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Russia offers African leaders no-strings-attached business and protection from Western pressure

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Heads of African countries have flocked to Russia for a first of its kind summit, where Moscow will be offering business ties and security arrangements alternative to ‘colonial-style’ relations with the West. Over the past decade, the African continent has become a battleground for geostrategic competition involving China, the US, and the EU, which compete Read More

S&P 500, Dow gain on upbeat earnings reports; Facebook pressures Nasdaq

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(Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes rose on Tuesday, as upbeat earnings reports eased concerns over the fallout from the fragile U.S.-China trade relationship, but Facebook pressured Nasdaq after the company was hit with an expanded New York-led probe. A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Read More

Losing majority with hysterical dignity? Trudeau’s ‘victory speech’ turns into scandal, as he jumps on stage interrupting rival

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The series of campaigning cycle scandals in Canada spilled over into election night when Justin Trudeau took to the stage to deliver his victory speech while his main rival Andrew Scheer was still addressing his supporters. The Liberals managed to retain in power in a narrow election win getting 157 seats of 338, according to Read More

Indian PM Modi is winning his biggest war, and it’s not against Pakistan

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has engaged in his country’s most significant war – the war against extreme poverty. Based on personal experience, he has transformed India on several parameters beyond belief. Modi, who could well win a popular five-year mandate for the third time in 2024, would by then be within touching distance of Read More

India set to eclipse US with global economic growth share by 2024

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India is expected to become a much bigger driver of global growth than the world’s current largest economy, the US, in just five years, according to Bloomberg calculations based on International Monetary Fund (IMF) data. The global economic watchdog warned about the risks of the slowdown that the world is currently facing as it downgraded Read More

Fallout from Trump’s trade wars felt by economies around the world

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The collateral damage of the United States’ trade wars is being felt from the fjords of Iceland to the auto factories of Japan. FILE PHOTO: Newly manufactured cars of the automobile maker Honda await export at port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo June 23, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Central bank governors and Read More

Reps. Biggs and Gaetz: Trump fulfilling campaign pledge and saving US lives by pulling military out of Syria

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When Donald Trump was running for president, he campaigned on ending endless wars and bringing members of the American military home. Last week he ordered the few special operations forces on the Syria-Turkey border to withdraw and has drawn heavily criticism from the Washington bubble for “abandoning our allies” – the Kurds. A Republican leader Read More

Morning News Call – India, October 18

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To access a PDF version of this newsletter, please click here here If you would like to receive this newsletter via email, please register at: here INDIA TOP NEWS • Indian court jails former MD of PMC Bank as fraud probe deepens An Indian court on Thursday sent the former managing director of Punjab and Read More

Wall Street rises on earnings, geopolitical encouragement

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FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., September 12, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Reuters) – Wall Street advanced on Thursday as investor sentiment was buoyed by a string of corporate earnings beats and encouraging geopolitical developments. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 25.13 points, Read More

Germany won’t deliver any weapons to Turkey – Merkel

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Germany will not deliver any weapons to Turkey under current circumstances, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. She added that she had urged Turkey several times to end its military operation in northern Syria, Reuters reports. “In recent days I have strongly urged Turkey… to end its military operation against the Kurdish military and I’m Read More

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One of Russia’s top banks suggests expanding non-dollar settlements with African countries

The head of Russia’s VTB Bank Andrey Kostin said the expansion of non-dollar payments between Russia and the countries of Africa will help to reduce the risks for the financial systems of those countries. “Unfortunately, we are living in an era of such geopolitics that we have real risks to the fina [...]

Turks appeased, Kurds saved, US gets breathing space: ‘Russia takes on job that US failed at’ in Syria

A Russian-Turkish deal on security arrangements in northeastern Syria is a major win for Moscow’s diplomatic approach, but Washington was hardly crushed by it, Middle East experts tell RT. On Tuesday the security crisis in northeastern Syria, which was triggered by US President Donald Trump’s decisi [...]

NYT’s former information security director speaks out after sudden termination

It appears that The New York Times has let go of its senior director of information security and that staffer is speaking out about the paper’s decision. Runa Sandvik began with the Times in 2016. As the paper described in a profile about its then-employee, the Norwegian-born tech expert was hired t [...]

Google claims ‘quantum supremacy’; others say hold on a qubit

BERLIN (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) said on Wednesday it had achieved a breakthrough in computer research, by solving a complex problem in minutes with a so-called quantum computer that would take today’s most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack. FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo [...]

Boeing profit slumps 53% as MAX grounding takes heavy toll

(Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) cut production of its flagship Dreamliner and delayed the arrival of a successor to its 777 mini-jumbo on Wednesday, piling new pressures on a rejigged senior management team as the continued safety grounding of its 737 MAX sliced third quarter profits. FILE PHOTO: Aeria [...]

Wall Street eyes subdued open as Caterpillar, Texas Instruments disappoint

(Reuters) – Wall Street headed for a flat open on Wednesday, after earnings from industrial bellwether Caterpillar and chip major Texas Instruments kept investors on edge over the fallout from the U.S.-China trade war. A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U. [...]

Freeport posts quarterly loss as copper production falls

Oct 23 (Reuters) – Freeport McMoRan Inc reported a third-quarter loss on Wednesday as copper production was hit by lower output at its Peru mine and its move to underground mining at its giant Grasberg mine in Indonesia. The company reported a net loss of $131 million, or 9 cents per share, compared [...]

UPDATE 1-Veoneer cuts sales forecast, remains downbeat on auto industry

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish auto technology group Veoneer (VNE.N) (VNEsdb.ST) cut its full-year sales forecast on Wednesday and remained downbeat about global car production, but a smaller-than-expected third-quarter operating loss supported the company’s shares. FILE PHOTO: Jan Carlson, CEO of Ve [...]

UPDATE 2-Boeing profit slumps 53% as MAX grounding takes heavy toll

(Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) cut production of its flagship Dreamliner and delayed the arrival of a successor to its 777 mini-jumbo, piling new pressures on a rejigged senior management team as the continued safety grounding of its 737 MAX sliced third quarter profits. FILE PHOTO: Aerial photos show [...]

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HR SaaS firm e-days appoints former Fairsail CEO as board advisor to accelerate global growth

Nottingham, London, UK. 22nd October 2019. e-days, the Nottingham-based global absence management platform, has appointed former Fairsail CEO Adam Hale as a strategic advisor to the board, following recent rapid business growth. Hale is advisor to the ScaleUp Group, chairman of employee experience c [...]

Appogee HR grow their integration portfolio with LinkedIn Talent Hub

Appogee HR have today announced their new integration with LinkedIn’s applicant tracking system (ATS), LinkedIn Talent Hub, allowing for an all-in-one solution for candidate tracking throughout the hiring process, transferring seamlessly through to employment. Appogee HR are a leading HR Management [...]

Transforming the Talent Experience at Cornerstone Convergence EMEA 2019

More than 30 Cornerstone clients will present over the two-day conference, including Henkel, Novartis, Schneider Electric and Volvo Group London – 22 October 2019 – Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSOD), a global leader in cloud-based learning, talent management and emerging talent experience so [...]

GasLog Ltd. Announces Date for Third-Quarter 2019 Results, Conference Call and Webcast

Monaco, Oct. 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GasLog Ltd. (“GasLog”) (NYSE: GLOG) today announced that it will release its financial results for the third quarter of 2019 before the market opens on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. GasLog will host a conference call to discuss its results for the third quarte [...]

Sky Solar Holdings, Ltd. Announces ADS Ratio Change

HONG KONG, Oct. 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sky Solar Holdings, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SKYS) (“Sky Solar” or the “Company”), a global developer, owner and operator of solar parks, today announced that it will change its American Depositary Share (“ADS”) to its ordinary share (“Ordinary Share”) ratio from one [...]

TGS: Q3 2019 Presentation and Webcast

ASKER, NORWAY(23 October 2019) TGS will release its Q3 2019 results at approximately 07:00 CEST on 30 October 2019. CEO, Kristian Johansen and CFO, Dean Zuzic will present the results at 09:00 CEST at the Felix Conference Center, Aker Brygge, Oslo, Norway. The presentation is open to the public and [...]

Apple iPhone scam lands former college student in federal prison: reports

A former Oregon college student was sentenced Monday to three years and one month in federal prison for his role in a massive Apple iPhone tracking scam, according to reports. Quan Jiang, a Chinese national and former engineering student at a community college in Albany, Ore., pleaded guilty earlier [...]

Suspected Russian hackers disguised as Iranian spies attacked more than 35 countries, security officials say

A suspected Russian hacking group disguised as Iranian spies attacked more than 35 countries, U.S. and U.K. security officials said Monday. The group Turla, also known as Waterbug and VENOMOUS BEAR, used a variety of Iranian tools and infrastructure to hack into “government, military, technology, en [...]

Toyota’s luxury Lexus brand plans battery EV launch in 2020

FILE PHOTO: Toyota Motor Corp’s Lexus brand logo is displayed at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show in Tokyo, Japan, November 2, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor’s (7203.T) Lexus will launch its first all-battery electric vehicle next year, as the luxury brand races to market a battery [...]

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Baby born weighing less than 1 pound goes home from NICU nearly 5 months later

One of the smallest babies born in the state of Arizona finally went home from the hospital on Monday, nearly five months after she made her early debut. Kallie Bender, who was born at 25 weeks gestation, weighed just 13 ounces at birth, and was facing a heart defect, Fox 10 Phoenix reported. “The s [...]

After miscarriages, woman discovers condition was giving her uterus ‘an acid bath’

A 22-year-old British woman who suffered two miscarriages and a failed round of IVF learned a condition was preventing her from becoming a mom by essentially giving her uterus an “acid bath,” she claims. Callie Hayes, of Kent, told South West News Service (SWNS), a British news agency, that she was [...]

Woman diagnosed with breast cancer after museum thermal camera reveals hot spot

A visit to a popular tourist spot in Edinburgh, Scotland, was life-saving for one English woman after a thermal imaging display revealed a spot in her breast later diagnosed as cancer. Bal Gill, 41, visited Camera Obscura & World of Illusions in May and has since had two surgeries to get rid of [...]

Chevron aims to cut intensity of greenhouse gas emissions from production

(Reuters) – Chevron Corp (CVX.N) aims to reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions from its oil production by 5% to 10% over a seven-year period ending 2023 as part of an ongoing effort to combat global climate change, the U.S. energy major said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A Chevron gas station [...]

Trump administration likely to announce details of biofuels deal by Friday: sources

(Reuters) – The Trump administration is expected to announce by Friday details of a U.S. biofuels policy deal to help farmers angry over waivers granted to refiners exempting them from using corn-based ethanol and other biofuels, four sources familiar with the matter said. The White House has held w [...]

Scientists find toxic fungus near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Poison Fire Coral fungus is seen in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, in this undated picture obtained from social media. RAY PALMER /via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A highly poisonous fungus, with toxins that c [...]

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