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Last Updated:November 16, 2025, 17:48 IST The Russian Ministry of Defence announced via Telegram that its soldiers had captured Rivnopillia and Mala Tokmachka, located in the Zaporizhzhia region Destroyed buildings in the frontline town of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region. (AFP photo) Russia on Sunday claimed to have captured two villages in southern Ukraine, as its forces…
BEIJING Chinese tech giant Alibaba has denied helping Beijing target the United States, saying that a recent media report was “completely false.” The Financial Times reported on Nov. 15 that Alibaba “provides tech support for Chinese military ‘operations’ against [US] targets,” according to a White House memo provided to the newspaper. The memo claimed that Alibaba hands customer…
If you were born in 1955, congratulations! You are the same age as Kris Jenner, Bill Gates and Whoopi Goldberg! You are also eligible to collect the maximum Social Security benefit, if you waited this long to claim it. If your taxable wages in your last year of work were above the social security wage…
By lifting its arms embargo on Cambodia, Washington has signalled that President Donald Trump aims to lure Phnom Penh away from Beijing – a move experts warn would be difficult to achieve. According to a notice from the US Federal Register, the State Department formally ended its arms embargo on Cambodia as of November 7,…
An Ohio man weighing how to spend a sizable bonus is getting a blunt piece of financial advice from Dave Ramsey: Stop the “stupidity” and pay off student loans first. The caller to The Ramsey Show said he expects a $60,000 gross bonus (approximately $40,000 after taxes), and he and his wife currently hold around…
(Bloomberg) — Chinese investors hunting for the next artificial intelligence winners are looking beyond high-flying chipmakers to the utilities and metal producers that form the industry’s physical backbone. The shift toward the sector’s supply chain — from power generators to materials used in data centers — reflects growing concern over lofty valuations in pure-play AI…
Entity called Al-Majd Europe taking families on buses out of Gaza to Israel’s Ramon Airport – and then to unknown destinations. A Palestinian man who says he left Gaza through a shadowy organisation that has landed 153 people in South Africa without documentation describes the process set up to encourage more Palestinians to leave the…
HONG KONG — Alice Zhang, a 29-year-old marketer in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, spent only roughly half what she did last year during the “Singles’ Day” online shopping festival, switching to cheaper choices and giving up on buying new shoes after pay was cut by more than 20%. Source link
President Trump’s informal proposal to redirect tariff revenue into payouts for American taxpayers would provide short-term benefits but pave the way for numerous long-term problems. In less than seven weeks, when the stock market crosses the finish line for 2025, we’re likely to look back on another phenomenal year for Wall Street. The widely followed…
Germany’s business leaders have seen the flashing red warning signs that relying on China is risking economic calamity. They’re just not heeding them. From autos to chemicals, the country’s biggest exporters are ignoring government pleas and pouring billions into new projects that tie their fortunes even closer to the world’s second-largest economy. German corporate investment…