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Integrating climate finance into the banking regulatory framework

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-21T15:30:16+00:00

The RBI’s proposed climate risk information system is an important first step in developing standardised datasets to facilitate clean transition

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Netanyahu faces one of the biggest challenges of his career.

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-21T15:30:13+00:00

In a ‘plot twist’, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be heading into an election this fall without his main prop: President Trump.

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Small banks hold on to upgrade plans

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-21T15:20:24+00:00

Why the ‘universal banking licence’ is proving irresistible despite the RBI’s stringent eligibility criteria

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Dutch PM apologises for Moluccan soldiers’ mistreatment after Indonesian independence

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-21T15:18:53+00:00

Rob Jetten acknowledges grief and pain of Moluccan families as crowdfunded monument unveiled in RotterdamThe Dutch prime minister, Rob Jetten, has formally apologised for the “heartless” mistreatment of thousands of Moluccan soldiers who fought for the Dutch colonial army during Indonesia’s struggle for independence.About 12,500 men from a group of Indonesian islands who served in the Royal Dutch East Indies army came with their families to the Netherlands in 1951, many having been given no choice. They thought it would be a temporary evacuation after Indonesia had won independence. Continue r

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US-Iran negotiations in Switzerland kick off

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-06-21T15:16:44+00:00

US-Iran talks opened in Switzerland with mediators Qatar and Pakistan hailing a ‘historic’ opportunity for stability.

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Ostigard diventa papà in diretta su FaceTime

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-06-21T15:13:59+00:00

Il difensore del Genoa ha assistito alla nascita del primo figlio dal ritiro della Norvegia ai Mondiali

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : les tensions entre l’Ukraine et la Pologne sont « une erreur stratégique dont les deux parties pâtiront », regrette le premier ministre polonais, Donald Tusk

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-21T15:11:13+00:00

En réaction à l’hommage rendu par Kiev à des nationalistes ukrainiens du XXᵉ siècle accusés de massacres en Pologne, le président polonais a retiré la plus haute distinction de son pays à Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Coal companies to reap billions more in taxpayer diesel subsidies as Labor approves new mining

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-21T15:00:36+00:00

Albanese government under pressure to wind back fuel tax credit scheme for multinational miners as analysis shows cost to budgetGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCoal companies could receive an extra $6.2bn in taxpayer refunds for the diesel they use if the Albanese government greenlights just half the mine developments up for approval.The finding, in an analysis released by activist group Lock the Gate, comes as the government faces an internal campaign before next month’s Labor party national conference to commit to winding back a fuel tax credit scheme for multinati

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‘Native children belong in Native communities’: tribes decry New Mexico drug-exposed newborn rule

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-21T15:00:34+00:00

Groups say new directive fails to respect Native sovereignty amid complicated history of Indigenous child removalsOne morning early last July, Micha Bitsinnie arrived at work to an onslaught of messages from confused families.New Mexico’s governor Michelle Lujan Grisham had just issued a directive mandating the state’s child welfare department seek custody of all newborns who had been exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero. Some parents wondered whether medications that they were taking for addiction recovery, such as methadone, would flag their cases. Healthcare providers wondered whether the

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Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-21T15:00:33+00:00

Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediatelyA Sydney author – I’ll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the deranging experience of publishing her first. She’s using a pseudonym because one day she might change her mind; the notoriously small Australian publishing industry does not tend to look with favour on authors who complain.When Rebecca was proofing her debut – a work of nonfiction published by one of the big five – she discovered that a pivotal chapter h

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« On ne s’habitue jamais aux morts » : à Tyr, dans le sud du Liban, le retour impossible à la vie ordinaire après des mois de guerre

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-21T15:00:18+00:00

Les habitants reviennent peu à peu dans cette ville côtière durement touchée par les bombardements israéliens, mais l’inquiétude perdure alors que le cessez-le-feu a été maintes fois violé, avant une fragile accalmie observée le 21 juin dans le sud du pays du Cèdre.

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Strengthening external sector defences

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-21T15:00:18+00:00

The government has taken several structural measures to guard against future bouts of external volatility

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« On ne s’habitue jamais aux morts » : à Tyr, dans le sud du Liban, le retour impossible à la vie ordinaire après des mois de guerre

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-21T15:00:16+00:00

Les habitants reviennent peu à peu dans cette ville côtière durement touchée par les bombardements israéliens, mais l’inquiétude perdure alors que le cessez-le-feu a été maintes fois violé, avant une fragile accalmie observée le 21 juin dans le sud du pays du Cèdre.

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Colombians vote in runoff election expected to trigger shift in decades-long armed conflict

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-21T14:44:36+00:00

Frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groupsGhost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff voteColombians are going to the polls in a presidential runoff expected to trigger to a dramatic shift in the country’s decades-long armed conflict, now at its most violent point since the landmark 2016 peace agreement between the government and most of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).Polls show the frontrunner is the Trump-admiring far-right lawyer and millionaire businessman Abelardo de la

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UK climate activists fear case delays could cost them right to jury trial

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-21T14:24:29+00:00

Defendants worry that changes could remove chance of acquittal based on jurors’ consciences in defiance of the lawClimate activists fear that delays to their cases may mean they lose the right to a trial before jurors, who are typically more likely to acquit them than a judge.Scores of defendants facing trials for protests as long ago as 2021 have had proceedings repeatedly postponed and worry that by the time their cases are heard, government changes limiting the right to jury trial may be in force. Continue reading...

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Badenoch attacks Farage over £5m gift and rules out Tory-Reform pact

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-21T14:21:35+00:00

Conservative leader says Reform UK’s poor showing in this week’s byelections leaves idea of deal ‘stone-dead’UK politics live – latest updatesKemi Badenoch has attacked Nigel Farage over the £5m gift he received before the general election as she ruled out an electoral pact with Reform UK.The Tory leader questioned Farage’s acceptance of the gift from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in the months before he stood to become an MP in 2024. Continue reading...

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Does age determine asset allocation?

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-21T14:20:17+00:00

For goal-based investments (the core portfolio), asset allocation is a function of the required return (called the minimum acceptable return) to achieve the goal and not your age

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India’s premium RTD story is no longer a metro phenomenon

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-21T14:20:16+00:00

India’s premium ready-to-drink market is expanding into Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, driven by rising incomes and changing consumer preferences, reshaping the FMCG landscape

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Basis of your investment decisions, product choice

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-21T14:10:17+00:00

You have to cut through the hype and understand how the product is suitable so as to achieve your desired financial goal within the investment horizon set by you

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