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☆ For Iranians, this World Cup is about more than football
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

In the buildup to the World Cup in Qatar, there were calls for Iran to be thrown out of the tournament. Protesting at the World Cup, on the biggest stage of all for football, carries potentially huge risks for the current players in the national team. Nonetheless, players will be free to protest at the World Cup so long as they do not break FIFA rules, their manager Queiroz has said. Iran’s football authorities vowed that “people who have not followed professional and sports ethics … will be dealt with according to the regulations,” a statement published by Iran’s Football Federation after the beach soccer game said. “While this is happening, I cannot see people being overly excited [about the World Cup] when they’re out on the street fighting for freedom,” Mossavat says.

☆ Iran intensifies crackdown in Kurdish area; rights group says four killed
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Parisa Hafezi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The Norway-based human rights group Hengaw said military helicopters carried members of the widely feared Revolutionary Guards to quell the protests in the Sunni-dominated Kurdish city of Mahabad. The widely-followed activist account 1500Tasvir said a 16-year-old student and a school teacher were killed in the Kurdish city of Javanrud. Iran's state media said calm had been restored in the area. "In (the Kurdish city of) Marivan repressive forces have opened fire at people," Hengaw said. Some 54 members of the security forces were also killed, it said, adding that more than 17,251 people have been arrested.

☆ India's Iraqi oil imports fall to lowest in 20 months - trade sources
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Nidhi Verma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

India's oil imports from No. India will continue to buy Russian oil as it benefits the South Asian nation, foreign minister S. Jaishankar said on Tuesday, days ahead of the U.S. Treasury Secretary's visit to New Delhi for talks on issues including a cap on Russian oil prices. West African oil is priced against Atlantic Basin benchmark dated Brent, whose values have narrowed against Middle East marker Dubai. In contrast, African grades accounted for about 12% of India's imports, rising from 7%. India's oil imports from various regionsIndia's oil imports from various regionsIndia's oil importsReporting by Nidhi Verma; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ India's October fuel demand rises on festive season boost
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Consumption in October was 6.7% higher than the previous month, while also up 3.4% year-on-year at 18.37 million tonnes, the data showed. read moreIndian state fuel retailers' diesel sales also surged in October from the previous month, preliminary sales data showed last week, indicating a pickup in industrial activity. read moreSales of gasoline, or petrol, were up 8.8% from 2021 at 2.99 million tonnes, while diesel rose 5.5% at 6.98 million tonnes, the PPAC showed. Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales decreased 3.3% to 2.40 million tonnes, while naphtha sales fell 24% to 0.96 million tonnes. Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, were 11.4% lower, while fuel oil use edged up 1% in October.

REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File Photo/File PhotoLONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The pace and scale of rate hikes delivered by central banks around the globe in October slowed down dramatically following September's historic peak. The latest moves have brought total rate hikes in 2022 from G10 central banks to 2,050 bps. Emerging markets interest ratesMarkets had recently taken heart from indications that rate hikes from major central banks - especially the U.S. Federal Reserve - were slowing down. "We see central banks on a path to overtighten policy," said Boivin on Monday in a weekly outlook note from the world's largest asset manager. "We think the Fed, like other developed market central banks, will only stop when the severe damage from rate hikes is clearer.

The Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF) is Europe's main benchmark for natural gas prices. In addition, intraday European gas prices even went negative at the start of the week — meaning that holders of natural gas paid buyers to take the cargo off their hands. Nikoline Bromander, analyst at consultancy Rystad Energy, said high output from wind power and political agreement within the EU on cooperative measures to reduce gas prices and consumption have contributed to lowering gas prices. Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU was obtaining about 40% of all its natural gas from Moscow. Several experts have warned that Europe's high storage levels were to a large extent achieved with Russian gas.

☆ Amazon's moonshots lab recently shut down several secret projects, shocking members of the team. Here are the initiatives that got the chop, and the ones that survived.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon's Grand Challenge division recently shut down three confidential projects, a cost-cutting move that shocked and disappointed members of the secretive moonshots lab, Insider has learned. Two healthcare projects survived the cull. The healthcare projects that survived are a new type of at-home fertility-monitoring device and a therapeutic treatment to protect against antibiotic resistance, these people said. The decision to keep two healthcare projects reflects CEO Andy Jassy's ambition in this field. Glow, a video-calling device that Amazon shut down earlier this month, was also part of the broader Grand Challenge team.

☆ Bogații vor să se bage în față pentru a se vaccina anti-COVID. "Dacă dau 25.000 de dolari pot fi pe listă?"
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

"Primim sute de apeluri în fiecare zi", spune dr. Ehsan Ali, coordonatorul unui centru medical din Beverly Hills. Urmează muncitorii calificați din domeniile esențiale și cei cu boli cronice. "Oamenii sunt dispuși să plătească zeci de mii de dolari", spune Dr. Jeff Toll. Aceste centre medicale s-au aprovizionat deja cu congelatoare cu temperatură foarte scăzută pentru a păstra vaccinul Pfizer. Gavin Newsom, guvernatorul statului California, a avertizat însă: "Cei care cred că pot merge mai departe pentru că au resursele sau legăturile necesare pentru a face acest lucru ... Vom urmări acest lucru foarte, foarte atent. "

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☆ Bogații vor să se bage în față pentru a se vaccina, pentru sume colosale: „Dacă dau 25.000 de dolari pot fi pe listă?”
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-19 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

„Primim sute de apeluri în fiecare zi”, spune dr. Ehsan Ali, coordonatorul unui centru medical din Beverly Hills. Urmează muncitorii calificați din domeniile esențiale și cei cu boli cronice. Bogații sunt dispuși să plătească zeci de mii de dolari pentru a se vaccinaCei cu putere și bani cred însă că au dreptul să aplice regulile. „Oamenii sunt dispuși să plătească zeci de mii de dolari”, spune Dr. Jeff Toll. Gavin Newsom, guvernatorul statului California, a avertizat însă: „Cei care cred că pot merge mai departe pentru că au resursele sau legăturile necesare pentru a face acest lucru ... Vom urmări acest lucru foarte, foarte atent.”

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