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Elon Musk threatens to 'abandon' Twitter deal over merger breach
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
California [United States], June 7 (ANI): Openly accusing Twitter of breaching the merger agreement, Elon Musk has threatened to walk away and call off the USD 44 billion acquisition of the social media company for not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts.
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UN warns of catastrophic hunger, G7 and Putin brawl, India tries to steps
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
California [US], June 6 (ANI): Food scarcity, including shortage of wheat a staple for nearly 2.5 billion people, has brought millions, particularly in Africa to the edge of starvation and malnutrition that could plague them for years.
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Pakistan: Shehbaz govt accuses Imran, wife Bushra, her friend of making bi
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has claimed that a troika of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi and her friend Farah Gogi made "billions" under the tenure of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government.
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Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency seeks arrest of PM Shehbaz, son in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) requested the court to allow the arrest of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son and Punjab province Chief minister Hamza Shehbaz in a Rs 16 billion money-laundering case.
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Russian lawmaker foresees benefit from EU oil embargo
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 4 (ANI): Amid surging energy prices, Russian lower house chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said on Saturday said Russia's economy may benefit from the EU oil embargo imposed as part of the sixth sanctions package, while the EU member countries are set to overpay about USD 268
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India's forex reserves rise above USD 600 billion mark again
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 4 (ANI): India's foreign exchange (forex) reserves for the week ended May 27 rose by USD 3.854 billion to USD 601.363 billion led by a sharp increase in the country's foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed.
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India-Senegal trade crossed USD 1.65 bln in 2021-22 despite COVID: Vice Pr
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Dakar [Senegal], June 4 (ANI): Highlighting the growth in trade and economic ties between India and Senegal, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said that the bilateral trade has crossed a record high of USD 1.65 billion in 2021-22.
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Sri Lanka President orders release of Rs 1.8 billion from COVID-19 fund fo
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 4 (ANI): Amid Sri Lanka's unprecedented economic crisis, its President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered the release of Rs 1.8 billion from COVID-19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund for the import of essential medicines.
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Sri Lanka targets USD 5 billion this year for repayments, says PM
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 3 (ANI): Sri Lanka's newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, during a meeting with representatives from the Joint Chambers on Thursday, explained that the Government was targeting USD 5 billion for repayments and USD 1 billion to bolster the country's r
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Ottawa signs landmark settlement with indigenous people
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], June 3 (ANI): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday (local time) signed one of the largest of its kind deals worth 1.3 billion Canadian dollars to settle a Blackfoot tribe's century-old land claim.
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India's exports rise 15.46 per cent to $37.3 billion in May
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): India's merchandise export rose by 15.46 per cent to USD 37.3 billion in May 2022 as compared to $32.30 billion in the same month last year, the government data showed on Thursday.
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Chinese banks to refinance Pakistan with USD 2.3 billion funding
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): China on Thursday agreed to refinance Pakistan with USD 2.3 billion worth of funds amid the dwindling foreign exchange reserves of the country.
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