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Lahore declared the world's most polluted city as smog crisis deepens

Lahore's alarming pollution crisis is primarily driven by crop residue burning and industrial emissions

Lloyds confidence grows, rising house prices as Q3 profit beats forecasts

Britain's growth prospects and public finances meanwhile remain frail

Sweden based Volvo Cars tops forecast but cuts outlook on market slowdown

Volvo Cars said it now expects its retail sales to rise by 7-8% this year, down from a forecast in July of 12-15% growth, anticipating no growth in the fourth quarter

Hong Kong bars services like WhatsApp, Google Drive from govt computers

Francis Fong, the honorary president of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, said officials told him that the policy aims to prevent malware from bypassing its firewall

UN nature talks explore rules for digital genetic data use and compensation

Species-rich countries, including tropical giants like Brazil and India, are on guard against corporations and researchers capitalizing on their biodiversity without offering compensation or royalties

Israel kills three Hezbollah commanders, some 70 fighters in 48 hours

Destroyed in the attack were the base's headquarters, ammunition depots, underground infrastructure, fast vessels, and other assets

Russia storming 4 towns in eastern Ukraine as Moscow pushes to gain control

Podolyaka said that fighting was also going on in the outskirts of Kurakhove and Selydove, which each had populations of about 20,000 before the war

Tropical storm Trami tracks towards Philippines' coast, schools shut

The Philippine central bank on Wednesday suspended currency trading and monetary operations for the day. Stock market trading operated as normal

Tokyo exchange employee under probe for alleged insider trading: JPX

TBS said the relative used the information to make at least several hundreds of thousands of yen worth of profit from equity trading

Apple CEO Tim Cook meets China's IT minister during Beijing visit

The trip is Cook's second to China this year. His posts on the X-like Weibo social media platform showed he visited an organic farm and toured ancient neighbourhoods

Harvey Weinstein returns to court for hearing ahead of sex crimes retrial

Weinstein was convicted on charges since overturned that he forcibly performed oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006, and rape in the third degree for an attack on an aspiring actor

Bankrupt Tupperware cancels market auction, agrees to lender takeover

The lenders now poised to acquire Tupperware include Alden Global Capital, Stonehill Institutional Partners and a trading desk of Bank of America

Starbucks baristas, customers urge new CEO to bring changes in company

Baristas complain about what they say are chronic understaffing and poor pay and benefits, and their inability to easily ban aggressive customers from Starbucks stores

US can prosecute Turkish bank in Iran sanctions case, rules appeals court

US prosecutors charged Halkbank in 2019 over its alleged use of money servicers and front companies in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to evade sanctions

China's stimulus measures not enough, says Yellen and IMF chief economist

Gourinchas told a news conference on the IMF's latest forecasts that China's fiscal stimulus measures so far lacked detail and therefore were not included in the IMF's China growth outlook

JPMorgan chief Dimon likely to consider a role in Harris administration

The CEO of the largest US bank has long been floated for senior positions on US economic policy

Taiwan accuses China of launching satellites over its Air Defence zone

Earlier on October 20, Taiwan's military had also reported the transit of the United States and Canadian naval vessels, which sailed through the Taiwan Strait from south to north

Around 21 million Americans have already voted in US presidential polls

Unlike the Indian general elections, wherein campaigning stops 36 hours before the start of the voting, both campaigning and voting go parallel to each other at least for about four weeks

UK warns Russian strikes on Black Sea delay food supplies to Palestinians

After the collapse last year of a U.N.-backed Black Sea grain export initiative that involved Russia and had ensured safe passage of grain ships

CFPB's open banking rules for consumer data unveiled by US watchdog

Republican chair of the US House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry welcomed the announcement, calling for Congress to codify the new rule's protections into law