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- Mindful of the risk that fresh sanctions on
Mindful of the risk that fresh sanctions on Venezuela might push up oil prices in a US election year, Washington will allow US major Chevron to continue a joint venture with Venezuela’s national oil company PDVSA, which has been steadily increasing output.
- Momentum in economies including the US and India has been picking up in recent months, helping stoke optimism that global growth in 2024 will modestly outpace last year’s reading, according to research for the Financial Times.
- “While the environment is constructive and markets expect a soft landing,”
“While the environment is constructive and markets expect a soft landing,” Solomon said, “the trajectory is still uncertain”.
- X, TikTok and other big online platforms will be subject to EU fines for lax moderation within weeks, as Brussels rolls out its first binding regime to fight election disinformation.
- The guidelines, designed to counter online
The guidelines, designed to counter online threats to the integrity of elections, are to be adopted by the European Commission as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the plans.
- The Colorado supreme court on Tuesday said Trump was not fit to be president under the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibits US officers who have engaged in **insurrection** or rebellion from holding office.
- “We are making progress towards profitability and aim to accelerate that progress by right-sizing our capital structure through this restructuring,” Bird **interim** chief executive Michael Washinushi said on Wednesday.
- The country’s highest court **unanimously** rejected a challenge, which has been working its way through the courts since 2018, that would have seen artificial intelligence tools designated as inventors. Wednesday’s decision puts an end to the case in the UK.
- How would you feel if you found out that US income inequality had not risen over the past 60 years; the rich had not taken the lion’s share of economic growth since the 1980s; and the poorest half of US society had about the same share of total income in 2020 as they had in 1960?
- European private equity firms increased pay for staff this year, underlining the resilience of the industry’s lucrative business model in the face of the toughest market conditions in more than a decade
- The dramatic rise of index investing in the US might be one factor driving the increase in non-US public companies looking to switch their stock market listings stateside, according to some market observers.
- Tesla rival Nio has secured a $ 2.2bn investment from Abu Dhabi-backed CYVN Holdings in a boost for the Chinese electric vehicle maker as Middle East groups and Beijing increasingly join forces in the clean tech transition.
- The deal, which follows CYVN’s more than $ 1bn injection in Nio in July, will give
The deal, which follows CYVN’s more than $ 1bn injection in Nio in July, will give the UAE investment vehicle 20 per cent of the Chinese group’s shares and is intended to ease worries among some analysts over the lossmaking company’s finances.
- The compromise reached on Wednesday included a reference to fossil fuels for
The compromise reached on Wednesday included a reference to fossil fuels for the first time in three decades of UN climate agreements but failed to support phasing them out.
- Iran’s political leaders have promised to **retaliate** against those behind the attacks but have stopped short of directly blaming any group or country.
- Inflation in Europe’s largest economy rose at an annual rate of 3.8 per cent in December, up from 2.3 per cent a month earlier, according to the **harmonised** index of consumer prices released by the federal statistical agency on Thursday.
- In the south of the strip, to where most of Gaza’s population have now fled, Israeli forces would “focus on eliminating Hamas leadership” and bringing home the **hostages** still held in Gaza.
- The UN secretary-general warned that the war between Israel and Hamas had brought the humanitarian system in Gaza to the verge of collapse, and risked “aggravating” threats to “international peace and security”.
- Chip designer AMD has launched sales of a new chip it hopes will break Nvidia’s dominance of the artificial intelligence processor market, which it predicted would be worth $ 400bn by 2027.
- Google has launched a new set of generative artificial intelligence models that will run directly on mobile phones for the first time, a breakthrough in the tech company’s efforts to take on rivals such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
- The best way to lose weight is to exercise more and eat less junk food.
- A punishing travel schedule in which she has flown from Japan to the US and will then jet to Australia for tour commitments meant her presence was far from a foregone conclusion, and when giant television screens showed Swift for the first time, a ripple of cheers went around the still-mostly empty stadium.
- Pop superstar Taylor Swift watched her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime to claim the Super Bowl on Feb 11, providing a jolt of megawatt excitement to the Vegas blockbuster.
- The doctors’ protests appear not to have generated much public support. Last week, a Gallup Korea poll revealed about 76 per cent of South Koreans support the government's push to train more doctors.
- Medical interns and resident doctors say they are underpaid and overworked. Protesters say the government needs to address working conditions and pay, particularly in key areas such as pediatrics and emergency medicine.
- Announced in February, the plan will increase the number of students admitted to medical schools by 2,000 starting in the 2025 academic year to bring the total to 5,000 from 3,000 now. The government says the increase is intended to fill an expected shortfall of 15,000 doctors, exacerbated by the country’s fast-aging population, projected by 2035.
- Almost 8,000 trainee doctors in South Korea have walked off the job in protest against the government's recent plan to recruit more students to medical schools. The protests have triggered cancellations of surgeries and other medical treatments, with some of the country's biggest hospitals turning away patients seeking emergency care.
- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to convince European leaders to put pressure on Egypt into accepting refugees from Gaza, according to people briefed on the discussions.
- Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is now valued at $19bn, the company told employees, marking a steep drop from the $44bn price that Elon Musk paid when he bought it just over a year ago.
- If not, this isn’t all the fault of Josep Borrell himself, a dogged enough sort who has given the job his best during a **convulsive** period.
- Apple unveiled four new iPhone models and two updated Watches in Cupertino on Tuesday, as it attempts to lure consumers in an economy where they are holding on to their devices for longer.
- Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, has launched an impeachment inquiry into US president Joe Biden, deepening the country’s political turmoil in the run-up to next year’s election.
- UK venture capitalists are discussing new ways to structure their funds as part of an agreement designed to support the government’s efforts to unlock British pension investment in high-growth companies.
- Morgan Stanley has reported a 9 per cent fall in third-quarter profits, as slower growth at the Wall Street bank’s juggernaut wealth management business was compounded by falling revenues in investment banking and trading.
- Washington will send a version of the missiles armed with cluster munitions rather than a single **warhead**, the people said.
- One of the concerns is that as the number of members increases, the bloc’s decision-making process grinds to a halt in areas such as foreign policy or **budgetary** matters where unanimity is required.
- Following her successful selection into the summer training camp, Huang Yuting's talent quickly emerged.
In 2017, she joined the Huangyan Youth Sports School rifle team and in 2020, she advanced to the Zhejiang Provincial Shooting Team. During the Paris Olympic cycle, she swiftly ascended to become a leading figure in the women's 10m air rifle event.
At the 2022 Shooting World Championships, at just 16 years old, Huang bravely clinched two gold and one silver medals, securing a spot for the Chinese team at the Paris Olympics.
- "Winning the championship for this project brings me great joy and surprise, indicating that the recent preparation has borne fruit," Huang Yuting shared. Despite some pre-competition ups and downs, she successfully tuned her mindset.
- Universal Music has struck a deal to reshape the economics of music streaming, with changes aimed at directing more money to professional musicians and away from a “sea of noise” that chief executive Lucian Grainge has criticised this year.
- The world has experienced its hottest season on record “by a large margin”, the EU earth observation agency reported, as heat records in the 2023 northern hemisphere summer were “not just broken but smashed”, scientists said.
- Romania’s defence ministry “categorically denied” the reports on Monday. Two Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times that it was not the first time such an incident had occurred but declined to explain why Bucharest would deny it
- Ukraine claimed that at least one Russian attack drone fired overnight on one of its Danube delta ports had crashed across the river on to the territory of Nato-member Romania, marking a potentially serious escalation.
- The black-market dollar, which is a staple of Argentine life, has jumped to almost double the new official exchange rate after an 18 per cent devaluation of the peso following the primary win by outsider candidate Javier Milei.
- Argentina faces mounting pressure to devalue its currency again as its government struggles to avoid economic collapse ahead of elections in October, following the shock presidential primary victory of a radical rightwing candidate.
- "'Cookie jarring' happens when an individual pursues a relationship to have as a back-up plan or security blanket — with no real intention of a long-term relationship," explains Catalina Lawsin, PhD, a licensed psychologist practicing in New York and Illinois. "These individuals are typically already dating someone who they are pursuing a long-term relationship with, or are at the beginning of a promising relationship."
- This act of self-love refers to purging any mementos from previous relationships (old sweaters, text threads or photos) in an effort to move on. Holding on to old phone numbers and pictures, Dr. Shan Boodram said, “keeps someone from being fully present and invested in their dating journey.”
- The more connections we have, the more people going to GBA from Hong Kong to see the development, and the more people from Mainland, especially from the GBA to come to see Hong Kong. And more **interaction** among the youth groups will certainly play a major role.
- In the US, to get into law school, you actually have to take an exam called LSAT. And if you look at that exam, it's all mathematics. Because when you prepare a case, a court has to be very **logical**.
- The updated agreement now assures users that the photos they upload will solely be used for creating digital avatars. Additionally, the company said it would not extract or employ the photos for identification or any other purposes.
- Evidence shows that more than 1 billion students worldwide have switched from offline learning to online learning during the COVID-19 period, and millions of poor students are unable to access education due to poor Internet access.
Education policymakers mustn't lose sight of the "social" nature of education, which means that digital technologies can never replace face-to-face communication between teachers and students.