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Indonesia will next week confirm it is hiking the value-added tax (VAT) rate to 12%, the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs said late on Tuesday, despite huge public pressure to delay the rise...

• December 03, 2024 06:25 AM PST
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Sudan's famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp has been struck by shelling from the Rapid Support Forces, volunteers and medical aid agency MSF said, as the paramilitary group seeks to tighten contr...

• December 03, 2024 06:19 AM PST
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen appears to be betting her future on ousting President Emmanuel Macron before his term ends in 2027, lawmakers and analysts say. To do so, she has helped trigger F...

• December 03, 2024 06:18 AM PST
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The Russian central bank is set to raise its benchmark interest rate by another 200 basis points to 23% at its Dec. 20 board meeting after the rouble's sharp fall in November, a Reuters poll showed on...

• December 03, 2024 06:17 AM PST
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When Mory Cisse dropped his 27-year-old brother off at a stadium in the southeastern Guinean city of Nzerekore to watch a soccer match after lunch on Sunday, he had no idea it would be the last time h...

• December 03, 2024 06:13 AM PST
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U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has awarded over $100 billion in grants created by its signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, a senior administration official said.

• December 03, 2024 06:08 AM PST
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A Swiss court on Tuesday rejected arguments made by Trafigura's lawyers to either throw out an ongoing corruption trial or to strike out a portion of evidence against the company provided by a key wit...

• December 03, 2024 06:05 AM PST
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BlackRock Inc (NYSE: BLK) announced plans of spending $12 billion on buying HPS Investment Partners to expand its footprint in private credit on Tuesday. The HPS acquisition will push alternative assets under its management to over $600 billion. Additionally, the world’s largest asset manager is considering a stake in Millenium Management as well. Shares of […]

• December 03, 2024 05:56 AM PST
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Dtcpay, a Singapore-licensed cryptocurrency payment platform, has announced that it will phase out support for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) by the end of 2024 and focus solely on fiat and stablecoin transactions starting in January 2025. This move reflects Dtcpay’s commitment to offering a more secure, predictable, and regulatory-compliant payment solution. Dtcpay to shift […]

• December 03, 2024 05:55 AM PST
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Major Gulf stock markets ended higher on Tuesday, fueled by rising oil prices, as investors bet on OPEC+ extending its production cuts at Thursday's meeting, although Qatar's index bucked the trend wi...

• December 03, 2024 05:51 AM PST
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