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Markets need to begin thinking about the structural impact of Donald Trump's proposed 10% tariff increase, which «shakes up every asset class,» according to Rabobank Global Strategist Michael Every.

United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in September 2020. Sudan normalised relations with Israel the following month and Morocco in December 2020. Negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia were disrupted by the war between Israel and Hamas which began in October 2023.

Israel-Hamas war: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led government on Sunday decided to hold the tax fund collected for the Palestinian Authority (PA) and transfer it to Norway. The move comes as Israel accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of funding Hamas operations- the terrorist group that launched the brutal 7 October attack against Israel, which triggered the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Gaza authorities on Sunday informed that the death toll in Israel's operations Hamas has reached a staggering 25,000 most of which include innocent civilians.

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Islamist group Hamas while admitting in a 16-page report that “some faults happened due to the rapid collapse of the Israeli security and its military system". The attack resulted in over 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians. Around 700 Israeli civilians and 76 foreigners were among the dead, with one Israeli still missing, according to a report published by AFP. During the attack, the gunmen seized around 250 hostages, as per the latest Israeli figures.

First Nikki Haley tried to eliminate slavery as a cause of the Civil War. Now she’s trying to erase racism from American history. In an interview with Fox News last week, Haley was asked if the Republican Party is racist.

“axis of resistance" and Israel and America engage in ever more dangerous strikes on each other, including assassinations. Iranian allies in Iraq and Syria have launched about 140 rocket and drone attacks against American troops since the start of the Gaza war. Perhaps the most severe came on January 20th, with a volley of “multiple ballistic missiles and rockets" fired at the Al Asad base in western Iraq, according to America’s Central Command.

DUBAI—The U.S., Egypt and Qatar are pushing Israel and Hamas to join a phased diplomatic process that would start with a release of hostages and, eventually, lead to a withdrawal of Israeli forces and an end to the war in Gaza, diplomats involved in mediating the talks said. Neither side in the conflict has agreed to the terms of the new proposal—which includes steps at odds with the stated positions of Israel and Hamas. Taher Al-Nono, a media adviser to Hamas, said there was no real progress, and Israeli officials didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Ron DeSantis proved to be a capable campaigner and looked poised to defeat Donald Trump in New Hampshire and beyond, we would be facing a multitude of left-leaning essays on a single theme: «Why DeSantis is actually more dangerous than Trump.» In this world, the only threat to Trump in New Hampshire is Nikki Haley, and her candidacy doesn't look built to last much beyond that primary. But in the spirit of slipping in your controversial opinions while you can, and because she might yet be Trump's running mate, here is my own fear: A Haley presidency could be more dangerous than a second Trump term.

Ram Lalla in his birth place in Ayodhya and the temple's 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony will be the beginning of the campaign for «reconstruction of Bharatvarsh» which is for harmony, unity, progress, peace and well-being of everyone, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday. In an article posted on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) website, Bhagwat referred to the «continuous struggle of the Hindu society» for the construction of the temple in Ayodhya and said the «conflict and bitterness» over the dispute should now come to an end. After years of legal struggle, the Supreme Court pronounced a «balanced» verdict on November 9, 2019, after examining «the truth and facts» and also hearing the arguments of all the parties in the case, he said.

Vladimir Lenin has been gone for a century, but the evil he did lives on. The first leader of the Soviet Union died on Jan. 21, 1924, in Gorki, Russia (now called Nizhny Novgorod), after repeated strokes.

As the world devolves from the unipolar world led by the US in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War to an international order more in flux–not yet multipolar and not quite bipolar either–small states are gaining outsize ability to shape their own destinies. Long used to being ignored, many small countries are increasingly capable of playing rival states against each other and expanding their diplomatic space. Maldives is a classic case in point.

crime. Not because it is the bloodiest: Stalin and Mao killed many more people in gulags and famines than the nearly 6m Jews murdered by the Nazis. But the Holocaust was seen as so monstrous that the UN adopted the Genocide Convention, promising never again to allow an attempt to wipe out a group of people, or part of one, simply because of their nationality, race, religion or ethnicity.

Business and political elites descended on the Swiss Alpine snows of Davos to suss out “rebuilding trust” in a splintering world

Gaza, has reportedly damaged at least 16 cemeteries, destroying gravestones, overturning soil, and, in some instances, exposing buried bodies. According to a CNN report, one incident in Khan Younis involved the destruction of a cemetery.

Narendra Modi on January 21 visited Arichalmunai, the southern tip of Tamil Nadu, as part of his Ramayana-connect tour in the state. The PM paid floral tributes at the seashore and engaged in 'pranayama' (breathing exercise), also offering prayers using the seawater. Track LIVE Updates here Modi, who spent the night in Rameswaram, journeyed to Arichalmunai, believed to be the location where Ram Setu was built.

Bollywood movie Fighter, starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor, is all set to release on January 25 on the eve of Republic Day. The movie has been generating a lot of buzz since the announcement of its launch. The release date was postponed a couple of times.

Guwahati Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that a mega theatrical show on Lachit Barphukan will be staged across the nation. Union Home Minister Amit Shah released a book titled “Assam's Braveheart — Lachit Barphukan” in the presence of Chief Minister Sarma in a programme held at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in Guwahati. An initiative of the Government of Assam, the book authored in English by eminent writerArup Kr Dutta, is an endeavour to familiarize the nation with the story of legendary 17th century war hero of the state Lachit Barphukan's life, and the sacrifices he made while defending his motherland against Mughal army. This book not only chronicles the rich and untold historical events of Assam but also captures how the legacy of Lachit Barphukan has had its influence on the posterity. The book is translated into 23 Indian languages.

oil market appears to be bracing for a weeks-long disruption to shipping in the southern Red Sea, where Houthi militants have for months been attacking merchant vessels in response to Israel's war in Gaza. Charters of tankers to haul crude and fuels — which for some vessels are arranged up to a month in advance — reveal growing numbers of the vessels are being hired for routes that will avoid the danger zone, according to shipowners, brokers and traders.

Joe Biden said on Friday it was still possible Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could agree to some form of Palestinian state, after the two leaders spoke for the first time in nearly a month amid tensions over the Gaza war. Their call came a day after Netanyahu said he opposes allowing Palestinian sovereignty in the wake of the conflict with Hamas, deepening Israeli divisions with key backer Washington over the conduct of Israel's offensive and what comes next. But Biden said after the call that it was not impossible Netanyahu might come round to some form of so-called two-state solution, mooted for decades as a way to end tensions in the Middle East, despite the Israeli premier's comments. «There are a number of types of two-state solutions. There's a number of countries that are members of the UN that… don't have their own militaries,» Biden told reporters.