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On Tuesday, new Binance CEO Richard Teng stated in an interview with Cointelegraph that Binance is now “totally different” from its early days.

Charitable donations declined in 2022 after hitting record levels in 2021 and 2020. With only a few weeks to go before year-end, where will 2023 wind up when it comes to philanthropy? And how is 2024 shaping up on the giving front?

Mineral fuels, inorganic chemicals, compounds of precious metals and iron and steel are India's top exports to Oman while oil, fertilisers and plastics are the top imports. Officials said that the negotiations will be fast tracked and the pact could be on similar lines as the one with the UAE. India's exports to Oman in April-September FY24 were $2 billion and imports were $2.1 billion. «Discussions have started and the agreement would be a comprehensive one,» said an official.

In a submission to the World Trade Organization, they said that diagnostics and therapeutics are «essential tools for a comprehensive approach to fight the pandemic, that it is not over». The submission, made on behalf of 65 WTO members on Monday, came after the US refrained from taking sides in extending the waiver, which is applicable to Covid-19 vaccines only. For almost two years, India, South Africa and 80 other WTO members have sought a response for future pandemics through exceptions in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement but the ministerial outcome of 2022 (MC12) only covered Covid-19 vaccines, with the US delaying an outcome on therapeutics and diagnostics. «The MC12 Decision on the TRIPS agreement is extended mutatis mutandis for the production and supply of Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostics,» India and others said in the draft decision text on Monday. They asked the WTO to promptly respond to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the challenge of inequitable access to therapeutics and diagnostics, and «respond to the criticism that the decision on vaccines came too little too late». Extension of the policy tools to therapeutics and diagnostics will result in a holistic approach to enable developing countries to address those intellectual property (IP) barriers that prevent the expansion and diversification of production and increase accessibility to crucial life-saving Covid-19 tools, they said. As per the draft text, «omitting these vital tools» will deter the effectiveness of the decision that aims timely and affordable access to effective vaccines against the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The submission assumes significance as last week, the UK, the EU, the US,

Robert De Niro, who is in Martin Scorsese’s film Killers Of The Flower Moon was unimpressed when he found out that his speech which he was about to deliver at Gotham Awards on November 27 had been edited to remove some remarks against former President Donald Trump. True to his character, Trump did respond to the actor's comments.

May December,' 'Past Lives' led the nominations for the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which were announced Tuesday morning. American Fiction, May December and Past Lives garnered five nominations. Full list of nominations: BEST FEATURE

₹2.9 trillion, investors in Adani group companies turned wealthier by ₹1.9 trillion, marking the biggest single-day jump in value for the infrastructure conglomerate. Three Adani companies shot up 20% each to hit their upper circuit limits, even as the group’s market cap neared ₹14 trillion.

Alaska Airlines says it will buy Hawaiian Airlines for $1 billion

Human rights lawyers have gone to court in the Netherlands to call for a halt to the export of fighter jet parts to Israel that are being used in attacks on Gaza

While Ukrainian diplomats take part in negotiations at the United Nations COP28 climate talks, Russia’s war on the country lurks just in the background

U.S. auto safety regulators say they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver in Chicago

The Supreme Court is taking up a case over a Washington couple’s $15,000 tax bill that is widely seen as a test of a never-enacted tax on wealth

U.S. employers posted 8.7 million job openings in October, the fewest since March 2021, in a sign that hiring is cooling in the face of higher interest rates yet remains at a still-healthy pace

The Supreme Court has dismissed a case involving a Maine hotel that could have made it harder for people with disabilities to learn in advance whether hotel accommodations meet their needs

JetBlue says it needs to buy Spirit Airlines to compete with bigger airlines in a post-Covid travel world

Prince Harry is challenging the British government's decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United States

Argentina’s outgoing government says it will not support the signing of a long-delayed trade deal between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur during a summit this week in Brazil even though the incoming Argentine government has expr...

The United States will work with other governments to speed up efforts to make nuclear fusion a new source of carbon-free energy, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry said Tuesday, while in Dubai for U.N. climate talks

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