Posts by Amelia Frost
Grand Theft Auto VI Release Postponed To May 2026
[ad_1] The creative team behind the popular Grand Theft Auto videogame series postponed the launch of the latest installment by several months to May 2026, hitting shares of parent Take-Two Interactive. Grand Theft Auto VI was originally due to be released later this year, with a trailer having shown that it would be set in…
Read MoreEU Wins Post-Brexit Fishing Row With Britain
[ad_1] The European Union on Friday won a landmark case against Britain at the world’s oldest arbitration body over post-Brexit rights to fish sandeels, a tiny North Sea species. The case at the Permanent Court for Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague was seen as a bellwether for other potential litigation between London and Brussels in…
Read MoreWest Bank Palestinians Losing Hope 100 Days Into Israeli Assault
[ad_1] On a torn-up road near the refugee camp where she once lived, Saja Bawaqneh said she struggled to find hope 100 days after an Israeli offensive in the occupied West Bank forced her to flee. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced in the north of the territory since Israel began a major…
Read MoreExxon and Chevron Report Lower Profits While Girding for Tariffs
[ad_1] The two largest U.S. oil companies reported their lowest first-quarter profits in years on Friday as they braced for the economic fallout from President Trump’s trade war, which has weakened consumer confidence and pushed oil prices down. U.S. crude prices slipped below $60 a barrel this week, a threshold below which many companies cannot…
Read More‘No Dumping Ground’: Tunisia Activist Wins Award Over Waste Scandal
[ad_1] Tunisian environmentalist Semia Labidi Gharbi, awarded a global prize for her role exposing a major waste scandal, has a message for wealthy nations: developing countries are “no dumping ground”. Gharbi was among the first to speak out when Italy shipped more than 280 containers of waste to the North African country in 2020. The…
Read MoreAfter weeks of volatile trading, Friday’s report could set the tone on Wall Street.
[ad_1] May 2, 2025, 6:01 a.m. ET Traders at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.Credit…Richard Drew/Associated Press Investors will be closely watching the jobs report on Friday for any signs that President Trump’s early policy priorities, including tariffs and layoffs of federal workers, have started to dent the U.S. economy. Wall Street remains on…
Read MoreMeta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies
[ad_1] “Oh, wow, this is really cool,” Flannery Johnston, 28, said as the chatbot came to life, offering a personalized hello from M3GAN, the diabolical A.I. doll at the center of the movie. Over the next 20 minutes, the chatbot served up about 10 messages. One was a question: “Do you think they’re inventing other…
Read MoreBangladesh’s Influential Islamists Promise Sharia As They Ready For Polls
[ad_1] Bangladesh’s Islamists are readying to make political gains after being crushed for years by the government that was overthrown in a mass uprising last year, rallying hardline loyalists for eagerly anticipated elections. “We are pretty confident about entering the parliament in the next election,” Muhammad Mamunul Haque, joint secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam, an influential coalition…
Read MoreAustralian PM Says Battle Ahead To Win Election
[ad_1] Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he has a “mountain to climb” in elections Saturday, despite leading the opinion polls, in a contest swayed by living costs and Trump tariffs. Surveys give Albanese’s left-leaning Labor Party a narrow lead over the conservative opposition on a two-party preferred basis. If they are right, Albanese, 62,…
Read MoreAustralian Triple-murder Suspect Never Asked After Poisoned Guests: Husband
[ad_1] An Australian woman accused of murdering three people by dishing up a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington never asked after her dying guests’ wellbeing, her husband told a court Friday. Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with three murders — the parents and aunt of her estranged husband — and one attempted murder. She has pleaded…
Read MoreUK Court To Rule On Prince Harry Security Appeal
[ad_1] Prince Harry will learn Friday whether his bid to restore his UK police protection has been upheld, in an appeals court verdict that could determine how often the estranged royal visits Britain. King Charles III’s youngest son has been embroiled in the years-long legal saga — one of many — since the UK government…
Read MoreTrump Ends Chinese Tariff Loophole, Raising the Cost of Online Goods
[ad_1] The Trump administration on Friday officially eliminated a loophole that had allowed American shoppers to buy cheap goods from China without paying tariffs. The move will help U.S. manufacturers that have struggled to compete with a wave of low-cost Chinese products, but it has already resulted in higher prices for Americans who shop online.…
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