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In the first round of Romania’s presidential election on Sunday, far-right leader George Simion is campaigning to replace President Klaus Iohannis, a liberal and staunch Ukraine ally. The election is being held amid a surge in inflation and fears over the war in neighbouring Ukraine. PM Marcel Ciolacu leads first round of Romanian presidential vote, show exit polls

More than one year after October 7, Zaka volunteers, who collect the remains of the dead, including terror victims, are trying to find resilience in therapy sessions. These orthodox Jews were not accustomed to these methods, but some were surprised by their positive effects. Israel: healing the traumas of volunteers who collect the remains of corpses through therapy

Italian Jannik Sinner completed a remarkable season on Sunday by sealing his country a second successive Davis Cup title with a 2-0 victory over Netherlands in the final at the southern Spanish city of Malaga. Matteo Berrettini laid the foundations with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Botic Van de Zandschulp, before Jannik Sinner defeated Tallon Griekspoor 7-6(2), 6-2. Italy retains Davis Cup after Sinner and Berrettini defeat the Netherlands

The UAE’s interior ministry said Sunday that it had arrested three people in connection with the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who was living and working in the Gulf state. Israel condemned the killing as a ‘terrorist attack’.

The body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what Israel described as a heinous ‘anti-Semitic’ attack. “If the Israeli suspicions are proven correct, and the UAE announces this was in fact an Iranian-backed targeted terror attack aimed at this particular rabbi, [. . .] we should expect reprecussions”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem Noga Tarnopolsky. Tzvi Kogan not ‘a well-known figure, he [wasone of thousands of emissaries’

With violence surging across Haiti, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that almost half of the gangs which control the vast majority of the capital are made up of children, and the recruitment of children has seen a 70% increase over the past year.

Chairperson of Indian conglomerate Adani Group, Gautam Adani, speaking at the World Congress of Accountants in Mumbai on November 19, 2022. Indranil Mukherjee | Afp | Getty Images A U.S. bribery indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is linked to one contract of Adani Green Energy that makes up some 10% of its business, and no other firms in the conglomerate are accused of wrongdoing, the group’s CFO said on Saturday. On Wednesday, Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men, and seven others were indicted for fraud by U.S. prosecutors over their alleged roles in a $265 million…

Apple’s first physical retail store is located in the populous city of Mumbai. Punit Paranjpe | Afp | Getty Images India’s antitrust body has turned down a request from Apple to put a hold on an investigation report which found the company breached competition laws, allowing the case to continue, an internal order from the regulator seen by Reuters showed. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in August ordered a recall of investigation reports after Apple said the watchdog had disclosed commercial secrets to competitors in the case dating back to 2021, including Tinder-owner Match. These elements should have been redacted. The CCI had…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 22, 2024 in New York City. NYSE This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. What you need to know today Winning week for markets Major U.S. indexes rose on Friday to end the week in the green, despite mega-cap stocks Nvidia and Alphabet dropping. Europe’s regional Stoxx 600 advanced 1.18%. The banking index, which lost 2%,…

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaks in the early hours at the conclusion of the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 24, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Ambitious climate action often requires ambitious financing — be it a clean energy transition project or helping developing countries mitigate the effects of natural disasters. But as extreme weather becomes more the norm and temperatures rise across the planet, what is supposed to be a critical year for funding mitigation efforts has instead turned out to be an especially frustrating one. Nearly 50,000 people from 200 countries…