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Dubai International Airport this year will eclipse the pre-pandemic passenger figures in 2019, showing the strong rebound in travel after the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns that grounded aircraft worldwide, a top official said Wednesday. The airport, the world's busiest for international travel and home of the long-haul carrier Emirates, has had 64.5 million passengers pass through its cavernous concourses through the third quarter of this year. That puts it on track to reach 86.8 million passengers for the full year, which would exceed its 2019 figure of 86.3 million passengers.

scheduled to meet prior to the 30th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco, aiming to mitigate tensions in what's viewed as a critical global rivalry. Leaders from the 21-member forum will gather at the global summit. However, the Biden-Xi bilateral will be the marquee moment of the forum, as it comes amid rising tension between the two nations following a series of events touched off by the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that had wafted across the US earlier this year.

Russia’s trade ministry says it has developed a tool that can help crypto miners evade Western sanctions.

Last week brought several noteworthy developments in the evolving crypto regulation scene across the globe.

A massive leak of documents has exposed how accounting giant PwC’s Cyprus arm scrambled to help Russian oligarchs facing the threat of sanctions in March last year, moving assets out of their names in the first days of the Ukraine invasion.

President Joe Biden wants to show Asia-Pacific leaders that he remains focused on the region even as his administration is grappling with the wars in Ukraine and the Mideast and a looming government shutdown in Washington

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will discuss international response to the purported North Korean-Russian weapons deal during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco this week

A Moscow court has fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine

The United States is hosting the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference this week for the first time since 2011

Google for refusal to store Russian users’ data on servers in Russia. A magistrate at Moscow's Tagansky district court imposed the fine on Google after the IT company repeatedly refused to store personal data on Russian citizens in Russia.

Amid the violent challenges to the world system in Ukraine and the Middle East, it’s easy to overlook the corroding economic pillars of international order. Under President Biden, American economic policy is morphing into a toxic combination of protectionism and green activism guaranteed to slow growth and create global friction. That matters.

Read our coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and the Ukraine war A concatenation of crises is hardly unprecedented. Sergey Radchenko, a historian, points to the examples of the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the Suez crisis overlapping in 1956, crises in Lebanon and the Taiwan Strait in 1958 and the tumultuous years of 1978-79, when the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, the Islamic revolution in Iran and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan unfolded in quick succession. In 1999 India and Pakistan, newly armed with nuclear missiles, waged a war over Kashmir while NATO bombed Serbian forces in Yugoslavia.

Biden-Xi bilateral will be the marquee moment of the forum, which is dedicated to promoting trade, investment, and economic development among nations around the Pacific Ocean. The meeting came amid rising tension between the two nations following a series of events touched off by the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that had wafted across the US earlier this year. 1) Trade, Taiwan, and managing fraught US-Chinese relations are likely to feature in the talks between the two world leaders.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. has bought 1.2 million barrels of oil to help replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after selling the largest amount ever from the stockpile last year, the U.S. Energy Department said on Monday.

(Reuters) — Boeing (NYSE:BA) said on Monday it will increase Huntsville factory production capacity for sensors that are used to guide Patriot missiles to their targets to meet rising air and missile defense needs worldwide.

shock return of Cameron, a former two-time UK prime minister, into the country's politics. While a detailed statement was not immediately shared, Jaishankar took to social media to note that the Ukraine conflict, along with the “situation in West Asia" – an apparent reference to the Israel-Palestine row – was discussed by the two leaders. A discussion around the “Indo-Pacific" also took place during the talks, the Indian foreign minister's post on social media platform X suggested.

NEW DELHI : Retail inflation fell to a four-month low of 4.87% in October as food prices eased, prompting expectations that the central bank may yet again keep policy rates unchanged at its monetary policy review next month. Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation stood at 5.02% in September, remaining within the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) comfort zone of 2-6% for the second consecutive month. In October 2022, retail inflation stood at 6.77%.

Navalny while she is being tried for alleged "extremism", her associates said Monday. Ksenia Fadeyeva, who led Navalny's now-banned Anti-Corruption Foundation group in the Siberian city of Tomsk, faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted. Fadeyeva had been under house arrest.

Mike Johnson might have acquired the seat and the gavel, however, disciplining the conservative Republican hardliners seems like the herculean tasks his predecessor faced. The economy of United States faces yet another threat of shutdown, amid the US funding Ukraine and Israel in their war with Russia and Hamas respectively.

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David Cameron sensationally returned to the British government as foreign secretary on Monday, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shook up his top team with a general election looming next year. Cameron's comeback from the political wilderness came as Sunak sacked right-wing firebrand Suella Braverman as interior minister to assert his authority over the Conservative party, which trail the Labour opposition in polls. James Cleverly moved from the foreign ministry to succeed Braverman after critics accused her of heightening tensions during weeks of contentious pro-Palestinian demonstrations and counter-protests. Cameron quit as prime minister in 2016 after losing the Brexit referendum, standing down as an MP that year, before later becoming mired in a lobbying scandal that was seen as tarnishing his reputation. The former leader, whose foreign policy record as prime minister is viewed as chequered at best, said he «gladly accepted» his new role as Britain faced «a daunting set of international challenges». «While I have been out of front-line politics for the last seven years, I hope that my experience — as Conservative leader for 11 years and prime minister for six — will assist me in helping the prime minister to meet these vital challenges,» Cameron added, citing the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's conflict in Ukraine. Cameron will be made a life peer in the House of Lords — Britain's unelected upper chamber of parliament — Downing Street announced, making him eligible to sit in government. The last lord as foreign secretary was Peter Carrington, who quit Margaret Thatcher's government after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982. Cameron was instrumental in leading western countries' intervention in Libya in