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By Sherin Sunny and Kumar Tanishk Aug 26 (Reuters) – Property developer Ingenia Communities on Wednesday offered to buy Peet in a deal valuing the residential property developer at A$992.5 million ($710.93 million), to expand its presence in the Australian housing market. The proposal follows a period of softer sales volumes and prices in Australia’s residential property market, and a government decision to trim tax concessions for investment properties in […]

BEIJING, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, as part of a state visit there and then to Egypt from August 30 to September 3, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. At the Bishkek summit, Xi will discuss deepening cooperation as well as major international and regional issues with participating countries and leaders, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian […]

BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Aug 26 (Reuters) – China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet’s Google that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said. Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major U.S. cloud company. The discussions highlight how China’s leading AI models, often far cheaper […]

STOCKHOLM, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Swedish prosecutors have apprehended a second person suspected of involvement in last week’s attack at a school in which a 17-year-old girl was killed and three people were injured by a man wielding a sword, they said on Wednesday. On Friday, police arrested an 18-year-old man they said was believed to have carried out the attack at the Brinell high school in the central Swedish […]

SEC joins Big Ten in banning pros from returning to college, including basketball players The Southeastern Conference has passed a rule banning players who have been drafted by NFL, NBA or WNBA teams or listed on rosters in those leagues. With Tuesday’s move, the SEC joins the Big Ten in taking a stand against this month’s unexpected surge of pro players trying to return to college. The Big Ten only […]

By Claire Fu SINGAPORE, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The European Union is finding support on an opponent’s turf ahead of trade talks with Beijing, as Chinese workers vent on social media about excessive overtime that critics say gives exporters an unfair advantage. Europe, which last year ran a trade deficit with China of roughly $1 billion a day, has given Beijing until October to address growing imbalances that it says […]

Netanyahu Reveals Censored Iranian Plot To Assassinate His Son By The Media Line Staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran tried to assassinate one of his sons, revealing an alleged plot that Israel’s military censor had previously prohibited media outlets from reporting. Netanyahu did not say whether the alleged Iranian attempt targeted Yair Netanyahu or Avner Netanyahu. The military censor was caught off guard by the prime minister’s […]

Syrian Court Sentences Assad-Era Grand Mufti Ahmad Hassoun to Life in Prison By Rizik Alabi / The Media Line [DAMASCUS] The Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus on Monday, August 24, sentenced Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, Syria’s former grand mufti under Bashar Assad, to life imprisonment after convicting him on charges related to war crimes, crimes against humanity, incitement, and supporting armed groups during the Syrian war. The court also ordered the […]

Dominican Republic Adopts IHRA Antisemitism Definition at Latin America Summit By The Media Line Staff The Dominican Republic will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, President Luis Abinader announced at a major regional conference in Santo Domingo focused on combating antisemitism through government and legislative action. This announcement came during the sixth-annual Latin American Forum Against Antisemitism, organized by the Combat Antisemitism Movement. The gathering […]