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Viva Energy’s earnings will be crunched by costs and production challenges linked to prolonged maintenance at its troubled flagship Geelong refinery.

Economy will cross 4 trillion in 2024 -25 and the per capita nominal GDP will also cross $2800, said an analysis conducted by the industry body, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The pace of economic activity is expected to remain strong on the back of various structural reforms undertaken by the government during the last 3 years, noted the study, showcased during a seminar organised by the PHDCCI yesterday.

Russia will regard Western F-16 fighter jets sent to Ukraine as a «nuclear» threat because of their capacity to carry atomic weapons, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday. Modern warplanes have been at the forefront of Kyiv's demands for military aid from its Western allies as it fights back against Russia's offensive. Lavrov spoke of a US plan to transfer F-16s to Ukraine, although Washington has not given the go-ahead for any country to supply them. «Russia cannot ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. No amount of assurances will help here,» Lavrov was quoted as saying by the Russian foreign ministry. «In the course of combat operations, our servicemen are not going to sort out whether each particular aircraft of this type is equipped to deliver nuclear weapons or not.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India's stand on the Ukraine war remains clear, transparent and consistent. Narendra Modi in an interview with Les Echos, a French financial newspaper, said, “India's stand has been clear, transparent and consistent.

The Russian Central Bank could begin “real-world” tests on the digital ruble next month after parliament approved a key piece of CBDC legislation.

NATO’s ranks are swelling, with Finland and Sweden joining or set to join and the alliance promising to admit Ukraine.

New York Post, this gaffe occurred just a day after Zelensky expressed frustration at Ukraine not receiving an invitation to join the North Atlantic alliance, only to retract his statement shortly afterwards. “Vladimir and I … I shouldn’t be so familiar," Biden said during a press conference in the Lithuanian capital.

Narendra Modi France Visit LIVE News: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins a two-day visit to France on Thursday where he will attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade as guest of honour and discuss major new defence deals, AFP reported.French President Emmanuel Macron's red-carpet welcome for the Hindu nationalist leader comes weeks after Modi was given the rare honour of a White House state dinner in Washington -- a city he was once banned from visiting.Despite differences over the war in Ukraine and tensions over human rights in India, New Delhi and Western democracies are keen on deepening ties because of mutual concerns about China."India is one of the pillars of our Indo-Pacific strategy," an aide to Macron told reporters this week on condition of anonymity.Macron has made Modi guest of honour for the July 14 military parade, which kicks off France's national day celebrations, with the participation of Indian troops and Indian-flown French-made fighter jets underlining close defence ties.India is one of the biggest buyers of French arms, with Modi announcing a landmark deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets during a trip to Paris in 2015 that was worth around 4.0 billion euros ($4.24 billion) at the time.He is set to unveil the purchase of another 26 marine versions of the state-of-the-art aircraft during this visit, as well as a deal for three Scorpene-class submarines, according to reports by the Tribune news website in France and the Hindustan Times newspaper in India.

Reuters reported. Currently, the last two ships under the agreement are being loaded with cargo at the Ukrainian port of Odesa before the deadline. Moscow has made a significant request for the re-establishment of connectivity between the Russian agricultural bank, Rosselkhozbank, and the SWIFT international payment network.

Kyiv killed one person and wounded at least four others, authorities said on Thursday, with explosions heard across the Ukrainian capital in the third night of attacks. «Tonight, a massive attack by Iranian drones took place,» Kyiv's military administration said on Telegram. Iran-made Shahed explosive drones had «entered the capital from different directions,» it said, adding «about a dozen» had been downed in the city's airspace. Falling debris was reported in five districts, it said, adding that a 19-year-old woman and 23-year-old man had been hospitalised with shrapnel wounds. Two people were wounded in Darnytsky district «as a result of falling debris,» Sergiy Popko, head of Kyiv's military administration, wrote on Telegram.

alliance's annual summit, AP reported. “The Ukrainian delegation is bringing home a significant security victory for the Ukraine, for our country, for our people, for our children," he said while flanked by U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders from the Group of Seven most powerful democratic nations.

(Reuters) — Inflation in Russia accelerated in June, data from the state statistics service Rosstat showed on Wednesday, a little over a week before the central bank is expected to hike interest rates for the first time in more than a year.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson gave Tate a platform during the two-and-a-half-hour-long interview that was uploaded on Twitter. Soon after the interview, which marked the debut episode of Carlson's new show, titled Tucker on Twitter, it garnered millions of views, sparking both outrage and criticism. In the interview, Tate said, while expressing gratitude to Putin, stating, "We should all give Putin credit for curing Covid.

Concerns are growing that Russia won't extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger

The price of Shiba Inu (SHIB) has barely moved in the past 24 hours, with its current level of $0.00000753 representing a 1% loss in the past week.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed new security commitments from the G7 powers on Wednesday, but warned that these could not be a substitute for eventual NATO membership. Speaking after talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Zelensky said the G7 promises should be seen «not instead of NATO, but as security guarantees on our way to integration». «We can state that the results of this summit are good, but should we receive an invitation, then that would be the optimum,» he said at NATO's summit in Vilnius.

Over the past two seasons, Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has taken two major breaks from the professional game for reasons that couldn’t be farther apart. Early last year, exhausted physically from injuries and mentally from watching Russia invade her home country, tennis was suddenly and profoundly irrelevant to her. Then in October of that year, she put tennis on the back burner again for a happier reason: She and her husband, the French player Gaël Monfils, welcomed their first child.

RBI data, the total vehicle loan outstanding climbed from Rs 3.65 lakh crore in May 2021 to Rs 4.16 lakh crore in May 2022, and further to Rs 5.09 lakh crore as of May 19, 2023. The annual rise in loan outstanding was only 14 per cent in May 2022.

Climate change was a distant threat. Allowing countries like China or Russia into the global economy was widely seen to be beneficial for both them and their Western trading partners. As the two countries grew they would surely adopt market economics and, ultimately, democracy.

NATO's accusation that China challenges the bloc's interests and security, and opposed any attempt by the military alliance to expand its footprint into the Asia-Pacific region. In a strongly worded communique issued midway into a two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Tuesday, NATO said the People's Republic of China (PRC) challenged its interests, security and values with its «ambitions and coercive policies».

NATO leaders gathered Wednesday to launch a highly symbolic new forum for ties with Ukraine, after committing to provide the country with more military assistance for fighting Russia but only vague assurances of future membership. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the new NATO-Ukraine Council, a permanent body where the 31 allies and Ukraine will sit as equals and be able to call crisis talks.