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A large part of the Cabinet sat down at the table with the presidents of banking groups, energy companies, steel companies, and major service firms. Sheinbaum posted a photo of the meeting on social media, which also included the president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Francisco Cervantes, as well as the president of Grupo Televisa, Bernardo Gomez; the president of Grupo Bal, Alejandro Bailleres Gual; the president of Grupo FEMSA, Jose Antonio Fernandez Garza; and the son and right-hand man of the president of Banamex, Felipe Chico Hernandez.

For many Americans, Uzbekistan has long been misunderstood. It was once a closed republic of the Soviet Union isolated, constrained, and overshadowed by the legacy of communism. But the country I visited is something vastly different. Uzbekistan today is charting a bold new path: expanding its economy, protecting workers, empowering women, and embracing modernization without sacrificing cultural or religious identity.

In his guilty plea, El Chapo's son told the judge how he kidnapped Zambada. After luring him to a meeting, he led him into a room where he was ambushed by several men, who tied him up, put a bag over his head, and loaded him into a pickup truck. They then took him to a nearby airstrip and forced him onto a private plane.

"Social media was a big social experiment,"

During my six years as foreign minister, I learned diplomatic prudence, and then, in these years as president, with the experience of being foreign minister and having been mentored by our Commander Chavez, I value prudence, Maduro said, referring to the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, under whom he was foreign minister. I don't like diplomacy with microphones; when there are important matters, they must be handled quietly until they are resolved!

With 80.29 percent of ballots tallied on Wednesday, the centrist Liberal Party's Nasralla held 40.23 percent while the National Party's Asfura had 39.69 percent, according to the country's National Electoral Council (CNE). list of 4 itemsend of list Nasrallah's lead over Asfura was less than 14,000 votes. Rixi Moncada of the ruling leftist LIBRE Party was well behind in third place with 19.01 percent.

The path ahead for Ukraine peace talks is unclear, Donald Trump has said, after what he called reasonably good talks between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US envoys which nonetheless failed to achieve a breakthrough After their hours-long meeting at the Kremlin on Tuesday, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, were set to meet top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov in Florida on Thursday.

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will soon resume more than a decade after the plane and its 239 passengers and crew members disappeared from radar. The Malaysian government said Wednesday that it plans to renew efforts to unravel a mystery that began March 8, 2014, when the airliner traveling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing vanished 39 minutes after leaving the runway. Texas marine robotics company Ocean Infinity will lead the charge.

Africa's minerals and young workforce are attracting global interest as China, the US and Europe compete for influence.

Last month an investigation led by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an independent agency, accused allies of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, including two ministers, of graft and fraud to the tune of $100 million. The ministers have resigned. So has the president's chief of staff, while a former business partner of Zelenskyy appears to have fled the country. The president himself is not accused of wrongdoing but has been politically damaged.

On this week's podcast: How Australia will ban under-16s from social media Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg Never miss an episode. Follow The Bloomberg Australia Podcast today. From next week, Australia's under-16s will be prevented from accessing platforms including TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook, as the Labor government pushes to curb harms caused by social media. In our latest podcast, Rebecca Jones asks Bloomberg's Angus Whitley

During a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on 3 December, new evidence was presented suggesting that Ukrainian children abducted by Russia have been transferred to North Korea, where they are reportedly held in military-style camps. The information, brought forward by Ukrainian journalist and media adviser Ostap Yarysh, marks one of the starkest escalations yet in Russia's forced displacement campaign, a campaign already recognised internationally as a war crime and the subject of International Criminal Court indictments against Vladimir Putin and Russia's Commissioner for Children, Maria Lvova-Belova.

The super-rich are inheriting record levels of wealth as they pass down billions of dollars to their children, grandchildren and spouses, research by a Swiss bank favoured by billionaires shows. Globally, there are 9,919 billionaires this year, up from 2,682 in 2024, UBS found. Of these, 91 people this year became billionaires through inheritance, collectively receiving $298bn (223bn) in the 12 months to April, the bank said.

Thousands of Indianairline IndiGo passengers suffered flight cancellations and delays for the third day on Thursday, as the airline grapples with new government regulations that affect its staff's working hours. At least 175 IndiGo flights were canceled as of early Thursday, the Reuters news agency reported, with 150 more flights canceled on Wednesday. Passengers were left stranded at major Indian airports including New Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru. The airline accounts for 60% of domestic flights in India.

Must be amazing to be in Australia for the Ashes, what's the atmosphere like? It's an understandable, if slightly daft question. Brett Lee isn't in my house. I don't wake up next to a furious Jonathan Agnew. WHY AREN'T YOU IN CANBERRA, MAX? I'm 850 miles from Brisbane. Apart from me the atmosphere is one of wild indifference amongst the family. The good news is I'm hosting the Guardian Ashes Weekly podcast - now a professional excuse to watch another five

Amnesty International has called for a war crimes investigation into an assault by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a displaced persons camp in Sudan's North Darfur state earlier this year. A report issued by the NGO on Wednesday documents accounts of atrocities committed by the RSF during a large-scale attack on the Zamzam camp. The RSF has been accused of indiscriminate killing and mass rape, among other crimes,

There are literally two British nationals on their own, no food, water, fuel, no way in or out. This is getting worse. The weather's going to change again in a couple of days. You know, there has to be a plan I said: This could be lives lost if you don't take some sort of action, genuinely.' But they just said: No, there's no plan.'

For hours, millions of residents remained in the dark as the government worked to restore power to an area that spans from the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio to Mayabeque, just east of Havana. Throughout the morning, officials sought to reassure the public that electricity would soon be restored. Following the power outage in western Cuba, the workers at [the Ministry of Energy and Mines] immediately began restoration efforts, which are already under way,

By confronting the damage left by the previous administration, the interim government has set the economy on a path of stabilisation, not collapse. The recent wave of pessimism surrounding Bangladesh's economy under its interim administration, much of it amplified by selectively framed local commentary, offers an incomplete and often misleading portrait of the country's actual economic trajectory. Much of this concern is overstated, as the headline indicators reflect a necessary structural correction rather than an economic collapse.