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A 58-year-old man was reportedly detained on suspicion of trying to attack the Prime Minister’s convoy on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. Israeli authorities have detained a 58-year-oldon suspicion of trying to attack the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s convoy in Tel Aviv, according to local reports.

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Heads of State & Government H.E. Andrzej Duda PresidentRepublic of Poland Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim Prime MinisterMalaysia Plenary Speakers Shurick Agapitov Founder & CEOXsolla Will Ahmed Founder & CEOWHOOP H.E. Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser ChairmanIslamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group H.E. Ali bin Ahmed Al-Kuwari Minister of FinanceState of Qatar H.E. Mansoor Ebrahim Al-Mahmoud CEOQatar Investment Authority H.E. Maryam Buti Al Suwaidi CEOSecurities & Commodities Authority (SCA) H.E. Sheikh Bandar bin Mohammed bin Saoud Al-Thani GovernorQatar Central Bank Sheikha Hanadi N. Al Thani ChairpersonINJAZ Al Arab AndrĂ© Andonian Chair of Asia Pacific & Strategic AdvisorFlagship Pioneering Pierpaolo Barbieri Founder & CEOUalá…

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Doha, Qatar May 14 – Tuesday 8:00 am Morning Networking 10:00 am Opening Ceremony & Welcome Remarks From Bloomberg 10:05 am Opening Address 10:10 am Head of State & Government Spotlight 10:30 am Head of State & Government Spotlight 10:50 am Head of State & Government Spotlight 11:15 am Morning Networking Break 12:00 pm A New Economic Vision 12:30 pm Investing for the Next Generation How do you prepare for the future and win in contemporary capital markets? Our investor experts tell us how they are getting ready for the major economic and technological disruptions of the future, while making…

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Preliminary confirmed speakers include H.E. Abdulsalam Al Murshidi, President, Oman Investment Authority, Kenneth C. Griffin, Founder, CEO & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Citadel, Jenny Johnson, President & CEO, Franklin Templeton, Lei Zhang, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Hillhouse Investments, Todd L. Boehly, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Eldridge Industries, Yimei Li, CEO, ChinaAMC, Dina Powell McCormick, Vice Chairman & President of Global Client Services & Partner, BDT & MSD and many more. Doha, April 2, 2024 – The fourth annual “Qatar Economic Forum, Powered by Bloomberg” (QEF), held in collaboration with Media City Qatar, will take place from May 14-16, 2024. This year’s…

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The final declaration from the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers meeting in Turin, Italy, was issued on Tuesday, confirming the unanimous agreement of all seven nations to eliminate coal-powered energy production within their borders by 2035. Though not ambitious enough to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, it was a step forward on the globe’s path towards decarbonising its energy systems when Group of Seven (G7) Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers agreed to phase out coal energy in their countries by 2035. The news is particularly noteworthy and seen as a big step for the US and…

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Floods have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as dozens more were killed in neighbouring Tanzania and Burundi. Torrential rain and floods have destroyed homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure across the region. The death toll in Kenya exceeds that from floods triggered by the El Nino weather phenomenon late last year. In the central Kenyan town of Mai Mahiu, where at least 48 died in flash floods on Monday, two bodies were recovered from the debris on Wednesday, Kenya Red Cross South Rift…

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The Yemeni group Houthi said Thursday that at least 40 Yemenis were killed and 35 others injured since the beginning of the American-British airstrikes on the country last January. “The US and Britain launched 452 attacks against Yemen since January 12, killing 40 people and injuring 35 others,” the group leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a recorded speech aired by the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television. Al-Houthi did not specify whether the casualties were civilians or fighters from his group. However, the group revealed in two previous statements the killing of 22 of its fighters, including high-ranking officers in the airstrikes. The…

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Dozens of protesters on Thursday formed a human chain in the British capital, surrounding a coach taking asylum seekers to the UK’s controversial Bibby Stockholm barge. The protest took place when a coach was sent to Peckham Road to pick up asylum seekers to transfer them to the floating barge, moored at Portland Port in Dorset in the southwest. The coach could not leave the area after being surrounded by the protesters at about 8 a.m. local time (0700GMT). Video footage, circulated on social media, showed the crowd chanting pro-immigration slogans, including “stop deportation,” referring to the UK’s much-debated migration…

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