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London, Frankfurt hit record highs on rate-cut hopes
The London and Frankfurt stock exchanges hit record highs Thursday as the Bank of England kept its interest rate at a 16-year high but raised hopes of a cut in the coming months.His comments raised hopes that the BoE could soon cut rates.
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A Texas teacher spoke out against bothsidesing the Holocaust. It derailed her career.
An excerpt from “They Came for the Schools” reveals what happened after a teacher blew the whistle on new classroom library restrictions in Southlake, Texas.
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Service members and veterans are fighting for the right to fertility treatments
Advocates want the military and the VA to expand IVF availability to veterans and service members, who may have higher infertility rates than the general public.
AFP
UK's Cameron urges NATO countries to boost defence spending
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Thursday urged NATO partners to soon start spending 2.5 percent of GDP on defence, during a major speech in which he called for a more muscular approach to Western foreign policy.Last month, UK leader Rishi Sunak announced during a visit to Poland that London would gradually boost defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030.
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Stock market today: US futures tip lower as investors look for inspiration
Stocks have lost their bounce after a growing chorus of Federal Reserve officials made it clear that interest rates will need to stay higher for longer.
Reuters
Tower Semiconductor Q1 revenue falls on weak demand
Over the past few quarters, semiconductor firms are dealing with a supply glut as they focus on clearing excessive inventory mainly in the automotive industry, hurting companies like Tower which makes analogue, mixed-signal chips and sensor technologies. French-Italian firm STMicroelectronics is one of the latest chipmakers to lower its full-year guidance due to declining orders. Tower Semiconductor reported revenue of $327 million for the three months ended March 31, down 7% year on year.
AFP
Bank of England holds rate at 16-year high, signals looming cut
The Bank of England on Thursday kept its main interest rate at a 16-year high, but hinted at a cut over the summer as UK inflation cools further and the country looks set to exit recession. - Rate cut looms - "The bank is still on track for summer easing," Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK, said following the rate decision.
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Huge fire at a chemical storage tank in Thailand kills one and injures 4
At least one person was killed and four others were injured after a huge fire broke out at a chemical storage tank in an Eastern Thailand industrial park on Thursday. Fire workers estimated it might take more than 10 hours to be able to fully extinguish the flames, according to the Rayong province’s public relations department. About 400 workers and residents have been evacuated to a temporary shelter, the department said.
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Winner of North Macedonia's parliamentary election to seek governing coalition partner
The head of a center-right 22-party coalition that emerged victorious in North Macedonia’s parliamentary election has fallen just short of gaining a parliamentary majority, leaving it reliant on entering a partnership with another party to form a government. The “Your Macedonia” coalition, led by the head of the VMRO-DPMNE party, Hristijan Mickoski, won just over 43% of the votes in Wednesday’s election, giving it 58 of the country’s 120 parliamentary seats, three fewer than an outright majority, official results showed. The parliamentary vote was held simultaneously with a runoff for the country’s presidential election, which saw the victory of North Macedonia’s first female president in a double win for the center-right backed opposition.
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Warner Bros. Discovery misses earnings estimates amid greater linear TV struggles
Warner Bros. Discovery reported first quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday. Here's what to know.
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Biden says he will stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if it launches major invasion of Rafah
President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.
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China's Xi receives ceremonial welcome in Hungary ahead of talks with Orbán
Chinese President Xi Jinping received a ceremonial welcome in Hungary's capital on Thursday ahead of a day of talks with Hungarian officials which are expected to result in further Chinese investments in the Central European country. Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok received Xi in an opulent courtyard of Budapest's Buda Castle, where the two men walked down a red carpet beside a ceremonial honor guard and listened to the Chinese and Hungarian national anthems. Numerous Chinese and Hungarian officials attended the ceremony, including Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary's long-serving populist leader who has pursued deeper ties with Beijing while distancing himself from his more mainstream partners in the European Union.
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Bank of England edges closer to rate cut, possibly in June, as it predicts below-target inflation
The Bank of England maintained its key U.K. interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25% though it gave a broad hint that a reduction could be on the cards as soon as June as inflation is forecast to fall below target. In a statement Thursday, the bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to keep rates unchanged, with the 2 dissenters backing a quarter-point reduction. Last time, only one member voted for a quarter-point cut.
Time
Breaking Down Japan's Food Culture
Some 43% of Americans are obese, compared with just 4.5% of Japanese people. What explains this gap?
Reuters
UK system of arms exports to Israel not the same as U.S., Cameron says
Foreign Secretary David Cameron described Britain's system and scale of arms exports to Israel as completely different from those in the United States, saying the sales it licences were relatively small and policed by strict procedures. Cameron was responding to a question on whether Britain would follow the U.S. after it warned that it would withhold weapons from Israel in case of a major invasion of Rafah. "There's a very fundamental difference between the U.S. situation and the UK situation," Cameron said after a speech.
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Russia sees window of opportunity to expand attacks as Ukraine awaits further US aid, officials say
Western intelligence believes Russia is seeking to exploit what it sees as a “window of opportunity” to further step up air and ground attacks on Ukraine to take advantage of the time it will take new weapons and ammunition from the newly passed US military aid package to arrive in significant quantities, three officials with direct knowledge of the latest assessments told CNN.
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New bill aims to limit harmful heavy metals found in baby food
US lawmakers plan to introduce a bill Thursday that aims to limit the amount of heavy metals found in baby food through stronger regulation and enforcement by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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Trump's VP pick could put a Senate appointment in the hands of a MAGA foe
CLEVELAND — Two of former President Donald Trump’s prospective running mates come with politically fraught complications: the Republican governors who would choose their successors.
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RNC lawyer Charlie Spies was ousted after sustained lobbying from MAGA influencers
Charlie Spies was ousted as chief counsel of the Republican National Committee after just two months on the job.
Reuters
Merck's endometrial cancer therapy fails trial
The drugmaker's Keytruda therapy in combination with chemotherapy was being evaluated in about 1,095 patients with high-risk endometrial cancer after surgery. The trial did not meet the main goal of disease-free survival, which is the length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends that the patient survives without any signs or its symptoms. The study's other main goal of overall survival was not formally tested since the trial failed in showing significant disease-free survival.

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