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India and China reach six-point consensus to address border issues in key Beijing meet

India-China talks: China and India reached a six-point consensus to address border issues during crucial talks between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday. The two sides reaffirmed their commitment to continue seeking a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable package solution to the boundary issue in accordance with the political guidelines agreed upon …

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6 days, 19 hours ago

Senate supports Cabinet's tax plan, left-wing parties concerned about VAT increase

NL Times

The Senate has agreed with the tax plan for next year. Although the Cabinet has promised to develop alternatives, the VAT increase for 2026 is still in the tax plan. The promise made by the Minister of Finance, Eelco Heinen, to look for alternatives to increasing the VAT was sufficient for D66, and the Christian parties of CDA, SGP, and …

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Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $650 million to resolve US criminal opioid probe

CNN

McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $650 million to resolve a US Department of Justice investigation into the consulting firm’s work advising opioid manufacturer OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma on how to boost sales. “We are deeply sorry for our past client service to Purdue Pharma and the actions of a former partner who deleted documents related to his work …

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1 week, 3 days ago

McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $650 million for helping Purdue Pharma boost opioid sales

India Today

WASHINGTON: McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work to help opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost the sales of the highly addictive drug OxyContin, according to court papers filed in Virginia on Friday. “This terrible public health crisis and our past work for opioid manufacturers will always be a …

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1 week, 3 days ago

McKinsey to pay $650m to settle US opioid consulting probe

Al Jazeera

Prosecutors say McKinsey provided Purdue advice on measures it could take to ‘turbocharge’ OxyContin sales. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company has agreed to pay $650m to resolve a United States Department of Justice investigation into the consulting firm’s work advising opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma on how to boost OxyContin sales. “We are deeply sorry for our past client service to …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Deal to solve housing shortage includes entire districts of moveable, prefab homes

NL Times

One of the plans agreed to at the Housing Summit in Nieuwegein is to build seven “flexible districts” - residential areas consisting entirely of moveable, prefabricated homes, RTL Nieuws reports. All sides agree that construction needs to ramp up rapidly in the coming years, and in more municipalities, to hit the government's target of 100,000 new homes annually, the Cabinet …

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2 weeks ago

Australia and Nauru strike landmark deal

ABC

Samantha Donovan: Australia and Nauru have struck a landmark deal, which will see Canberra funnel about $140 million in budget and security support to the Pacific Island nation. So, that's money for things like assistance in policing, helping Nauru to set up a new national security advisor position and to bolster its security more broadly. Both Australia and Nauru have …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Sale of UK’s Observer, world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values, is agreed

Associated Press

LONDON — The sale of the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values in Britain’s media landscape, was approved Friday despite two days of strike action from journalists this week. The Scott Trust, the owner of the Guardian Media Group, which includes the Observer and its sister paper the Guardian, said the sale to Tortoise …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Bride’s family takes groom hostage in UP: ‘Pay us for wedding preparations, then leave’ — Here’s what happened

Live Mint

A wedding in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, took a bizzare twist as the family of the bride took the groom hostage alleging that he is committed in a relationship with another woman and demanded that his family compensates for the wedding expenses. When police managed to contact the groom, he agreed to get married and reached the bride's home with the …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

India-China ties abnormal since 2020, but is now improving: Jaishankar in Rajya Sabha

India TV News

External Affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that the India-China relations which hit a rock bottom after the 2020 Galwan Valley dispute have been improving due to continuous 'diplomatic talks' Jaishankar said, "The House is well aware of the circumstances leading to the violent clashes in Galwan Valley in June 2020. While a determined counter-deployment …

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3 weeks ago

China, Central Asian nations to bolster solidarity

China Daily

China and the five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan agreed to further enhance cooperation in all aspects as their foreign ministers met on Sunday in Chengdu, Sichuan province, to make preparations for the second China-Central Asia Summit. Briefing the media on the points of common understanding reached at the foreign ministers' meeting, Wang said that …

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3 weeks ago

China, Central Asian nations to bolster solidarity

China Daily

By WANG QINGYUN | China Daily | Updated: 2024-12-02 10:19 China and the five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan agreed to further enhance cooperation in all aspects as their foreign ministers met on Sunday in Chengdu, Sichuan province, to make preparations for the second China-Central Asia Summit. Briefing the media on the points of common …

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3 weeks ago

China, Central Asian nations to bolster solidarity

China Daily

China and the five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan agreed to further enhance cooperation in all aspects as their foreign ministers met on Sunday in Chengdu, Sichuan province, to make preparations for the second China-Central Asia Summit. Briefing the media on the points of common understanding reached at the foreign ministers' meeting, Wang said that …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

A husband agreed to give his wife their $14million home but she wanted more from the divorce and took him to court... now she's very much regretting it

Daily Mail

A Sydney woman's bid to more than double her assets to $31million in her divorce case has backfired spectacularly, as she must now pay more than $1.4million to her husband. Had the wife's appeal been successful she could have walked away with about $31million in assets The court also heard that he owed about $2million in taxes from one year …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

External Affairs Ministry reaffirms India's position on border truce with China

India Today

The government said on Friday that India and China have implemented an agreement on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control in the Depsang and Demchok areas as per the agreed modalities and timelines. Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh told the Lok Sabha that the terms of previous disengagement agreements remained in effect in relevant areas …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

'Wonderful': Trump boasts Mexico agreed to stop 'illegal invasion' at southern border

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump boasted Wednesday that Mexico has agreed to help him with a key campaign pledge — closing the U.S.-Mexico border — following his threats to levy a significant tariff on the country. "She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border." In a separate follow-up post, he repeated that …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal agreed by both sides, says U.S. President Biden

The Hindu

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect at 2.00 a.m. on Wednesday after U.S. President Joe Biden said both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the United States and France. He said he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and that fighting would end at 4 a.m. local time. “What …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Israel has agreed to a truce in Lebanon with Hezbollah. Here’s what that means

CNN

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a weekly look inside the region’s biggest stories. The US and France will work with both sides to “ensure this arrangement is fully implemented and enforced.” After Israel’s security cabinet voted to approve the deal on Tuesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the Lebanon …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Topa, Stewart, McKenzie, Sulser reach deals ahead of tender deadline

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Minnesota pitchers Justin Topa and Brock Stewart agreed to one-year contracts ahead of Friday’s tender deadline along with fellow right-hander Triston McKenzie of Cleveland and Cole Sulser of Tampa Bay. Teams and players are to exchange proposed arbitration salaries on Jan. 9, 2025, and those who don’t reach agreements will be scheduled for hearings from Jan. 27 …

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Pitcher Yusei Kikuchi and Los Angeles Angels agree to a $63 million, 3-year contract, AP source says

Associated Press

Left-hander Yusei Kikuchi and the Los Angeles Angels have agreed to a $63 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The 33-year-old Kikuchi gets $21 million annually during the contract, which raises his Major League Baseball earnings to $142 million over nine seasons. An All-Star with Seattle in 2021, Kikuchi was 9-10 with a …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Warring tribes in northwest Pakistan agree to a cease-fire after bloodshed

Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Shiite and Sunni Muslim tribes in Pakistan’s northwest have agreed to a cease-fire, a government spokesman said Sunday, days after 42 Shiites were killed in an ambush. The attack on the convoy last Thursday in Kurram district triggered retaliatory attacks and rampages that killed dozens more people from both communities. A spokesperson for the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Climate organizations disappointed by “small” sum agreed at climate summit in Baku

NL Times

Nature and environmental organizations are deeply disappointed with the new amount of 300 billion dollars for climate support, agreed at the climate summit in Baku. Developing countries and climate experts wanted that amount to be considerably higher and Greenpeace therefore calls it "an absolute minimum agreement". Jasper Inventor, Head of COP29 Greenpeace Delegation said that the agreed climate finance goal …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

COP29 Baku: UN rules facilitating carbon trading between nations agreed upon

India Today

New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries to buy carbon-cutting "offsets" from developing nations were agreed at UN climate talks on Saturday, in a move already raising fears they will be used to greenwash climate targets. Supporters say a UN-backed framework for carbon trading could direct investment to developing nations where many credits are generated. Carbon credits are generated by activities …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Here’s what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks

Associated Press

BAKU, Azerbaijan — In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. World Resources Institute president and CEO Ani Dasgupta called it “an important down payment toward a safer, more equitable …

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India and China reach six-point consensus to address border issues in key Beijing meet

Senate supports Cabinet's tax plan, left-wing parties concerned about VAT increase

Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $650 million to resolve US criminal opioid probe

McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $650 million for helping Purdue Pharma boost opioid sales

McKinsey to pay $650m to settle US opioid consulting probe

Deal to solve housing shortage includes entire districts of moveable, prefab homes

Australia and Nauru strike landmark deal

Sale of UK’s Observer, world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values, is agreed

Bride’s family takes groom hostage in UP: ‘Pay us for wedding preparations, then leave’ — Here’s what happened

India-China ties abnormal since 2020, but is now improving: Jaishankar in Rajya Sabha

China, Central Asian nations to bolster solidarity

China, Central Asian nations to bolster solidarity

China, Central Asian nations to bolster solidarity

A husband agreed to give his wife their $14million home but she wanted more from the divorce and took him to court... now she's very much regretting it

External Affairs Ministry reaffirms India's position on border truce with China

'Wonderful': Trump boasts Mexico agreed to stop 'illegal invasion' at southern border

Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal agreed by both sides, says U.S. President Biden

Israel has agreed to a truce in Lebanon with Hezbollah. Here’s what that means

Topa, Stewart, McKenzie, Sulser reach deals ahead of tender deadline

Pitcher Yusei Kikuchi and Los Angeles Angels agree to a $63 million, 3-year contract, AP source says

Warring tribes in northwest Pakistan agree to a cease-fire after bloodshed

Climate organizations disappointed by “small” sum agreed at climate summit in Baku

COP29 Baku: UN rules facilitating carbon trading between nations agreed upon

Here’s what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks