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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.

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

Russia to hold talks with US in Riyadh Monday: Kremlin

Donald Trump spoke to both Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky this week and the US is also due...
  • "From the Russian side, they will be attended by Grigory Karasin, chairman of the Senate's committee on international affairs, and Sergei Beseda, advisor to the head of FSB.
  • Ushakov said he had confirmed this after talks with US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Both agreed to send "expert groups" for the talks, he added.

Israel announces ground operations, issues ‘last warning’ to Gazans to remove Hamas from power

Israeli forces this week conducted the deadliest wave of air strikes since the start of a truce in January, killing...
  • The military said it had "begun targeted ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip to expand the security perimeter
  • Families with young children fled northern Gaza for areas further south, fearing for their lives after Israel urged civilians to leave

Putin has upper hand in Trump talks on elusive Ukraine peace: analysts

Paris, France - Vladimir Putin scored a coup by discussing with Donald Trump in highly anticipated phone talks everything from improving...
  • During the call on Tuesday, Putin refused a full ceasefire agreement proposed by Washington
  • The Kremlin said Trump had also backed Putin's proposal to hold ice hockey matches between American and Russian players

Deepfakes can clone your voice in 5 seconds, tech firms mount defense

Las Vegas, United States -- Tech firms are fighting the scourge of deepfakes, those deceptively realistic voices or videos used...
  • Hong Kong police recently revealed that a multinational firm employee was tricked into wiring $26m to crooks who staged a videoconference with AI avatars of his colleagues.
  • A recent study by identification start-up iBoom found that a scant tenth of one percent of Americans and Britons were able to correctly tell when a picture or video was a deepfake.

Netanyahu says Gaza strikes ‘only the beginning’, future negotiations ‘only under fire’

Hamas has not responded militarily so far, and in a statement urged friendly countries to "pressure" the United States to...
  • The strikes, by far the largest since a truce took effect in January, killed more than 400 people across the Gaza Strip
  • Netanyahu said in a video statement on Tuesday evening "Hamas has already felt the strength of our arm in the past 24 hours

Trump, Putin agree halt to Ukraine energy attacks but no ceasefire

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday on a halt in Russian attacks against Ukrainian energy targets -- but fell...
  • The US and Russian leaders spoke for more than an hour and a half and both expressed hopes for repairing relations between the countries
  • However, there was no agreement from the Russian president for Washington's proposed full 30-day ceasefire in Russia's invasion of its pro-Western neighbor

Israel pounds Gaza in strikes that rescuers say killed 220, Hamas says Netanyahu torpedoing ceasefire

In a statement, Hamas said "Netanyahu and his extremist government have decided to overturn the ceasefire agreement, exposing the prisoners...
  • An Israeli official told AFP that the operation "will continue as long as necessary, and will expand beyond air strikes."
  • Hamas said Israel had decided "to overturn the ceasefire agreement, exposing the prisoners in Gaza to an unknown fate."

Mediators push for Gaza ceasefire as Israel, Hamas remain stuck on hostage, withdrawal demands

Hamas has consistently demanded negotiations for the second phase, which would include a permanent end to the war, a complete...
  • During the first phase of the truce agreement, Hamas released 33 hostages, including 8 deceased, and Israel released 1,800 Palestinians
  • Since then, Hamas has consistently demanded negotiations for the second phase, which would include a permanent end to the war

Trump, Putin to discuss Ukraine ceasefire this week

US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week, officials said on Sunday, as...
  • The United States this week proposed a halt in fighting in the war after talks in Saudi Arabia, with Kyiv accepting the proposal
  • Putin however has given no clear answer, instead listing a string of conditions and raising "serious questions" over the proposition

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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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...

Palestinian sources say Hamas, mediators in new talks to revive Gaza truce, hostage release deal

Negotiations between Hamas and Israel, mediated by Egypt along with Qatar and the United States, have been deadlocked for weeks...

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...

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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

Macron hosts European leaders to discuss Ukraine’s security amid ceasefire talks with Russia

The meeting is seeking to set out what security guarantees Europe can offer Ukraine once a ceasefire deal is agreed,...
  • Speaking alongside Zelensky in Paris on Wednesday ahead of the talks, Macron said this was now a "decisive phase to put an end to the war of aggression"
  • Macron also announced a new French two billion euro ($2.2 billion) military aid package for Ukraine, with Paris ready to rapidly ship existing hardware from its stocks

Over a billion pounds of Coke plastic waste to enter waterways: study

Washington, United States -- By 2030, Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 1.33 billion pounds (602,000 metric tons) of...
  • Coca-Cola ranks as the world's top branded plastic polluter, followed by PepsiCo, Nestle, Danone, and Altria, according to a 2024 study published in Science Advances.
  • Oceana's estimate is based on Coca-Cola's publicly reported packaging data from 2018 to 2023, combined with sales growth forecasts to create a "business-as-usual" scenario.