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Former president Bill Clinton thanked Joe Biden for his courage, compassion and class and for voluntarily stepping aside and endorsing Kamala Harris.Mr Clinton, 78, hailed the President for his efforts in helping the country to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and for strengthening relations with the world after four years of an “America first” approach under Donald Trump.Follow live updates: https://news.ae/4dPVbmj#news #dnc #usa #elections #politics

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The National's Jihan Abdalla reports from the Democratic National Convention before vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's address tonight. Follow updates here: https://news.ae/4dPVbmj#news #usa #elections #politics #dnc

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is set on Wednesday to deliver the keynote speech at the party's convention in Chicago, putting the Minnesota Governor on the largest platform yet since accepting Kamala Harris's invitation to be her running mate.Mr Walz has only been on the Democratic presidential ticket for 15 days, and the tone he sets on the main convention stage will help to define the party platform in the final months before the November elections.#news #usa #elections #voting #dnc

“Iran has always been a significant actor on the stage,” Philip Lieberman, founder and president of Analog Informatics and a noted cybersecurity expert, told The National.“There have been public examples of them exerting their capabilities worldwide on anybody that displeases them. They're competent at this."The thing is that the tools themselves for doing these attacks are available on the dark net and are readily available to anybody with money.”#politics #elections #news #Iran #security

Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff has told the Democratic National Convention that the Vice President is ready to lead the US. Read more here: https://news.ae/4dPVbmj#news #politics #democrats #DNC2024

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Brands For Less Group has agreed to sell a 35% stake in its off-price retail business to US-based The TJX Companies, a global value seller of clothing and home fashions, for $360 million. BFL serves more than seven markets across the Middle East and South-East Asia.

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Federal Reserve officials were strongly leaning towards cutting US interest rates in September, while “several” had seen the case for a July rate cut, according to last month's meeting minutes released on Wednesday.According to the minutes, a “vast majority” of Federal Open Market Committee members believed that “it would likely be appropriate to ease policy at the next meeting” if data in the coming month came in as expected, pointing to a probable rate cut in September.#news #politics #usa #economy #policy

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Lebanon said on Wednesday that it will require state institutions to pay their electricity bills in order to raise cash for its accumulating unpaid bills for fuel imports from Iraq.Lebanon's caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad announced that the state-owned electricity company would pay about $150 million to Iraq – a small part of the total dues, which could reach more than $1.6 billion by November 2024, according to The National's calculations based on official figures.

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Divers retrieve five bodies from sunken superyacht off Sicily after three-day search. Read more: https://news.ae/3XbSaqN

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The strengthening ties between Riyadh and Beijing could enable oil trading between the two nations in China's renminbi, according to S&P Global Ratings.Yuan-based oil trade between Saudi Arabia and China faces “significant challenges” and may take decades to grow to a “meaningful scale”, but the deepening bilateral ties and aligning long-term interests may boost this process, the ratings agency said in a report.

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