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In a video released by the presidency, Zelensky, a former actor and comedian, thanked the audience at the end of his speech at an awards ceremony, adding: «Sorry I'm not in a suit», to smiles and applause. The president was dressed in a black outfit with Ukraine's trident symbol similar to what he wore during his acrimonious exchange with the US president last month.

Speaking to CNN, Adam Boehler — a Jewish American — acknowledged it had been «odd» sitting face-to-face with leaders of a group that the United States has listed as a «terrorist» organization since 1997. The talks took place in recent weeks. Boehler said he understood Israel's «consternation» that the US had held talks at all with the group, but said he had been seeking to jump-start the «fragile» negotiations.

Liberal Party members look set to pick former central bank governor Mark Carney as the new party leader and Canada's next prime minister in a vote to be announced on Sunday evening. Carney, 59, navigated crises when he was the head of the Bank of Canada and when in 2013 he became the first noncitizen to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694. His appointment won bipartisan praise in the U.K. after Canada recovered from the 2008 financial crisis faster than many other countries.

The decision came as part of President Donald Trump's «maximum pressure campaign» on Iran, which is «designed to end Iran's nuclear threat, curtail its ballistic missile programme and stop it from supporting terrorist groups,» the statement said. «We urge the Iraqi government to eliminate its dependence on Iranian sources of energy as soon as possible, and welcome the Iraqi Prime Minister's commitment to achieve energy independence,» the statement said.

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The man had been hospitalized and his condition was «unknown,» the spokesman said in a statement that did not specify whether the White House or Trump may have been the intended target. No injuries to Secret Service agents were reported, according to the statement posted by spokesman Anthony Guglielmi on social media platform X.

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Elon Musk is a tech billionaire, entrepreneur and an innovator and has been dominating the headlines recently due to his involvement in various important projects, influence in technology and space exploration missions. Musk, the richest man in the world, currently has a fortune of about $330 billion, a significant 24% decrease from the start of the year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The boss of X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company Elon Musk has used his platform to make his views known on a vast array of topics. Musk is US President Donald Trump's choice to lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a new advisory body to cut US government jobs and other federal spending.

Tech billionaire and advisor to former US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, has hit back at critics accusing him of siding with Russia. Musk said he has previously stood up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Replying to a user on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Musk wrote, “I literally challenged Putin to one-on-one physical combat over Ukraine.” He also pointed out that his company’s Starlink satellite system is crucial for Ukraine’s military communication. “Their entire front line would collapse if I turned it off,” he said.

equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in 2020. The changes have come in response to a campaign by conservative activists to target workplace programs in the courts and social media, and more recently, President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at upending DEI policies in both the federal government and private sector. DEI policies typically are intended to root out systemic barriers to the advancement of historically marginalized groups in certain fields or roles. Critics argue that some education, government and business programs are discriminatory because they single out participants based on factors such as race, gender and sexual orientation. They have targeted corporate sponsorships, employee-led affinity groups, programs aimed at steering contracts to minority or women-owned businesses, and goals that some companies established for increasing minority representation in leadership ranks.

Congress on Sunday condemned the vandalisation of a Hindu temple in United States' California and said such acts of hatred and intolerance were utterly unacceptable. The Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) temple in California was defaced with anti-India graffiti by some unknown persons in another incident targeting the community's sacred spaces in the US. BAPS said its Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills city of San Bernardino County was desecrated. Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said, «The Indian National Congress condemns in the strongest possible terms, the vandalism of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills, California.»

India has been on a growth curve for the last three years, overtaking the US as London's single-largest FDI source market in 2022-23 and continuing through 2023-24. «Foreign direct investment from India has been the fastest growing and has been our number one market for the last two years,» said Laura Citron, CEO of London & Partners.

Elon Musk threw his weight behind a US exit from NATO, saying on his social media platform that it “doesn’t make sense for America to pay for the defense of Europe.” The senior adviser to US President Donald Trump was responding to a post on X early Sunday that asserted the US should “Exit NATO *now*!” “We really should,” the Tesla Inc. co-founder and chief executive officer said.

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Gujarat's Dholera Special Investment Region which is emerging as a semiconductor hub in the state, according to a developer. Recent months have seen a rise in investor visits and land inquiries, fueled by Dholera's vision to become India's semiconductor hub with four of the five semiconductor plants in India being built in Dholera, Aaiji Group Founder and Managing Director Lalit Parihar said. Among fresh proposals, NextGen has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Gujarat government at Gujarat SemiConnect Conference 2025 for setting up a Rs 10,000-crore compound semiconductor fab and optoelectronics facility at Dholera. A tripartite agreement was inked between Tata Electronics, Taiwanese firms PSMC and Himax Technologies for an upcoming semiconductor chip manufacturing facility of the Indian company at Dholera, he said.

France has urged the country's research institutions to consider how to welcome scientists abandoning the United States in response to President Donald Trump's policies, AFP learned on Sunday. Since Trump returned to the White House, his government has cut federal funding for life-saving research and moved to dismiss hundreds of federal workers working on health and climate. «Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,» France's minister for higher education and research Philippe Baptiste wrote in a letter to the country's institutions.

Ujammiugaq Engell, like many Greenlanders, flaunts her rediscovered cultural identity, which US President Donald Trump's expansionist ambitions have only spurred further. «I'm a whole lot of person. I carry my Greenlandic and Danish sides with pride,» said the smiling 30-some-year-old, the daughter of a mixed Danish and Greenlandic couple. After moving to Copenhagen for university, she returned to live in Nuuk, the capital of the vast Arctic island, where she now works as a museum curator.

The automobile sector, on the other hand, is expected to have a very minimal impact owing to the US being a small export market. Terming India as a very high tariff nation, US President Donald Trump has said that reciprocal tariffs on countries that impose levies on American goods will kick in on April 2.

Granules India for failing to maintain buildings for drug storage and avoiding adequate procedures regarding cleaning and maintenance of equipment at its Telangana-based formulations plant. In a warning letter to the company's Chairman and Managing Director Krishna Prasad Chigurupati, the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) stated that the company failed to establish and follow adequate written procedures for maintaining equipment at the Medchal-Malkajgiri-based manufacturing facility. The USFDA inspected the facility from August 26 to September 6, 2024. «Our investigators observed significant contamination in multiple ducts of non-dedicated use in the preparation of finished drug products manufactured at your facility,» the USFDA stated.

China's leaders say they are open to talks, but they also made preparations for the higher US tariffs, which have risen 20 per cent since Trump took office seven weeks ago. Intent on not being caught off guard as they were during Trump's first term, the Chinese were ready with retaliatory measures — imposing their own taxes this past week on key US farm imports and more.

Corporate India on the whole, is still at a ‘progressive’ stage (L2), finds the analysis of 251 organisations, including 40 Nifty100 Companies and 8 of the top 10 Indian business houses, by talent and leadership consulting firm BasilTree Consulting — where organisations have formal strategies and defined initiatives, but DEI is yet to become a true business driver. Over a third of companies are still at the ‘emerging’ stage (L1), treating DEI as compliance-led and event-driven, while only a small fraction has reached a ‘transformative’ (L4) stage, where inclusion is embedded into culture, strategy, and measurable business impact. The more mature companies – belonging to the Nifty-100 list, are in the L3 bracket.