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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T06:54:30+00:00

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on recordBusiness live – latest updatesBP has reported its highest quarterly profits since the first year of Russia’s war on Ukraine because of rising oil and gas prices caused by the Middle East crisis.The oil company’s quarterly profits more than doubled to $5.73bn (£4.27bn) in the three months to the end of June, up $2.5bn from the quarter before, as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East continued to disrupt energy exports from the Gulf. Continue reading...

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Sensex today | Stock Market Live: Sensex down 200 pts, Nifty near 24,500; RBI MPC meet outcome in focus

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-04T06:40:24+00:00

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: Benchmark indices opened Tuesday’s session on a weak note, with the Nifty 50 trading lower by 175 points and the Sensex slipping modestly, as markets corrected after Monday’s sharp rally that analysts attributed partly to a technical distortion from the new Closing Auction Session mechanism.

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Lok Sabha proceedings adjourned till 2 pm

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-04T06:33:59+00:00

The Speaker adjourned the House after Opposition members raised slogans and protested the Government action on students during their march to Parliament on July 20

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Alan Jones trial day two – as it happened

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T06:33:37+00:00

Former 2UE and 2GB radio broadcaster is facing 22 charges. Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty. This blog is now closedWarning: This live blog may contain graphic content when discussing evidence in the trialAlan Jones paid student athlete he is accused of indecently assaulting $110,000 over a decade, trial hearsComplainant J has spoken about a second visit to Alan Jones’s Fitzroy Falls property, where no alleged assault occurred.He told the court that before this visit he had done “whatever I could to not go there on my own”.He said ‘is everything OK [J]?’While I was being held by the buttocks

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Sensex today | Stock Market Live: Sensex down 100 pts, Nifty near 24,500 as CAS correction weighs; RBI MPC meet outcome in focus

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-04T06:33:03+00:00

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: Benchmark indices opened Tuesday’s session on a weak note, with the Nifty 50 trading lower by 175 points and the Sensex slipping modestly, as markets corrected after Monday’s sharp rally that analysts attributed partly to a technical distortion from the new Closing Auction Session mechanism.

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PM to tighten early release rules but men jailed over PC Harper’s death can be freed

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T06:19:21+00:00

Rapists, child abusers and groomers will not leave prison early but some of those serving sexual or violent offences will now leave after half their sentenceRapists, child sexual abusers and groomers will be excluded from early release plans to ease critical prison overcrowding in a major intervention by Andy Burnham.The prime minister said on Tuesday that he would delay the planned early release of thousands of prisoners across England and Wales by a month until October. Continue reading...

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Sensex today | Stock Market Live: Sensex flat, Nifty down 200 pts to 24,560 as CAS correction weighs; RBI MPC meet outcome in focus

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-04T06:12:44+00:00

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: Benchmark indices opened Tuesday’s session on a weak note, with the Nifty 50 trading lower by 175 points and the Sensex slipping modestly, as markets corrected after Monday’s sharp rally that analysts attributed partly to a technical distortion from the new Closing Auction Session mechanism.

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SAMHI Hotels posts 30% profit jump, stock slides

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-04T06:10:19+00:00

Revenue per available room rose 9.6% year-on-year to ₹5,219, on a same-store basis, while occupancy improved to approximately 79.3% from 74.2% in Q1 FY26

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Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T06:00:15+00:00

Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbotA Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than £14,000 back after its systems failed to stop a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude.Zoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of £14,244 taken from his bank account. The scam involved fraudsters buying credits to use Claude. Continue reading...

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Australia news live: NSW will not implement recommendation of long-awaited hate speech report; Victorian doctors to go on strike

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T05:55:29+00:00

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMurray Watt, the federal environment minister, was asked earlier about former rugby league star Luke Bateman’s testimony before a parliamentary inquiry on gambling reform.Bateman alleged betting company promoters supplied him with cocaine and alcohol, also alleging he attended private Gold Coast events hosted by gambling firms where senior figures took illegal drugs with clients.We all feel for him and the circumstances that he went through. And for anyone to be offering illegal drugs as an inducement or for any

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Что известно об атаках ВСУ на Ленобласть и Подмосковье

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-08-04T05:53:40+00:00

Ночью 4 августа силы ПВО отразили массированную беспилотную атаку на регионы России, включая Подмосковье и Ленинградскую область. По данным Минобороны РФ, с вечера до 8:00 мск 4 августа силы ПВО сбили 320 украинских беспилотников самолетного типа над 20 субъектами РФ. Есть погибшие и раненые. В Ленобласти повреждены склады Wildberries. «Ведомости» собрали информацию, известную к этому часу.

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Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T05:46:06+00:00

Most of the zoo’s 16 lions have struggled to cope with high humidity this summerThree lions from a Tokyo zoo have died from suspected heatstroke and others are undergoing treatment, a spokesperson said on Tuesday, as the big cats struggle in Japan’s high levels of humidity.Japan sweltered through its hottest summer on record last year and parts of the country have hit 40C in recent weeks, qualifying for the new “cruelly hot day” designation. Continue reading...

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Nine Lives, the feral cat that terrorised New Zealand’s rare ducks, is caught after three years

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T05:45:57+00:00

Large tabby cat that wiped out dozens of rare pāteke, or brown teal, has been killed after eluding trappers with its ‘very erratic’ behaviourA notorious feral cat given the name “Nine Lives” because it eluded trappers for three years has been caught and killed in New Zealand, ending its devastating rampage against one of the country’s rare duck populations.The cat, a large grey tabby, is estimated to have killed dozens of New Zealand’s rarest mainland duck – or 1% of its population – plus a host of kiwi chicks, native geckos and other native wildlife during the three years it was known to be r

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‘Scott and Damien are afraid’: senior Liberal quizzed at Icac about former staffer’s message

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T05:45:53+00:00

NSW shadow attorney general, Damien Tudehope, tells inquiry Jean-Claude Perrottet had a talent for recruitingA senior New South Wales Liberal says the younger brother of former Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet had a “talent” for recruiting and renewing new members to the party, a corruption inquiry has heard.On Tuesday, NSW shadow attorney general and Liberal leader in the upper house, Damien Tudehope gave evidence as part of the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (Icac) Operation Rosny, where he was also asked about a 2018 message in which his former staffer, and younger brother of

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Sensex today | Stock Market Live: Sensex flat, Nifty down 190 pts to 24,580 as CAS correction weighs; RBI MPC meet outcome in focus

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-04T05:45:37+00:00

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: Benchmark indices opened Tuesday’s session on a weak note, with the Nifty 50 trading lower by 175 points and the Sensex slipping modestly, as markets corrected after Monday’s sharp rally that analysts attributed partly to a technical distortion from the new Closing Auction Session mechanism.

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Tuesday briefing: Inside the right’s heated climate-denial debate

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-04T05:45:05+00:00

In today’s newsletter: A small chorus of right-leaning critics are trying to convince politicians that climate action is deeply unpopular, downplaying its seriousness in the processGood morning. Half of England and all of Wales are officially in drought, wildfires have burned through parts of the Cairngorms, Suffolk and the Isle of Wight, and reservoirs are running low. Farmers have warned that there could soon be food shortages, and the Royal Horticultural Society is considering moving its hydrangeas to cope with the heat. Many people are now asking a question rarely associated with British s

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Exide Industries shares rally; analysts split on lithium upside

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-04T05:42:28+00:00

The stock touched an intraday high of ₹457.45 and a low of ₹441.60, with over 20.70 lakh shares changing hands valued at ₹92.75 crore by 10.42 am

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EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : un cargo touché par un « projectile inconnu » dans le détroit d’Ormuz ; des discussions en cours entre l’Iran et les Etats-Unis, selon Donald Trump

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-08-04T05:37:19+00:00

Le cargo n’a pas fait mention d’éventuels blessés ou dégâts. L’incident est survenu au large d’Oman. Parallèlement, le président américain a assuré lundi que des pourparlers se tenaient « en ce moment même », « à la demande » de Téhéran. L’Iran avait affirmé, plus tôt, ne pas négocier « avec les Etats-Unis en ce moment ».

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