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Gulf shipping costs drop as Israel-Iran ceasefire holds
Shipping rates for supertankers, which can carry 2 million barrels...
PwC’s AI chief says firm has cut prices as tech saves staff time
``Clients would hear us talking about using AI and say, We want our...
Losses from China disasters reach $42 billion in first nine months of 2023
The emergency management ministry unveiled the unprecedented toll wrought on the nation of 1.4 billion by calamities that ranged from sandstorms to rains that brought massive flooding and historic rainfall in Beijing, the capital BEIJING: China suffered direct...
Asia Pacific Employee Medical Plan Costs for businesses to rise in 2024, highest since 2015: Aon
"Health and wellbeing costs have become an important concern for companies as year-over-year medical plan costs continue to rise. These rising rates often bring unexpected or unbudgeted cost increases and make affordability for employers and employees more difficult,"...
Gallagher Re appoints Jonathan Allard to lead newly created Global Credit & Political Risk team
Recent geopolitical events and macro-economic conditions have driven demand and need for dynamic reinsurance solutions from both the public and private sectors, said Jonathan Allard added London: Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has this week appointed Jonathan...
Israel-Hamas conflict: Major airlines suspend Tel Aviv flights until conditions improve
US air carriers United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines said they had suspended direct flights.Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates and Ryanair also pulled flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport PARIS/NEW YORK: Several international air carriers said on...
FTX used Python code to fake its insurance fund figure: Co-founder
FTX's insurance fund was designed to protect user losses in case of huge, sudden market movements Washington: The collapsed crypto exchange FTX used hidden Python code to misrepresent the value of its insurance fund, according to court testimony by FTX co-founder,...
Casino giant MGM expects $100 million hit from hack that led to data breach
The MGM data breach, which the FBI is investigating, is a vivid example of how large organizations remain vulnerable to cybercrime. Analysts who have tracked Scattered Spider say more and more organizations have been falling for the group’s skilled social engineering...
Death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan rises to over 2,000
The United States Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Herat city. It was followed by three very strong aftershocks, measuring magnitude 6.3, 5.9 and 5.5, as well as lesser shocks Islamabad: Death toll from...
Global job scam to cause $100 mn in losses for over 1,000 companies: Report
Nicknamed ‘Webwyrm’, hackers in the global-scale job scam have impersonated over 1,000 companies across 10 industries for a combo task scheme akin to the ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ (from a few years ago that caused a massive global impact), according to the team from...
From Ukraine to Taiwan, satellite firms wrangle with geopolitics in space
In March, Taiwan reported that two undersea cables to some of its outlying islands appeared to have been cut, although it stopped short of blaming Beijing. Taiwan media reported mounting interest in securing satellite internet connectivity immediately afterwards. Such...
Germany to Send Air Defenses for Kyiv to Guard Grain Routes
While Kyiv has unilaterally created a temporary corridor for ships in the Black Sea, so far it’s mostly symbolic as mainstream shipping companies are wary of using it. Twelve ships have passed through it in recent weeks, but that’s very few compared with traffic via...