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Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes in Italy but won’t try to recover the money from its hosts

Germany's parliament has approved plans to raise the country’s levy on carbon dioxide emissions from fuel by more than previously planned next month

Dozens of migrants have crossed into Finland hours before the reclosure of two southern crossing points on the border with Russia as the Nordic country experiences an influx of asylum-seekers

Both Russia and Ukraine have reported dozens of attempted drone attacks in the past day

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

A growing list of artists in Uganda is contributing to a feeling among curators of an exciting moment for art in the East African country

A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has slammed into a cargo ship in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait

A paradox at the heart of the Netherlands’ permissive pot policy has gone up in smoke in two Dutch cities as “coffeeshops” began selling the country’s first legally cultivated cannabis

Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The U.S. military says an American warship shot down 14 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea on Saturday

T20I and ODI formats during the South Africa series. Veteran Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty commended Rohit Sharma's leadership skills and called him a “selfless" leader like former Indian skipper MS Dhoni. "That's the beauty of this team, country above everything else.

Citigroup Inc. is once again allowing most of its employees to work from anywhere for the final two weeks of the year.

Guwahati, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed a woman entrepreneur from Assam, who mobilised 3,000 people to form self help groups (SHGs), as an inspiration for enabling economic uplift of the society. He said Kalyani Rajbongshi, who hails from Guwahati, is an example of how women can contribute to the growth of the nation when they become financially independent.

The Bank of Italy and the Bank of Korea have recently formalized their collaboration through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on December 5, 2023. This partnership marks a pivotal moment in the exploration and potential implementation of digital currencies by central banks, reflecting a growing global interest in the digitization of national currencies.

carbon emissions to preserve the planet, but oil and natural gas should not be demonized in the medium-term, Elon Musk, the founder of electric car maker Tesla, said on Saturday. Earlier this week representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, signalling the eventual end of the oil age. «Climate change alarm is exaggerated in the short term,» the US billionaire said, adding that the environmental movement may have gone too far, causing people to lose faith in the future. Musk said he considers himself an environmentalist and added that it is important that, in the long run, industries reduce the billions of tons of carbon they are taking from the earth and free in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. «We should not demonize oil and gas in the medium term,» he added, speaking in Rome at a gathering of the Italian Prime minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing political party.

Alex Batty, an 11-year-old boy who was reported missing during a trip to Spain in 2017, has been found in France and will return home to the U.K. in the coming days, authorities said.

gang violence, much of it related to its previously porous border. Migrant-hating populists have surged there, as they also have in Germany. If one thing unites politicians in the EU, it is the certainty that a botched policy on migration will cost them their jobs.

Arvind Kejriwal flagged off 500 electric buses here on Thursday, taking the number of such buses in the national capital to 1,300. The Delhi government said the national capital now has the highest number of electric buses operating in any city of the country, adding that over 7,000 CNG buses are plying on the roads. "We have rolled out 500 (electric) buses today.

₹5,953 per bbl, having swung between ₹5,839 and ₹6,004 per bbl during the session, against a previous close of ₹6,017 per barrel. -Traders took note of comments from New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams about hopes for interest rate cuts in the coming year. "We aren't really talking about rate cuts right now," Williams said in an interview with CNBC.

At present, JN.1 constitutes a modest yet notable percentage, projected to potentially encompass 15-29% of circulating variants within the United States. While not yet widely spread in Europe, some countries have reported its presence at a slightly higher frequency, warranting cautious monitoring and analysis.

Narendra Modi led administration, and said “If the responsibility is only of the Lok Sabha Secretariat and no one is above him, then all of this is running 'Ram Bharose.'". The Shiv Sena (UBT) MP was commenting on the Parliament security breach that happened on 13 December, wherein two persons -- Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D -- jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour, released yellow gas from canisters and shouted slogans "Tanashahi nahin chalegi'. Priyanka Chaturvedi questioned, “If India is at war with any country, can it be said that only the Army Chief is responsible for it?" “Such a huge incident has taken place in the temple of democracy and he (Union Home Minister Amit Shah) says he has no responsibility" the Shiv Sena (UBT) MP added.