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Chinese Consulate in San Francisco last week is said to be armed with a knife and had a loaded crossbow in his car. Zhanyuan Yang, the driver in a blue sedan was then fatally shot by police on October 9.

foreign exchange reserves surged by $1.153 billion to $585.895 billion for the week ending October 13, the latest data by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed on Friday. Previously, forex reserves decreased by $2.166 billion to $584.742 billion for the week ended October 6. According to the Weekly Statistical Supplement released by the RBI, Foreign currency assets (FCAs) dropped by $178 million to $519.35billion. Expressed in dollar terms, the FCAs include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves. Gold reserves surged by $1.27 billion to $43.58 billion, while SDRs were up by $72 million to $18 billion. Reserve position in the IMF decreased by $8 million to $4.98 billion. It can be noted that in October 2021, the country's forex kitty had reached an all-time high of USD 645 billion.

Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she has separated from longtime partner Andrea Giambruno, who has drawn criticism in recent weeks for sexist comments made on air. «My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost 10 years, ends here,» Meloni wrote on Facebook. «Our paths have diverged for some time, and the time has come to acknowledge it,» she added.

Smartphone sales grew both in value and volume during the first week of festive season sales, which began on October 8, according to data from technology market research firm Counterpoint Research. Smartphones from Apple and Samsung spearheaded the stellar show by the premium segment, helping lift overall sales. Online platforms Amazon and Flipkart witnessed significant growth in the premium segment.

Yesterday was one of those days when Jay Powell should have passed on its latest interview session. The message was vague, and he didn’t seem to have many answers at times.

(Reuters) — Global equity funds registered their fifth weekly outflow in a row in the seven days to Oct. 18 hit by the persistent rise in U.S. bond yields with strong economic data heightening expectations of sustained high interest rates.

Redundancy costs at the ABC leapt fivefold in the past year to more than $22 million, as the organisation went through a major restructure aimed at boosting audiences and making better shows.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she had separated from her television journalist partner Andrea Giambruno, who has drawn criticism in recent weeks for sexist comments made on and off air.

Hamas’s attack on Israel should be a wake-up call to U.S. intelligence services. That a terrorist attack of this magnitude—with seismic implications for global security—came as a surprise to many in Washington shows that we need to reassess our own operations sharply to ensure that America has a comprehensive threat picture that can provide early warnings and prevent national-security tragedies.

LONDON (Reuters) — British retail sales volumes fell by a sharper than expected 0.9% in September compared with the month before, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Friday.

By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada

₹132 crores, the film's official handle on X stated. It also added that the film has become an all time highest Day-1 Grosser in Tamil Nadu at ₹43 crore. Entertainment Industry tracker expert Ramesh Bala in a tweet said that the film has done well in the UAE.

By Clare Jim and Liangping Gao

Investing.com-- Asian stocks extended steep losses on Friday as a rout in global bond markets continued to decimate risk appetite, while traders remained on edge over any more escalation in the Israel-Hamas war. 

Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies kept to a tight range on Friday, while the dollar steadied following somewhat mixed comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on the path of interest rates. 

Australia’s advertising industry has asserted itself as a bigger force than the accommodation and fast food sectors in economic output, pre-empting a crackdown by the Albanese government on gambling and wagering advertising.

₹449.55 against the previous close of ₹450.30 and fell 1.6 per cent to the level of ₹443.25 in Friday's trade so far. ITC share price has gained about 31 per cent in the last one year against an 11 per cent gain in the equity benchmark Sensex. The stock hit its 52-week high of ₹499.60 on July 24 this year and its 52-week low of ₹325.35 on December 23 last year on the BSE.

BEIJING (Reuters) — China's curbs on exports of gallium and germanium products choked off international shipments of the chipmaking metals for a second consecutive month, customs data for September showed on Friday.

After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was returned to Germany on Thursday

CSX reported a 24% drop in the railroad's third-quarter profit Thursday as it hauled 2% less freight

Film and TV actors are still on strike in what has become the longest walk-off in their history