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Egypt and China have signed agreements deepening their cooperation during President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s visit to Beijing

South Africans have voted in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years

Hungary’s top diplomat has visited Belarus for talks on expanding ties despite the European Union’s sanctions against the country

The Cleveland branch of the Federal Reserve says that Beth Hammack, an executive at investment bank Goldman Sachs, would be its next president effective Aug. 21

election battle in Jharkhand has entered the Santhal Pargana region, long considered a pocket borough of the Soren family. It is a prestige battle for Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's first family as it looks to wrest back party supremo Shibu Soren's eight-time seat from the BJP. Three Lok Sabha seats of Santhal — Dumka, Rajmahal and Godda — are going for polls in the last phase on June 1. In 2019, the BJP won Dumka — where its candidate Sunil Soren beat former chief minister and Rajya Sabha MP Shibu Soren by 47,539 votes — and Godda constituencies while JMM won Rajmahal. However, the JMM-led opposition alliance performed well in the assembly elections later in 2019, with JMM winning nine assembly constituencies and its ally Congress winning five, leaving just four out of 18 seats for the BJP.

collaborate rather than put up a fight with the best-known artificial intelligence company, News Corp has struck a multi-year deal to share news content with OpenAI for both training purposes and to answer questions from users. As part of the deal, OpenAI will have access to both fresh and archived material from News Corp's major news publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and New York Post, Australian publications such as The Daily Telegraph, and others. The companies would not talk about the length or value of the deal, although News Corp's Wall Street Journal said it could be worth more than $250 million over five years.

Ajay Gupta, one of three infamous Gupta brothers, by Indian authorities is a shot in the arm for South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the country's President Cyril Ramaphosa in an election season. ANC is seeking re-election in Wednesday's parliamentary polls and the arrest of Ajay Gupta will enable the current ANC leadership to target former president Jacob Zuma under whose rule the Gupta brothers ran a controversial business empire in South Africa. Zuma is accused of backing the Gupta brothers in lieu of personal favours, including financial emoluments. Zuma has formed a separate entity to fight the elections, eyeing to create a rift within ANC supporters and garner votes. This is a high-stakes election for ANC.

Donald Trump's hush money case, weighing a verdict with potentially big implications for the 2024 White House race. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment that bought the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels had threatened to go public with her account of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, a liaison he denies.

Gold Price Outlook: Motilal Oswal recommends ‘buy on dips’ on yellow metal; pegs upside target to ₹81,000The dollar strengthened by 0.2 per cent compared to other currencies, resulting in higher prices for gold for holders of other currencies. Concurrently, the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yields reached a nearly one-month high.Minneapolis Fed Bank President Neel Kashkari suggested on Tuesday that the U.S.

DFW housing and macro economic analyst Amy Nixon says the longer rate cuts hold off, the higher rates have to stay on 'Making Money.'

A Goldman Sachs executive and finance industry veteran will take over as the new president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve.

Treasury yields hit four-week highs on Wednesday while two-year yields declined, as traders pared back on a popular trade that saw the closely watched two-year, 10-year yield curve reach its most inverted levels in 11 weeks. Yields jumped on Tuesday after consumer confidence unexpectedly improved in May and the Treasury Department saw soft demand for auctions of two-year and five-year notes.

summer heat, rising absenteeism and loss of productivity has led to an all-time high demand for last-mile delivery and warehouse personnel to fill in for the daily attrition, said officials from staffing firms and logistics companies. About 2,000 delivery personnel are dropping off every day in quick commerce and 5,000 in food delivery, according to estimates by Teamlease Services. “A total of about 7,000 people – for quick commerce and food delivery — are needed for replacement hiring daily,” said Balasubramanian A, vice president and head of consumer and ecommerce at TeamLease. This is much higher than the daily exit of about 5,000 seen last year this time to cater to the typical summer season shortfall when many migrant labourers leave for their hometowns.

BJP leader Sanjay Tandon who is making his Lok Sabha election debut from the Chandigarh parliamentary seat said his opponent and senior Congress leader Manish Tewari is a "political tourist" and will look for a new constituency in 2029 to fight polls from. Tandon, who has been the Chandigarh BJP President for 10 years, exuded confidence that the party will secure a hat-trick of wins from the constituency which will go to polls in the seventh phase on June 1. «Manish Tewari is a political tourist… In 1991, he went to Kanpur to contest election… even before he reached the constituency people objected and he was sent back to Delhi from the airport itself,» Tandon told PTI in an interview. «Since then he has been behaving like this only. He goes to a constituency, tries to play with the system there. He has been elected twice from two different constituencies. The question that comes to the mind of people in Chandigarh is why did he leave Ludhiana?» he asked.

Read | S&P Global revises Indian economy outlook to positiveAs of 31 December 2023, ADB had committed 623 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totalling $55.3 billion to India, with its current sovereign portfolio in India including 67 loans worth $14.15 billion.Some of the other MDBs, which have backed key projects in India, include the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).Interestingly, MDBs have been urged to make more finance available to emerging and developing economies (EDEs) for meeting development needs, mitigating climate risks and insulating from global shocks.Under the Indian presidency of the G20 in 2023, an expert committee headed by economists N.K.

MEXICO CITY—Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish woman with a Ph.D. in energy engineering, is expected to become the first female president of Mexico, a historic ascent in a largely Catholic country. Sheinbaum’s commanding lead in polls ahead of Sunday’s election is rooted in her endorsement by Mexico’s popular nationalist leader, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who shepherded Sheinbaum’s career over the past two decades.

Rajnath Singh on Wednesday claimed that under the free ration scheme, people were getting more foodgrains than they could consume and they ended up selling the surplus in the market. The former BJP president, who was addressing an election rally in Karakat Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar, also, cited figures to assert that the food inflation rate in the country was «the lowest in the world» and expressed dismay over allegations of price rise. «Are you not getting five kilogrammes of foodgrains each? I know if there are four members in a family, each is getting a supply of 5 kg and those who are not able to consume it, sell off the surplus,» Singh said with a chuckle, breaking into the local dialect Bhojpuri. Claiming that the central government has not done a favour to people by providing them with welfare measures like toilets and pucca houses, he said BJP people are in politics with the spirit of service.

South Africans head to vote on Wednesday, May 29, the country is facing a crucial election that could end the African National Congress (ANC)'s 30-year dominance, according to an AFP report.The ANC is South African independence movement leader Nelson Mandela's political party.Polls opened at 7 am local time and will close at 9 pm local time today at 23,292 voting stations, as per a Bloomberg report. The country will see close to 28 million registered voters elect a new parliament, which will then select the president.Also Read | Neuralink brain implant: Elon Musk's company looking for three patients for long term study.

Iran keeps making substantial progress in its brisk walk to an atomic weapon, a United Nations report leaked Monday suggests, and what are they going to tell us next—that there’s gambling at Rick’s? Yet the Biden Administration wants to hide this scary truth from the world in this election year. An International Atomic Energy Agency report has concluded that Iran has increased its stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium to 142.1 kilograms—an increase of 20.6 kilograms since the IAEA’s last estimate in February. This will be enough for three warheads once Iran completes the technologically straightforward process of enriching its hoard to 90% from 60%.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) called on Wednesday for a ceasefire and unimpeded humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where millions of people face worsening hunger. The war-torn enclave is suffering from a humanitarian catastrophe nearly seven months after Israel launched a devastating offensive in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,200 people in Israel.

In the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter placed solar panels on the roof of the White House as a symbol of his commitment to developing energy from the sun. In the 1990s, Japan offered homeowners groundbreaking subsidies to install photovoltaic panels. And in the 2000s, Germany developed an innovative program that guaranteed consumers who adopted a solar energy system that they would sell their electricity at a profit. But no country has come close to matching the scale and tenacity of China's support. The proof is in the production: In 2022, Beijing accounted for 85% of all clean-energy manufacturing investment in the world, according to the International Energy Agency.