Warner Bros. Discovery hits streaming-first push reset as DC chases Marvel
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (WBD.O) on Thursday laid out a new strategy that will merge the HBO Max streaming service with Discovery+ while vowing to take aim at Marvel’...
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Beyond Meat cuts sales forecast as consumers shun pricier faux meat
Beyond Meat Inc (BYND.O) on Thursday lowered its revenue forecast for the year and announced job cuts as rising inflation hurt the company’s efforts to make its pricier ...
Saudi Arabia posts almost $21 billion second-quarter surplus
Saudi Arabia has registered a budget surplus of nearly 78 billion riyals ($21 billion) in the second quarter of 2022, the finance ministry said on Thursday, an almost 50 per cent rise from a ...
China actions around Taiwan unjustified, disproportionate and provocative – Blinken
China’s military drills around Taiwan in response to the U.S. house speaker’s visit to the self-ruled island is a disproportionate and unjustified escalation, U.S. Secretary of ...
UK house prices fall for first time in 13 months, Halifax says
House prices in Britain fell the first time in more than a year in July in monthly terms and the market is likely to weaken further as interest rates go ...
Mastercard, Visa suspend ties with ad arm of Pornhub owner MindGeek
Visa (V.N) and Mastercard (MA.N) on Thursday said they had suspended ties with the advertisement arm of MindGeek, owner of website Pornhub, after a lawsuit raised questions over ...
A dose of marijuana and some hyena testicles can save Kenya says presidential candidate Wajackoyah
Sexagenarian reggae aficionado and presidential candidate George Wajackoyah is convinced he has the right medicine for the ills troubling Kenya’s voters: a dose of marijuana and some hyena testicles.
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Russia ready to discuss prisoner swap with US Lavrov says
Russian said on Friday that it was ready to discuss prisoner swaps with Washington through an existing diplomatic channel, a day after basketball star Brittney Griner was handed a nine-year ...
Arsenal and Crystal Palace kick off new Premier League season
New signing Gabriel Jesus has enjoyed an impressive pre-season at Arsenal but manager Mikel Arteta tempered expectations before Friday’s Premier League opener at Crystal Palace, saying the Brazilian striker ...
Three new ships with grain leave Ukraine under landmark deal
Three ships loaded with grain under a recently concluded deal have left Ukrainian ports, the Turkish defenсe ministry and Reuters witnesses said on Friday.
The Joint Coordination Centre in ...
Infowars’ Alex Jones must pay $4.1 million for Sandy Hook hoax claims
U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a ...
Thai night club fire kills at least 13, cause unknown
At least 13 people were killed and 35 injured when a fire broke out at a night club in Thailand’s eastern Chonburi province early on Friday, a police official said.
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Hungary’s Orban takes swipe at President Biden at US Texas conservatives conference
U.S. and Hungarian conservatives must join forces in 2024 elections to “take back” institutions in Washington and Brussels from liberals who threaten western civilization, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on ...
Italy, Intel close to $5 bln deal for chip factory
Italy is close to clinching a deal initially worth $5 billion with Intel (INTC.O) to build an advanced semiconductor packaging and assembly plant in the country, two sources briefed on ...
Crypto winter may temper fintech earnings
Wall Street has lowered earnings expectations for once high-flying fintechs Coinbase (COIN.O) and Block (SQ.N), as a chill in the cryptocurrency market adds more pain to the companies ...
Honduras launches ‘Bitcoin Valley’ in the tourist town of Santa Lucia
People can pay for a slushie with crypto in the streets of “Bitcoin Valley,” a project in the Honduran tourist enclave of Santa Lucia through which the country has entered ...
Coinbase ex-manager pleads not guilty to insider trading charges
A former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager and his brother pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to wire fraud charges in what US prosecutors called the first insider trading ...
German cabinet agrees to gas levy for consumers from October
Germany’s cabinet has agreed to introduce a planned levy on gas consumers from October to help suppliers hit by soaring gas import prices caused by Russia’s invasion of ...
Ukraine under pressure in east as Nato chief says Russia must not win (Updated)
Ukraine said on Thursday it had been forced to cede some territory in the east of the country in the face of a Russian offensive, and the head of the ...
UN experts: Rwanda has intervened militarily in eastern Congo
A United Nations Group of Experts said it has “solid evidence” that Rwandan troops have been fighting alongside the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and providing ...
Four Kentucky police officers charged in Breonna Taylor killing
US prosecutors on Thursday charged four current and former Louisville, Kentucky, police officers for their roles in the botched 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was in ...
Furious China fires missiles near Taiwan in drills after Pelosi visit
China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles near Taiwan on Thursday in its biggest drills in the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S. House of Representatives Speaker ...
Mistrial denied as jury weighs damages against Alex Jones in Sandy Hook defamation trial
A Texas judge denied Alex Jones’s motion for a mistrial on Thursday as jury deliberations resumed in a defamation case over the US conspiracy theorist’s false claims about ...
Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in jail, Biden says it’s unacceptable (Update 1)
A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia, a ...