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An International Atomic Energy Agency team is in Fukushima for the agency's first marine sampling since treated radioactive wastewater started being released from the area's damaged nuclear plant into the sea

The upward trend in life expectancy has been evident for many years and yet still millions of Americans do little to plan for the large chunk of their lives that will live in retirement.

The prosecution in Sam Bankman-Fried's landmark fraud case revealed several telling messages the fallen crypto founder had via direct message through Twitter.

Starbucks and the union organizing its workers sued each other Wednesday in a standoff sparked by a social media post over the Israel-Hamas war

New Jersey’s southernmost county has joined with environmental and fishing industry groups in suing the federal government in a bid to overturn its approval of the state's first offshore wind energy farm

Interstate 25 in southern Colorado is expected to reopen Thursday, four days after the main north-south route through the state was shut down when a train derailment collapsed a railroad bridge onto the highway and killed a truck driver

Suddenly in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, we have a presidential election about national security. And that could shuffle the U.S.

Gaza City, where numerous injured individuals and other Palestinians were seeking refuge on Tuesday. The Health Ministry under Hamas's control stated that hundreds of people lost their lives. While Hamas attributed the incident to an Israeli airstrike, the Israeli military pointed to a rocket that had been misfired by Palestinian militants as the cause.

Reuters. Claims of responsibility for the hospital blast varied, with many Arab leaders alleging Israeli involvement, while Hamas officials in Gaza attributed it to an Israeli airstrike. Israel denied any involvement and presented evidence suggesting the blast resulted from a rocket misfire by Islamic Jihad, another militant group operating in Gaza.

Paradeep Phosphates(up 1.05%), Sikko Industries(up 0.67%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 0.44%), Madras Fertlizers(up 0.43%), Rama Phosphates(up 0.39%) and Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 0.14%) were among the top gainers. Coromandel International(down 1.17%), G S F C(down 1.14%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(down 1.13%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(down 0.96%), National Fertilizer(down 0.78%), Agro Phos(down 0.76%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(down 0.75%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(down 0.73%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 0.70%) and Aries Agro(down 0.51%) were among the top losers.

Quentin Tarantino recently visited a military base in southern Israel to boost the morale of Israeli troops amidst the ongoing conflict with Hamas. The 60-year-old director of «Pulp Fiction» toured military bases and spent time with soldiers during his visit, as reported by the international nonprofit organization Stand With Us. The Israel War Room’s account on X, which was earlier known as Twitter, shared an image of Tarantino meeting with Israeli troops following the devastating terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,400 lives.

Brigade Enterprises has concluded the acquisition of a 9.72-acre land parcel in Hyderabad, with the transaction valued at about '660 crore. The acquisition came in the backdrop of an agreement made in August, when the company agreed to purchase the land in Neopolis area at a rate of '68 crore per acre through an e-auction conducted by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority.

Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully tested the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. This achievement illustrates the IAF's expanding capabilities in strengthening India's military capabilities. The BrahMos missile, noted for its supersonic speed and precision, was fired from a Sukhoi fighter jet, demonstrating the IAF's capacity to deploy long-range BrahMos cruise missiles.

By Steve Holland

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday cited a marked rise in antisemitism in Canada following Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent deadly air strikes in Gaza.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Steve Holland

The Spectator. During the initial hours following the blast, a Gaza civil defence leader stated that around 300 people had perished, while sources from the health ministry indicated a figure of 500, as per Reuters' report. Hundreds of people were murdered in a major explosion at a hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday, intensifying bombardments near towns in southern Gaza rattled civilians where Israel had ordered them to take refuge.

sugar has been extended beyond October 31, according to the notification. «This restriction is not applicable to sugar being exported to EU and USA under CXL and TRQ quota as per prescribed procedure in the respective public notices,» said the notification. India, world's second-largest sugar exporter last year had placed sugar in a restricted category until October 31, 2023 'to prevent uncontrolled export of sugar and with a view to ensure sufficient availability of sugar for domestic consumption at a reasonable price.' India allowed mills to export only 6.1 million tonnes of sugar during the current season ending on September 30, after letting them sell a record 11.1 million tonnes last season. Monsoon rains in the top sugarcane growing districts of the western state of Maharashtra and the southern state of Karnataka, which together account for more than half of India's total sugar output, have been as much as 50% below average so far this year, weather department data showed. India's sugar production could fall 3.3 per cent to 31.7 million tonnes in the 2023/24 season, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said. The last time India imposed a 20 per cent tax on sugar exports to curb overseas sales was back in 2016.

Reuters. At the conference, Trudeau also listed reports of a possible hate crime at a Jewish high school in Toronto last week, fears among some of visiting synagogues due to a possibility of being attacked, and heated online rhetoric, as examples of the rising antisemitism in Canada.

It was a sudden share raid that at the time made no sense in Australian media circles. ASX-listed media company ARN Media, with Jefferies at its side, quickly bought up 14.8 per cent of its arch rival Southern Cross Austereo in June this year.

ASX-listed ARN Media and buyout fund Anchorage Capital Partners are cutting no corners in their tilt for rival radio station owner Southern Cross Media.