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Details of draft Israel-Gaza ceasefire emergeThe US president, Joe Biden, says Israel has agreed to stop its military activities in Gaza for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as Hamas studies a draft proposal for a truce.Reuters reports that a senior source close to the talks in Paris says the draft includes a Palestinian prisoner-Israeli hostage exchange at a ratio of 10 to one.The draft also reportedly states Hamas would free 40 Israeli hostages including women, children under 19, elderly over 50 and the sick, while Israel would release about 400 Palestinian prisoners and will not re-arrest them, the source told Reuters.The draft proposal would also allow hospitals and bakeries in Gaza to be repaired and 500 aid trucks to enter the battered enclave every day, says Reuters.Ramadan is e...

The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, January 19, 2024. Staff | ReutersOver the last 12 months, just 11 stocks made up half of the gains that powered the pan-European Stoxx 600 stock index to a record-high close on Friday.Earlier this month, Goldman Sachs highlighted that Europe's stock markets were dominated by this group of "internationally exposed quality growth compounders" with the continent's largest market caps, which the bank termed the GRANOLAS back in 2020.The momentum of this group — which comprises GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestle, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L'Oreal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP and Sanofi — has drawn comparisons to the "Magnificent Seven" U.S. tech giants and evoked similar concerns about concentration risks in Europ...

"Sáquenle las redes, ya no es tuitero ni panelista (tertuliano)", pidió la diputada provincial de derechas y exmodelo, Amalia Granata. La adicción del presidente argentino Javier Milei a la red X provoca estupor en propios y extraños. El ultraderechista vive parte de sus días en el espacio virtual, es su segunda naturaleza y confía en que ese predominio que exhibe frente a los otros políticos analógicos le permita mantener las riendas de un país con un 57,4% de pobres, una inflación acumulada en sus dos primeros meses de gestión cercana al 50% y numerosos frentes de tormenta abiertos al mismo tiempo: la calle, el Congreso, la relación tormentosa con las provincias y, también, el Brasil de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.La incontinencia de Milei se mide en números. Unos 2,5 millones de person...

Israel y Hamás podrían iniciar el lunes próximo una tregua que se extendería durante el mes del Ramadán, ha revelado el presidente estadounidense, Joe Biden, quien planteó la posibilidad de un acuerdo que incluiría la liberación de decenas de rehenes en la Franja de Gaza.El proyecto de acuerdo ha sido mediado por Egipto, Catar, Estados Unidos, Francia y otros, que buscan un alto el fuego de seis semanas y la liberación de rehenes israelíes retenidos en Gaza desde los ataques de Hamás del 7 de octubre, que desataron la guerra. Dicho pacto podría incluir la liberación de cientos de palestinos detenidos en cárceles israelíes, según medios de prensa."Mi esperanza es que tengamos un alto el fuego para el próximo lunes", dijo Biden a periodistas durante un viaje a Nueva York, al ser consultad...

Bill Winters, Chief Executive Officer at the Standard Chartered Bank, attends a panel session of the World Governments Summit in Dubai on February 12, 2024.Ryan Lim | Afp | Getty ImagesStandard Chartered chief executive Bill Winters says environmentally conscious investing can be good for business, dismissing the impact of a U.S. crusade against mission-driven investments.His comments come at a time when investments based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have become a politically polarized issue.In the United States, for example, Republican lawmakers have decried ESG as a form "woke capitalism" that seeks to prioritize liberal goals over investment returns.Democratic lawmakers have sought to push back, however, describing attacks on a range of ethically responsible ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Jan. 20, 2023: A banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces.OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty ImagesRussia's military intelligence service is offering African governments a "regime survival package" that provides military and diplomatic support in exchange for access to strategically important natural resources, according to a new report.The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world's oldest defense and security think tank, detailed how the rebranded Wagner Group in Africa is working to consolidate and expand Moscow's strategic relationships across the continent, through guarantees of regime secur...

The former Canberra scientist Dr Weliton Menário Costa said it “felt like winning Eurovision” when he learned he had won the global “Dance Your PhD” competition, for his quirky interpretive take on kangaroo behaviour.His four-minute video titled Kangaroo Time features drag queens, twerking, ballerinas, a classical Indian dancer, and a bunch of friends Costa acquired from his time studying at the Australian National University.The video collected the top prize awarded annually by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science magazine, and San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company Primer.ai.The competition encourages scientists to explain complex research to the wider public through dance, music and humour, and attracts dozens of entries from around the world ...

Este martes se celebran primarias en Michigan y hay escasas dudas de que tanto Joe Biden en el campo demócrata como Donald Trump en el republicano saldrán ganadores de la cita. La elección, no obstante, es un reflejo de problemas y retos que afectan a los dos favoritos a reeditar el duelo por la presidencia de Estados Unidos el 5 de noviembre. Y la prueba es especialmente significativa y problemática para el actual ocupante del Despacho Oval, cuya política de apoyo inquebrantable a Israel en su guerra abierta en Gaza está provocando un rechazo que amenaza con pasarle factura en noviembre.Michigan es, con 200.000 votantes árabe-estadounidenses, el estado donde el voto de ese electorado es más determinante. Es además un estado bisagra fundamental, uno que Biden se llevó en 2020 por 154.00...