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                                                                             Source Jakarta Global Indonesia will again receive grain exports from Ukraine. To Jokowi, Zelenskyy Tells Java. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, recently informed Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, the president of Indonesia, that Ukraine intended to resume grain shipments to the nation in Southeast Asia.  Zelenskyy discussed certain facts of his conversation with Jokowi over the phone on the social media platform X on Thursday. Agenda items included global food security and the announcement by Ukraine to resume grain exports to Indonesia. Zelenskyy posted on social media platform X, "I spoke with Indonesian President @jokowi about the Peace Formula, global food security, and the Middle East." Despite Russian attempts to restrict freedom of passage in the Black Sea, Ukraine, a global guarantor of food security, continues to export grain via alternate channels. Zelenskyy declared, "We ar

At the San Francisco meeting, Joe Biden will put pressure on Xi Jinping to resume military communications.  The US and Chinese presidents will meet for the first time in a year ahead of the Apec forum.                                                                            Source https://www.ft.com/ In a meeting with Xi Jinping ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit next week, Joe Biden will put pressure on the Chinese leader over the necessity of resuming communications between the US and Chinese military. The White House announced on Friday that Xi and Biden would have a meeting on Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay region before to their attendance at Apec. In the face of escalating tensions over problems like Chinese military action close to Taiwan and US efforts to prevent China from obtaining cutting-edge US technology, the two sides are attempting to redouble their efforts to stabilize relations. One year after their first encounter at the G20 in Bali, Indo

                                                                                     Source REUTERS  Oil is expected to drop for a third week as concerns about demand mount. November 10, LONDON (Reuters) - Although oil prices increased on Friday, they are expected to decline for a third week due to decreasing demand and the focus of the market on OPEC and its allies this month for a crucial meeting that will decide the group's next course of action on production. At 1109 GMT, the January contract for Brent crude was up 84 cents, or 1.1%, at $80.85 a barrel, while the December contract for U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was up 78 cents, or 1%, at $76.52. Each contract is expected to decline by roughly 5% each week. "Concerns about demand have replaced the fear of production outages related to the Middle East conflict," stated Commerzbank. This week's weak Chinese economic data heightened concerns about declining demand. Furthermore, Chinese refiners, who purc

                                                                                       Source Theverge.com To get Epic to release Fortnite on the Play Store, Google promised them $147 million.  Google feared that a "contagion" of defecting developers might have reduced its Android income by billions. In court, Google acknowledged that Epic received a $147 million offer to release its popular game Fortnite on the Google Play Store for Android smartphones. The agreement, which was authorized and sent to Epic but rejected, according to Google's VP of Play Partnerships Purnima Kochikar, called for the money to be paid to the game publisher in three years' worth of "incremental funding" that would have ended in 2021. The intention was to stop a possible "contagion" of well-known programs avoiding Android's official store and, consequently, Google's hefty in-app purchase costs. 2018 saw the direct release of Fortnite on Android by Epic via its we

                                                                                Source cnbc.com  The 18-year-old's father reveals his top parenting tip, saying, "I take a hands off approach," after his son was employed as a Google engineer. Stanley Zhong is not like other eighteen-year-olds. Nor is he your average Google  developer. Zhong received a weighted GPA of 4.42, a SAT score of 1590, and an e-signature firm named RabbitSign as graduation gifts from Palo Alto, California's Gunn High School earlier this year. In addition, he received waitlist or rejection letters from 16 of the 18 universities he applied to, including Stanford and MIT. Google intervened, offering Zhong a position as a L4 software engineer, which is one level above entry level. Zhong intends to work there for a year before going to the University of Texas, thus it's only a temporary position. Even while the job title and the offer may have surprised some, Stanley's father Nan Zhong claims

                                                                             Source Yahoo finance Masayoshi Son Lost His Credibility and $11.5 Billion Due to the WeWork Saga In Bloomberg The bankruptcy filing of WeWork Inc. brings to an end a protracted legal battle that exposed startling weaknesses in Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son's investing strategy, harming his standing in the business considerably more than the money he lost. Overriding the protests of his lieutenants, Son gave WeWork founder Adam Neumann billions of dollars from the Vision Fund and SoftBank Group Corp., driving the co-working space's valuation to an astounding $47 billion in the first quarter of 2019. A few months later, WeWork's IPO papers exposed significant losses and conflicts of interest, which incensed investors. SoftBank is suffering larger losses from WeWork's subsequent collapse than from the projected $11.5 billion in stock losses and the additional $2.2 billion in debt that is stil

                                                                                            Source Antara Human rights are given priority in ASEAN human trafficking proceedings by Komnas HAM. ANTARA, Badung, Bali - As human trafficking cases in ASEAN are linked to the violation of fundamental human rights, the National Commision on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said on Tuesday that it is giving human rights-based handling priority. "As a follow-up to the cases, all parties involved in handling human trafficking must integrate (human) rights into their analysis," stated Atnike Nova Sigiro, chairperson of Komnas HAM, during the ASEAN Regional Conference on Human Trafficking in Kuta, Bali. She clarified that the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, and the police are all active in the fight against human trafficking. She said that forced labour, forced mar