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Russian president Medvedev said. “The French President had already s**to himself and pulled out of the planned visit. Poor France!", Medvedev added.

Sales of luxury watches suffered a “severe downturn” last year as well-heeled buyers turned cautious amid geopolitical concerns and fading enthusiasm for pricey timepieces, a new report has found.

Last year, Mexico became the United States’ biggest trading partner, surpassing Canada and China for the first time. This humiliating fact is simply the latest statistic that illustrates Canada’s economic decline since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took power in 2015.

The French government says that several of its services are being targeted by cyberattacks of «unprecedented intensity» and a special crisis center was activated to restore online services

Sweden’s national flag has been raised at NATO headquarters to cement the Nordic country’s place as the 32nd member

Poland’s president is calling on other members of the NATO alliance to raise their spending on defense to 3% of their gross domestic product

It is hard to find a word that is more relevant to the world’s greatest challenges and policy priorities than ‘inclusion.’ Inclusive, green economic growth that benefits all of society is an essential component of sustainable prosperity, social cohesion, competitiveness and geopolitical stability. Supporting a ‘just transition’ that includes all members of our societies is crucial to ensure that climate action and the digital transformation lead to a more sustainable and secure world.

Private sector fuel retailers Jio-BP, Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy and Shell haven't yet been able to fully regain the market share they gave up in 2022 after the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war that triggered a turmoil in the global oil market and made domestic fuel sales loss making for some time. The three private sector retailers had a combined market share of 8.7% in petrol sales in February, lower than 10% in the same month of 2022, according to industry data. For diesel, their share was 9.3% as against 10.8% two years earlier. Their share, however, is up from last year's 7.4% in petrol and 4.9% in diesel. The market share for all three private companies is lower than their respective shares two years ago in both petrol and diesel. Nayara Energy leads the private players, accounting for more than half of their combined sales. Nayara also operates the largest network of petrol pumps among private retailers. It has 6,590 pumps while Jio-BP, the joint venture of Reliance Industries and BP, operates 1,700 pumps, according to the oil ministry data. Shell has just 340 fuel stations and less than 1% share in domestic sales of petrol and diesel.

By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Lawder

EAM S Jaishankar Exclusive: Our next guest at #Expressadda is Dr Jaishankar who has been the face of India’s diplomacy in the fast-changing world in the last five years. The first Foreign Secretary to become the Foreign Minister of the country, he has been key to shaping India’s foreign policy in the past few years, where challenges like then COVID-19 pandemic, an assertive China in India’s neighbourhood, the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict, have upended the global world order.

Shortly after Israel launched its sweeping military operation in Gaza in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault, Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, sat down for an hour-long private meeting at the White House with a group of Muslim and Arab-American leaders. They implored the administration to do more to protect Palestinian civilians in the Gaza, as well as the West Bank, where settler violence was escalating.

Michael Polsky is getting into fights all over the country. The Chicago billionaire, a Ukrainian immigrant who made his fortune through wind, solar and other renewable-energy projects, wants to build a lot more. And he also wants to build natural-gas-fired power plants.

UK-based crypto firm Copper Technologies reportedly transferred digital assets totaling more than $4.2m to a wallet associated with a Russian arms dealer. Subsequently, the individual faced US sanctions months later.

By Abraham Achirga and Seun Sanni

invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s economy has repeatedly defied the doomsayers. A financial collapse, widely predicted in the spring of 2022, never came to pass. The economy fell into recession, but it was less severe than expected and did not last long.

An oil and gas trade group in North Dakota has ended a workforce recruitment program that brought Ukrainians from their war-torn country to North Dakota's oil fields to fill jobs

Arvind Kejriwal urged the voters in Kurukshetra not to get trapped by promises and vote just to elect the Prime Minister but to elect an MP who would work for the people during difficult times. Arvind Kejriwal said, «Don't make a mistake this time. Don't get trapped to elect the Prime Minister; vote to elect your MPs. Elect an MP who works for you during tough times.» Referring to the farmers' agitation, he said that the farmers wanted to go to Delhi but they were stopped at the border.

Russia-Ukraine conflict raged in 2022, the United States started «preparing rigorously» for a potential nuclear strike by Moscow against Kyiv, in what would have been the first nuclear attack since the US dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before, CNN reported citing two senior administration officials. The report stated that outreach from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other countries also played an important role in averting the crisis. The Biden administration was specifically concerned Russia might use a tactical or battlefield nuclear weapon, the officials said.

Saudi Aramco on Sunday reported a 24.7 percent decline in profits in 2023 compared to the previous year, the result of lower oil prices and production cuts. The oil giant said in a filing with the Saudi stock market that net income reached 454.7 billion Saudi riyals ($121.25 billion) in 2023, compared to 604.01 billion Saudi riyals ($161.07 billion) in 2022.

Russia is expected to cement President Vladimir Putin's grip on power until at least 2030. Any opposition figures who could have challenged him are either in prison or exiled abroad. Independent media outlets that could show criticism of his policies have been blocked. And the Kremlin maintains rigid control over the political system and electoral process in the country of 146 million.

GPS signals that deceive on-board plane systems and complicate the work of airline pilots are surging near conflict zones, industry employees and officials told AFP. A ground collision alert sounds in the cockpit, for instance, even though the plane is flying at high altitude — a phenomenon affecting several regions and apparently of military origin. This includes the vicinity of Ukraine following the Russian invasion two years ago, the eastern Mediterranean and the air corridor running above Iraq, according to pilots and officials interviewed by AFP.