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Luxury Giant LVMH Enjoys 'Excellent' First Half

The world's top luxury group, LVMH, booked 8.48 billion euros ($9.34 billion) in net profits in the first half of the year
LVMH, the world's top luxury group, said Tuesday it enjoyed an excellent first half with net profits soaring by 30 percent to 8.48 billion euros ($9.34 billion) thanks to strong growth in Asia and Europe.
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Women walk past a beauty salon in the Shahr-e-Naw area of Kabul ahead ahead of the order for beauty parlours across the country to shut permanently

Thousands Of Afghan Salons To Close As Taliban Deadline Bites

Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has barred girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public. An order issued last month forces the closure of thousands of salons nationwide run by women.
AFP news Jul 25, 2023
The breakdown of a deal between Russia and Ukraine allowing the export of grain through the Black Sea is causing wheat prices to rise and putting more people at risk of hunger

UN Talks Seek To Fix 'Broken' Global Food System

A three-day United Nations summit opened in Rome on Monday aimed at tackling a "broken" global food system where millions are starving, two billion are overweight or obese and the planet is suffering.
AFP news Jul 25, 2023
The Bakhmut front field hospitals is surrounded by fighting on all sides

Blood And Fears: The Military Medics Of Bakhmut

The armoured evacuation vehicle screeched to a halt to the sound of artillery fire and unloaded a group of reconnaissance soldiers whose mission went bad in Bakhmut.
AFP news Jul 25, 2023
Eurozone inflation eased to 5.5 percent in June as energy costs slid, but those of food and drinks remained elevated

Eurozone Economic Downturn Steepens In July

Eurozone economic activity shrank at its fastest rate in eight months in July, as a contraction gathered pace on the back of cuts in manufacturing, a key survey said Monday.
AFP news Jul 25, 2023
North Korea has test-fired multiple missiles including ICBMs, according to South Korean and Japanese military officials, in the weeks leading up to the 70th anniversary of the end of fighting in the Korean War

North Korea Fires Missiles Ahead Of Key Anniversary

Pyongyang conducted twin missile launches late Monday, ahead of Korean War anniversary celebrations that will be attended by Chinese dignitaries in the first foreign delegation visit to the country since its 2020 pandemic border closure.
AFP news Jul 25, 2023
Followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr hold his portrait aloft during a protest after they believed a Koran had been desecrated in Denmark

Iraqis Keep Up Koran Protests After Book Burnings

Iraqi security forces on Saturday dispersed about 1,000 supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr who tried to march to Baghdad's Green Zone housing foreign embassies, believing a Koran had been desecrated in Denmark.
AFP news Jul 24, 2023
The decision by India comes as rice prices were already soaring owing to a range of issues including the pandemic, the Ukraine war and the El Nino weather phenomenon

Top Rice Supplier India Bans Some Exports

The world's biggest rice exporter India has banned some overseas sales of the grain "with immediate effect", the government said, in a move that could drive international prices even higher.
AFP news Jul 21, 2023
People take to the streets of Jerusalem to protest against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul bill

Still 'Open For Negotiations' On Judicial Overhaul: Israel PM

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he is still "open for negotiations" on a key clause of his hard-right government's controversial judicial reforms, as protests intensified ahead of final votes on the bill.
AFP news Jul 21, 2023

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