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Ether set for biggest daily fall in three months, no US ETF bounce
Cryptocurrency ether dropped as much as 7% on Thursday as it got caught up in the broad market sell-off and failed to get a lift from this week's launch of the first U.S. exchange traded funds tracking the currency. The world's second largest cryptocurrency was last down 6% at $3,170 in what would be its biggest daily percentage fall in three months, leaving it broadly in the middle of its recent trading range.
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Israel army recovers from Gaza bodies of 5 killed on October 7
Israeli forces retrieved the remains of five Israelis, killed during Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel, whose bodies had been taken to the Gaza Strip, the military said Thursday.The military said the soldiers were killed in combat while fighting the militants on October 7.
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Putin meets Assad amid calls to defuse Turkey-Syria tensions
President Vladimir Putin held talks with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Moscow amid calls for Russian mediation to cool tensions between Turkey and Syria.Since 2022, top Syrian and Turkish officials have met for Russia-mediated talks.
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Flash floods and landslides kill seven in Vietnam
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed seven people in northern Vietnam and swept away homes, disaster officials and state media said Thursday.In mid-July, a landslide triggered by heavy rains killed 11 people travelling in a van in northern Ha Giang province.
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Markets track tech-led plunge on Wall St, yen extends gains
Heavy selloffs in tech stocks hammered equity markets Thursday, tracking a plunge on Wall Street as disappointing earnings caused traders to panic that a long-running rally in the sector may have been overdone.Hideyuki Suzuki, senior analyst at SBI Securities, told AFP that "falls in the US tech sector -- especially a plunge in Tesla shares, and disappointing Alphabet earnings -- as well as a stronger yen weighed on the market".
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'I Approve This Message': Kamala Harris Instantly Uses Trump's Own Words Against Him
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Sweden seeks to be winemaking's next frontier
Far north of iconic wine regions like Bordeaux and Tuscany, Sweden is seeing a burgeoning industry of vineyards and a first generation of winemakers trying to carve out a niche.Sofrakis runs a small vineyard in the far south of Sweden but is a champion of Swedish winemaking.
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