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G20 Summit in India. Trudeau needs to stay back in India till the engineering team on the ground rectifies the issue, the officials from the airport earlier told news agency ANI. A backup plane and spare parts are en route to India for the Canadian Prime Minister.

Westlife is set to enthrall fans in India as the band travels to the country for its much-anticipated "The Wild Dreams" Tour this November. The global best selling pop band, consisting of Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Shane Filan and Mark Feehily, will perform live in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi as part of the India leg of the «The Wild Dreams» Tour. The show is brought to India by BookMyShow Live. The tour will kick-off at the Members Enclosure, RWITC, Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai on November 24, followed by Embassy International Riding School Ground, Bengaluru on November 25 and culminate at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on November 26, 2023. «India has always held a special place in our hearts. We are so excited to share The Wild Dreams tour with all of our fans in India. Get ready for an unforgettable night of music and memories with us!» Westlife said in a statement. During the concerts, the group is expected to perform their greatest hits including «Swear It Again», «If I Let You Go», «Uptown Girl» and «Hello My Love» as well as fresh pop anthems such as «Star Light» and «Alone Together» from the 2021 special-edition studio album «Wild Dreams», released to critical acclaim. The global pop sensation kicked off the tour in 2022 performing across the UK, including a sold-out headline show at London's iconic Wembley Stadium.

Joe Biden's visit to Vietnam weighed in at over 2,600 words. The section on human rights contained just 112 words, including a sub-heading. From business and strategic perspectives, Biden's visit to Vietnam on Sunday and Monday, and also to India late last week, will likely be seen as bolstering ties with countries that can help Washington counter China's growing might. But for rights advocates, Biden's travels were a disappointment, given his administration's vow to prioritize human rights when taking office in 2021. In Hanoi, Biden said the U.S.

The toll of the earthquake that devastated Morocco is on stark display in dozens of remote villages across the North African county's disaster zone

The Swedish government wants to increase the country's defense budget by 28% as it prepares to join the NATO alliance

Morocco devastated by the country's biggest earthquake in over a century camped outside for a fourth night on Monday, as the death toll rose to more than 2,800 people. Search teams from Spain, Britain and Qatar joined Moroccan efforts to find survivors from the 6.8 magnitude quake that struck in the High Atlas Mountains late on Friday, flattening the traditional mud brick houses ubiquitous in the region. State TV reported late on Monday that the death toll had risen to 2,862, with 2,562 people injured. With much of the quake zone in hard-to-reach areas, authorities have not issued any estimates for the number of missing. In the village of Tinmel, almost every house was pulverised and the entire community has been left homeless.

Joe Biden’s administration has moved to free five American citizens who were detained in Iran by issuing a waiver for the international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money, from South Korea to Qatar without the fear of American sanctions. Moreover, as part of the Iran-US prisoner exchange deal, the Biden administration has agreed to release five Iranian citizens who were held in the US. According to The Associated Press, the US Secretary of State Antony Blnken signed off on the sanctions waivers late last week after US and Iranian officials said that the agreement was in place in principle.

Afghanistan is headed towards a civil war, the Taliban is now riddled with factionalism, and the country is fast becoming a safe haven for foreign terrorists, a former Afghan commander has said. «I believe that the situation in Afghanistan is very critical and dangerous and it's going in a dangerous direction, which could be a civil war again, or which could be a split to Afghanistan because you see that in last two years Afghanistan has been controlled by the terrorists and it has fallen into terrorist hands,» Lt.

In a regular press briefing on Monday, the US State Department official spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters, «We absolutely believe it was a success. The G20 is a big organisation.

steel imports touched a record high in 2020, increasing by 23% to 2 million metric tons. China was the second-largest exporter of steel to India, falling behind only South Korea. Steel secretary Nagendra Nath Sinha stated earlier this week that the government was keeping a close eye on steel imports following apprehensions raised by the domestic industry about potential unfair trade practices by Chinese sellers.

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Investing.com-- Oil prices moved little in Asian trade on Tuesday as markets awaited forecasts on supply and demand from an OPEC report due later in the day, although optimism over recent supply cuts kept prices near 10-month highs.

China's foreign influence operations, it would represent a sensational case of infiltration. A 28-year-old British man who worked as a researcher deep inside Britain's Parliament was arrested in March on suspicion of working for the Chinese government. The man, who denies being a spy, worked with prominent lawmakers on China policy, raising fears of possible security breaches and widening a rift within the governing Conservative Party over how London should engage with an increasingly assertive Beijing. «The Chinese are infiltrating across the board; they go for anything and everything,» said Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute in London.

Also Read: Kim Jong Un Travels to Russia, His Bulletproof Train Spotted Ahead of Putin Meeting "The presence of Jo Chun Ryong indicates that North Korea and Russia will conclude some type of agreement for munitions purchases," said Michael Madden, a North Korea leadership expert at the Washington-based Stimson Center. Reuters reported that images released by state media depicted military honour guards and crowds of individuals in formal attire, including both dark suits and colourful dresses.

KKR is investing another ₹2,069.5 crore through an affiliate in Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL), holding company for the retail businesses of Reliance Industries (RIL). KKR's follow-on investment will translate into an additional equity stake of 0.25% in RRVL, according to a press release issued on Monday, which added that this takes the private equity giant's holding to 1.42%. This round of fundraising has increased RRVL's valuation to around ₹8.36 lakh crore, from ₹8.28 lakh crore, when Qatar Investment Authority invested ₹8,278 crore less than three weeks ago. RIL said this puts Reliance Retail Ventures on the list of the country's top four companies by equity value. ET on August 25 reported that Reliance Industries is likely to sell a fresh round of 8-10% in RRVL to fund expansion, retire debt and prepare for the unit's initial public offering, which would take total stake sold to 19-21%.Global interest The stake sale is crucial because at the current valuation, RRVL's IPO size will be too large for the current liquidity to absorb. At a recent annual general meeting, Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani said several global investors had shown keen interest in the conglomerate's retail business. The latest investment by KKR comes primarily from its Asian Fund IV. In 2020, KKR invested Rs 5,550 crore in Reliance Retail Ventures.

The Information Technology Act, 2000 is the primary legislation governing online content in the country and it does not provide any powers to state governments for constituting fact-checking bodies like the one Karnataka has proposed to create, policy lawyers and experts told ET.This means the Karnataka government’s decision to set up a fact-checking unit in the state for curbing fake news online may not be legally enforceable.If individual

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Zodia Custody, a company that helps large institutions store their crypto, launched in Singapore on Tuesday in a bid to tap into the country's rapidly growing digital asset market.

The president of the Dominican Republic says he has suspended issuing visas to Haitians, and he is threatening to shut down land, air and sea traffic between the two neighbors over their latest dispute