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 Indonesia and six other countries receive a mandate from the OIC to end the war in Gaza.                                                                                 Source Tempo.co Jakarta's TEMPO.CO One of the nations designated by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to take the lead in bringing an end to the conflict in Gaza is Indonesia. In addition to Indonesia, the OIC leaders mandated Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and Nigeria to assist in initiating a political process aimed at achieving peace between Israel and Palestine through a resolution passed following the extraordinary summit held in Riyadh on Saturday, November 11, 2023. Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi stated in a written statement following her attendance at the OIC Summit that "Paragraph 11 (in the resolution) is an acknowledgment from the OIC of Indonesia's activeness or active contribution which continues to try to resolve the Palestinian problem, especially recently the situa

PRIVATE PRESENTATION      All of Arteta's post-Burnley news conference                                                                                      Source Arsenal.com   After we defeated Burnley 3-1 in the Premier League to secure a commanding league lead before the international break, Mikel Arteta addressed the media. The manager was questioned over Oleksandr Zinchenko's performance, Leandro Trossard's historic goal, and Ben White and Martin Odegaard's fitness. Read Mikel's entire message below. Regarding the outcome and Vieira's red card: I'm really pleased with the outcome, especially considering how we played the last three games—against Newcastle, against Sevilla, and today—and how dominant we were in a number of situations against teams that are very difficult to dominate. I also believe that we deserved to win the game. Regarding the red card, I agree with the VAR and the referee; it was a wise decision, and Mikel was very encouraging in his

                                                                             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