‘I pray to God he comes back’: sister concerned as search for missing hiker in Kosciuszko national park enters sixth day | New South Wales newsthirst.

The search for a 24-year-old hiker missing in Kosciuszko national park since Boxing Day has entered its sixth day, with the man’s sister expressing fears about potential threats to his safety. Hadi Nazari, an experienced hiker whose birthday was on Tuesday, has not been seen since, when friends had descending the Hannels Spur Trail at…

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China’s factory activity growth misses expectations as experts decry insufficient stimulus measures newsthirst.

A worker welds at an agricultural machinery manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone in Qingzhou, China, on August 31, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s November factory activity growth missed analysts’ expectations Tuesday, signaling that Beijing’s stimulus measures were not sufficient to meaningfully boost the country’s ailing economy. The country’s official purchasing…

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Treasury small business ownership rule on hold as court eyes constitutionality newsthirst.

Janet Yellen, U.S. Treasury secretary, on a tour of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in Vienna, Virginia, on Jan. 8, 2024. Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images An upcoming Treasury Department deadline for millions of small businesses to fulfill a new reporting requirement on “beneficial ownership information” was delayed again, following a court order that…

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Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof was ‘scathing about African leaders’, files reveal | Bob Geldof newsthirst.

The Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof urged Tony Blair not to appoint an African co-chair to the UK-led organisation working to overhaul international aid to the continent because he thought African leadership was “very weak” on the issue, newly released government documents suggest. The singer was “scathing about the ability and worthiness of virtually all…

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