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- The cost and difficulty of complying with the deforestation regulation, for example, means large palm oil plantations are likely to displace smallholder farmers in exporting to the **lucrative** EU market.
- Opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s strong performance
Opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s strong performance for the Republican People’s party (CHP) in Istanbul marked a particularly painful blow to Erdoğan, who had campaigned vigorously for the AKP candidate in the hopes of vanquishing his most credible rival.
- US investors are paying the biggest premiums since October to protect their portfolios against market **gyrations** as mounting tensions in the Middle East and reduced expectations of interest rate cuts fuel a surge in volatility.
- One congressional aide said Maria Cantwell — the chair of the Senate
One congressional aide said Maria Cantwell — the chair of the Senate commerce committee, which would normally have jurisdiction over the bill — had suggested giving ByteDance one year to divest. The option to extend the divestiture deadline would help satisfy her demand and likely reduce opposition in the Senate.
- Zimbabwe has replaced its collapsed local dollar with a new gold-backed currency, the latest move by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to tackle decades of monetary chaos.
- Food prices surged in 2022 due to rising energy costs
Food prices surged in 2022 due to rising energy costs and lower trade caused by the war in Ukraine, while larger than expected droughts and Covid-related supply chain disruptions also took a toll. Higher prices contributed to a record 333mn people experiencing acute food insecurity in 2023, according to the World Food Programme.
- The US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would ban app stores from distributing TikTok if its Chinese owner does not divest ownership of the video-sharing platform.
- If the entire (cooked) length of instant noodles sold around the world in a single year were laid out in a line, the resulting 6.2bn kilometre giga-noodle would stretch well beyond Pluto and into the depths of space. It is a fact as miserable as it is marvellous.
- Joe Biden plans to intervene in Nippon Steel’s proposed purchase of US Steel, a move that could threaten the deal and anger Japan, one of Washington’s closest allies.
- Fidelity’s brokerage arm is asking ETF sponsors to pay 15 per cent of total fund revenue to avoid the $ 100 charge, said multiple people with knowledge of the support payment agreements.
- “So far, this year is not transpiring the way that the Fed — or interest rate markets — have described. I think it is clear the Fed is off-track now. The question is how far off track,” Prince, the hedge fund’s co-chief investment officer, told the Financial Times.
- Eurozone banks reported a “substantial” drop in loan demand from companies, prompting calls for the European Central Bank to signal it will cut interest rates soon when it meets this week.
- Turkey has moved to restrict exports to Israel of some industrial goods and commodities, as Ankara comes under mounting domestic pressure to show its opposition to the six-month war in Gaza.
- Fidelity’s brokerage arm is asking ETF sponsors to pay
Fidelity’s brokerage arm is asking ETF sponsors to pay 15 per cent of total fund revenue to avoid the $ 100 charge, said multiple people with knowledge of the support payment agreements.
- The move will disrupt the flow of goods
The move will disrupt the flow of goods between two countries that have remained significant trading partners despite a bitter row over the Gaza war that was launched in response to Hamas’s October 7 attack.
- Sales growth in the US and other
Sales growth in the US and other markets throughout the July-to-September period were not enough to offset Estée Lauder’s weakness in Asia, which accounts for almost one-third of the company’s revenue.
- Speaking at a European Central Bank conference in Sintra, Portugal, Bailey
Bailey said the BoE would be “evidence driven” in setting the cost of borrowing and it was looking at both the peak of rates and “how long [the peak] sustains beyond that”.
- The chief executive behind Microsoft’s planned $ 75bn acquisition of Activision made a last-ditch attempt to save the deal in a San Francisco courtroom on Wednesday, in the face of a US government objections that could result in its annulment as early as next week.
- Joe Biden said trillions of dollars of government investments deployed under his watch would restore the “American dream” after decades of failed “trickle-down” politics, in a speech defending his economic record.
- Microsoft, OpenAI are Nvidia are among the investors backing a Silicon Valley start-up that aims to introduce artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots to the workforce and transform the global labour market.
- An alleged Ponzi scheme run by a Harvard MBA who solicited money from fellow alumni of the prestigious US business school has been shut down by a New York court after collecting more than $ 2.9mn.
- Dozens of Palestinians were killed on Thursday during a chaotic attempt to get humanitarian aid into northern Gaza, during which Israeli forces opened fire on civilians.
- Texas is battling the largest wildfire in the history of the state and the second largest on record in the US, as a series of blazes ripped across the state’s north-west in unusually dry conditions after a warm winter.
- Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal for the staggered release of 50 civilians held hostage in Gaza in exchange for some Palestinian prisoners and a four-day halt to hostilities.
- A deal to unify the company by bringing its former chief executive back alongside the remaining directors would be a compromise for both sides. More than 95 per cent of OpenAI employees signed a letter this week calling for the board to resign and reinstate Altman, while a trio of holdout directors have remained resolute in their view that his firing was justified.
- Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
- Insatiable greed, hatred and delusion are the crimes and punishments that life will eventually face. Who's playing who? Nobody knows. *The Pig, the Snake, and the Pigeon*, a traditional Chinese tale, can reflect the situation of Chen Guilin, the main role of this movie.
- Around the same time England adopted autumn, the first-ever British American colonists were voyaging to North America. With them they brought the words fall and autumn, and while the former fell out of fashion overseas, it solidified itself in the local vernacular by the time America won its independence. Today, using both words to describe the season before winter is still a uniquely American behavior.
- In the 1500s, English speakers began calling the seasons separating the cold and warm months “fall of the leaf” or “spring of the leaf,” or “fall” and “spring” for short. Both terms were simple and evocative, but for some reason, only spring had staying power in Britain. By the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word autompne and the Latin autumnus, had overtaken fall as the standard British term for the third season.
- According to Dictionary.com, fall isn’t a modern nickname that followed the more traditional autumn. The two terms are actually first recorded within a few hundred years of each other.
- September 23, 2023, marks the start of a new season—but what exactly you should call that season depends on where in the world you are. In Great Britain, the third season of the year usually has only one name: autumn.
- The EU’s competition regulator is investigating whether Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI is caught by the bloc’s merger rules, a move that could lead to a formal probe into the biggest alliance of the recent AI dealmaking frenzy.
- US secretary of state Antony Blinken said he had held “extensive discussions” about the tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah, as Washington redoubles its efforts to prevent the Jewish state’s war with Hamas spilling over into a broader regional conflict.
- Israel’s defence forces will open a second checkpoint for the screening of humanitarian aid into Gaza, a move they said would speed security checks and could double the volume of material currently being delivered into the enclave
- Nvidia, the world’s most valuable chipmaker, has become one of the most prolific investors in artificial intelligence start-ups this year, seeking to capitalise on its position as the dominant provider of AI processors
- The US Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in for the first time on Donald Trump’s legal protections, in a petition that seeks a ruling on whether a former president is “absolutely immune” from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office.
- Scientists have combined brain-like tissue with electronic hardware to create a speech-recognition and calculation system, advancing research into the creation of high-powered biological computers.
- A chemical tanker operating in the Indian Ocean has been attacked by a drone launched from Iran, according to the US military, expanding the threat faced by international merchant shipping.
- Poland’s president Andrzej Duda said on Saturday that he would veto part of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s budget in an escalation of the conflict between the country’s rival political parties over media regulation.
- Property reinsurers are resisting calls to lower prices or soften terms for cover against extreme weather, brokers say, signalling there will be no let-up in affordability pressures that have had ripple effects throughout the global economy.
- This time last year, most economists expected the US Federal Reserve would be spending 2023 facing down a recession while fighting against the biggest wave of inflation for a generation.
- Israeli minister Benny Gantz, one of three men who make up the country’s war cabinet, has threatened to ramp up military action in the north to push Hizbollah forces, which are firing at Israel from Lebanon, further away from its border.
- New statutory regulations will hand major internet and “adtech” groups such as Google, which act as intermediaries for online advertising, more responsibility for policing such content alongside online publishers, apps and websites serving ads, the government said.
- UK ministers have pledged to crack down on illegal advertising by forcing social media and online platforms such as Google Ads to take tougher action to stop children seeing adverts for products and services such as alcohol or gambling.
- On Feb. 21, 1972, Nixon arrived in Beijing after months of negotiations and planning between the two sides. During Nixon's stay in China, Chinese and U.S. officials conducted talks at multiple levels on international affairs, regional hotspot issues and bilateral trade. On Feb. 28, the two countries issued the epoch-making Shanghai Communique before Nixon departed from Shanghai, opening a new chapter in China-U.S. relations.
- Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1949. Dr. Henry Kissinger’s secret visit was code-named "Marco Polo" as it was much like Marco Polo's adventure to the mysterious oriental land in the 12th century.
- According to data compiled by a platform, since June of 2023, the number of people posting advertisements to walk dogs has reached 105,700, while the number of people need help walking dogs is only 27,400.
- As China stepped into sanfu, the dog days of summer, on Tuesday, the National Meteorological Center extended an orange alert - the second-highest alert - for high temperatures, as heatwaves scorch vast swathes of the country. Sanfu refers to the hottest days of the year according to the Chinese calendar.
- All candidates are required to complete the college application process.
- The enrolment scores are getting higher and higher these years.