British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called an early national election for July 4, in what is seen as a risky strategy. Carmel Crimmins joins the Reuters World News podcast to explain how Sunak hopes recent economic good news will boost the Conservative Party’s chances.
A stage collapsed at a Mexican election campaign rally in the northern state of Nuevo Leo, killing nine people and injuring dozens as high winds tore apart the large, concert-style structure. The victims were eight adults and one child, the state’s governor said.
Twenty people who were aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence and diverted to Bangkok for an emergency landing this week remain in intensive care, a hospital official said. These graphics explore what happened to the flight and why.
Ecuador has sought funding to fight climate change. So far, the developed world has offered the debt-strapped nation more loans than grants. REUTERS/Henry Romero
Japan, France, Germany, the United States and other wealthy nations are reaping billions of dollars in economic rewards from a global program meant to help the developing world grapple with the effects of climate change, a Reuters data analysis found. Read the full special report.
Germany supports an overhaul of EU import taxes which could end an exemption for cheap parcels that has helped Shein and Temu. Critics of the two retailers in the US have already complained that they use an import tax exemption to undercut rivals and avoid inspections.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the tech company’s high profile deal with the United Arab Emirates-backed AI firm G42 could eventually involve the transfer of sophisticated chips and tools – a move that a senior Republican congressman warned could have national security implications.
Nvidia forecast quarterly revenue above estimates and announced a stock split, lifting its shares to record-high territory and impressing investors who have tripled the chipmaker’s market value in the past year on AI optimism.
In more tech news, South Korea announced a $19 billion support package for its chip businesses, citing a need to keep up in areas like chip design and contract manufacturing amid ‘all-out warfare’ in the global semiconductor market.
Special Report: Mandela’s vision of Black unity fades as South Africa rejects migrants
Overcrowded apartment block in Johannesburg where some survivors of the Usindiso blaze moved after the disaster. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
A hijacked block. A deadly fire. The bleak aftermath. Thirty years after apartheid – as watershed elections loom in South Africa – many African arrivals meet the harsher side of the “Rainbow Nation.”
Public resentment at immigration has become a hot issue.
And Finally…
Rawdah Mohamed poses at the screening of “Marcello Mio”. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
The Cannes Film Festival’s 77th edition is bringing together the industry’s biggest luminaries in southern France to celebrate cinema, with many Hollywood stars gracing the red carpet.
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