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A former HSBC Holdings banker says one of the most criticized sustainable bond structures on Wall Street has the potential to dominate the roughly $6 trillion ethical debt market.

HSBC has hired the former Asia team Silicon Valley Bank as it continues to bolster its new innovation banking business with the remnants of the collapsed lender’s people operations.

Since Israel’s founding, mandatory military service for Jewish Israelis has been widely embraced as a unifying force in a divided society. Now the issue threatens to tear the country apart. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, a fast-growing and potent political bloc, have long shunned military duty along with other aspects of secular society.

White House said Wednesday nearly a month after the historic Official State Visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States. «The visit last month was extremely successful and important.

Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, online videos purported to show. The videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada Sadr. It wasn't clear if there were any staff inside the complex at the time.

Small business lender Lumi has welcomed a new strategic investor as it seeks to grow the business and institutionalise its register, Street Talk understands.

₹1.57 trillion, will gradually build its port interests outside India, said Karan Adani. However, he noted that investments outside India are more likely to be in operational ports and with a limited equity exposure.

Benjamin Netanyahu's planned judicial overhaul. The latest «day of disruption» came as longtime allies of the prime minister pushed a contentious piece of legislation through a parliamentary committee ahead of a vote expected next week. Additional protests are planned throughout the day.

Bankrupt cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius has requested the court to grant relief in the motion related to the distribution of funds from its sale of the self-custody platform GK8.

Netflix popular “Knightfall” is set to bid farewell to Netflix in the United States and several other countries in August 2023. The show, which originally aired on the History Channel, premiered in December 2017 and quickly garnered a dedicated fanbase due to its engaging storyline and high production quality. The series was unfortunately canceled after just two seasons. Set in the 14th century, Knightfall takes viewers into the treacherous world of the Knights Templar, a legendary order of warrior monks. The show brought the medieval era to life with its meticulous attention to detail, including elaborate sets, authentic costumes, and intense battle sequences. A talented ensemble cast, featuring Tom Cullen, Jim Carter, and Mark Hamill, contributed to the show's success.

Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from the Sheba Medical Center where he was treated since Saturday following dizziness caused by a day in the sun during an intense heat wave, his office said. The hospital diagnosed Netanyahu with dehydration and said he was in «excellent condition,» that his heart was «completely normal» and «at no point was any heart arrhythmia found.» However, «in order to continue routine monitoring, we decided to use a subcutaneous Holter,» the statement said.

As tensions rise in the occupied territories and with Iran, the Israel Defense Forces are reportedly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to choose targets for air strikes and manage logistics during wartime.

Though the military won’t comment on specific operations, officials say that it now uses an AI recommendation system that can crunch huge amounts of data to select targets for air strikes. Ensuing raids can then be rapidly assembled with another AI model called Fire Factory, which uses data about military-approved targets to calculate munition loads, prioritize and assign thousands of targets to aircraft and drones, and propose a schedule.

Meta, the operator of social media platform Facebook, has admitted it used data from software marketed to users as a way to keep their personal data safe as a “business intelligence tool” for its own purposes.

By Dan Williams

Walla, a leading Israeli news site, said that the leader had fainted but was fully conscious at the hospital. Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving leader.

New Delhi: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that the successful launch of Chandrayaan-3 will boost space startups and space entrepreneurs. Addressing the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance Summit, the minister said that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had made history in November last year by launching successfully India’s maiden private Vikram-suborbital (VKS) rocket.

The Times of Israel.  Dr. Ohad Einav, who oversaw the surgery at a hospital in Jerusalem in June this year, informed that it took several hours to fix the damaged area and place new plates in the child's head. He thanked the advanced knowledge of doctors and innovative technology which helped the team to save the child's life.

Syria across the Middle East. Speaking to Pentagon reporters, the official said the US will send F-16 fighter jets to the Gulf region this weekend to augment the A-10 attack aircraft that have been patrolling there for more than a week.

By Jonathan Stempel

NASA's database on Moon missions.India on Friday launched its third mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, with an aim to soft-land on the surface of Earth's only natural satellite. A successful landing would make India the fourth country to achieve the rare feat after the United States, China and the erstwhile USSR. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the technically challenging soft landing on the lunar surface, which Chandrayaan-2 could not achieve, has been planned for 5.47 pm on August 23. Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said the success rate of lunar missions is nearly 50 per cent because of the uncertainties when the rockets leave Earth's gravitational field. «The influence of other planets, from the Sun, is quite a bit. A lot of radiation conditions exist in space and this leaves some equipment or components prone to failure. In India's both missions (Chandrayaan 1 and 2), we have precisely reached the moon's orbit,» Nair told PTI.