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Australian consumer regulator sues Amazon over Prime Video advertising
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission said Tuesday...
Renewed vessel attacks disrupt shipping through Strait of Hormuz
Global investors, shipowners and insurers are zeroed in on activity...
Venezuela faces $6.7 billion in economic losses from earthquakes:UNDP
Direct physical damage is estimated at $6.7 billion (range of $4.7 billion to $8.7 billion), driven by losses to housing and economic assets, according to the preliminary assessment. This does not include infrastructure damage, wider economic disruption and...
Iran and US step up attacks and threaten to escalate
Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said responsibility for returning maritime traffic in the strait to pre-war levels lay solely with Tehran and urged others not to intervene "in Iran's administration of the strait". DUBAI/WASHINGTON: Iran launched missiles and...
Extreme heat kills more than 1,300 across Europe
And across Europe, "more than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded since 21 June linked to high temperatures in Europe, Heat stress is often called the 'silent killer' - and European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures," WHO chief...
Iran seeks “insurance mechanism” to reduce risks for ships transiting through Hormuz
"Yes, we want to maintain the security of the Strait of Hormuz. We want to protect the environment of the Strait of Hormuz. We must establish an insurance mechanism so that ships involved in incidents or encountering problems are covered to reduce their risk," Iran's...
TotalEnergies must address climate risks linked to its products, French court rules
``The law does not mean to render companies responsible for those risks, which result from all human activity on the planet since the industrial revolution, but asks them to act according to their situation.Extracting, refining and marketing of a barrel of oil...
Australia’s security environment degrading, spy chief warns
"Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)'s annual assessment followed a year in which Australia confronted threats on multiple fronts, from online radicalisation, state-sponsored cyberattacks to arson against Jewish businesses and a mass shooting in...
Venezuela earthquakes kill nearly 1,000, tens of thousands missing
United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher told AFP that more than 50,000 people were missing after two powerful earthquakes struck within a minute of each other on Wednesday evening, flattening buildings in the north of the country. The death toll from twin earthquakes in...
China’s 360 says it has developed tools to match Anthropic’s Mythos
360’s release marks the most high-profile Chinese answer yet to Anthropic’s Mythos model, which has triggered alarm in Washington and other capitals, as well as across the cybersecurity industry, over its ability to discover vulnerabilities in sensitive systems....
Iran reasserts its right to control shipping in Strait of Hormuz after ship hit near Oman
"Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz cannot be guaranteed under ambiguous arrangements, parallel routes or decision-making that does not take Iran's role as a coastal state into account," Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on X. DUBAI/LONDON: Tehran...
Reopening of Strait of Hormuz to lower tail risk, but supply normalisation to be costly: S&P
S&P said South Asia is especially exposed to second-order risks of the West Asia conflict.India is the world's largest urea importer and relies heavily on Gulf suppliers, India is the world's largest urea importer and relies heavily on Gulf suppliers, while...