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US forces and the United Kingdom Armed Forces, with the support of several other countries, conducted strikes against 18 Houthi targets in Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas of Yemen, according to the US Central Command. The joint strikes, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, were conducted on Saturday at 11:50 pm. CENTCOM shared on X, stating, «On Feb. 24, at approximately 11:50 p.m. (Sanaa Yemen time), U.S. Central Command forces alongside UK Armed Forces, and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, conducted strikes against 18 Houthi targets in Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas of Yemen.»

Houthi sites in Yemen on Saturday, according to officials. As reported by Reuters, this marks the latest in a series of military operations against the Iran-backed group, which has been implicated in ongoing attacks on shipping in the region.

“How will the internet operate without cookies?” “When are they going?” “Which ones are getting eliminated?” For the last six months, Rinku Ghosh has been fielding queries like these from clients panicking about the phasing out of third-party cookies. Ghosh is the COO of Lemnisk, a Bengaluru-based customer data platform. In her line of work, a cookie isn’t a sweet treat; it is a text file spawned by a web browser when a user visits a site, capturing their login details, preferences and browsing history.

was attacked on Feb. 18 while sailing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, U.S. Central Command said.

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Zelensky vowed Saturday that Ukraine would defeat Russia as the war entered a third year. «We have been fighting for this for 730 days of our lives. We will win on the greatest day of our lives,» Zelensky told an open-air anniversary event in Kyiv. «Any normal person wants the war to end. But none of us will allow Ukraine to end,» Zelensky said, stressing that the war must end «on our terms», with a «just» peace.

Indian warship provided critical assistance to a merchant vessel after it caught fire following a suspected drone or missile attack in the Gulf of Aden, the latest in a series of such support missions in the region. Palau-flagged vessel MV Islander came under attack on Thursday and a crew member of the ship sustained injuries, Indian military officials said on Saturday. An explosive ordnance disposal team of the Navy embarked the vessel and sanitised it for any residual risk following which the vessel was cleared for onward transit, they said. The fresh incident comes amid growing global concerns over attacks on various commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Houthi militants.

gold closed with a gain of 0.57% at $2036 Friday. The metal was up nearly 1% on the week. As per the macroeconomic data released Friday, China's new home prices — 70 City Index (January) slid for the eighth consecutive month in January. Germany's GDP contracted 0.30% in the 4Q as per the final reading, which matched the forecast. ECB's one-year and three-year CPI expectations stood at 3.30% and 2.50% respectively, almost in line with the exception.

«The kind of confidence, the kind of flow which we are seeing on the Street, that clearly shows yes, towards the end of this Feb series we are likely to see furthermore traction on the buying side and possibly Nifty can scale up to the level of 22,400 to 24,500 also in the continuation of this uptrend,» says Rajesh Palviya, Axis Securities.

hacking group has exposed extensive cyber intrusions conducted by Beijing's intelligence and military entities against foreign governments, companies, and infrastructure. According to a report by The Washington Post, the leaked cache, comprising over 570 files, images, and chat logs, provides a rare insight into the operations of a firm hired by Chinese government agencies for on-demand, mass data-collecting operations. The files, posted on GitHub last week, reveal contracts spanning eight years aimed at extracting foreign data. The targets include at least 20 foreign governments and territories, such as India, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

Buy or sell stocks: After showing an excellent upside recovery from the lows on Thursday, the Indian stock market shifted into a range-bound action for the whole session on Friday and closed in the red territory. The Nifty 50 index went off 4 points and closed at the 22,212 level, the BSE Sensex slipped 15 points and ended at the 73,142 mark while the Bank Nifty index lost 108 points and finished at 46,811 level. After opening on a positive note, the Nifty 50 index was not able to sustain the opening gains and slipped into minor weakness amidst a range movement in the early part and later this sideways movement continued for the whole session.

Wall Street when everyone else is a buyer, consider Rob Arnott, who made a sensible case five months ago that Nvidia Corp. had become a bubble. “A textbook story of a Big Market Delusion” is how the venerable founder of Research Affiliates called it, citing extreme valuations after the shares quadrupled in just a year.

Gold rate today, 24th February 2024: After losing for two straight weeks, gold prices finally logged a modest 0.75 percent gain in the week gone by. Gold futures contract on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) for April 2024 expiry finished at ₹62,325 per 10 gm level on Friday.

Mint a day after the release of the MPC minutes, Varma said that he expects normalization of interest rates and that his views regarding a rate cut will remain unchanged even if there is the possibility of a hike in minimum support price (MSP) in future. He was the only MPC member to have voted for a rate cut in the February policy meeting. Edited excerpts I think that India has sufficient monetary autonomy to base its monetary actions on the needs of the domestic economy.

military forces killed senior Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) militant group commander Ismail Shahbakhsh and some of his companions in the Pakistan territory, Iran International English reported, citing Iran's state-run media. In the latest development, Iran's forces, in an armed clash, attacked a militant group, one month after the two countries conducted air strikes on each other. Formed in 2012, Jaish al-Adl, designated as a «terrorist» organization by Iran, is a Sunni terrorist group that operates in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, Al Arabiya News reported.

President Joe Biden said the measures aim to ensure Russian President Vladimir Putin "pays an even steeper price for his aggression abroad and repression at home." The sanctions targeted Russia's Mir payment system, financial institutions and its military industrial base, sanctions evasion, future energy production and other areas. They also hit prison officials the U.S. says are linked to Navalny's death.

IDBI Bank has come out with a portfolio of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) loans for sale. It has put Rs 280-crore of MSME loans up for sale and received interest from seven asset reconstruction companies, including JC Flowers ARC, ARCIL, Omkara and ACRE. Other banks like Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) and RBL Bank have sold their MSME loans in the last quarter. MSME loans given during the Covid-19 had turned into non-performing assets (NPAs) and are now up for sale.

Ontario’s regional planning authorities are overstating the number of lots that are ready for construction by nearly a million housing units, according to a new study commissioned by groups representing the province’s building and land development industry, a discrepancy the industry says debunks any notion it is “sitting on supply.”

Cooler-than-expected inflation numbers have left one strategist even more skeptical of the Bank of Canada‘s conservative forecast for when the consumer price index will return to target, suggesting the door to interest rate cuts could open much sooner than the central bank has predicted.

Iron ore mining companies and steelmakers that do not have captive mines are at loggerheads over the export of the raw material, in a bid to safeguard their interests. Secondary steel producers from Odisha and Chhattisgarh have pitched for an «immediate ban on iron ore exports» as the outflow of raw materials is putting pressure on their industry. The Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, representing iron ore producers, has opposed any such move. A third grouping, comprising primary steel producers, has called for import restrictions on finished steel products but maintain silence over the suggestions for export duty on iron ore. «While raw material (iron ore) prices are rising domestically, imports of steel from China have also surged this fiscal. Bharat needs to safeguard its Aatmanirbharta in steel by curbing imports,» said a representative from the Indian Steel Association, whose members include the country's top steelmakers. Most primary steel producers source all the iron ore they need from their captive mines. Others meet part of their raw material requirement from the open market.

Benchmark indexes Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and the S&P 500 are poised to finish the week on a positive note. We have seen notable performances from four key stocks: