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Tesla Q1 sales sink 13 percent

The dip occurred amid lower production during factory upgrades.

AD Ports Group 2024 revenue $4.70bn

The Group's EBITDA increased by 69 percent YOY.

Tesla sales tumble in Europe in Q1

The company suffered from boycotts against the policies of Elon Musk.

Ford’s US Q1 auto sales dip

But its Q1 figures exceed a forecast by Edmunds

Vanke reports annual loss of $6.8 bn

The property giant attributes loss to falling sales and shrinking profit.

Turkey braces for fourth night of protest as mayor arrives in court

Turkey was headed for a fourth straight night of protests late Saturday, as the biggest street unrest the country has...
  • As the crowds began massing outside Istanbul City Hall, a convoy carrying the 53-year-old mayor arrived at Caglayan court on the other side of the city
  • He was arrested on Wednesday, just days before he was to be formally named the main opposition CHP's candidate for the 2028 presidential race

Tens of thousands in France protest against racism and far-right

Tens of thousands of people in Paris and other French cities on Saturday rallied against racism and the rise of...
  • The rallies took place amid the rightward shift in French politics, with the government pledging to tighten immigration policies and border controls
  • In the runup to the rallies the LFI party caused an uproar in France by publishing the image of Cyril Hanouna, one of the most influential stars of right-wing media

Israel conducts deadly strikes on Lebanon after ‘cross-border rocket fire’ denied by Hezbollah

Israeli defence chiefs said they held the Lebanese government responsible for all hostile fire from its territory regardless of who...
  • Lebanon's official National News Agency reported one girl among two killed in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Touline
  • The Israeli army said six rockets, three of which were intercepted, were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel

Fatah urges Hamas to cede power to safeguard ‘Palestinians’ existence’

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories -- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement called on Hamas on Saturday to relinquish power in...
  • "Hamas must show compassion for Gaza, its children, women and men," Fatah spokesman Monther al-Hayek said in a message sent to AFP from Gaza.
  • Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, and subsequent attempts at reconciliation have failed.

Russia hopes for ‘progress’ at upcoming Saudi talks: negotiator

Moscow has rejected a joint US-Ukraine proposal of a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire, instead suggesting just to halt aerial...
  • US negotiators will meet separately with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Riyadh, in what US envoy Keith Kellogg described as "shuttle diplomacy" between hotel rooms.
  • Despite the flurry of diplomacy and push from US President Donald Trump, a breakthrough has so far proved elusive.

Istanbul Bar Association board dismissed over ‘terror propaganda’

The Istanbul Bar Association's executive board was dismissed Friday on grounds of "terrorist propaganda" and "publicly spreading false information", according...
  • The Turkish military insists it never targets civilians but only terror groups
  • The bar association issued a statement saying "targeting members of the press in conflict zones

Israel defence minister threatens to annex parts of Gaza unless Hamas frees the remaining Israeli hostages

The warning came as Israel stepped up the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm that had...
  • Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed 11 people on Friday -- three in pre-dawn strikes and eight more during the daytime
  • Should Hamas not comply, Katz also threatened to expand buffer zones around Gaza to protect Israeli civilian population areas

UN warns of ‘massive trauma’ for Gaza’s children amid renewed fighting

Sam Rose, the senior deputy field director in Gaza for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, highlighted the psychological...
  • James Elder, a spokesman for the UN children's agency UNICEF, said traumatized children usually only start to process their trauma when they begin returning to normalcy.
  • Humanitarians warned the situation has been made worse by Israel's decision earlier this month to cut off aid and electricity to Gaza over the deadlock in negotiations.

Macron announces new Ukraine ‘coalition’ summit in Paris on March 27

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the leaders of a coalition of Ukraine backers would meet again in Paris...
  • Macron, together with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has been leading efforts to form a coalition in support of Ukraine
  • Starmer on Thursday hosted talks with around 30 senior military planners from nations interested in the coalition

Israel deepens Gaza offensive, shuts key routes, and orders evacuations amid heavy civilian casualties

US President Donald Trump "fully supports" Israel's renewed Gaza operations, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters when asked...
  • The offensive has drawn widespread condemnation and shattered a relative calm in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory where a ceasefire began on January 19
  • Israel earlier said it had closed off the territory's main north-south route as part of expanding ground operations that resumed on Wednesday

Israel says expanding Gaza offensive to seize ‘large areas’

Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel would bolster its military presence in the Palestinian territory to "destroy and clear the...

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Pro-Palestine rallies held in many countries on Quds Day

Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations were launched in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, which has...

Iran says it has responded to Trump’s nuclear talks letter

Iran has sent a response to a letter from US President Donald Trump that called for nuclear talks and warned...

Lawyer complains Turkish student held in US ‘abducted’

A lawyer representing a Turkish university student detained in the United States and facing deportation said Thursday that his client...

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Firms and researchers at odds over superhuman AI

The belief that human-or-better intelligence -- often called "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) -- will emerge from current machine-learning techniques fuels...
  • "Systems that start to point to AGI are coming into view," OpenAI chief Sam Altman wrote in a blog post last month.
  • Such predictions help justify the hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into computing hardware and the energy supplies to run it.

From cars to champagne: Trump’s expanding tariffs trigger trade war fears

Paris, France -- From champagne to steel and now cars: it is getting harder to keep up with US President...
  • In early March, Trump imposed a 20 percent tariff on products from China, which has a huge trade surplus with the United States and was already his top target during his first term
  • Trump announced earlier he would slap 25-percent tariffs on imports from countries buying oil and gas from Venezuela, a punitive measure that could hit China and India.

Israel PM threatens to seize parts of Gaza over fate of hostages

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Wednesday to seize parts of Gaza if Hamas did not release hostages, while the militant...
  • Israel's resumption of intense bombardment and ground operations across Gaza shattered weeks of relative calm brought by a fragile ceasefire
  • According to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, 830 people have been killed in the territory since Israel restarted its strikes on March 18