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Summer deals heat up as 7-Eleven, Pop Tarts drive M&A wave: Report

7-Eleven parent Seven & i Holdings Co. soared Monday after saying it's received a takeover proposal from the owner of Circle K

General Motors to lay off more than 1,000 software engineers, mostly in US

The moves come two months after former Apple Inc. executives David Richardson and Baris Cetinok were promoted to senior vice president roles in the group

Sebi to expand scope of ESG finance framework to more products: Report

The Securities and Exchange Board of India will consult on introducing social bonds, along with sustainable and sustainability-linked bonds

How lack of coordination, funding issues turned mpox into a global crisis

The chain of delayed reactions to the crisis began during the last mpox emergency that ended in 2023

Waning demand expected to hit breakneck rally in India's auto stocks

India's NSE Nifty Auto Index is down 4.1 per cent in August, more than double the decline in the Nifty 50 Index

Israel, Hamas accuse each other for impeding cease-fire & hostage deal

Mediators say the current round of negotiations have brought the two sides closest to an official pause in fighting in months

Will be tough for Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com to grow without Beijing's help

Chinese tech firms may look to invest heavily in artificial intelligence, despite unique challenges

Why it makes sense for food prices to be cut out of RBI's inflation target

Officials are depressingly hesitant to touch anything to do with food production and prices, since these are particularly sensitive politically

Chinese stock exchanges to stop releasing data on overseas fund flows

That's because the country's stock exchanges will stop releasing daily data on overseas fund flows starting Monday, depriving investors of a key sentiment indicator to track the $8.3 trillion market

Harris-Walz campaign to spend $370 mn on digital, TV ads in push to Nov. 5

For August, Trump and his allied super-PACs have booked about 60 per cent of the ad time

Mpox emergency response hit by scarce financing amid WHO calls for support

WHO has released $1.45 mn from its contingency fund for emergencies, while African Union has approved $10.4 mn from its existing Covid funds for Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Indonesia celebrates Nusantara, the new capital struggling to take shape

Located about 800 miles northeast of Jakarta, construction of Nusantara involves five phases, to be completed by 2045, the govt intends to shift some 1.9 mn people from Jakarta to ease congestion

These cool but creepy features of AI phones will erode trust in everything

Like it or not, the growing ubiquity of AI phones will force us to become more wary of what we see and hear - unless we want manipulated versions of reality to be the new normal

Mastercard plans to cut 3% of staff worldwide before Sept 30 amid overhaul

That would work out to about 1,000 people, based on its reported employee count at the end of last year

Mpox thriving near gold mines, refugee camps risks rapid spread in Congo

A strain of the virus - which causes lesions that can result in disfigurement, blindness, and even death - has erupted around the gold-mining town of Kamituga

Thailand's new, youngest PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra: All you need to know

Some of her top tasks will be to ease the concerns of voters about the high costs of living

Nato alliance bolsters naval presence in western Pacific to counter China

Few security analysts expect European navies to play a frontline role in any conflict in the Pacific

Japan's SoftBank picking stock winners in India's red-hot IPO market

Further successful IPOs may add funds for Chief Executive Masayoshi Son's planned large-scale push into AI

Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city, worries next earthquake will be a big one

Earthquakes are unpredictable but also inevitable, and experts say Istanbul might be due one

Severe typhoon Ampil edges closer to Japan; disrupts flights, trains

The Japan Meteorological Agency urged residents to be careful of high waves, landslides, flooding of low-lying areas and rising or overflowing rivers in eastern Japan