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In a post on Truth Social Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on the BRICS geopolitical coalition of non-Western countries if the group moves away from trading using the U.S. dollar. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump wrote. Still, some members of BRICS are among the United States’ largest trading partners, including India and China. Representatives for the BRICS countries’ embassies in the U.S. did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Sheinbaum and Trump spoke over the phone on Wednesday, but the conversation spurred a “he said, she said” controversy over whether Sheinbaum had agreed to stop immigration from Mexico into the United States, something Trump alleged she did.

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☆ British Airways' new first-class is a major upgrade and shows airlines' luxury arms race is heating up
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Since the pandemic, premium cabins have been more profitable as travelers appear to be more willing to pay extra for luxury. Related storiesA new first-classComing in 2026, British Airways' new first class has a large wall featuring the airline's logo. AdvertisementEmirates and British Airways' first-class suites. BA isn't the only airline to recently unveil first-class seats that take on-board luxury to a new level. Among the flurry of new first-classes, British Airways is unique in upgrading those on its Airbus A380s.

Persons: Ed Bastian, Concorde —, Pete Syme, Badr Mohammed Al Meer, Calum Laming Organizations: British Airways, Lufthansa, Qantas, UK, Airbus, Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Consumers, Concorde, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Lufthansa Australia's Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Swiss International Airlines, CNBC Locations: United, Sydney, London, Air France, Air India, Cathay Pacific, Emirates

☆ Trump is now threatening 100% tariffs on the BRICS group — which comprises 9 emerging market countries
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at the BRICS group of emerging market countries, threatening to impose 100% tariffs if they try to "move away" from the US dollar. "The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER," he wrote. AdvertisementDuring an October summit of the BRICS nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of "weaponizing" the dollar. Trump pressed the three countries on the flow of drugs and illegal migrants coming into the United States. Trudeau's office said in a statement that the prime minister and Trump "shared a productive wide-ranging discussion."

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☆ Trump threatens 100% tariff on the BRIC bloc of nations if they act to undermine U.S. dollar
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday threatened 100% tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar. At a summit of BRIC nations in October, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of "weaponizing" the dollar and described it as a "big mistake." Trump said there is "no chance" BRIC will replace the U.S. dollar in global trade and any country that tries to make that happen "should wave goodbye to America." Research shows that the U.S. dollar's role as the primary global reserve currency is not threatened in the near future. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after meeting Trump, without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on Canada.

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☆ What’s happening in Syria? A simple guide
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The offensive is the first time opposition forces have seized territory in Aleppo since 2016, shattering the stalemate of a war that never formally ended. Extremist Islamists including al Qaeda took an interest in Syria, taking up a common cause with the moderate Syrian opposition who did not welcome jihadist involvement. Analysts told CNN that the Syrian rebels are using a vacuum left by the group to advance in Syria. The new grouping is made up of a broad spectrum of opposition forces, from Islamist factions to moderates. The backbone of the SDF are Kurdish fighters from a group known as the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), which has previously fought other Syrian opposition groups.

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☆ Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they pursue creating new currency
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( Kaanita Iyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —President-elect Donald Trump said he would require countries that are part of BRICS — a China- and Russia-backed group of emerging economies — to commit to not creating new currency or face 100% tariffs during his administration. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. BRICS had been made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa since 2011. The leader of one member country, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in 2023 proposed creating a common currency in South America to reduce reliance on the US dollar. Using BRICS currencies and banking networks outside the US dollar-denominated system could allow member countries such as Russia, China and Iran to circumnavigate Western sanctions.

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☆ This greenhouse keeps crops cool. It could prove valuable as our planet bakes
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-28 | by ( Tom Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —In a world where the climate is increasingly hot and volatile, farmers are having trouble keeping their crops cool. A startup founded in the desert of Saudi Arabia thinks it might have a solution. Heat peaks can desiccate crops, killing them outright if unmitigated, or stressing crops, leaving them more vulnerable to pests and disease. A prototype farm in Bada, Saudi Arabia, uses SecondSky in polyethylene greenhouse covers manufactured by SABIC. Desertification is a pressing issue and will be the focus of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification’s COP16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December, as leaders seek to curtail an accelerating problem.

Persons: Derya Baran, John Keppler, ”, Mark Tester, Ryan Lefers, Iyris, Keppler, Armando Alvarez, Vincent Martin, SecondSky, Martin Organizations: CNN, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, United Arab, Innovation, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, National Food Production Initiative, Sea, SABIC, Sea Global, UN Convention, United Nations Locations: Saudi Arabia, Iyris, KAUST, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Latin America, Mexico, Europe, South Africa, Morocco, Spain, Bada, Bada , Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

☆ CNBC's Inside India newsletter: The causes and costs of India's brain drain
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-28 | by ( Amala Balakrishner | In Amala-Balakrishner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

(Photo by Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)This report is from this week's CNBC's "Inside India" newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric rise. Raj is looking for jobs outside India and says he is "willing to go anywhere and do anything." "My parents took a [1.9 million Indian rupee] ($22,491) loan for my degree, so I studied hard and interned to find a well-paying job quickly," the 27-year-old, told CNBC's Inside India. Speaking to CNBC's Inside India, Ghosh — a professor formerly at India's Jawaharlal Nehru University and currently at the University of Massachusetts Amherst — noted "there is definitely a jobs crisis in India." This shift in perspective has translated to "brain drain," being considered as a "term from the last century," Sunaina Kumar, a senior fellow at think tank the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), told CNBC's Inside India.

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Chabad’s website says he was abducted from Dubai – one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE. Relations between the UAE and Israel have thawed in recent years. In 2020, the UAE became the most prominent Arab nation in decades to open relations with Israel, under the US-brokered agreement known as the Abraham Accords. But Reuters says the public presence of Israelis and Jews has receded since the October 7 attacks. Jewish community members told the agency that informal synagogues in Dubai were closed in the wake of the attacks due to security concerns.

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☆ Opinion | Three Global Challenges That Will Shape Trump’s Legacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump left the White House nearly four years ago. Given his self-confidence, I suspect he is now thinking: “What could be so different? What I saw and heard exposed me to three giant, shifting tectonic plates that will have profound implications for the new administration. The most significant geopolitical eventIn just the last two months, the Israeli military has inflicted a defeat on Iran that approaches its 1967 Six Day War defeat of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Let’s review:Over the past few decades, Iran built a formidable threat network that seemed to put Israel into an octopuslike grip.

Persons: Donald Trump, I’ve, Israel Organizations: White House, United Locations: Tel Aviv, United Arab Emirates, London, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon

☆ British Airways reveals new A380 superjumbo first class seat design
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

This luxury is set to be taken to new heights on British Airways superjumbos, as the airline just unveiled a fresh design for its first class airplane seat, set to launch on BA’s A380 planes in 2026. CNN Travel was among the first to try out British Airways’ new cabin product during an unveiling at the airline’s London headquarters. British Airways suggests the wardrobe eliminates the need for overhead storage, which (perhaps controversially) won’t be a component of these new first class cabins. Each first class seat also features a 32-inch 4K inflight personal entertainment screen and adjustable mood lighting, including a “cinema” mode. Future of first classWhile British Airways is investing in its premium cabins, some airlines are moving away from first class.

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☆ UAE Arrests 3 in Connection With Murder of Israeli Rabbi
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Ismaeel Naar | More About Ismaeel Naar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The United Arab Emirates on Monday announced the arrests of three Uzbek nationals in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi, an attack that raised alarm over the safety of the small Jewish community in the country. A statement from the U.A.E.’s interior ministry named the suspects in the abduction and death of Zvi Kogan as Olimboy Tohirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, both 28, and Azizbek Kamilovich, 33. and included photos of them blindfolded and handcuffed. Emirati authorities said they were still working to uncover the circumstances and motives of the crime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the murder “an abhorrent antisemitic terrorist attack.”Image Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi whose body was found on Sunday, was part of the small Jewish community in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli news outlets have reported that his car was found abandoned in Al Ain, a city in the adjacent emirate of Abu Dhabi, on the border with Oman.

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☆ West Bank: Palestinians fear more evictions under Trump presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Nic Robertson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Where the high hills of the occupied West Bank tumble into the Jordan valley, half a dozen heavy Israeli diggers pound the ancient rocks around the Palestinian village of Bardala. Such evictions are common in the West Bank, according to the United Nations. During a visit to Israel in 2017, the former governor of Arkansas told reporters: “There is no such thing as a West Bank. The eviction notice Israeli officials handed to a Palestinian farmer near the village of Bardala in the occupied West Bank, ordering him to leave his land. The hard reality in Bardala, as elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, is that even before Trump’s approaching inauguration, the Palestinian state had become a distant dream.

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☆ Trump’s Middle East Envoy Has Prior Ties to Oil-Rich Nations There
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Eric Lipton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Steven Witkoff, the billionaire New York real estate executive whom President-elect Donald J. Trump has named as his special envoy to the Middle East, was in a jam. But there was a two-part rescue of sorts from the kind of real estate angels that New York property investors have increasingly turned to. First, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund expanded its stake in the troubled hotel, Park Lane, which sits at the southern edge of Central Park. Then, in an even more crucial move, the Qatar Investment Authority last year dispatched $623 million as a leveraged buyout of Mr. Witkoff and his partners. The transactions — involving two oil-rich sovereign wealth funds from the Middle East — are a hint of the enormous flow of dollars pouring into U.S. real estate firms from entities associated with countries like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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After Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration for attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump selected former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for the role. Trump’s choice for second-in-command at the Justice Department is Todd Blanche, who served as his lead criminal defense lawyer in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. Jordan’s government communications minister, Mohamed Momani, described the shooting as a terror attack that targeted public security forces in the country. The one-two punch of witches and warriors delivered a strong box office weekend to kick off the holiday season. “Wicked,” the first of a two-film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, dominated with an estimated $114 million in North America alone.

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☆ Israel says missing rabbi was killed in UAE in 'antisemitic terrorist' murder
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Freddie Clayton | Freddie Clayton Is A Freelance Journalist Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A missing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi has been found dead in the United Arab Emirates, in what Israel called an antisemitic murder on Sunday. The Israeli government said the death of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who has been missing in the Gulf state since Thursday, was a "criminal antisemitic terrorist event." A man walks past Rimon Market, a Kosher grocery store managed by the late Rabbi Zvi Kogan, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday. The United Arab Emirates government gave no immediate comment or acknowledgment that Kogan had been found dead. Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German software developer living in California, was kidnapped in 2020 during a stopover in the United Arab Emirates and taken to Iran.

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An Israeli rabbi in the United Arab Emirates who had been missing since Thursday has been found dead, the Israeli authorities announced early Sunday. Israeli officials said the rabbi, Zvi Kogan, had been murdered and called his death an act of terrorism, without providing any further details. The Emirati authorities — who on Saturday said officials were investigating the rabbi’s disappearance — did not immediately comment on his death. But a senior official stressed on Sunday that the Emirates was a safe place, without explicitly mentioning Rabbi Kogan. will remain a safe haven, an oasis of stability, a society of tolerance and coexistence,” Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic adviser to the Emirati president, wrote on social media.

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☆ Israeli-Moldovan rabbi living in UAE is missing; Israeli officials fear he may have been kidnapped
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Israeli-Moldovan rabbi living in the United Arab Emirates has gone missing, with Israeli authorities raising the suspicion Saturday he may have been kidnapped as tensions remain high with Iran. Israeli media citing unnamed security sources reported that Zvi Kogan, who has been missing since noon Thursday, may have been kidnapped. Western officials believe Iran runs intelligence operations in the UAE and keeps tabs on the hundreds of thousands of Iranians living across the country. Iran also kidnapped Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd in 2020 from Dubai, taking him back to Tehran where he was executed in October. However, the Mideast wars have sparked deep anger among Emiratis, Arabs and others living in the UAE.

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☆ An Israeli citizen is missing in the UAE. Israel says ‘information’ suggests a terror incident
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Tamar Michaelis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Israeli Prime Minister’s office says that an Israeli citizen living in the United Arab Emirates has been missing for two days. The PMO said in a statement Saturday that Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan citizen, had been missing since Thursday afternoon. Kogan is a representative of Chabad, a religious movement of Hasidic Jews with communities, synagogues and other institutions in many countries. This is a developing story. More to come.

Persons: PMO, Zvi Kogan, Kogan, “, ” Organizations: CNN, United Arab, Moldovan, National Security Agency Locations: United Arab Emirates, Israeli, UAE

In a joint statement Sunday, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Kogan’s body had been located by UAE authorities. “The murder of Tzvi [Zvi] Kogan, of blessed memory, is a heinous antisemitic terrorist act. The State of Israel will use all means at its disposal to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice,” the statement said. Kogan worked alongside other Chabad emissaries to establish and expand Judaism in the UAE. Relations between the UAE and Israel thawed in recent years.

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☆ I moved to Dubai for a dream job and loved the glamorous life. Eventually, it took a toll.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Kaila Yu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Malic said life in Dubai was glamorous, but she got burned out at work and missed parts of Phoenix. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jessika Ros Malic, a former Emirates stewardess from Phoenix, about living in Dubai. AdvertisementI had a glamorous life in Dubai and loved travelingUpon arriving, Emirates housed me in an apartment. Temperature-wise, Dubai is comparable to Phoenix, but Dubai is much more humid because of the ocean. Because of Emirates, Dubai was affordable for me.

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Were Trump to follow through on his vow to impose tariffs on imports on Europe as well as from China, they would likely deviate further. There is also uncertainty across the continent about what the new White House will mean for the war in Ukraine. In their view, China could help to pressure Russia over Ukraine as Xi loses patience with a war he did not expect would drag on for almost three years. One senior European diplomat said that while China has never explicitly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has helped in other ways to rein in Moscow. continues to say that Ukraine will negotiate when Ukraine wants to negotiate,” another European official said, “and that the E.U.

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☆ TJ Maxx parent says holiday shopping is off to a 'strong start,' but its guidance tells another story
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

TJX Companies touted a "strong start" to the holiday shopping season on Wednesday, but its shares slid after the fast-growing retailer offered guidance that appeared to underwhelm Wall Street. "The fourth quarter is off to a strong start, and we are excited about our opportunities for the holiday selling season. For its holiday quarter, TJX is expecting comparable sales to grow between 2% and 3%, largely in line with the 3% uptick that StreetAccount analysts had expected. TJX is standing by its comparable sales guidance of 3% growth for the full year, just shy of the 3.2% growth that StreetAccount analysts had expected. It raised its pretax profit margin outlook from 11.2% to 11.3%, which matches StreetAccount's expectations, along with its earnings per share guidance.

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☆ Denmark’s Victoria Kjær Theilvig wins Miss Universe 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark has been crowned Miss Universe 2024, becoming the first Dane to ever win the competition. This year’s finale featured a performance by singer Robin Thicke and was hosted by “Saved by the Bell” star Mario Lopez and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo. Theilvig participates in the Miss Universe competition at Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City on November 16, 2024. Hector Vivas/Getty ImagesDelegates for each country were selected via local pageants that license local rights from the Miss Universe Organization. This year’s contest saw Cuba, represented by Marianela Ancheta, take part in Miss Universe for the first time since 1967.

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