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World’s Top Oil Traders See Boom Years Fade

Ttnews.com 

The world’s top commodity merchants are grappling with a tougher environment for trading oil as seismic market events of the past few years start to lose their impact.

Algeria presidential candidate appeals election result

France24.com (en) 

Abdelaali Hassani, who heads the moderate Islamist party the Movement of Society for Peace, said the day before he had "lost the battle but not the war" and denounced the results as a "fraud". He was one of just two challengers to Tebboune in Saturday's election, the second being Youcef Aouchiche of the centre-left Socialist Forces Front (FFS), who is also expected to appeal. The North African country's electoral authority, ANIE, announced on Sunday that Tebboune had won "94.65 percent of the vote"... Читать дальше...

43 people banned by China's Football Association for match fixing

Business Standard 

China's Football Association has banned 43 people for life over allegations of match-fixing and other forms of corruption in the latest effort to weed out graft in the country's notoriously underperforming team sport. The official Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday reported that Zhang Xiaopeng, a top police official, attended a news conference at Dalian to release details of a "two-year investigation that uncovered a series of online gambling, match-fixing and bribery cases." Xinhua said 120 matches in domestic leagues... Читать дальше...

Walmart Foundation provides $2.78 mn grant to promote tech in agriculture

Business Standard 

Walmart Foundation has provided three new grants totalling USD 2.78 million to advance technological innovation in India's agriculture sector. With the Walmart Foundation funding, the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), Cornell University in support of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) and Precision Development (PxD) collectively aim to reach over 3,00,000 farmers in India, according to a statement. Walmart.org represents the philanthropic efforts of Walmart and the Walmart Foundation. Читать дальше...

ICC prosecutor seeks to confirm death of Hamas leader Deif

Cyprus Mail 

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are looking into the reported death of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif and will withdraw their case against him if they can confirm it, legal filings made public on Tuesday showed. Deif, 58, was believed to be one of the masterminds of the Oct. 7, 2023 assault on southern […]

Orange Spain launches electricity and gas service

Telecompaper.com 

(Telecompaper) Orange Spain has become the latest MasOrange brand launch an electricity and gas service that guarantees substantial energy savings to customers plus...

Beyoncé Says There’s No ‘Renaissance’ or ‘Cowboy Carter’ Music Videos So That Fans Can ‘Focus on the Voice’: ‘Sometimes a Visual Can Be a Distraction’

Variety 

Beyoncé said in an interview with GQ magazine that she purposefully did not release any music videos for songs off her last two albums, 2022’s “Renaissance” and 2024’s “Cowboy Carter,” because she wanted the focus to remain on her voice and the music itself. Fans urged the singer to “release the visuals” after she never […]

Court yet to decide on keeping Israeli in custody

Cyprus Mail 

A court will convene on Wednesday to decide whether Turkish-Israeli businessman Simon Aykut will be held until his trial or released on bail. Aykut, 73, is being tried for developing on over €43 million worth of Greek Cypriot land in the north through his company Duminka part of the Afik group. During a hearing on […]

Pictures show inmates walking free from HMP Durham as 1,700 released early TODAY - The Northern Echo

Top Stories (uk) - Google News (ru) 

  1. Pictures show inmates walking free from HMP Durham as 1,700 released early TODAY  The Northern Echo
  2. Killer released early from prison by Starmer  The Telegraph
  3. 'Absolutely sickening': Mum reacts to early release of son's killer  BBC
  4. Prisoners welcome early release - but some fear being sent straight back to jail  Sky News
  5. Police ‘left to deal with fallout’ of poorly planned early release of 1,700 prisoners  The Guardian

Orange leads 5G speeds in Poland during August

Telecompaper.com 

(Telecompaper) Orange Poland recorded the highest average 5G download speeds in Poland during the month of August, according to figures collected by RFBenchmark...

EU vows retaliation if Hungary sends buses of migrants to Brussels

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The European Union says Hungary’s threat to send a bus convoy of migrants to Brussels in protest against the bloc's policies is unacceptable and will be met with a retaliatory response should it go ahead. Hungary’s anti-immigrant government signaled last week that it's serious about giving migrants free one-way travel to Brussels. It wants to pressure the European Commission into dropping heavy fines imposed on the country over its restrictive asylum policies. In June, the EU's top court ordered... Читать дальше...