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The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions against four Russians on the board of Alfa Group

The Russian ruble, steadily losing exchange value in a long fall since the beginning of the year, has hit 99 to the dollar

(Reuters) — A civilian was killed and six people were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl, following intense Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, including cluster munitions, a Russian-installed official in the eastern Ukrainian region said on Saturday.

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was not completely off the mark when he publicly accused the United States of ensuring his removal as prime minister through a no-confidence motion with the help of the army in April last year. He had waved a paper at every public rally claiming the same to be a diplomatic cable from Asad Majeed Khan, Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, dated March 7, 2022, in which the US had used threatening language against him.

(Reuters) — Ukraine's military said in a regular update of fighting and casualties on Saturday that its forces had made progress near Robotyne on the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.

Russia's Kaliningrad region on Saturday during a training mission, killing the two pilots on board. «The Su-30 aircraft crashed in a deserted area.

Russia thwarted an attack by 20 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday. Fourteen drones were shot down by Russian air defenses and a further six were jammed electronically, the ministry said in a Telegram post. No casualties or damage were reported.

reliance more than the BM-21 Grad, an icon of Soviet weaponry that entered service in 1963 and shoots up to 40 unguided rockets from the back of a truck. The Grad also shows the dangers of Ukraine’s reliance on Soviet-era gear. The aging weapon is inaccurate and prone to breakdown, while the country’s supplies of Grad rockets are running low, according to analysts and some of its operators.

Oil prices edged higher on Friday after the International Energy Agency forecast record global demand and tightening supplies, propelling prices to the seventh straight week of gains, the longest such streak since 2022. Brent crude futures rose 41 cents, or 0.5%, to settle $86.81 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 37 cents, or 0.5%, to settle at $83.19.

(Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it has reached a staff-level agreement with Honduras for a 36-month credit facility for about $830 million to support the country's economic reform policies.

NEW DELHI : After decades of integration, the global economy is seeing increasing fragmentation, making it one of the biggest challenges for multilateralism and addressing shared economic objectives, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. Speaking at a G20 event in Mumbai, Sitharaman said that India’s presidency has so far ensured that geopolitical differences don’t supersede the core mandate of international cooperation.

Covid-19 pandemic and a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world faces unprecedented changes. Furthermore, the convergence of technological transformations with climate change and geopolitical tensions has also unleashed a wave of disruptions in business operations. During these times of heightened unpredictability, trust becomes an antidote, a differentiator, a value creator and a necessity for survival and advancement.

ONGC) quarterly profit fell 34% to Rs 10,015 crore from a year earlier on a sharp drop in oil prices. Revenue for the April-June quarter fell 20% year-on-year to Rs 33,814 crore. The average oil price realized from nomination fields was 29.5% down from a year earlier to $ 76.49 per barrel during the quarter.

Russia fired missiles at western Ukraine that killed an 8-year-old boy, local officials said, and drones that Russian officials blamed on the Ukrainian military targeted Moscow for a third straight day but reportedly didn't cause significant damage. Also Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the firing of all the heads of regional military draft boards, part of his crackdown on corruption since the outbreak of Russia's war in Ukraine more than 17 months ago. The missile that killed the boy struck a house In western Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivsk region, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Polish border, according to the office of Ukraine's prosecutor general. But Ukrainian air defenses frustrated Russia's daylight attack on Kyiv, Ukraine's capital. Debris from intercepted missiles fell on residential areas of the city, including the premises of a children's hospital, without causing casualties, local authorities said. Falling wreckage of missiles and drones has in the past killed people on the ground and damaged buildings in Kyiv.

Kyiv said Friday that Russian forces had fired four Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at an airfield in western Ukraine, an attack that regional officials earlier reported had left one child dead. «One Kh-47 missile was destroyed within the Kyiv region. The rest hit near the airfield.

private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has raised over $4.45 billion so far for its new Asia-focused fund, its latest regulatory disclosure showed.CVC is targeting to raise $6 billion for the fund, its sixth and largest to date for the region, people familiar with the situation told Reuters. The firm did not disclose when it will finalize the fundraising in the Tuesday filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Oil prices edged higher on Friday on optimism from the OPEC producer group that oil demand will be robust in 2024 as it also nudged up its expectations for global economic growth. Brent crude rose 7 cents to settle at $86.47 a barrel at 0017 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediatecrude futures gained 12 cents at $82.94 a barrel.

India are sending confusing signals — cookies are becoming more affordable, but meals are turning more expensive. While the former may be a more permanent indicator of commodity inflation, could the central bank really afford to ignore the latter as transient? The cost of a home-cooked vegetarian lunch or dinner in the world’s most-populous nation jumped by 28% in just one month, largely because of tomatoes. In New Delhi’s Azadpur, one of Asia’s biggest perishables markets, prices have shot up 17-fold since the end of May.

lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia's first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth's satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The launch from Russia's Vostochny spaceport in the Far East of the Luna-25 craft to the moon is Russia's first since 1976 when it was part of the Soviet Union. The Russian lunar lander is expected to reach the moon on Aug.

Chandrayaan-3 vs Russia's Luna-25 race to the moon: here's who will claim the south pole position 1st "Now we will wait for the 21st. I hope that a highly precise soft landing on the moon will happen," Borisov told workers at the Vostochny Cosmodrome after the launch, according to Interfax.