slammed the movie and called for its removal from the OTT platform. The Israeli embassy in India on Friday issued a statement, saying it was «disturbed by the trivialisation of the significance of the Holocaust» in the movie, directed by Nitesh Tiwari of 'Dangal' fame. «I did not and will not watch the film 'Bawaal' but from what I have read, there was a poor choice of terminology and symbolism. Trivialisation of the Holocaust should disturb all,» Gilon wrote on Twitter. «I urge those who don't know enough about the horrors of the Holocaust to educate themselves about it,» he added. 'Bawaal' follows a high school history teacher Ajay Dixit (Dhawan) and his wife Nisha (Jahnvi Kapoor) as they go on a Europe tour where they visit prominent World War 2 sites, including Auschwitz and Anne Frank's home in Amsterdam.

When death threats forced Irish pop singer Sinead O’Connor to call off a peace concert in Jerusalem in the summer of 1997, a young man named Itamar Ben-Gvir took credit for the campaign against her

The Israeli government has established a special examination team tasked with regulating decentralized governance organizations (DAOs). 

Dr Reddy's on Wednesday said it plans to use net surplus cash for acquisitions and product innovations targeting India, emerging markets and US. The drug maker has a net cash surplus of Rs 5000 crore as of June 30, 2023. «A part of it would be used for India and emerging markets primarily for licensing and product acquisitions,» said Erez Israeli, CEO of Dr.

An Australian court has reportedly ordered Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook, to pay fines amounting to 20 million Australian dollars ($14 million) for collecting user data through a smartphone application, Onavo.