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By Patricia Zengerle

Animoca Brands Japan, in collaboration with its KLKTN subsidiary, has announced a partnership with Cool Cats Group to venture into the Japanese anime market through web3 integration.

New Delhi: India, in ongoing talks on several free trade agreements, may push for clauses to ensure that steel products imported from the partner country are manufactured in that country rather than being routed through it, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday. Speaking at the 4th edition of ISA Steel Conclave virtually, the minister said that these clauses will ensure that the Indian steel industry is protected from dumping from the developed world.

Key Financial HighlightsQ2 FY24 Highlights “Our Q2 FY24 result represents stable growth in our key businesses, as well as strong profitability. We are on track to meet our growth objectives for the year. Going ahead, differentiated launches in the US, in addition to a rebound in India business growth which was constrained by delayed seasonality, will be critical drivers.

WeWork India, the Indian arm of global co-working space firm WeWork Inc, on November 6 said it is a “profitable" and “separate entity" whose operations would not be affected by the parent group's bankruptcy filing. The clarification came hours after WeWork Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey and listed nearly $19 billion in debt. WeWork India, in a statement, said it “operates independently of WeWork Global, and our operations will not be affected in any manner".

The NBA and Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, have reached an agreement that will keep local broadcasts for 15 teams on Bally Sports through the end of this season

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is calling for the “full resumption of free and unimpeded trade" with China in a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang

China is owed more than a trillion dollars through its Belt and Road project, making it the biggest debt collector in the world, a report said this week, with an estimated 80 percent of the loans supporting countries in financial distress. Beijing says upwards of 150 countries stretching from Uruguay to Sri Lanka have signed up to the BRI, a vast global infrastructure push unveiled by President Xi Jinping a decade ago. The first decade of the initiative saw China distribute huge loans to fund the construction of bridges, ports and highways in low and middle-income countries. But much more than half of those loans have now entered their principal repayment period, said a report released Monday by AidData, a research institute tracking development finance at Virginia's College of William and Mary. That figure is set to hit 75 percent by the end of the decade, it added. Crunching data compiled on Chinese financing of almost 21,000 projects across 165 countries, AidData said Beijing had now committed aid and credit «hovering around $80 billion a year» to low and middle-income nations. The United States, in contrast, has provided $60 billion to such countries a year. «Beijing is navigating an unfamiliar and uncomfortable role — as the world's largest official debt collector,» the report said.

The leaders of Australia and China have welcomed the improvement in relations between their two countries in the past year and emphasized the importance of engaging with each other despite differences on issues such as defense

step back from immediate escalation. Yet amid the bloody struggle in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, a broader and potentially more dangerous rivalry with Iran is growing. Having abandoned the Trump-era approach of “maximum pressure" on Iran, in recent months the Biden administration had sought quietly to reduce tensions.

(Reuters) -Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will be integrated into his social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app, he said on Sunday in a post.

World Cup 2023, they will play for their pride to show that they are better than their recent performances. These two teams have played 53 ODIs against each other so far. Sri Lanka have won 42 of those and Bangladesh 9.

military action that became inevitable given the remorseless logic created by the October 7 attacks by Hamas that killed some 1,400 Israelis. Given the magnitude of that move, Israel had no option but to attack Gaza with stated maximalist aims: the elimination of Hamas. Considering the militant organisation runs the densely populated territory — it's more Taliban than the Islamic State, in this respect — civilian casualties are sadly inevitable as Israel follows its goal of uprooting it.

India's captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat in the high-stakes World Cup match against South Africa. The Indian team, which is the sole undefeated squad in the competition, remains unaltered. South Africa, in contrast, has made a change by substituting bowler Gerald Coetzee with spinner Tabraiz Shamsi. Teams: India: Rohit Sharma ©, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Siraj.

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday will break weeks of silence since war broke out between Hamas and Israel, in a speech that could impact the region as the Gaza conflict rages. After Hamas militants launched an unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon's southern border has seen escalating tit-for-tat exchanges, mainly between Israel and Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian group, stoking fears of a broader conflagration. The cross-border attacks heated up Thursday, as Israel responded with a «broad assault» after Hezbollah attacked 19 Israeli positions simultaneously, according to the group. Rockets also hit the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona near the border in a barrage claimed by the Lebanese section of Hamas's armed wing. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned that «the region is like a powder keg» and that «anything is possible» if Israel does not stop attacking Gaza. US President Joe Biden has sent two aircraft carrier groups to the eastern Mediterranean and warned Hezbollah and others to stay out of the conflict. «We've got significant national security interests at play here,» US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. «I don't believe we've seen any indication yet specifically that Hezbollah is ready to go in full force.

Panama's government has nearly approved a new bill revoking a controversial mining contract

The state of Pennsylvania will work with a major natural gas producer to collect in-depth data on air emissions and water quality at well sites, enhance public disclosure of drilling chemicals and expand buffer zones

Six Flags and Cedar Fair, two of the largest amusement park companies in the United States and Canada, are merging to combine forces in a transaction valued at $8 billion. The firms, collectively, have influence over 27 theme parks and 15 water parks in the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico. Both Six Flags and Cedar Fair are located in separate regions of North America; therefore, a unified firm could assist them in better managing seasonal attendance fluctuations at their theme parks. Cedar Fair also owns Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California; Schlitterbahn water park in Texas; and Canada's Wonderland in Ontario, in addition to Cedar Point, which is located in Sandusky, Ohio and serves as the company's main amusement park.

By Stephen Nellis

Fortescue’s shareholders should vote against the company’s remuneration arrangements because millions of dollars of bonuses have been paid to retiring executives with little benefit to the mining and energy giant’s investors, two influential proxy advisory firms have told their clients.