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FPIs turn net buyers in Feb; invest ₹8,100 crore in a week on US trade deal

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-08T07:23:22+00:00

The inflows follow sustained withdrawals in recent months, with FPIs pulling out ₹35,962 crore in January, ₹22,611 crore in December and ₹3,765 crore in November, data with the depositories showed.

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Iran-US talks in Muscat bought time, not a deal

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-02-08T07:04:06+00:00

The negotiations reopened diplomacy, but mistrust and military pressure raise the question of how much time remains.

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Mundra Port posts record auto exports, liquid cargo handling in January

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-08T07:04:05+00:00

The port handled its highest-ever monthly automobile export volume, shipping 25,762 vehicles through its dedicated roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) terminal at Adani Mundra Container Terminal (CT2)

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« Les cités-Etats de l’Antiquité dont parle Thucydide ne sont pas sans ressembler aux puissances moyennes du XXIᵉ siècle »

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-08T07:00:10+00:00

Les puissances moyennes d’aujourd’hui refondent leurs alliances pour faire face aux Etats-Unis de Donald Trump, à l’instar des cités-Etats siciliennes face à l’Athènes impérialiste du Vᵉ siècle avant notre ère, estime l’historien Robert Zaretsky dans une tribune au « Monde ».

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LIVE: Nepal vs England – T20 World Cup 2026

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-02-08T06:53:56+00:00

Follow our live build-up, toss, team news, score, photos and text commentary stream from Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.

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India's forex reserves touch fresh record high of $723.8 billion

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-08T06:48:05+00:00

Foreign exchange reserves rose sharply by $14.361 billion in the week to $723.774 billion, driven by a jump in gold reserves while foreign currency assets dropped

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Dear Tomorrow: Inside Japan’s loneliness crisis

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-02-08T06:07:03+00:00

Struggling with loneliness, people in Japan use an online chat service for mental health support and social connection.

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As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-08T06:00:24+00:00

Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacksThe email landed in Lizzie Johnson’s in-tray in Ukraine just before 4pm local time. It came at a tough time for the reporter: Russia had been repeatedly striking the country’s power grid, and just days before she had been forced to work out of her car without heat, power or running water, writing in pencil because pen ink freezes too readily.“Difficult news,” was the subject line. The body text said: “Your position is eliminated as part of

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Failure to compensate pelvic mesh implant victims ‘morally unacceptable’, say campaigners

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-08T06:00:23+00:00

Thousands of women with life-changing complications still in limbo two years after call for financial redressThe government’s failure to respond to calls for a compensation scheme for women harmed by pelvic mesh has been described as “morally unacceptable” by campaigners.Thousands of women were left with life-changing complications after receiving transvaginal mesh implants, with some unable to walk or work again. Continue reading...

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‘We need to accept the cost’: future of British Steel unclear as bills for government build up

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-08T06:00:22+00:00

Propping up operations at Scunthorpe site, still legally owned by Jingye, now costs over £1.2m a day – so what are the options?British Steel was losing £700,000 a day last year when its Chinese owner announced plans to shut the steelworks at Scunthorpe. After Jingye rejected support to buy raw materials, the UK government stepped in with emergency legislation to take control of the plant.But that was not the end of the crisis. The cost to the government of propping up British Steel is now more than £1.2m a day. Yet the £359m bill, the latest disclosed to parliament last month, may only be the

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La dialectique de l’oppression entre l’Iran et l’Irak

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-08T06:00:04+00:00

Depuis l’invasion américaine de l’Irak, en 2003, le régime des ayatollahs dispose dans le pays voisin d’une profondeur stratégique qui facilite la répression de la contestation en Iran même, analyse l’historien Jean-Pierre Filiu dans sa chronique.

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Как тайное становилось явным: крупнейшие раскрытия конфиденциальных данных

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-02-08T05:56:04+00:00

Развитие цифровых технологий привело к тому, что утечки и раскрытия конфиденциальных данных сразу становятся доступными любому желающему. Публикация так называемых файлов Эпштейна – архива личной переписки американского финансиста Джеффри Эпштейна, обвиняемого в организации детской проституции, – вызвала скандалы вокруг влиятельных лиц по всему миру. Но это далеко не первый раз, когда тайная информация становилась достоянием широкой общественности. «Ведомости» вспоминают самые громкие случаи.

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Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-08T05:43:33+00:00

Laws to be introduced this week include up to two years in prison for distributing, displaying or reciting prohibited phrases to harass or offendGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland could become the first state in Australia to outlaw the phrase “from the river to the sea”, under sweeping new hate speech reforms announced by the state government.The premier, David Crisafulli, announced the proposed laws on Sunday, ahead of their introduction to parliament on Tuesday, describing them as a direct response to the Bondi terror attack, in which 15 people were killed

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Budget proposal on tax holiday to give big boost to domestic data centres: Sources

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-08T05:39:40+00:00

The Budget proposal, which offers a tax holiday of 20 years up to 2047 to any foreign company that procures data centre services in India, allays fears of their global income being taxed by Indian authorities

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« Voici comment le cardinal Robert Prevost est devenu le pape Léon XIV » : les coulisses du conclave dévoilées par deux vaticanistes

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-08T05:30:34+00:00

Le 8 mai 2025, le premier pape américain de l’histoire a été élu au terme d’un conclave de vingt-quatre heures seulement. Journalistes basés au Vatican, l’Argentine Elisabetta Piqué et l’Irlandais Gerard O’Connell reconstituent, dans un entretien au « Monde », la trajectoire éclair de ce cardinal au profil pourtant discret.

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Firat Cinko, le narcotrafiquant international qui œuvrait à 200 mètres de l’Elysée

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-08T05:30:20+00:00

Un procès aux assises vient d’être ordonné pour cet homme de 39 ans, soupçonné d’avoir orchestré un trafic international de cocaïne entre le Venezuela, la Martinique et l’Hexagone, depuis une Smart garée en bas de son domicile, à deux pas de l’Elysée. Il risque la perpétuité.

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L’Amérique latine, nouveau théâtre de la rivalité entre la Chine et les Etats-Unis

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-08T05:30:10+00:00

Depuis deux décennies, la Chine accroît son influence dans la plupart des pays de la région, Brésil en tête. Une situation que l’administration Trump tente de contrer par la pression diplomatique et les menaces économiques et militaires.

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No clarity on whether India will stop buying Russian crude oil

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-08T05:11:39+00:00

India's purchase of Russian oil had become a thorny issue in ties between New Delhi and Washington with many American officials alleging that it is fuelling Moscow's war machine against Ukraine

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