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Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is behind on getting food recycling programs up and running

veto. Algeria, the Arab representative on the council, put the draft resolution in a final form that can be voted on. Council diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said the vote will take place Tuesday morning. In addition to a ceasefire, the final Algerian draft, obtained by The Associated Press, reiterates council demands that Israel and Hamas “scrupulously comply” with international law especially the protection

PARIS (Reuters) — Some 900 tonnes of lithium batteries were on fire at a battery recycling plant in southern France, authorities said on Sunday, sending a cloud of thick black smoke into the sky above the site.

Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, both the ruling YSRCP and its rival TDP are in touch with the BJP to explore political alliances, though no concrete announcement has emerged so far. On February 8, TDP supremo and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu met senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah late at night in New Delhi, setting off speculation that they negotiated a possible political alliance. Both parties are yet to announce a tie-up. A source told PTI that «TDP and BJP are forming an alliance» which could be announced in a few days' time. Though TDP was planning to release its list of election candidates by February 10, the source observed that it got delayed due to the alliance talks.

UFC 298 is taking place in California's Anaheim tonight. UFC 298 fight card shows that there will be a number of interesting MMA match-ups including the featherweight title. UFC 298 fight card includes Ilia Topuria vs Alexander Volkanovski for featherweight title, Robert Whittaker vs Paulo Costa in middleweights, Geoff Neal vs Ian Machado Garry, Henry Cejudo vs Merab Dvalishvili.

Nepal's Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha who has directed local authorities to crack down against illegal activities by citizens from the neighbouring country. Shrestha's directive came against recent activities by certain Chinese nationals who violated visa norms and Forex regulations, ET has learnt.

Also Read: Oil remains range-bound as rate cut hopes fade away: Here's how US Fed policy decision affects prices Back home, on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), crude oil futures due for a March 19 expiry, last settled 0.03 per cent higher at ₹6,484 per bbl, having swung between ₹6,381 and ₹6,518 per bbl during the session, against a previous close of ₹6,482 per barrel. On Thursday, Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at a northern Israeli town in a "preliminary response" to the killing of 10 civilians in southern Lebanon, the deadliest day for Lebanese civilians in four months of cross-border hostilities. The oil market's reaction to news from the Middle East was moderate, according to analysts.

As Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks flounder, Israel is vowing to press ahead with its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip despite warnings from the US to work harder to protect civilians. Violence spiked across the volatile Israel-Lebanon border. This is what happened in the Middle East this week.

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Karnataka Budget 2024: The recent announcement made by the Karnataka government to raise excise duty on alcohol, particularly beer, has put the spotlight on brewery stocks in the upcoming week. According to stock market experts, liquor prices are already high in Karnataka and the current Karnataka Budget 2024 proposal may have an adversary impact on liquor sales in the state in the short term.

Lawmakers in Norway have slammed a decision this week by a southern city to only take in Ukrainian refugees and not others, claiming they'll integrate easier into the society

MADRID (Reuters) — Severe droughts and heatwaves in Spain could have a persisting impact on the domestic lenders' solvency by slowing down the economy and leading to more loan losses, the Bank of Spain Governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Friday.

Red Sea crisis that has jacked up his shipping costs and times. «Last week, I lost a big order to a Polish competitor who does not need to pay increased freight rates,» said Jhunjhunwala, head of Binayak Hi Tech Engineering which ships about 700 containers of machinery tools, industrial castings, and railway shed materials per year. Turkish exporters were also benefiting at the expense of Indian companies, he said, adding that he has also sent some orders on to buyers at a loss after absorbing increased costs.

Kerala-based startups witness 40% surge in seed-stage funding in 2023: Report Tamil Nadu startups also saw a crunch in funding, with an 85% plunge last year. Tamil Nadu-based tech startups secured a total funding of $255 million in 2023 as against $1.7 billion raised in 2022. Karnataka's tech startups attracted late-stage investments worth $2.3 billion in 2023, a 74% decline compared with $8.9 billion in 2022.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, according to a joint statement released in response to reports about Israel's planned military operation in Rafah. «We are gravely concerned by indications that Israel is planning a ground offensive into Rafah. A military operation into Rafah would be catastrophic,» the statement by the Prime Ministers of the three countries said.

A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in the second of its two new reactors, in a key step toward providing carbon-free electricity

World Health Organization on Wednesday warned that an Israeli military offensive against Rafah in southern Gaza would cause an «unfathomable catastrophe» and push the enclave's health system closer to the brink of collapse. «Military activities in this area, this densely populated area, would be, of course, an unfathomable catastrophe… and would even further expand the humanitarian disaster beyond imagination,» said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza and the West Bank.

Congress on Wednesday nominated its former party chief Sonia Gandhi and senior leaders Ajay Maken and Abhishek Singhvi for the Rajya Sabha election to be held on February 27. Gandhi, who was accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra besides former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, filed her nomination papers in Jaipur. The 77-year-old former Congress president is set to enter the Upper House for the first time from Rajasthan. Gandhi will fill the seat that will fall vacant in April after former prime minister Manmohan Sigh completes his Rajya Sabha tenure. Party treasurer Maken has been fielded from Karnataka and Abhishek Singhvi from Himachal Pradesh. The party has its government in both states. Maken had unsuccessfully contested the Rajya Sabha election from Haryana last year.

A group of Disneyland performers in California are considering joining a union

Mount Baldy to find the missing woman.Search and rescue workers and volunteers battled through heavy snowfall and were hampered by avalanche risks in their attempts to find Lifei Huang. In the end, it was a civilian flying a drone who spotted her eight days after she went missing, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department wrote in a press release.Huang set off for a solo hike in the Mount Baldy area of the San Gabriel Mountains on Feb.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday reached Jaipur to file her nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan. It will be the 77-year-old leader's first term in the Upper House after serving five terms as a Lok Sabha MP. Sonia Gandhi was accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge.