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After days of delays, the resolution also called for the creation of «conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities» but did not call for an immediate end to fighting.

Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order threatening penalties for financial institutions that help Russia circumvent sanctions, the White House said in a statement, as Washington seeks to increase pressure on Moscow. The order also gives Washington the ability to broaden import bans of certain Russian goods, such as seafood and diamonds, the White House said.

France after a Nicaragua-bound plane that took off from the UAE carrying 303 Indian passengers was grounded in France over suspected "human trafficking." «French authorities informed us of a plane w/ 303 people, mostly Indian origin, from Dubai to Nicaragua detained on a technical halt at a French airport. Embassy team has reached & obtained consular access.

Christmas and year-end season? Pretty much everywhere! Going by most accounts, the October to December quarter this year is likely to be a bumper quarter for the travel and hospitality sector with most companies claiming to have an even better momentum than in 2019. «There is a lot of talk about high airfares but the important thing to note is that people are travelling,» said Rajesh Magow, cofounder and group CEO of MakeMyTrip. «Typically, international travel bookings, even for short-haul travel, are made a couple of weeks or more in advance. However, with markets such as Thailand and others making the entry process a lot easier, we are seeing advance purchase windows for these destinations becoming shorter, in many cases, stretching to a couple of days,» he said. As per MakeMyTrip data, the top destinations for the last week of December in the domestic sector include Goa, Rajasthan, Varanasi, Kerala, Rishikesh and Kashmir. In terms of international flight bookings, popular destinations such as the UAE, Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia continue to be favourites.

PGA Tour’s Q-School. The next two weeks are a brief period of relief in the calendar of professional golf. However, there is a build-up of anticipation for the impending resumption. The golfing calendar for the year 2024 begins with the PGA Tour, announcing a return to its original schedule. This is followed by the DP World Tour, PGA Tour Championships, Korn Ferry, and LPGA events. Fans though need to be waiting till February for the comeback of LIV Golf.

Israel broadened their ground offensive. The UN Security Council passed the resolution on Gaza aid delivery with 13 votes in favor, zero votes against, and two abstentions. Russia, and United States abstained from voting on the resolution.

United Nations Security Council once again pushed back a vote for a much-delayed resolution on the war between Hamas and Israel, diplomatic sources said Thursday. The postponement to Friday came even as the United States, which has opposed a number of proposals during the resolution's drafting, said it was ready to support it in its current form.

Russia continued to be the top source for India’s oil imports in October, accounting for nearly 30% of the crude brought into the country, official data showed. At $3.78 billion, the value of the crude oil supply from Russia increased 44% year-on-year (y-o-y) in October from $2.62 billion in October 2022. On a sequential basis, too, crude imports from that country increased 9% from $3.48 billion in September 2023, commerce ministry data showed.

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), a financial regulatory body in the United Arab Emirates, has released an updated version of its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and sanctions rules specifically tailored for digital assets.

The hands-on approach by Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) has enabled it to set a global precedent for regulator-industry cooperation, its executives said.

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It’s tempting to dismiss the outcome of COP28, the recent United Nations climate change conference in the United Arab Emirates, as mere verbiage, especially the “historic” UAE Consensus about transitioning away from fossil fuels. After all, this is the 28th such conference and the previous ones all pretty much came to nothing. On a chart showing the steady rise in global CO2emissions since 1950 you cannot spot when the 1997 Kyoto Protocol entered into force (2002), with its supposedly historic language binding developed countries to cap their CO2 emissions at five per cent below 1990 levels by 2012, which they didn’t do. The 2015 Paris Agreement also contained “historic” language that bound countries to further deep emission reductions. Yet the COP28 declaration begins with an admission that the parties are not on track for compliance.

More than 40 countries have made significant strides in advancing crypto-focused regulations and legislation this year, indicating a growing global trend towards wider cryptocurrency adoption.

Asian buyers, who are scrambling for cheaper alternatives, particularly as New Delhi is unlikely to lift the curbs before general elections next year. The world's biggest exporter of onions banned shipments on Dec. 8 after domestic prices more than doubled in three months following a drop in production. Now retail shoppers from Kathmandu to Colombo are struggling with high prices, since traditional Asian buyers, such as Bangladesh, Malaysia and Nepal, and even the United Arab Emirates, rely on imports from India to bridge domestic gaps.

energy transition over the next decade isn’t technology or politics. It’s money. Reconfiguring the world’s power systems to eliminate carbon emissions is going to be a multi-trillion dollar investment project.

As activists and diplomats first assembled in Dubai for Cop28, the UN’s climate summit, a fortnight ago, the chances of significant progress seemed slim. War had returned to the Middle East and the geopolitical order was fragmenting. The choice of the summit’s host country—the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s leading petrostates—and its chairman, Sultan al-Jaber, the head of its national oil company, threatened to turn the event into a giant exercise in greenwashing.

Kapture CX, a customer support platform for enterprises, has raised $4 million from India Alternatives, a private equity fund. The Bengaluru-based startup has been expanding on-ground operations in five countries: the US, the UAE, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and India.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a complaint against Debt Box and other defendants, alleging that the firm was engaged in a fraudulent conspiracy to offer unregistered securities to investors. The action is being brought against Debt Box and other defendants. In August of 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) won a temporary asset freeze and restraining order against Debt Box, its four proprietors, and thirteen additional defendants. The SEC said that the scam was responsible for the raising of about fifty million dollars, in addition to undefined sums of Bitcoin and Ether. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Debt Box was accused of selling «node licenses» that were represented as a mechanism to earn crypto asset tokens via mining operations. However, the SEC said that these «node licenses» were, in fact, a counterfeit.

NEW DELHI : Biocon Biologics Ltd (BBL), a subsidiary of Biocon Ltd, on Monday announced a complete integration of the acquired Vitaris’ biosimilars business in 120 countries, a year ahead of schedule. The firm had acquired the American pharmaceutical company’s biosimilars business in November 2022.

Security Council could vote as early as Monday on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip — via land, sea and air routes — and set up U.N. monitoring of the humanitarian assistance delivered. Diplomats said the fate of the draft Security Council resolution hinges on final negotiations between Israel ally and council veto power, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates, which has drafted the text.

This was met by a sense of déjà vu among delegates of the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), an intergovernmental organisation representing the nations most vulnerable to climate change. In her post-summit statement, Aosis lead negotiator Anne Rasmussen expressed confusion that the UAE Consensus, COP28's final agreement, was approved when representatives from small island developing states (or Sids were not in the room. While some delegates hailed the consensus as «beginning of the end» of the fossil fuel era, Aosis countered that the document contained a «litany of loopholes» which did little to advance the key actions needed to stave off climate breakdown and deliver justice to islands and low-lying states facing the gravest consequences of the climate crisis. Aosis member states came to COP28 to build on the momentum of their victory in the final moments of COP27 a year earlier in Egypt, when delegates agreed to establish a loss and damage fund which would pay developing nations for the unavoidable and extreme consequences of climate change. The group had fought over 30 years in climate negotiations for this fund. Additionally, Aosis identified fundamental areas required to save Sids from impacts such as sea-level rise, desertification and climate migration.