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INDIA: Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest person, joined Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the world’s most exclusive wealth club with a fortune of at least $100 billion. The chairman of India’s Reliance Industries Ltd. entered the rarefied…

QATAR: The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was "candid and professional" and that the U.S. side reiterated that…

Sydney's cafes, gyms and restaurants welcomed back fully vaccinated customers on Monday after nearly four months of lockdown, as Australia aims to begin living with the coronavirus and gradually reopen with high rates of inoculation.…

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Economists David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Card was recognized for his contributions to labor economics, while Angrist and Imbens won the award for their contributions…

ISRAEL: Israel’s security will be central to every German government, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday during her farewell travel to Israel. Merkel, in Israel on her last visit as a Chancellor before the…

UK: Music legend Paul McCartney is insisting it was bandmate and songwriting partner John Lennon who decided The Beatles couldn’t “work it out” in 1970 — and not him, as has been widely reported for five decades. “I didn’t…

US: A United States Navy nuclear engineer and his spouse have been arrested on espionage charges after allegedly attempting to sell confidential information, the US Department of Justice said. According to court records unsealed…

FRANCE: Vaccination is highly effective at preventing severe cases of COVID-19, even against the Delta variant, a vast study in France has shown. The research published Monday -- focusing on prevention of severe COVID and death,…

THE PHILIPPINES: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a threat to democracy, saying the social media giant fails to protect against the spread of hate and disinformation and is “biased…