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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday his government will reinforce measures to contain migration as he seeks to help the United States cope with record numbers of people trying to reach the U.S. border.

Dolly Parton has vehemently refuted rumors suggesting she was involved in multiple affairs with her famous male co-stars over the course of her extensive career. The 77-year-old country music icon set the record straight in a recent interview with the online publication Saga Exceptional, addressing misconceptions surrounding her personal life. In response to inquiries about the wildest rumors she's heard about herself in the media, Parton clarified her stance on the unfounded allegations. Since 1966, Dolly Parton has been happily married to her long-time love, Carl Dean, who is notoriously private and rarely seen in public. Parton candidly discussed her and her husband's deliberate choice not to have children, a decision she expresses no regret about.

economic conflicts, such as worker strikes, have been on the wane, the vicious circle of low employability, leading to few jobs, mass unemployment and frustration, is now showing up in new forms of social conflict,” former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and economist Rohit Lamba write in their new book Breaking The Mould. They cite the conflict over reservations in Manipur and the substance abuse problem among Punjab’s youth as examples of how these frustrations are being channelled.

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) — A local court in El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former President Alfredo Cristiani for the alleged cover-up of the 1981 El Mozote massacre during the Central American country's civil war that lasted twelve years.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Argentine President Javier Milei has issued a decree calling for extraordinary sessions to speed up reforms, reinstate the tax on salaries abolished by the previous government, and modernize the electoral process.

India along with Russia and China have voted against a UN resolution on the "human rights situation in Iran". While the resolution was backed by 78 member states, 30 states including India, Russia and China, voted against it. Simultaneously on the same day, India abstained on a UN resolution on the «situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine». It joined 79 countries from across the continents in doing so.

Indian Premier League (IPL)? In the IPL auction earlier this week, for example, Australian fast bowlers Mitchell Starc (Rs 24.75 crores) and Pat Cummins (Rs 20.50 crores) together attracted bids totaling Rs 45.25 crores – nearly half the total budget of a team. Even a relative rookie, Spencer Johnson, received Rs 10 crores. Meanwhile, South African pacer Gerald Coetzee got Rs 5 crores, and the World Cup’s third-highest wicket-taker, Dilshan Madhushanka of Sri Lanka, received only Rs 4 crores.

Christmas will have a celestial gift in form of full moon on Boxing Day which is December 26. The year's final full moon will be known as full Cold Moon, according to reports. The moon will be the brightest at 7.33 pm (ET) on December 26 and it will be Long Nights Moon. In 2023, there were a total of 13 full moons, a result of the approximately 29.5-day lunar cycle aligning with the 365 days it takes for the Earth to complete one orbit around the Sun. Among these lunar events was the occurrence of a blue moon on August 30, signifying the second full moon within a single month.

It has been predicted by the AA that around 16.4 million journeys by car will take place on Saturday and it has made a warning about long traffic.

turns the Israel-Palestine war into a global economic problem. For weeks, ships transiting the strait, a choke point in the Suez Canal, have been under attack from the Houthis, a group of highly trained, Yemen-based, Iran-backed militants with access to an array of sophisticated naval artillery. The attacks are part of the group’s offensive against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. At least 10 of the world’s biggest shippers and one oil supermajor have decided to avoid the canal, a passageway for more than 20,000 ships a year, which account for 12% of global trade, 9% of oil demand, 6% of LNG imports and 30% of container shipments.

Sanjay Singh on Saturday lashed out at the protesting grapplers for «engaging in politics» and asserted that he is not a dummy candidate of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Sanjay Singh, who was elected as the president of the WFI on Thursday, is known to be a close confidante of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who had been accused of sexual harassment by the country's top wrestlers such as Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia. Sanjay Singh won most of the votes in the delayed polls, as outgoing chief Brij Bhushan gained indirect control over the national federation. «Those who are athletes have already started preparing and those who want to engage in politics can do that. It is their personal matter, I will not speak about this. »I have been in the federation for 12 years.

Investing.com — The S&P 500 closed slightly higher Friday to clinch its longest weekly winning streak since 2017 after data showing inflation cooled more than expected stoked bets on faster and deeper Fed rate cuts strengthening the bulls' grip on stocks ahead of the long holiday weekend.         

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita are the basis on which the Constitution of India has been written and it is secular because the founding fathers who are Hindus believed in these scriptures. He was speaking at the ongoing International Gita Mahotsav at Brahma Sarovar at Kurukshetra in Haryana on Saturday. Sarma said that unlike Pakistan which has a constitution built on the edifice of Islam, the Constitution of India was written by those who were Hindus believing in the Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. Tracing the centuries-old association of Assam with Lord Krishna, Sarma said that he was a 'daamaad' (son-in-law) of Assam as he tied the nuptial knot with Rukmini.

ANI. On being alleged that he is close to former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh, Sanjay said he is not a 'dummy candidate' and it is not a crime if I am close to him. "Those who are athletes have already started preparing and those who want to engage in politics can do that.

inDrive on Saturday said driver registrations on its platform surged by around fivefold while the number of trips more than four-fold during a month-long special campaign. The company said it conducted a special drive from November 15 to December 15 to onboard new drivers as well as motivate registered drivers to take more trips. The campaign saw new registration of more than 80,000 drivers this month against addition of 18,000 drivers in a similar campaign carried out earlier in June this year, said Avik Karmakar, GTM Manager for South Asia at inDrive.

Indian Navy warship is reportedly moving towards the distressed merchant vessel and is expected to reach the merchant ship in the next few hours. -An Israel-linked merchant ship, MV Chem Pluto, carrying crude oil was going towards Mangalore from a port in Saudi Arabia -The merchant ship carrying a large crew fleet, including 20 Indians, caught fire when hit by a suspected drone strike -The merchant vessel was reported to be present at 217 nautical miles off Porbandar coast, defence officials said -The Indian Coast Guard Ship ICGS Vikram, deployed on patrol of the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone started moving towards the merchant vessel MV Chem Pluto in distress -The Indian Navy warships in the vicinity are also moving towards the distressed vessel with around 20 Indian crew members, who are all reported to be safe -Indian Coast Guard Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft has established communication with the distressed vessel MV Chem Pluto.

Deaflympics gold medallist Virender Singh Yadav, better known as Goonga Pehlwan, has now decided to return his Padma Shri to the government, showing solidarity with the country's top wrestlers who have objected to election of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh loyalist Sanjay Singh as WFI president. Throwing his weight behind Olympic bronze medallist grappler Sakshi Malik, who announced her retirement from the sport soon after Sanjay Singh's victory in the recent WFI polls, Virender said he would return the honour as a mark of protest against the election of Brij Bhushan's close aide. Bajrang Punia, one of the prominent faces of the protest against the former WFI chief, had returned his Padma Shri on Friday.

(This story originally appeared in on Dec 21, 2023)

₹6,164 per bbl, having swung between ₹6,126 and ₹6,247 per bbl during the session, against a previous close of ₹6,163 per barrel. -Crude is headed for its first annual drop since 2020 as surging production from the US and elsewhere counters efforts by the OPEC cartel to support prices through output cuts. The outlook for demand is also fragile, with the International Energy Agency forecasting that growth will slow sharply next year.

Pakistani rupee hit an all-time low, crossing the PKR 300 mark against the US dollar in August 2023. The country's foreign reserves with the State Bank of Pakistan (SPB) also dropped to an alarming level — at $3.1 billion in January 2023. The cash-strapped country struggled to unlock funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Sanjay Singh on Saturday stated that taking retirement is a personal call of an athlete and said he would refrain to speak on this matter. Earlier, Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik, a face of the wrestlers' protest against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations, announced on Thursday that she is quitting wrestling.