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G7 summit opens in Canada with focus on trade, wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, Iran
The Hindu
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June 16, 2025
President Donald Trump arrives in Calgary, Alberta, on June 15, 2025, to attend the G7 Leaders meeting taking place in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. | Photo Credit: AP When U.S. President Donald Trump last came to Canada for a Group of Seven (G7)...
Can the City’s most hated tax survive?
The Financial Times
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June 17, 2025
One big Izzy scoop to start: Millennium Management, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, is in talks about selling a minority stake to external investors at a $14bn valuation, as it presses ahead with plans to open up its ownership for the...
G7 summit opening in Canada with focus on trade, wars
Telengana Today
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June 16, 2025
As US President Donald Trump returns to Canada for this year’s G7 summit in the Rocky Mountains, world leaders aim to avoid the kind of disruption seen at the 2018 meeting, which ended in acrimony and a viral image of Trump in defiance Published...
Italian art museum calls out visitors who sat on crystal chair and broke it
Global News
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June 15, 2025
A museum in Italy is calling on visitors to respect its art installations after a pair of tourists sat on a crystal-encrusted exhibit, broke it, then fled. The piece, known as Nicola Bolla’s “Van Gogh” chair, was on display at the Palazzo Maffei...
G7 Summit opening in Canada with focus on trade, wars and not riling Trump
The Economic Times
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June 16, 2025
When US President Donald Trump last came to Canada for a Group of Seven summit, the enduring image was of him seated with his arms folded defiantly as then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel stared daggers at him. If there is a shared mission at this...
MAGNA: APAC ad market to grow 4.6% in 2025 as digital dominance deepens
Marketing-Interactive
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Asia Pacific’s advertising economy is projected to grow by 4.6% in 2025, according to MAGNA’s latest Global Ad Forecast. This marks a slowdown from the robust 7.9% growth recorded in 2024, as macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions...
Egypt Secures $15.6Bn In Concessional Financing For Private Sector Since 2020: El-Mashat
MENAFN
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June 15, 2025
(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation Rania El-Mashat announced during the“Development Finance to Foster Private Sector-Led Growth & Jobs” conference that concessional development...
Carney to meet Trump in Alberta as G7 summit begins with trade, tariffs, and security talks on the table
The Economic Times
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June 16, 2025
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Calgary on Sunday(June 15), stepping into the international spotlight as he prepares to host his first G7 Leaders’ Summit, with a one-on-one meeting with US President Donald Trump first on the agenda...
Liverpool to step up transfer business with Florian Wirtz completion and next targets clear
Liverpool Echo
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June 16, 2025
Here we go again. After the briefest of bizarre interludes, the transfer window reopens on Monday and will remain in operation until September 1. Not that Liverpool weren't busy during the short time business was able to be completed earlier this...
Opinion: Is the world entitled to the U.S. market?
SaskToday.ca
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June 16, 2025
Increasing the price of admission to the world's largest consumer market is a protectionist move with the goal of repatriating manufacturing jobs to the United States. Most countries covet the American market, driven by insatiable consumerism. No...
Iran-Bound Businessman Arrested At PH Airport For Ingesting 53 Wraps Of Cocaine
Daily Independent
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June 16, 2025
1 Barely two weeks after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, intercepted a 60-year-old businessman, Chinedu Leonard Okigbo, heading to Iran with 65 pellets...
Man arrested for ingesting 53 wraps of cocaine as NDLEA cracks down on drug trade
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 16, 2025
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 44-year-old man, Ezemokwe Chukwuebuka, at the Port Harcourt International Airport for ingesting 53 wraps of cocaine while en route to Tehran Khomeini, Islamic Republic of Iran....
Trump is departing the G7 early as conflict between Israel and Iran shows signs of intensifying
Newsday - New York
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KANANASKIS, Alberta — President Donald Trump is abruptly leaving the Group of Seven summit, departing a day early Monday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and the U.S. leader has declared that Tehran should be evacuated...
Europe’s travel giants trade accusations amid tourism unrest
Hotel Management Network
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June 15, 2025
Tensions have risen between rivals in the tourism industry amid protests against overcrowding, rising housing costs and bad behaviour by tourists in some holiday hotspots across Europe. In the immediate aftermath of coordinated anti-tourism...
PM Modi arrives in Canada today. G7 talks, trade, and Uranium high on agenda – details here
Mint
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June 16, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a three-nation tour to the Republic of Cyprus, Canada and Croatia on June 15. This is PM Modi’s first foreign trip after Operation Sindoor – India’s precision strikes on terror camps in Pakistan in the...
G7 summit to focus on global economy, energy security
China Daily Global
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A G7 2025 Kananaskis flag, a Canadian flag and an Alberta flag flutter before the G7 Leaders' Summit, in the Rocky Mountains resort town of Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada June 15, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] CALGARY, Canada - The Group of Seven (G7)...
Trump heads to Canada for G7, says 'we have our trade deals'
United Press International (UPI)
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June 15 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump departed the White House on Sunday en route to Western Canada for the annual G7 summit, promising to secure trade deals weeks ahead of a tariff hike deadline. Speaking to reporters ahead of his departure,...
Iran-bound Businessman Expels 53 Wraps of Ingested Cocaine at Port Harcourt Airport
This Day
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June 16, 2025
Michael Olugbode in Abuja Operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested another businessman, 44-year-old Ezemokwe Chukwuebuka, at the Port Harcourt International Airport (PHIA), for ingesting 53 wraps of cocaine while on...
China outpaces the West by several years in a promising economic sector: modular nuclear reactors.
Farmingdale Observer - New York
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June 16, 2025
China’s nuclear industry has taken a significant leap forward with the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), positioning the country years ahead of Western competitors in this promising energy sector. The Linglong-1 reactor at Hainan...
Breakfast briefing: Israel Iran conflict seems contained for now
interest.co.nz
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Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news there are hopes, early ones at this stage, that Iran is looking for an off-ramp in its fight with Israel, or at least, so says Trump. That was enough to bolster...