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U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%. [...]
Gold settled 1.4% lower, down two of the past three sessions, and silver fell 2.5%, down three of the past four sessions. [...]
Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown. [...]
Gain insight on Experian, SoFi Technologies and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services. [...]
Arabica coffee prices hit a record level, as traders digested the withdrawal of President Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia. [...]
The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks. [...]
U.S. natural gas futures fell after weekend updates took some of the chill out of early February weather forecasts. [...]
QXO is taking its offer directly to shareholders after being rebuffed on several occasions. [...]
CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in comments on Chinese social media advocating the conquest of Australia. While some may have been a joke, others appeared serious, and were taken seriously by commentators such as current [...]
Train-ing 3, Beijing, 20250319, by Gilbert Sopakuwa (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) [...]
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war last week was to censor online commentary about the scale of tariffs. Now, it has responded with targeted messaging intended to not only rally the Chinese public around a nationalist defense, but [...]
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, many Chinese citizens continue to remember the events of the pandemic and to pay tribute to Dr. Li and other individuals who risked their lives and freedom to [...]
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of [...]
Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. [...]
Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a process vital to all life on Earth. Scientists have worked out the [...]
A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information. [...]
Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from one part of a chromosome to another, independently in populations of stick insects on different mountains. [...]
Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to researchers. [...]
Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? [...]
New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien world. [...]
Food scientists evaluated 11 commercially available yeast strains to identify their strengths based on chemical analysis and sensory panel opinions. Most of the yeasts that were tested are strains that have been developed or screened to not ferment maltose, the primary sugar created from malted [...]
Egyptian and Qatari mediators suggest a truce of up to seven years and a permanent end to the war. [...]
An Israeli military report said "professional failures" led to the killing of the 15 rescue workers. [...]
The private messaging group included the US defence secretary's wife, brother and personal lawyer, sources tell US media. [...]
Fourteen emergency workers and a UN worker were killed when the Israeli military opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in Gaza last month. [...]
The BBC joins a GP in Gaza as she sees dozens of patients, struggling to treat them with a dwindling supply of drugs. [...]
Iranian and US officials agree to continue with a third round of high-stakes talks on a new nuclear deal. [...]
The US says the attack on the Red Sea coast aimed to restrict supplies and funds for the Houthis, who called it a war crime. [...]
The group says it wants a deal that would free all hostages in return for an end to the war. [...]
After Francis’s death, conservatives and liberals contest the papal legacy. [...]
The first pontiff from the global south has died, the Vatican announced Monday. [...]
Four steps the country’s next generation of leaders should be thinking about. [...]
Job security and economic benefits came about because of unions. [...]
What the forgotten war has revealed about the international system. [...]
This was the first time that the United States targeted an oil facility in Yemen, marking a major escalation in the conflict. [...]
A former Iranian diplomat outlines a path forward. [...]
[allAfrica] Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. [...]
[allAfrica] Africa Mourns Death of Pope Francis [...]
[allAfrica] Geneva -- The head of the World Trade Organization says a temporary tariff pause by the United States mitigates current trade contraction, but substantial downside risks persist, which can heavily impact Africa. [...]
[Premium Times] The Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel said it killed 70 soldiers in an attack on two military posts in northern Benin. [...]
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The House of Peoples' Representatives on Thursday 17 April approved an amendment to Ethiopia's Mass Media Proclamation, granting the Prime Minister the authority to nominate the Director General of the Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA), a role that was previously reserved [...]
[Liberian Observer] The Government of Liberia is calling on international donors to align their support with the country's (Agriculture, Roads, Rule of Law and Governance, Education, Sanitation and Health, and Tourism) Agenda in order to achieve long-term, sustainable development outcomes. [...]
[Nigeria Health Watch] When Chinedu (not his real name) walked into the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Afikpo, a community in Ebonyi State, holding his one-year-old son, the nurses looked up in surprise. "Where is your wife?" one of them asked. [...]
[allAfrica] Dakar -- Several officers of the Burkinabe armed forces were arrested, and two of them reportedly relieved of their duties as corps commanders. Several junta supporters have suggested a coup attempt, pointing the finger at exiled military personnel. No further action was taken. [...]
