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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Singapore's deputy prime minister said on Friday he hopes for substantial progress in the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) discussions in time for next month's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -More than 1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza faced an Israeli deadline on Saturday to flee south, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had only just begun to retaliate for last week's Hamas rampage across southern Israel.

Follow our LIVE coverage of the Israel-Hamas war here "With the recent crisis in the Middle-East, concerns on fuel are back again, the worries that many countries expressed. Concerns and uncertainties are about peace as a positive factor. Fuel concerns affecting food security aspects and impact on inflation, fragmentation of supply chains were the three major worries in the near future," she stated.

Sri Lanka flagged off on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that we are embarking on a new chapter in the diplomatic and economic relations between India and Sri Lanka. PM Modi said, “We are embarking on a new chapter in the diplomatic and economic relations between India and Sri Lanka.

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors (FMCBG) agreed to «ambitious efforts» for substantially reforming and strengthening multilateral development banks (MDBs), including increasing their lending capacity. They also adopted a road map for the regulation of crypto assets, marking significant progress on India's G20 agenda. "...The G20 finance track saw key achievements in several areas of India's presidency year," said finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, briefing reporters on the outcome of the fourth and last G20 FMCBG meeting under India's presidency. She listed progress on strengthening of MDBs, advancing financial inclusion and productivity gains through digital public infrastructure, crypto assets agenda, managing global debt vulnerabilities, and financing cities of tomorrow.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexico Energy Secretary Rocio Nahle has presented her resignation and will step down immediately, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, following hints from Nahle she might enter the race for governor of Veracruz state.

India-Pakistan World Cup match — not just in the Ahmedabad stadium but in living rooms, pubs, restaurants, multiplexes and even offices across the country. And corporate India has started the cheer. Restaurants, pubs, and food delivery and quick commerce platforms expect record business with sales rising 25-35% over a usual weekend day while television brands are struggling to install TVs before the start of the match after a spike in sales in the last one week, several industry executives said. Companies working on second Saturdays, too, have ensured there is plenty on the table for employees to cheer for Team India while at work.

AP reported.However, there were no signs that the US was attempting to deter an anticipated Israeli ground incursion into Gaza, a move that could exacerbate the humanitarian plight of the 2.3 million Palestinians confined within the besieged area. Read all the LIVE updates here.Acknowledging Israel's right to self-defence in the face of Hamas' attacks of "unprecedented brutality," Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasised the "creation of an independent Palestine state with East Jerusalem as its capital" to resolve the issue, TASS reported.Russia proceeds "from the postulate, a negotiated solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has no alternatives," said Putin while speaking at the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit here on Friday.

Automotive News executive editor Jamie Butters discusses the expansion of the UAW strikes and its impact on car buyers.

By Dietrich Knauth

The President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, alongside Prince Filip of Serbia, officially announced the establishment of a Bitcoin business hub to promote innovation in the region. 

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France city of Arras on Friday that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as «barbaric Islamic terrorism.» Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said France was now on its highest state of alert and that the Arras attack bore a link to events in the Middle East, where Israel is conducting a military offensive to root out Hamas fighters after their deadly rampage. Only a day earlier, Macron had urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home. Visiting the site of the attack, Macron paid his respects to the dead teacher, whose body still lay under a cover surrounded by a pool of blood. "(He) stepped in and undoubtedly saved a lot of lives himself," Macron said. «Our choice is made not to give in to terror, not to let anything divide us.» The suspect, who has been arrested, was a former student of the Lycee Gambetta high school where the attack happened, a police source said.

Ubisoft has unveiled key details regarding the streaming of Activision Blizzard video games after Microsoft acquisition. In a recent blog post, Chris Early, Ubisoft's Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development, provided further details on the company's strategies. The French gaming publisher will have the ability to license the streaming rights to various cloud gaming platforms. It is worth noting that the blog does not explicitly state whether Microsoft can acquire a license for Xbox Cloud Streaming. Early explained that the agreement encompasses all of Activision Blizzard's existing games, as well as all games to be released in the next 15 years. Ubisoft's initial plan is to stream these games via Ubisoft+. In due course, these games are expected to become available on services such as Amazon Luna, where Ubisoft maintains a presence. Xbox maker Microsoft closed its $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard on Friday, swelling its heft in the video-gaming market with best-selling titles including «Call of Duty» to better compete with industry leader Sony. Originally unveiled in January 2022, the biggest deal in the gaming industry cleared its final big hurdle — an approval from Britain — earlier in the day after Microsoft agreed to sell streaming rights for Activision's games to allay competition concerns. The completion is a major win for the U.S. tech firm in its push to attract more people to its Xbox consoles and Game Pass subscription service. Microsoft's gaming revenue trails that of Sony, whose PlayStation consoles outsell the Xbox.

tourism and hospitality industry is set to create thousands of jobs in the upcoming months, driven by a spike in leisure travel for the festive season as well as a big increase in business trips. Some 70,000-80,000 jobs (a mix of permanent and temporary roles) are likely to be created as the festive pickup in demand also coincides with the Cricket World Cup, with matches being held in 10 different cities, according to an estimate by staffing company TeamLease. Besides, this is the first post-Covid year when the industry is expected to see hotel occupancy and footfalls exceeding pre-pandemic levels, and a barrage of expansions by leading hotel chains. ITC-backed Fortune Hotels, Lemon Tree Hotels and Royal Orchid Hotels, among a host of other large and mid-sized hotels which are opening new properties or acquiring smaller/unbranded hotels to meet the spike in demand, are all aggressively increasing manpower and will hire between 1,500 and 3,000 people each in 6-12 months, said top company executives. Fortune Hotels plans to increase hiring across the chain by 8-10% compared with last year when it hired about 2,500 employees across the chain.

NEW DELHI : Coca-Cola India on Friday said it has allocated record marketing budget for Thums-Up, Coca-Cola, and Sprite for September and December quarter by leveraging its global partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to intensify advertising efforts for the ongoing Men’s World Cup, as well as the festive season. The move follows a lacklustre performance by beverage makers in the summer.

German Shepherd dog (GSD). He simply followed her into her building and then into her apartment and stayed on. The only problem was that once he settled down, he would have a tantrum if she left him alone in the flat.

Congress is likely to deny nominations to around 20 of its 70-odd sitting MLAs in Chhattisgarh, where the party is trying to retain power by overcoming incumbency issues, said party functionaries. However, they said, all the ministers in the Bhupesh Baghel government will be re-nominated, as the party's main election plank is its governance record over the past five years. «About 15-20 sitting Congress MLAs will focus on our organisational mobilisation for the election this time, by making way for new faces to fight as the party candidates,» said a Chhattisgarh Congress leader, who did not wish to be identified. This is part of a plan to minimise the incumbency burden, which the party leadership's analysis of the feedback based on internal surveys found against many Congress legislators. The central election committee (CEC) of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) is learnt to have finalised the candidates for about 60 of the total 90 assembly segments in Chhattisgarh, and with more CEC sittings scheduled, the AICC could start announcing the candidates in batches from Sunday as the 'Shraadh' period is ending on Saturday, people familiar with the development said. The party may also try to field more women and youths while giving numerical prominence to Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes, keeping in mind the social demography of the state.