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Saudi Arabia Boosts Ties with China, Eurasian Countries

Saudi Arabia has approved a memorandum on granting the kingdom the status of a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), state news agency SPA said. The SCO is a political and security union of countries spanning much of Eurasia, including China, India and Russia. Formed in 2001 by…

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Pakistan Militants Kill 4 Police Officers, Hurt 6 in Attacks

Taliban militants killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded six in an attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan early Thursday, police and the insurgents said. The bomb killed four officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to respond to…

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Syria Says 2 Soldiers Wounded in Israeli Strikes Near Damascus

Israel launched airstrikes on the vicinity of Syria's capital Damascus that left two soldiers wounded and "some material damage," Syrian state media reported early on Thursday citing a military official. Loud explosions were heard over the Syrian capital around 1:30 a.m., and the SANA state news agency said Syrian air…

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Collision Trial Continues with Defense

Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys are expected to continue relying mostly on experts to mount their defense on Wednesday, the seventh day of the trial over her 2016 ski collision with a 76-year-old retired optometrist. The judge presiding over the trial in Park City has made it clear that he wants Paltrow’s…

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Sudan’s Wheat Import Requirements to Rise to 3.5 Mln Tons in 2023

Sudan will need to import 3.5 million tons of wheat this year because of a 30% drop in the projected local harvest after farmers switched to planting different crops, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. Some farmers told Reuters the government had failed to buy their…

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Disney Lays off Chairman of Marvel Entertainment

Walt Disney Co has laid off Marvel Entertainment Chairman Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter as part of a cost-cutting campaign, a source confirmed Wednesday. Perlmutter had supported activist shareholder Nelson Peltz's unsuccessful bid to obtain a seat on Disney's corporate board. The executive was informed Wednesday that Marvel Entertainment, a consumer products…

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Egypt to Raise Food Subsidies Spending by 20% in FY 2023/24 Draft Budget

Egypt expects to raise its allocation for food subsidies by 20% and for petroleum products by 24% in the 2023-24 fiscal year, according to a draft budget approved by the cabinet on Wednesday. The budget forecasts GDP growth at 4.1% and inflation at an average rate of 16% during the…

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Intel Says Power-Efficient Sierra Forest Chip Will Be Delivered in H1 2024

US chip giant Intel Corp said on Wednesday its first semiconductor for data center customers focused on power efficiency, Sierra Forest, would be delivered in the first half of next year, as it outlined a chip release schedule after prior delays. "It's been a challenging few years as we had…

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UN Atomic Watchdog Chief Pursues Ukraine Nuclear Plant Deal

The head of the UN’s atomic energy watchdog returned Wednesday to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, reportedly saying he is working on a plan to protect Europe’s largest nuclear power facility “more locally” amid the war in the surrounding area. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi crossed…

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Russia Stops Sharing Missile Test Info with US, Opens Drills

A senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday that Moscow will no longer inform the US about its missile tests, an announcement that came as the Russian military deployed mobile launchers in Siberia in a show of the country’s massive nuclear capability amid the fighting in Ukraine. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei…

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Britain’s Next Sees Lower Clothing Inflation, Shares Dip on Cautious Outlook

British fashion retailer Next (NXT.L) reported a better-than-expected 5.7% rise in annual profit on Wednesday and said it would not need to increase prices by as much as previously thought. However, it still expects higher spending on wages, energy and technology to reduce its profit this year, and the retailer's…

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Syria Port Authority Shuts All Ports Due to Bad Weather

Syria's port authority has shut down all the country's sea ports including Tartous due to poor weather and high winds, state media reported on Wednesday. The port of Tartous had initially been exempt from the closure but the country's ports authority later said it was shutting down as conditions worsened.…

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Some in Dry Somalia Break Ramadan Fast With Little but Water

This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in Somalia. As the sun sets and Muslims around the world gather to break their daily fasts with generous dinners, Hadiiq Abdulle Mohamed and her family have just water and whatever food might be at hand. Mohamed…

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Aramco JV HAPCO Breaks Ground on New Refinery and Petrochemical Complex

A ground-breaking ceremony took place on Wednesday for a major integrated refinery and petrochemical complex being developed by Huajin Aramco Petrochemical Company (HAPCO). The joint venture between Aramco (30%), NORINCO Group (51%) and Panjin Xincheng Industrial Group (19%) is developing the complex in the city of Panjin, in China’s Liaoning…

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Russia Says it Hopes Azerbaijan and Iran Resolve ‘Frictions’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that he hoped what he called "frictions" between Azerbaijan and Iran would soon be resolved. Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran, which has a large population of ethnic Azeris in its northwest, have been strained in recent months after Baku announced plans to…

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SALIC Supplies 1.2 Million Tons of Strategic Commodities in 2022

The Saudi Agricultural Investment and Livestock Production Company (SALIC), which is fully owned by the Public Investment Fund, announced on Tuesday that it has completed the supply of more than 1.2 million tons of strategic commodities in 2022. According to a statement, SALIC said it directly supplied 720,000 tons of…

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Saudi Arabia Ranks First in Arab World, 20th Globally, in Emissions Reduction

Two years after the launch of the Saudi Green Initiative, Saudi Arabia reached the top position among Arab countries and the twentieth globally, in carbon dioxide emissions reduction. In March 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the Saudi Arabia Green and Green Middle East initiatives, which he said will…

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Red Bull Look to Banish Australian Grand Prix Hex

Red Bull stand poised to shrug off their Australian Grand Prix hoodoo on Sunday and continue their domination of the Formula One world championship as rivals struggle for pace. Red Bull have not won at Albert Park since former driver Sebastian Vettel claimed the 2011 race but there may be…

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Belgium Have New Energy Says De Bruyne After World Cup Flop

Belgium captain Kevin De Bruyne says new players in the squad are injecting energy into the team after the failure of their "golden generation" to live up to their number one ranking over the last four years. Belgium began a new era over the last week with two impressive wins…

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Who Did It? Question Lingers in Murder Drama ‘The Night of the 12th’

Crime dramas usually end with the culprit being caught, but French film "La Nuit du 12" ("The Night of the 12th") looks instead at how an unsolved murder takes its toll on the police investigator trying to solve it. Inspired by a real-life case described in Pauline Guéna's book "18.3…

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Google Scores Partial Victory in Android Antitrust Case in India

An Indian tribunal on Wednesday gave partial relief to Alphabet Inc's Google by setting aside four of 10 antitrust directives in a case related to abuse of its dominant position in Android. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in October that Google had exploited its dominant position in Android…

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Lavrov, Abdollahian Discuss Opportunities to Revive Nuclear Pact

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will visit Moscow on Wednesday to hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on several issues, including faltering efforts to revive the nuclear agreement. Iranian media quoted the Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalali, as saying that Abdollahian will follow up on the implementation…

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UAE Plans to Double Re-Exports by 2030

The UAE approved 24 national initiatives seeking to double its re-export by 100 percent within the seven coming years through benefiting from the 50 commercial offices worldwide. The initiatives include the establishment of a national re-export committee, which mainly contributes to supporting an increase in re-export rates.

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Paris Trash Strike Ends, Smaller Pension Protest Turnout

Sanitation workers in Paris are set to return to work Wednesday amid heaps of trash that piled up over their weekslong strike as protests against French President Emmanuel Marcon's controversial pension bill appeared to be winding down. Trash mounds of up to 10,000 tons along the French capital’s streets —…

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SNHR: 10,024 Syrians Died in Feb. 6 Earthquake

The number of Syrians killed by the earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria on February 6, has now reached 10,024, including 4,191 in non-regime areas, and 394 in regime-held areas, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed in a report released Tuesday. The report also said the death toll…

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