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Germany’s highest court has rejected complaints by renewable energy producers against a government decision to use their “excess profits” to help finance a cap on electricity prices

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Rebels in Syria launched a large-scale attack on Assad government forces, storming a military base and seizing control of swaths of territory in the country’s northwest in the first major outbreak of fighting between the two sides in recent years. The Syrian government said Thursday that its forces are confronting the continuing attack.

Oreshnik hypersonic missile to attack «decision-making centres» in Kyiv in response to Ukraine's firing of Western missiles at Russian territory, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Russia has not so far struck Ukrainian government ministries, parliament or the president's office in the course of the 33-month war. Kyiv is heavily protected by air defences, but Putin says the Oreshnik, which Russia fired for the first time at a Ukrainian city last week, is incapable of being intercepted — a claim greeted with scepticism by Western experts.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Real wages are growing again as the rise in inflation abates, but remain below their prepandemic levels in many parts of the rich world even as they surge in China and Russia, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations. In its annual survey of wage developments, the U.N.’s International Labour Organization said wage inequality within countries has fallen since the start of this century, with the decline being most pronounced in poorer countries.

IDEAS 2024) to export defence products and equipment including advanced drones, fighter jets, commercial and logistic ships, electronic warfare equipment, and radars, Ministry of Defence Production Secretary Lt Gen (Retd) Chiragh Haider told PTI. Haider said the 12th edition of IDEAS held last week amidst tight security in Karachi was a big success and ended with a lot of potential export agreements.

World shares are mixed after losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Russian aluminium giant Rusal recently shook the global market with its plan to slash output by more than 6%, citing skyrocketing alumina prices and weakening domestic demand. The decision comes amid a surge in alumina prices, which have more than doubled to about $700 a tonne owing to supply disruptions in Guinea, Brazil and Australia.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Biden administration doesn’t have enough time left to use the billions of dollars lawmakers have authorized to arm Ukraine, U.S. and congressional officials said, leaving in President-Elect Donald Trump’s hands what to do with the remaining money.

Defence Ministry said on Wednesday its forces had taken control of the settlement of Nova Illinka, close to the embattled Donetsk region town of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine's military made no mention of Nova Illinka in its daily dispatches. The town lies on the opposite bank of a reservoir from Kurakhove, one of the focal points of a steady advance through Donetsk region by Russian forces. But Deep State, a popular Ukrainian blog tracking the movements of the armed forces, said more than a week ago that Nova Illinka had fallen into Russian hands.

Trump campaigned on a platform of ushering a swift end to the Ukraine war, boasting that he would quickly mediate a ceasefire deal between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. But his critics have warned that the incoming Republican will likely leverage US military aid to pressure Kyiv into an agreement that left it ceding occupied territory permanently or agreeing not to join NATO.

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president-elect's aide's adoring letters, Trump attacks the New York Times and its third-rate writer. In an overnight Truth Social tirade, Donald Trump attacked the failing New York Times, calling for an apology for its junk coverage of him and specifically targeting its correspondent Maggie Haberman. The president-elect wrote in the post, «Will the failing New York Times apologise to its readers for getting years of 'Trump' coverage so wrong?» They write such fake 'junk,' knowing full well how wrong it is, only to make fun of it, as quoted in a report by The Independent. The newspaper has a long history of rigorous fact-checking and has been transparent about its methods. Also Read: Is the war over and will Ukraine surrender? Russia is advancing in the country at the fastest rate since 2022

Ukraine at their fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion while they have already captured approximately 235 square kilometers (91 square miles) in just the past week, reported Reuters. This actually marks a record for the year 2024, with eminent analysts noting that Russian troops have taken control of near about 600 square kilometers (232 square miles) throughout the month of November. According to Reuters, the front line which had been largely static for two years is now seeing renewed activity, specifically in the Donetsk region where Russian forces are pushing towards key towns such as Kurakhove and Pokrovsk. The situation is becoming increasingly precarious while reports are claiming that North Korean troops are being deployed to support the Russian operations. Reuters asserted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has indicated that Russia's main objectives include occupying the entire Donbas region and pushing Ukrainian forces out of areas they have controlled since the month of August.

International Space Station (ISS) reported a rancid odor when they opened the hatch of Russia's Progress cargo ship, which had just eventually docked, reported Futurism. Kelly O. Humphries from NASA stated that inquiries about the smell should be directed to Roscosmos which is the Russian space agency, though; Roscosmos has not commented anything on the issue. According to Futurism, several initial assessments suggested that the odor might be due to ‘outgassing’ from the cargo, while, on the other hand, Russian sources pointed to potential contamination from the Poisk docking mechanism. Also Read: Queer on streaming: Is the Daniel Craig movie available to watch on OTT?

“They have huge domestic requirements and for that they want to set up manufacturing facilities here. They want to get these supplies from India,” ToI's report (by Dipak K Dash) said quoting a railway ministry official. TMH CEO Kirill Lipa elaborated on the plan at the company's Moscow headquarters. “The current interest rate in India is very different from other countries. So, we are interested and ready to invest in India. We are interested in developing several facilities in India, which are capable of providing certain components and we think some of them can be supplied to the Russian market as well.”

Bitcoin (BTC) traded flat on Monday around the $98,200 mark. On Friday, the cryptocurrency reached a record high of $99,830, fuelled by expectations of a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment under former President Donald Trump. At 11:01 AM IST, Bitcoin was up 0.05% at $98,270, with analysts speculating that the $100,000 milestone could soon be reached.

Several in Trump's team now see a direct approach from Trump, to build on a relationship that already exists, as most likely to break the ice with Kim, years after the two traded insults and what Trump called «beautiful» letters in an unprecedented diplomatic effort during his first term in office, the people said. The policy discussions are fluid and no final decisions have been made by the president-elect, the sources said.

The agency, known under its Russian acronym FSB, alleged that he has worked for British intelligence under diplomatic cover, replacing one of the six British diplomats who were expelled from Russia in August. The FSB alleged that the diplomat was involved in «intelligence and subversive activities that threatened the security of the Russian Federation». Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said a decision has made to revoke the diplomat's accreditation and he has been ordered to leave the country within two weeks. She said that the ministry has summoned the British ambassador to hand over the notice.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s European allies, struggling to produce enough weapons for Kyiv’s war effort, are pioneering a new method: Giving Ukrainians money to do it themselves. In the new approach, Europeans are financing Ukrainian government contracts with cash-strapped Ukrainian arms makers to produce equipment for the country’s armed forces, including long-range missiles and drones that can strike Russian territory.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ON NOVEMBER 23rd Mark Rutte, the new head of NATO, and Donald Trump, America’s president-elect, were photographed together grinning delightedly and shaking hands in Palm Beach, Florida. Yet the mood in Europe’s defence ministries is one of grim foreboding.

Shoigu, a former defence minister, also said the U.S. should play a leading role in rebuilding Afghanistan in view of its many years of military involvement in the country. Taliban leaders asked Shoigu to help them ease the pressure imposed by U.S. sanctions against the Kabul government, according to the Russian news agency reports.