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India's attempt to use the rupee for crude oil imports faces resistance from suppliers due to concerns about fund repatriation and high transaction costs. The default payment currency remains the US dollar.
These first 18 F-16s—out of 42 the Dutch air force could make available in the coming year or so—have been “improved,” said Yuriy Ignat, a Ukrainian spokesperson.
The young man, along with others, tried to take packages in West Rafah before he was shot dead by a Hamas policeman who had trouble dealing with the crowd; his family, a famous clan in Rafah, threatened to take revenge on the policeman and burned tires outside the police station
The region in question - a 62,000 square-mile area around the Essequibo river - has been in dispute since the late 19th century.
The move to the Western calendar is seen as a further shift away from Moscow's influence.
"If we allow Putin to win this war by dragging it out, and he somehow wins it by exhausting everybody else, then we will suffer the consequences. And the consequences would be incredibly severe for Europe, for Britain, for the world," Shapps said.
When families of Israeli hostages trapped by Hamas approached TikTok to run ads calling for their release, the company refused, citing 'overly graphic and political content', yet had no issues running ads displaying Palestinian children suffering in Gaza
Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, has reported that the Russians had reduced the number of air strikes after losing three of their Su-34 strike fighters in Ukraine’s south.
European intelligence suggests that Russia may launch an attack on Europe during the winter of 2024-2025 if the United States finds itself "without a leader" following the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the German tabloid Bild reported on Dec. 23, citing an anonymous European intelligence source.
MOSCOW: Russia was short of around 4.8 million workers in 2023 and the problem will remain acute in 2024, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Sunday (Dec 24), citing experts and research from the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of Economics. Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said last month tha
Leaders of China’s Christian groups should ‘adhere to the direction of sinicisation of Christianity’, core values of socialism and traditional Chinese culture, Wang Huning says.
Thousands attended a rally at Habima Square in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest against the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The volume of trade between Russia and India will reach a record high this year.
A Japanese-owned commercial tanker was attacked by a drone launched from Iran in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, causing a fire but leaving no one injured, the U.S. Department of Defense says.
West Bank officer slams terror group for 'ruining the nation'; operatives of Hamas ally Islamic Jihad track him down, shoot him in the leg and post video of him writhing in pain online; Fatah calls for their head
Dozens of mortar shells, hundreds of grenades and intelligence materials also located in compound, situated near schools, a mosque and a medical clinic
One of the Kremlin's soldiers can be seen snagging his clothing while trying to dismount from an APC before being unceremoniously dragged along the road.