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export violations including Chinese employees in China improperly downloading documents related to U.S. Defense Department programs.

It should go without saying that fighting wars is a nasty business. The political, economic and moral corrosion that wars bring with their onslaught is often difficult for distant onlookers to decipher from the outside.

Green job surge in India India's aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070 has led to a surge in green jobs- jobs that contribute to preserve or restore the environment. According to Teamlease, at the end of 2023, approximately 18.5 million green jobs were created across various industries, with projections indicating a doubling of this number by 2047.

Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has died at age 94

Officials in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria have appealed to Moscow for protection as tensions escalate with the pro-Western government

Vladimir Putin warned Western countries on Thursday that there was a genuine risk of nuclear war if they sent their own troops to fight in Ukraine, and he said Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West. Addressing parliament and other members of the country's elite, Putin, 71, repeated his accusation that the West is bent on weakening Russia, and he suggested Western leaders did not understand how dangerous their meddling could be in what he cast as Russia's own internal affairs. He prefaced his warning with a specific reference to an idea, floated by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, of European NATO members sending ground troops to Ukraine — a suggestion that was quickly rejected by the United States, Germany, Britain and others.

Vladimir Putin delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address on Thursday to Russia's elite, updating them on the war in Ukraine, Moscow's nuclear capabilities, and its relationship with the West. The speech comes two weeks ahead of a presidential election in which Putin is expected to win another six-year term in a landslide. Here are highlights from his speech, which was delivered to members of both houses of parliament, state officials, military commanders and soldiers.

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CHISINAU (Reuters) — Officials of the Russian-backed Moldovan breakaway region of Transdniestria asked Russia on Wednesday to help protect it from what it what described as concerted economic pressure by the Moldovan government.

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Mahesh Patil, CIO, ABSL AMC, talking to ET Now at the sidelines of ABSL Voyage 2024, says “the theme of our event is Dominant Bharat. If you really believe that Bharat is going to be the third largest economy in the next seven years, and the GDP is going to grow at 7% plus, then you will see a lot of opportunities emerging. Corporate India growth has been very strong in the last two years and will continue to grow at a double digit rate. If that is the case, then while markets might consolidate a bit in the near term because of the huge outperformance, you will still make the long-term returns the markets have given.” 30 years of wealth management, 30 years of superlative CAGR returns. They say good news and good prices rarely come together. Right now, the news is great. But when the news is great, prices are bad. What is the way forward? What should be the message from Birla AMC? And what should be the takeaway for them? Mahesh Patil: Yes, good morning and welcome to this voyage event. I think we have been through this occasion and we have been trying to put forward our views. Okay, every time we come, okay, and talk over here, we are always worried. The market has reached a peak now. That is a common question which is there. But you are right, Last one year has been unprecedented. The kind of returns that we have seen and the market has been climbing the wall of worry.

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G20 finance ministers will meet Wednesday in Brazil, seeking ways to shore up a global economy whose nascent recovery is threatened by a raft of conflicts and crises, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The Ukraine war could take center stage at the meeting, with G7 countries due to meet on the sidelines to discuss shoring up Western support against Russia's invasion — including what US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called an «urgent» proposal to use frozen Russian assets to increase aid for Kyiv.

Germany and Poland affirmed Tuesday that they would not be sending troops to Ukraine, after reports that some Western countries may be considering doing so as the war with Russia enters its third year. The head of NATO also said the U.S.-led military alliance has no plans to send troops to Ukraine, after other central European leaders confirmed that they too would not be providing soldiers. The Kremlin, meanwhile, warned that a direct conflict between NATO and Russia would be inevitable if the alliance sends combat troops. «In this case, we need to talk not about probability, but about the inevitability (of conflict),» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

IMF and the first person from an emerging market economy. Keeping Georgieva on for a second term would answer longstanding concerns raised by emerging market and developing countries over the US-European duopoly at the two global financial institutions, the IMF and World Bank.

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has arrived to Saudi Arabia and met the kingdom’s powerful crown prince to push for a peace plan and the return of prisoners of war from Russia

The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia says the four Central European countries are deeply divided over Russia's war against Ukraine and how to resolve the conflict

The African nation of Congo has become the latest exporter of liquified natural gas as it launched production of the first cargo load a year after the Italian energy company ENI launched the Congo LNG project with local partners

Latvia’s government has extended restrictions on the entry of Russian citizens into the Baltic country until next year