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The European Union’s parliament has backed in a cliffhanger vote a major plan to protect nature and fight climate change

The union that successfully organized an Amazon warehouse in New York is being sued by a splinter group that includes some former leaders

This summer, millions of Americans with student loans will be able to apply for a new repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms ever

The $2 billion voluntary carbon-offsets market has suffered allegations that many credits don’t deliver the emissions cuts they promise, but multiple efforts to rebuild credibility face an uphill battle. Recently the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it would make policing carbon offsets a priority, Nestlé decided to leave the market and standard setters published guidelines that few existing buyers would meet. As things currently stand, only 5% of companies buying voluntary credits would meet the tough new standards on their proper use, according to Trove Research.

Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was to empower the relevant investigating agencies to deal with tax fraud and money laundering matters, and not giving outright access to data to any party, said revenue secretary Sanjay Malhotra. “Under the recent finance ministry notification, it was clarified that it will only empower our tax authorities with more information,” the secretary told reporters Tuesday after the 50th GST Council meet here in the national capital. “GSTN is a recipient of information.

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Over the past two seasons, Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has taken two major breaks from the professional game for reasons that couldn’t be farther apart. Early last year, exhausted physically from injuries and mentally from watching Russia invade her home country, tennis was suddenly and profoundly irrelevant to her. Then in October of that year, she put tennis on the back burner again for a happier reason: She and her husband, the French player Gaël Monfils, welcomed their first child.

Based on true events, ‘Sound of Freedom’ is a biographical action movie starring Jim Caviezel as a Special Agent who quits his job to take on the mission of rescuing children from human traffickers and cartels in Colombia. Co-written and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, besides Caviezel, the film features impressive onscreen performances from a talented ensemble cast comprising Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Kurt Fuller, Gary Basaraba, and José Zúñiga. If you’re unfamiliar with Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom, it’s because this is a rare film to make noise at the summer box office that isn’t getting released by one of the primary studios.

The recent norms of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on card payment networks may push them to offer better pricing and features to issuers, which will, in turn, benefit customers, experts said.

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will attend the next meeting of the Opposition leaders in Bengaluru on July 17-18, for which 24 parties have been invited. Sonia Gandhi is also likely to host a dinner for Opposition leaders a day before the meeting called by the Congress as part of ongoing attempts to put up a united fight against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

alliance between America and Japan would face several tests. If America came to Taiwan’s defence—itself hardly a given—it would need approval from Japan to use its bases there, which host 54,000 American troops. Would Japan accede? China might offer not to harm Japan if it refused.

Elon Musk, has joined forces with two prominent UFC champions. According to TMZ, Mark Zuckerberg has dedicated the past few days to intense training sessions alongside two UFC champions: Israel Adesanya, the middleweight champion, and Alexander Volkanovski, the featherweight champion. Following Saturday night's UFC 290 showcase in Las Vegas, both fighters immediately traveled to Zuckerberg's residence in Northern California to assist him in his preparations.

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NATO leaders gathered Wednesday to launch a highly symbolic new forum for ties with Ukraine, after committing to provide the country with more military assistance for fighting Russia but only vague assurances of future membership. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the new NATO-Ukraine Council, a permanent body where the 31 allies and Ukraine will sit as equals and be able to call crisis talks.

opposition unity meeting in Karnataka's Bengaluru could witness the participation of up to 24 political parties including RJD, JDU, TMC, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Samajwadi Party. The meeting will be held on July 17 and 18 in a bid to continue discussions on unitedly fighting the Bhartiya Janta Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

dollar sank to a two-month low against its major peers on Wednesday in the lead-up to a key U.S. inflation reading, while sterling scaled a 15-month top on expectations the Bank of England (BoE) has further to go in raising rates. U.S.

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gin brands owned by large companies regained market share in 2022 after small handmade batches of local brands, especially from Goa, stirred up the segment over the past three years. While most brands, big and small, increased sales in double digits, Bombay Sapphire, Jaisalmer, Beefeater and Big Ben more than doubled their sales, outpacing craft gin brands, according to the latest IWSR Drinks Market Analysis report sourced from industry executives. At the same time, newer entrants, including Samsara, Hapusa and Stranger & Sons, increased sales 50-70 per cent.

India has been leading the fight against extremism and no religion is under threat in the country, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has said. He has also termed India an extremely responsible power, which is willing to conduct hot pursuit against terrorist havens when the need arises.

Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, saying that the body will share information with Financial Intelligence Unit and not with the Enforcement Directorate and move was in line with the requirement under the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). India's FATF review is due in November.

British wages rose at the joint fastest pace on record but official data also showed signs that the inflationary heat in the labour market is cooling, offering the prospect of relief for the Bank of England.Sterling edged up but yields on two-year British government bonds, which are sensitive to speculation about interest rates, fell sharply, suggesting investors were dialling back their bets on how much higher the BoE would go with its run of rate hikes. «There were some tentative signs that the labour market may be turning… But this has to be balanced against still persistently strong wage growth,» Ellie Henderson, an economist with bank Investec, said. «The Bank will likely want to see an easing in the wage growth numbers before it can think about declaring an end to the fight against inflation.» The 7.3% surge in basic earnings in the three months to May compared with the same period a year ago was the joint highest alongside April's growth — which was revised up on Tuesday from an initial 7.2% — and the second quarter of 2021, according to data which goes back to 2001.