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Published by Reuters UK PARIS (Reuters) – Growth in business activity in France’s dominant services sector weakened in May compared to April, a monthly survey showed, as the positive effect of fewer COVID-19 restrictions were offset by inflationary pressures. Data compiler S&P Global said its final purchasing managers index (PMI) for France’s services sector fell […]

Published by Reuters UK By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and wants to cut about 10% of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to executives on Thursday seen by Reuters. The message came two days after the world’s richest

Published by Reuters By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will announce on Wednesday more than $2.1 billion in funding to shore up weaknesses in the country’s food supply system exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will unveil the new

Published by BANG Showbiz English Artificial intelligence has changed tennis “forever”. Craig O’Shannessy – who is a prominent strategist and coach – has acknowledged that data and analytics have transformed the sport over recent years. He said: “AI can sniff out areas of significances. Humans do a very bad job at layering data, whereas AI

Published by Reuters By Uditha Jayasinghe GONAPOLA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) -Lasanda Deepthi, a 43-year-old Sri Lankan woman, plans her day around fuel queues. The driver of an auto-rickshaw on the outskirts of the commercial capital Colombo, she keeps a close eye on the petrol gauge of her sky-blue three-wheeler before accepting a job to make

Published by Al-Araby The UN agency for children’s rights, UNICEF, has called on “all parties to the conflict” to “protect all children, at all times, everywhere” following the killing of thirteen Palestinian children by Israeli troops over the past six months. “Since the beginning of the year, 13 Palestinian children have been killed in the

Published by Reuters UK By Emily Chow and Roxanne Liu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai said on Sunday “unreasonable” curbs on businesses will be removed from June 1 as it looks to lift its COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing reopened parts of its public transport as well as some malls and other venues as infections stabilised. The Chinese

Published by The Bangkok Post WASHINGTON: The United States expressed concern on Saturday over China’s “efforts to restrict and manipulate” the UN human rights chief’s visit to the Xinjiang region where Beijing is accused of detaining over a million people in indoctrination camps. Michelle Bachelet’s long-planned trip this week took her to the far-western Xinjiang

Published by Reuters By Stella Qiu and Kevin Buckland BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares on Friday extended overnight global gains thanks to strong results from regional tech firms and U.S. retailers, while investors also took comfort from Federal Reserve minutes suggesting it could pause its rapid rate hikes later this year. The swing in sentiment

Published by BANG Showbiz English Elon Musk thinks political attacks on him will “escalate” in the coming months. The 50-year-old billionaire – who is currently in the midst of trying to buy Twitter – has taken to the micro-blogging platform to predict that he’ll come under fire in the coming weeks and months. He wrote