Новости за 18.10.2024

CAIRO, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Egypt on Friday raised fuel prices by two Egyptian pounds (0.04 U.S. dollars) for the fourth quarter of 2024 due to rising production and import costs, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said in a statement.

© Provided by Xinhua This photo shows bamboo products displayed during a forum on green industry cooperation in Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 17, 2024. (Xinhua/Meng Dingbo)

NICOSIA, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus has joined a small group of European Union (EU) countries banning mobile phones in secondary schools.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- A forum on green industry cooperation between China, the European Union (EU), and Africa has underscored opportunities for technological collaboration and sustainable practices, particularly the use of bamboo as an alternative to plastic.

New Delhi [India] October 18 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said that interest rate cut at this stage will be 'premature, and very, very risky'. Speaking at the fireside chat at the India Credit Forum event in Mumbai by Bloomberg, Governor Das warned against any premature interest rate cuts when inflation risk is still there. RBI still maintains a growth forecast of 7.2 per cen

With the Middle East conflict spreading, a return to the pre-Gaza-war reality is now impossible

(241018) -- BEIJING, Oct. 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists have fun at a forest park in Liupanshui, southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 18, 2024. (Xinhua/Tao Liang)

Beirut [Lebanon], October 18 (ANI): India on Friday dispatched the first tranche of 11 tons of medical supplies to Lebanon as part of a humanitarian effort to support the nation amid rising tensions and the ongoing conflict in southern Lebanon. A total of 33 tons of medical supplies are being sent. Randhir Jaiswal, the official spokesperson for the MEA, posted on X (formerly Twitter), "India sends humanitarian assistance

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Economic data for the first three quarters of this year indicate that the Chinese government's policies to boost the economy have been effective, exemplified by notable progress in industrial transformation and upgrading. With greater efforts, the world's second-largest economy is on track to achieve its full-year targets.

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that the calls for walling America off with high tariffs on friends and competitors or treating even its closest allies as transactional partners are deeply misguided.

New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) is in talks with the other concerned ministries to make required amendments in the existing laws to make them more stringent to deal with the cases of hoax bomb threats for flights, MoCA sources said. The accused person will be put on a no-fly list, said a senior official in the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Friday. The official said that a committ

The Indian prime minister last visited the country in July, when his trip caused ?concern? in the West

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank is considering a cut of 0.25 to 0.5 percentage points in reserve requirement ratio at an appropriate time before the end of 2024, depending on market liquidity situations, Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People's Bank of China, said on Friday.

HONG KONG, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The World Snooker Tour (WST) has announced the sport's 2025 World Grand Prix will be held in Hong Kong from March 4 to 9.

© Provided by Xinhua People walk on a bank road of the Sanjiangkou Yangtze River Park in Yibin City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 13, 2024. (Xinhua/Li He)

© Provided by Xinhua Customers select goods at a supermarket in Foster City, California, the United States, April 10, 2024. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

Dozens of domestic and international flights received hoax threats this week, causing chaos for air travelers

The Lebanese Shia Islamist militant group issued its statement after Israel killed the leader of Hamas group in Gaza

Stockholm [Sweden], October 18 (ANI): The inaugural Stockholm Forum on Himalaya, held on Thursday, urged stronger collaboration between India, the European Union (EU), Japan, and Nordic countries to address pressing environmental and geopolitical challenges in the region. Organised by the Stockholm Centre for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), the f

Moscow [Russia], October 18 (ANI) The combined share of GDP of countries of the BRIC grouping that includes India exceeds USD 60 trillion, which is more than the corresponding figure for the countries of the G7 and it continues to grow, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow on Friday. State media TASS cited Putin as saying that BRICS plays a significant role in the global economy not onl

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BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, from Oct. 22 to 24 at the invitation of President of

HANGZHOU, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Yiwu in Zhejiang Province, east China, known as the "world's supermarket" for its enormous exports of small commodities, has launched a special train service for cross-border e-commerce goods to reach the global market through sea-rail intermodal transport.

(241018) -- HEFEI, Oct. 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits the Liuchi Alley, a historical cultural site in Tongcheng City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 17, 2024. Xi made an inspection tour to east Ch

ANKARA, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed and 33 others injured on Friday after a passenger bus overturned in the central Aksaray province of Türkiye, the local IHA news agency reported.

TASHKENT, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Uzbekistan's economy has grown by 6.6 percent over the past nine months, according to a report from the press service of the Uzbek President on Thursday.