Mon 09 October 2023: International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva called Monday for wealthy nations to provide more support to debt-saddled developing countries, as she opened the first IMF-World Bank meetings on African soil in 50 years. The week-long talks in the southern Moroccan city of Marrakesh come as the IMF and World Bank are […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: About the ongoing conflict in the region, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said: “We are going to change the Middle East.” According to a written statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu met with the local administrators of the settlements around Gaza, which were attacked by Palestinian armed […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, said he was “deeply distressed” by Israel’s declaration of a “complete siege” of Gaza. Speaking from the UN’s headquarters in New York, Guterres said he was “deeply alarmed” by reports of the deaths of more than 500 Palestinians, including women and children, with these numbers “rising by […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: Harvard University Professor Claudia Goldin has been honoured with the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2023, as announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. This esteemed recognition, officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was awarded to Professor Claudia Goldin in acknowledgment […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: Oil prices soared more than four percent today, sparking concerns about possible supply shocks from the crude-rich region. Any sustained rally in oil prices would act as a tax on consumers and add to global inflationary pressures. Meanwhile, gold prices climbed more than 1 percent as the risk of a wider […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: The Bank of Israel on Monday said it would sell up to $30 billion of foreign currency in the open market, in the central bank’s first ever sale of foreign exchange, to maintain stability during Israel’s war with Palestinian militants in Gaza. The Israeli shekel fell to an almost eight-year low […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: In the wake of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, a disturbing trend has emerged on social media platforms in India. The right-wing extremist groups and online trolls have leveraged the conflict to perpetuate Islamophobic narratives and spread hatred against Muslims. The fresh Israel-Hamas conflict, a long-standing and deeply complex […]
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Sun 08 October 2023: The United States will send multiple military ships and aircraft closer to Israel as a show of support, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, with Washington believing Hamas’ latest attack may have been motivated to disrupt a potential normalizing of Israel-Saudi Arabia ties. Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns as the country […]
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Sun 08 October 2023: Pope Francis has called for “peace in Israel and in Palestine”, saying “terrorism and war do not lead to a solution”. The pontiff called for an end to attacks. “Please stop the attacks and the weapons,” Pope Francis pleaded on Sunday, “and understand that terrorism and war do not lead to […]
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Sun 08 October 2023: French government were forced to close seven schools throughout the country due to a bedbug infestation, Education Minister Gabriel Attal said France 5 on Friday. The official stated that the number of reported instances is increasing. According to Attal, bedbugs have been identified at various levels at around 17 institutions, seven […]
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