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- Saudi Aramco’s green initiativesSaudi Aramco’s green initiatives are part of the broader Saudi Green Initiative (SGI), a national effort to combat climate change and promote sustainability. Aramco’s initiatives focus on reducing its…
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- Pope Francis, 88, rested during a peaceful ninth night at Rome's Gemelli Hospital after a respiratory crisis and blood transfusions, the Vatican said Sunday.
- The seventh hostage-prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas has been delayed due to the terrorists' "humiliating" treatment of hostages, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
- Edan Alexander spent most of his life in Tenafly, New Jersey, before moving to Israel and enlisting in the IDF. On Oct. 7, 2023, he was taken hostage and is still being held in Gaza.
- Just days before the three-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Trump’s envoy seeks to end the bloody conflict and secure compensation from Ukraine for U.S. military aid to the war-torn nation that is fighting for its survival.
- Pope Francis suffered an asthmatic respiratory crisis that required oxygen, the Associated Press reported. The 88-year-old pope has been hospitalized for over a week.
- Houthi rebels fired air missile at United States military fighter jets. While the missile did not strike the jet, the attempted attack escalated the altercation between the two sides.
- 70 Christians beheaded in African country by ISIS-aligned militants, groups say; world mostly silentReports indicate that 70 Christians were beheaded by Islamic militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group that killed the faithful is an affiliate of the Islamic state.
- Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the right-wing Alternative for Germany party is likely to make gains.
- A general from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps lashed out at Israel and the U.S. during military exercises, setting the stage for a new attack on the Jewish state.
- Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK political party, told Fox News Digital he believes a "political revolution," like the one in the U.S., is headed for Europe.
- Hamas freed more hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of the delicate ceasefire agreement with Israel.
- The body of a woman who was presumed to have been one of four dead hostages Hamas handed over to Israel was positively identified Saturday morning.
- German police arrested a suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin's Holocaust memorial on Friday. No motive has been given for the attack.
- The remains of a woman killed while in captivity by Hamas was supposedly handed over to Israel on Friday, a day after her body was supposed to be brought back.
- Pope Francis "is fine" as his medical condition is not life-threatening, but he is not being released from the hospital yet, this doctors in Italy announced.
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- The days of plugging in an iPhone to charge won't last forever.
- Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of one of India's biggest outsourcing companies, says an H-1B visa crackdown would ultimately hurt the U.S.
- Mexican Senator Armando Rios Piter told CNN that he plans to introduce a bill this week that would stop Mexican purchases of American corn.
- The market is at all-time highs and many say Trump is the reason. But stocks were rallying when investors thought Hillary Clinton would win. Janet Yellen and the Fed may deserve more of the credit for the market's move.
- Apple stock is less than $1 away from its all-time high amid renewed optimism for the iPhone.
- President-elect Donald Trump focuses his criticism of NAFTA on Mexico. But Canada and America have a rocky trade history too.
- Verizon has decided to bring back unlimited data plans. But while that's great for its subscribers, it's awful news for investors. It's another sign of how brutally competitive the telecom business is. And it's hurting Verizon's stock.
- The automaker announced Monday that its first official venture in the oil-rich Middle East will be in the United Arab Emirates.
- Sears Holdings, the company that owns retail stores Sears and Kmart, said this weekend that it would remove 31 Trump-branded items from its website.
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- The price of crude oil has more than doubled over the past year after bottoming out at $26 per barrel in February 2016.
- Uber's top rival in India has some unsolicited advice for the U.S. startup: Go local.
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- Universal Biopack makes packaging that it sells to restaurants and manufacturers. But rather than plastic, it uses a mixture of bamboo and cassava.
- Treasury secretary pick Steven Mnuchin is an executive producer on Warner Bros.' "The Lego Batman Movie," which pulled in an estimated $55.6 million from U.S. audiences during its opening weekend.