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Rich World’s growing civil unrest has an insurance sting

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-16T11:16:57+00:00

SRCC losses are prone to huge swings between years, with single events often changing the landscape significantly

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Affaire Epstein : des perquisitions menées à l’Institut du monde arabe dans le cadre de l’enquête visant Jack Lang

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-16T11:14:14+00:00

Si aucune charge ne pèse à ce stade contre Jack Lang, président démissionnaire de l’IMA, son nom est mentionné des centaines de fois dans des échanges avec Jeffrey Epstein, et les documents révèlent des liens d’intérêt. « Je n’ai rien à cacher », a réagi M. Lang.

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Relations between the US and Hungary are in ‘a new golden age’, says Orbán – Europe live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-16T11:03:55+00:00

Hungarian prime minister makes comments in press conference with Marco Rubio as the two discuss UkraineBack to Budapest now. Marco Rubio and the Hungarian foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, appear to be signing an agreement to facilitate cooperation on a civilian nuclear programme.We’ll give you any key lines from the press conference. In the meantime, our European community affairs correspondent, Ashifa Kassam, has reported on the EU’s proposed deportation law that rights groups warn could intensify already widespread racial profiling across the continent. Here is an extract from her story:Mo

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Republicans and Democrats unite to condemn Trump’s attacks on allies

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-16T11:00:25+00:00

American politicians break rank at Munich Security Conference to hit out at ‘destructive’ president and urge Europe to stand up to TrumpDonald Trump’s most unbridled critics at this weekend’s Munich Security Conference have not been Europeans but Americans – and not just Democrat politicians.A few Republicans, out of earshot of the US president’s favoured Fox News, have had the courage to challenge Trump’s diet of tariffs and unpredictability. Continue reading...

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Українка обурилася в мережі неповагою артистів до глядачів - їй відповів соліст хору "Гомін"

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-02-16T10:59:00+00:00

Колаж УНІАН / фото instagram/hominchoirСоліст львівського муніципального хору "Гомін" Вадим Яценко пояснив, чому виступи артистів так часто затримуються на тривалий час. Користувачка Threads helga.lorents написала...

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Sanofi Healthcare India expands Hyderabad GCC

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-16T10:58:36+00:00

The GCC expansion will increase capacity to host around 4,500 employees, up from the previously projected 2,600, making it one of Sanofi’s largest talent hubs globally

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AMD takes on Nvidia in India with expanded Tata AI partnership

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-16T10:56:41+00:00

AMD’s push in India underscores a wider strategy to supply end-to-end AI infrastructure to governments and companies racing to build local computing capacity

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Giustizia, il ministero a Anm: elenco dei donatori del comitato del no. Pd: “Liste di proscrizione”

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-02-16T10:55:14+00:00

Il magistrato risponde al ministro che ieri, dopo aver attaccato il Consiglio superiore della magistratura (“meccanismo para-mafioso”), lo ha tirato in ballo citando sue dichiarazioni del 2019 Di Matteo: “Nordio strumentalizza”. Anm: toni inadeguati, nessun accostamento tra toghe e mafia

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Kremlin rejects European accusations it poisoned Navalny with dart frog toxin

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-16T10:53:02+00:00

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critic, died in ‌February 2024 aged 47 ‌in ⁠a far-flung Arctic prison, a ⁠month before Putin was re-elected in a landslide vote which Western nations said was ​neither free nor fair.

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Stock Market Highlights for February 16: Sensex jumps 650.39 points to settle at 83,277.15; Nifty advances 211.65 points to 25,682.75; Nifty Auto down nearly 1%

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-16T10:50:18+00:00

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty, which opened on a weak note, recovered to trade firm. At 3:30 pm, Sensex was at 83,305.44, up +678.68 points (0.82%). Nifty was at 25,681.60, up +210.5 points (0.83%). The Indian rupee dropped 0.02% versus the U.S. ​dollar to 90.6500

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McGrath inforca, l’oro dello slalom a Meillard. Saccardi 12°

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-02-16T10:47:15+00:00

Il norvegese, al comando dopo una prima manche che vede uscire tanti favoriti, va fuori e consegna l’oro allo svizzero. Sul podio Gstrein e Kristoffersen. L’emiliano unico azzurro in classifica, male Vinatzer

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Starmer says government remains ‘open-minded’ about social media ban for under-16s – UK politics live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-16T10:45:09+00:00

Prime minister says outcomes of consultation on social media ban should be implemented quickly as technology minister says Australia-style ban is not inevitableQ: Do you support in inquiry into Labour Together commissioning an investigation into journalists?Starmer says there will be a Cabinet Office investigation into this. “And quite right too,” he adds. Continue reading...

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Rupee closes unchanged at 90.66 against US dollar

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-16T10:42:19+00:00

In the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 90.63 against the US dollar and moved between an intraday high of 90.61 and a low of 90.72 during the session

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Australian women and children released from Syrian detention camp

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-16T10:38:17+00:00

The group of 34 – families of dead or jailed extremists – could return to Australia after being held since 2019Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian women and children held for years without charge in a squalid detention camp in north-east Syria have been released ahead of their expected repatriation to Australia.The 34 women and children in the group are the wives, widows and children of dead or jailed Islamic State fighters. Continue reading...

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