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Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador. He credits President Nayib Bukele's decision to bank on bitcoin three years ago with changing his life. «Before I was unemployed… and now I have my own business,» said the 39-year-old businessman, who uses an app to charge for rides in bitcoin and now runs his own car rental company.

Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Saturday it was deeply concerned by reports about a possible impending transfer of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia. In a statement emailed to reporters, the ministry said the deepening military co-operation between Tehran and Moscow was a threat to Ukraine, Europe and the Middle East, and called on the international community to increase pressure on Iran and Russia. CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Iran had transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, citing unidentified sources.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday highlighted India's readiness to collaborate with like-minded partners on focused agendas, citing the Quad as a prime example. Jaishankar made these remarks as he addressed the FPCI Global Town Hall 2024. Jaishankar also shared a post on X and wrote, «Addressing the @fpcindo Global Townhall 2024 session on 'Anticipating Greater Geopolitical Turbulence Ahead, and Finding Ways to Calm the Storm.'

intelligence agencies said Saturday that Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding 2 1/2-year war. Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said Kyiv's surprise move in August to seize territory in Russia's Kursk region was «typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians, to try and change the game». He said the offensive had «brought the war home to ordinary Russians». Speaking alongside Moore at a rare public event in London, CIA Director William Burns said the offensive was a «significant achievement» that had exposed vulnerabilities in the Russian military. Burns also warned of the growing and «troubling» defence relationship between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea that he said threatens both Ukraine and Western allies in the Middle East. North Korea has sent ammunition and missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine, while Iran supplies Moscow with attack drones.

FPIs) invested a total of Rs 9,642 crores in equity through exchanges and an additional Rs 1,388 crores in the 'primary market and others' category in early September. The FPIs showed strong interest in the Indian market, reflecting its resilience amid global uncertainties.

Department of Justice plans to issue an outline by December on what Alphabet's Google must do to restore competition after a judge earlier found the company illegally monopolized the market for online search, prosecutors said at a court hearing in Washington on Friday. Prosecutors did not detail what remedy they will propose, but Justice Department attorney David Dahlquist said it should be comprehensive and take into account how Google plans to integrate artificial intelligence into search. Since the case was brought, Google has rebranded its Bard AI product to Gemini, Dahlquist said.

Netflix is infamous for cancelling many of its promising shows without a by-your-leave, the streaming giant has also given many dying shows a new lease of life. One of the best examples of a cancelled show that the OTT platform raised to overnight stardom is the American supernatural TV series ‘Manifest’. The series, which revolved around the passenger and crew of a commercial airliner that suddenly reappears after disappearing for over five years, originally premiered on the channel NBC in 2018. However, it was cancelled just after three seasons due to dwindling viewership. In June 2021, Deadline revealed that NBC had opted not to continue the drama series for a fourth season. Despite a strong start with respectable ratings when it first aired, the show's audience steadily dwindled over time, with a notable drop in viewership during its third season. However, in August 2021, Netflix acquired the rights to the series and approved a fourth season.

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Narendra Modi accompanied by his Singapore counterpart Lawrence Wong on Thursday visited a leading Singaporean semiconductor company and also signed an MoU on India-Singapore Semiconductor Ecosystem Partnership. Around the same time Maharashtra cabinet panel approved a $10-billion (₹83,947 crore) investment proposal by a joint venture between Israel's Tower Semiconductor and Adani Group to set up a semiconductor chip manufacturing unit at Taloja. A few days earlier, the Union Cabinet had approved setting up of an Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat by Kaynes Semicon with a Rs. 3,307 crore investment. The capacity of this unit will be 63 lakh chips per day. Now, ET has reported that the Indian Semiconductor Mission (ISM) is likely to receive a second budgetary allocation of up to $ 10 billion ISM, a division within the Digital India Corporation tasked with furthering the country’s semiconductor manufacturing, packaging, and design capabilities was first established in 2022 with a budgetary allocation of $10 billion. The government will have to seek fresh funding under the ISM as it has almost exhausted the funds in the first phase which saw approvals of $11 billion, an official has told ET. Before nod to Kaynes and Tower-Adani plants, India had approved five chip plants: two by the Tata Group in Assam and Gujarat; and one each by Micron and CG Power in Gujarat and by RRP Electronics in Maharashtra.

Pakistani origin person from the Toronto area is facing terror charges in both Canada and the United States, “for allegedly attempting to illegally enter the U.S. to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish Centre in New York City”, according to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) report. Press releases issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice and the RCMP identified the accused in the case as 20-year-old Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, who investigators say is also known by name Shahzeb Jadoon, according to CBC. Khan was arrested Wednesday in the town of Ormstown, Que., about 60 kilometres south of Montreal. U.S. authorities described him as a Pakistani citizen residing in Canada, CBC reported.

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Putin was Team Trump. Top Kremlin officials cracked open champagne bottles in the early hours of Nov. 9 as the businessman-turned-politician emerged as the surprise victor in the US election. When it comes to determining where the Russian leader stands today, there is no easy answer. US intelligence seems certain he wants Donald Trump back in the White House. Putin, meanwhile is reveling in making cryptic comments that often double as needling observations: such as when he praised Joe Biden for his age and experience, or now Kamala Harris for her “infectious” laughter. The view that has crystallized in Moscow, according to five people familiar with the latest thinking in the Kremlin, is that there really isn’t much reason to raise a glass this time around if Trump returns.

Tim Cook can be heard saying, “The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor costs. I'm not sure what part of China they go to, but the truth is China stopped being the low labor costs country many years ago,"."The reason is because of the skill, the quantity of skill in one location, and the type of skill it is.

Iran launched perhaps the largest drone and missile strike in history against Israel, which was blunted by unprecedented cooperation from countries in the region and beyond. Yet the biggest surprise is also the most ominous for global order. A radical, quasi-state actor most Americans had never heard of, the Houthis of Yemen, have mounted the gravest challenge to freedom of the seas in decades — and arguably beaten a weary superpower along the way. The Houthis began their campaign against shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb, which connects the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, in late 2023. They are nominally attacking out of sympathy for the Palestinian people, but also to gain stature within the so-called Axis of Resistance, a group of Middle Eastern proxies cultivated by Iran.

A three-year survey was undertaken in collaboration with a friendly country to verify the presence of the oil and gas reserves, DawnNewsTV quoted a senior security official as saying on Friday. The geographic survey has allowed Pakistan to identify the location of the deposits, and the relevant departments have informed the government of the resources found in Pakistani waters.

Narendra Modi will not address the annual debate at the United Nations General Assembly session here later this month, according to a revised provisional list of speakers issued by the UN. PM Modi is scheduled to travel to New York later this month and address a mega community event on September 22 at the 16,000-seater Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Long Island. He will also address the UN's landmark 'Summit of the Future' that is being convened at the world body's headquarters on September 22 and 23. A provisional list of speakers for the General Debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) issued by the UN in July had said that PM Modi would address the high-level debate on September 26. However, according to a revised provisional list of speakers issued by the UN on Friday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is now expected to address the General Debate on September 28.

Another rout hit Wall Street, leaving the market with its worst week in 18 months, after a jobs report billed as the most important of the year came in weak enough to keep worries high about the economy

A federal judge on Friday gave the U.S. Justice Department until the end of the year to outline how Google should be punished for illegally monopolizing the internet search market and then prepare to present its case for imposing the penalties next spring

right to food accused Israel of carrying out a "starvation campaign" against Palestinians during the war in Gaza, an allegation that Israel vehemently denies. In a report this week, investigator Michael Fakhri claimed it began two days after Hamas' surprise attack in southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people, when Israel's military offensive in response blocked all food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said accusations of Israel limiting humanitarian aid were «outrageously false».

Google to implement behavioral remedies may not be sufficient to correct the abusive conduct, possibly opening the way for an order against Google to break up its ad tech business from its core services.Separately, the US Department of Justice will face Google in a September trial, calling for the break up of the search giant’s ad tech business over alleged illegal monopolization. The DoJ claims that Google’s dominance over advertising technology allows it to keep at least $0.30 out of every dollar advertisers spend through its online advertising tools.

Over the past two weeks, long-standing China bulls UBS Global Wealth Management, Nomura Holdings Inc., and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have all downgraded the country’s equities, citing concerns ranging from the property-led demand slump to piecemeal stimulus measures and geopolitical tensions ahead of the US elections.