Bloomberg Markets
There are renewed concerns about safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz after an attack on a cargo ship. Meanwhile, oil was on track for a weekly decline after transits through the Strait accelerated. Matt Stanley, Market Engagement Head at Kpler spoke to Bloomberg’s Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East and Africa on the market reaction to the waterway’s operation. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg Markets
Finance Minister Roland Lescure reaffirmed his commitment to lower France’s deficit after the country’s fiscal watchdog rebuked the government’s pending plans.
Bloomberg Markets
Zalando SE plunged after Germany’s financial regulator opened a probe into the online fashion retailer’s 2025 report over suspected violations of accounting rules.
BBC World
Earlier in the week Donald Trump blamed vandals for "a 300 foot long gash" in the pool and blamed vandals for putting fertiliser in the water.
Bloomberg Markets
An attack on a container vessel sailing through the Strait of Hormuz has prompted some shipowners to review exit plans, but traffic continued to flow in both directions through the vital thoroughfare on Friday.
Bloomberg Markets
Micron's earnings numbers came at a delicate moment for the AI industry. Shares of chipmakers and other technology companies had been hammered in recent days on fears that a spending boom was faltering. Questions remain on whether the tech sector can mitigate the boom-and-bust cycles that have characterized the industry. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Guardian
All branches of the military will be taught how to use technology that has become a ‘game changer on the battlefield’, says defence ministerAll of South Korea’s military forces will be trained as drone operators in a sweeping overhaul of its warfare strategy, the defence minister has said.“All soldiers should be able to use drones like a second personal firearm,” Ahn Gyu-back, who heads the defence ministry in Seoul, said on Friday. Continue reading...
NY Times Business
Stock markets across Asia tumbled, as investors continue to wrestle with whether the boom in artificial intelligence spending is overdone or just beginning.
The Guardian Politics
Socialists marginalised under current PM are anxious about whether his replacement will again disappoint themOn 10 September 2024, Jon Trickett, a veteran leftwing MP, was preparing to vote against one of his own government’s most incendiary plans: to remove the winter fuel allowance from some retired people, a benefit long seen by many UK households as essential. Senior figures told Trickett he would be the only Labour member of parliament to do so. He said this week: “I said: ‘I don’t give a f
The Guardian Culture
The son of fugitive leaders of the militant Weather Underground recounts his chaotic, peripatetic upbringingEvery aspect of a family’s life will seem normal to the small children within it; only hindsight can bring what was abnormal into relief. Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s earliest years were spent on the run from the FBI; his parents were members of the revolutionary Weather Underground faction, a group dedicated to the overthrow of the US government.By the age of three he had been coached by
The Guardian Health
Mohammad Tahir and his colleagues operate through bombing and blackouts in barely functional hospitals – but there are moments of relief amid the documentary’s tragedy and goreWhat this documentary might lack in film-making finesse it makes up for with sheer visceral and emotional impact. British nerve surgeon Mohammad Tahir and his colleagues, who also work the cameras, toil in Gaza’s barely operational hospitals during some of the worst days and nights of the war in the winter of 2024-25. Supp
The Guardian Culture
(Rubicon)The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangement of Petrushka“Who is not at heart a globetrotter?” asked the Lithuanian-born US piano virtuoso and composer Leopold Godowsky in the foreword to his Java Suite, published in 1925 and inspired by what he had heard and seen on a lengthy concert tour of south-east Asia. He intended this 50-minute travelogue to be the first of a series entitled Phonoramas – Tonal Journeys
Hollywood Reporter
The veteran American TV actor has signed on to star in the pilot for NBC’s 'Rockford Files' reboot as private eye James Rockford.