NEW YORK Vov 7— Facebook owner Meta is barring political campaigns and advertisers in other regulated industries from using its new generative AI advertising products, a company spokesperson said on Monday, denying access to tools that lawmakers have warned could turbo-charge the spread of election misinformation.

BEIJING, Nov 7 — China's imports unexpectedly grew in October while exports contracted at a quicker pace, in a mixed set of indicators that showed the world's second-largest economy facing persistent risks despite a recent improvement in domestic demand.

ROME, Nov 7 — Italy's financial guard seized €779 million (RM3.88 billion) from Airbnb Ireland Unlimited Company, the owner of the short-term rental service, in a case of tax evasion in Italy, Sputnik quoted Italian media reports yesterday.

NEW YORK, Nov 7 — Members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council gathered yesterday in a closed session to address the situation in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment.

BERLIN, Nov 7 — German vaccine maker BioNTech lowered its 2023 sales forecast for its Covid-19 vaccine yesterday to around €4 billion (RM19.94 billion).

BEIJING, Nov 7 — President Xi Jinping said stable ties between China and Australia served each other's interests and both should expand their cooperation, sending a clear signal that Beijing is ready to move on from recent tensions.

JAKARTA, Nov 7 — Indonesia's state food procurement company Bulog said the government is planning to set next year's rice import quota at two million metric tonnes, down from this year's 3.8 million tons.

ROME, Nov 6 — The so-called hidden costs of global food systems amount to around US$10 trillion a year, around 10 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a Monday report.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 6 — Tech billionaire Elon Musk's AI start-up, X.AI, is competing with ChatGPT with its own chatbot, Grok, which was launched over the weekend ahead of an OpenAI developer conference, reported German news agency (dpa).

SINGAPORE, Nov 6 — The media has an important role to play in informing and educating shareholders, especially retail investors, said Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) managing director Ravi Menon.

GAZA CITY, Nov 6 — The Israeli army launched more than 100 airstrikes on Gaza City in less than an hour on Sunday, killing and wounding a large number of Palestinians according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent.

ISTANBUL, Nov 6 — The Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and Yemen on Sunday strongly condemned an Israeli minister’s statement, in which he mentioned that dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza is among Israel’s 'options' going forward, reported Anadolu Agency.

China's Premier Li Qiang attends the Asian Games closing ceremony in Hangzhou, China on  October 8, 2023. —Picture by REUTERS SHANGHAI, China , Nov 5 — China will further expand market access and increase imports, its premier told a trade fair in Shanghai on Sunday, amid...

SHANGHAI, China,  Nov 7 —Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, starting the first visit to China by a leader of his country in seven years, said on Sunday it was "in all our interests" to have a bilateral relationship with dialogue and cooperation.

SINGAPORE, Nov 5 — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday that Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will take over from him as leader of the ruling People's Action Party before the next general election due by November 2025.

GAZA (Palestine), Nov 5 — At least 15 people were killed, and more than 70 others injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Al-Fakhoura School in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp.

LONDON/ WASHINGTON, Nov 5 — Countries moved a step closer on Saturday to getting a fund off the ground to help poor states damaged by climate disasters, despite reservations from developing nations and the United States.

LONDON , Nov 4 — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged protests in London, Berlin, Paris, Ankara, Istanbul and Washington on Saturday to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and castigate Israel after its military intensified its assault against Hamas.

WUHAN, Nov 5 — A direct air route linking Wuhan and San Francisco resumed on Saturday, according to China Southern Airlines, the flight's operator.