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As Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks flounder, Israel is vowing to press ahead with its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip despite warnings from the US to work harder to protect civilians. Violence spiked across the volatile Israel-Lebanon border. This is what happened in the Middle East this week.

Maharashtra Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar was asked if his faction of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will put up a candidate from the Lok Sabha constituency of Baramati, the pocket borough of the Pawar clan, against his the cousin Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule, who is the sitting MP, he said, «Being the president of the party, I have the right to announce the candidates of my party, but I cannot comment on who will be contesting against them. I will announce the names of the candidates at the right time.» The name hasn't been announced yet but the buzz is Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra Pawar will be contesting against Sule. The fight, if it happens, will take the divide in the Pawar clan down to the family stronghold from where Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar and Supriya Pawar have won several assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Early this month, the Election Commission of India declared Ajit Pawar's faction, which had split away last year from patriarch Pawar and joined hands with the BJP, as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Wang Yi said China will be a «force for stability» in the world during a speech on Saturday at a major security conference in Germany. «No matter the changes in the international situation, China as a responsible major country will always maintain the continuity and stability of its major policies and resolutely stay a force for stability in a turbulent world,» Wang said.

DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) — The Sudanese army has claimed its first major advance in 10 months of war, regaining control of part of the city of Omdurman from the Rapid Support Forces.

By Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth

Bollywood movie got seven nominations and won five awards. These included Best Web Original Film, Best Director for Apoorv Singh Karki and Best Actor for Manoj Bajpayee, who plays Solanki. In the "Direct-to-Digital" category, this movie was watched for 13 million hours on ZEE5.

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has launched a new endowment plan — Amritbaal, an individual, savings, life insurance plan. The plan is available both offline and online starting from Saturday, February 17, 2024, the insurer said in a press release. According to LIC's press release, «LIC Amritbaal is specifically designed to have an adequate corpus to meet the higher education and other needs of the child. The minimum entry age is 30 days age, and the maximum age is 13 years.

1) Land of Bad: A Delta Force mission goes awry in Liam Hemsworth's action thriller Land of Bad, leaving a rookie combat controller stranded and depending on a seasoned drone pilot for air support. To have a chance at escape, they must lead a valiant struggle for survival against insurmountable obstacles, pushing themselves to the brink and forming an unlikely bond.

Airline travel can be a nightmare on a good day, but when maggots start raining on you from the overhead compartment you know you’ve hit the bad travel jackpot.

Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. ALSO READ: 'BJP made Bharat Ratna a deal': Tejashwi Yadav ahead of Bihar floor test Breaking into the local dialect Bhojpuri, the young RJD leader said, "Nitish ji had, after begging for forgiveness, told my parents that the BJP was trying to split his party and wean away his MLAs". Kumar dumped the BJP and joined the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan in 2022.

While reigning as one of Japan’s most famous and respected actors, Hiroyuki Sanada worked an unofficial job—making sure the Hollywood productions he starred in also got their depictions of his country’s culture right. When preparing for his role in “The Last Samurai," Sanada helped instruct co-star Tom Cruise in wearing a kimono and wielding a sword. While playing an android samurai on HBO’s “Westworld" he weighed in on the look of robot geishas.

World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time on Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government. «It is obvious that he was killed by Putin,» said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was visiting Berlin as he sought aid for his country as it fights off an invasion by Russia. «Putin doesn't care who dies — only for him to hold his position. This is why he must hold onto nothing. Putin must lose everything and be held responsible for his deeds,» Zelenskyy added.

Hawaii on Monday.The two men in the scrap were on a Southwest Airlines flight en route to Kauai from the Oakland International Airport.In the video, which was first shared to Instagram by the user @kauai.airbnb, the two men are seen arguing before one traveller reaches out to slap the other. The second man, wearing a dark ballcap, retaliates with a right hook to the other passenger’s head.Things go sideways from there and the two men exchange blows — all while a woman is trapped between them, ducking down in the seats.Other passengers and flight staff erupt in surprise and try to intervene as the fight continues.

On a blazing hot day in November, Raibel Palacio and three neighborhood friends boarded a flight at Cuba’s Varadero beach resort, taking selfies and chattering in excitement. They had a job offer that promised a way out of the island’s misery. A few weeks later, Palacio was killed by a drone as he tried to tie a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding from a leg wound on the freezing front lines of Ukraine, said Danelia Herrera, his mother.

A former longtime financial advisor who had been registered with SagePoint Financial Inc., which became Osaic Wealth Inc. last year, was barred from the securities industry this week after Osaic discharged him in December for allegedly breaking industry rules in the sale of promissory notes.

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China is set to revise its outdated Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) law in a bid to tackle the increasing risks associated with virtual assets.

Mercer Advisors has bolstered its executive team with five RIA industry veterans.

By Simon Jessop

economy, Japan slipped below Germany last year to fourth place, official data showed Thursday, although India is projected to leapfrog both later this decade. Despite growing 1.9 percent, Japan's nominal 2023 gross domestic product in dollar terms was $4.2 trillion, government data showed, compared with $4.5 trillion for Germany, according to figures released there last month.

A longshot bid to temporarily double a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions for most married couples went down to defeat in the House