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Von Neumann's Game Theory can model strategic behaviour in the global oil market, as once Admiral Yamamoto used it to model the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and the IDF used it to model Israel's pre-emptive strike against Nasser's Egypt in June 1967. So the US strategic reserves release signals the Biden White House's displeasure with petro-inflation. Biden's move was priced into the oil market, the reason Brent fell from 86 to 78 since early November.

President Nicolas Maduro hailed a “victory for the humble people” of the country as his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) swept to victory in Sunday’s regional elections.

On Monday, November 22, Stuart Macintyre passed away after a relapse of cancer. With his death, the Australian left has lost a preeminent intellectual and historian.

This word best describes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nearly two-term rule so far— ‘Pervasive.’ The pervasiveness of Modi in our times. His pervasive presence in all spheres of our lives. Weekends also —the ‘Man Ki Baat’. Modi sees to it we don’t forget he rules our Sundays, too. Raja, Maharaja, Sultan and Badshah of yore used to be pervasive, with their ‘diktats’ —every one of them a dictator.

LOS ANGELES: My favorite film at AFI Festival from November 14 to 21I this year was The Real Charlie Chaplin, co-directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney, who co-wrote the almost 2-hour biopic with Oliver Kindeberg. The highest compliment I can pay this documentary that traces the rise and fall and rise of the eponymous screen comic is that it is worthy of its subject who, of course, was one of motion pictures’ great pioneers.

October has been extremely good for the cryptocurrency trade. Almost all major coins registered significant gains, with bitcoin closing the month at a staggering $61,880 – surging 40 percent during the period. The next few days were no less momentous as the first digital coin of the world attained a new all-time high in the region of $69,000. Those who are part of the cryptocurrency trade are making fortunes with such gains. Those who are outside this bewildering phenomenon are on the edge with utter amusement and disbelief!

Bhubaneswar: Defending champions India opened their campaign with a shock defeat as they went down to unfancied France 4-5 in their opening match of the Junior Hockey World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium here this evening.

Hyderabad: Vani Kapoor blazed to 5-under 67 to take a three-shot lead at the end of the first round of the 13th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club, Hyderabad on Wednesday.

At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic had struck hard and India was struggling to get the health care centres in place, Apollo hospitals showed unprecedented convergence of medical knowledge, technology and data science revolutionized patient care. With its centres of Excellence, Apollo Hospitals has been spreading the next generation of health care.

The Congress party has been going through a deep crisis in Tripura. The party has weakened so much that it is almost reduced to a minor party in state politics. Currently, it is not even considered a major party both in the hills and the plains.