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EU wants to move fast on Moldova accession talks, Kallas says

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday there was no exact date yet for opening formal talks on Moldova's accession to the bloc, although the EU wanted to move fast on the matter."We haven't set that date, but it's clear that we need to move fast," Kallas told a joint press conference with Moldova's President Maia Sandu, adding that the change of government in different countries opened a window of opportunity."So that's why I also think that we should move while nobody is against Moldova, because you never know when there comes a government that might have, you know, a

World food prices extend rise in April for a third month, FAO says

India's April consumer inflation likely rose to 3.8% as higher fuel costs weigh

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China's April bank lending seen plunging amid soft credit demand: Reuters Poll

China's new bank lending likely plummeted to 300 billion yuan ($44.09 billion) in April, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, underscoring persistent weakness in credit demand despite policy support for the world's second-largest economy. The loan expectation for April, based on the average estimate of 17 economists polled by Reuters, was roughly one-tenth of the 2.99 trillion yuan distributed in March.But the forecast was slightly higher than 280 billion yuan extended in April 2025.The People's Bank of China (PBOC) is expected to publish loans and money supply data between May 10 and 15.• Bank

German exports rise unexpectedly in March

Poll shows Swiss evenly split on proposal to cap population at 10 million

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UK housing market slows as Iran war hits demand, Halifax data shows

British house prices fell in April for a second month in a row as concerns about the impact of the war in Iran hurt buyer demand and in annual terms they rose by the least since December, figures from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Friday. Halifax's measure of house prices dipped by 0.1% after dropping by a monthly 0.5% in March, and were just 0.4% higher than in April last year, slowing from March's 0.8% rise in annual terms.The median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists had pointed to a monthly house price fall of 0.1% in April and an annual rise of 0.6%."After a strong start to th

Rubio set to meet Italy's Meloni as both sides seek to ease frictions over Iran war

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US military strikes sites in Iran as countries exchange fire

US forces targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for launching a series of “unprovoked” missile, drone and small boat attacks against American warships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said on Thursday.“U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as US Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7,” CENTCOM said in a news release.The Iranian facilities targeted by US forces included “missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations; and intelligence, sur

US to start revoking passports of parents who owe child support, AP reports

The State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.The revocations would begin on Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more, or about 2,700 American passport holders, the AP reported.The revocation program will soon be expanded to cover parents who owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support, which is a threshold set by a little-enforced 1996 law, the AP reported, citing the State Department.The department did not immediately respond to a request for

White House calls Mark Hamill 'sick' after actor posts Trump gravesite image

Tennessee Republicans pass new map erasing majority-Black US House district

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Ex-deputy found guilty of reckless homicide in shooting of Black man entering grandmother's home

A former sheriff's deputy was found guilty of reckless homicide at trial Thursday for shooting a Black man who was bringing sandwiches to his grandmother's house. The killing of Casey Goodson Jr. by Jason Meade in December 2020 had provoked outrage in Ohio. Trial jurors said they couldn't agree on the more serious charge of murder, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial on that count. Meade, who is white, said his shooting of Goodson — five times in the back and once in the side — was justified because he saw the 23-year-old holding a gun and

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Appeals court appears poised to reject Hegseth’s bid to punish Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

A federal appeals court appeared ready Thursday to reject Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his call to US service members to refuse illegal orders.A majority of judges on a three-member panel at the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals spent more than an hour and a half throwing cold water on arguments pushed by the Justice Department to revive Hegseth’s plans, which were shut down earlier this year by a federal judge who said they were unconstitutionally retaliatory.“That is something that is taught at Annapolis to every cadet,” Judge Nina Pi

What everyone is missing about Mamdani’s plan to tax Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse

Karoline Leavitt announces birth of baby girl

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Trump says ceasefire still holds after fighting between the US and Iran flares

U.S. and Iranian forces clashed in the Gulf, and the UAE came under renewed attack, endangering a month-old ceasefire and shaking hopes for a diplomatic solution to the crisis.The flare-up in fighting came as Washington awaited a response from Tehran to its proposal to end the conflict, which began with joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes across Iran on February 28. President Donald Trump said on Thursday three U.S. Navy destroyers were attacked as they moved through the strait, a conduit for around a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows that Iran has all but closed since the co

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US navy came under missile fire after US attack on Iranian oil tanker, Iran state media says

U.S. military naval units operating in the area of the Strait of Hormuz came under Iranian missile fire following an attack by the U.S. military on an Iranian oil tanker, Iranian state media, citing an unnamed military official, said on Thursday.U.S. military vessels were forced to retreat after sustaining damage from Iranian missile strikes, it added. It was unclear when the incident happened.Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim reported that three U.S. destroyers near the Strait of Hormuz were targeted in an attack by the Iranian navy. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a reques

Trump’s attempt to impose new 10% tariffs gets struck down by a panel of judges

Oil prices gain on renewed US-Iran hostilities

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Louisiana presses US Supreme Court to halt abortion pill mail delivery

Louisiana urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to prevent abortion pills from being prescribed through telemedicine and distributed by mail, as the Republican-led state presses its case to overturn a 2023 federal rule that made access to the medication easier. Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's office in a filing asked the justices to deny emergency requests by two manufacturers of the abortion pill to lift a lower court's decision that narrowed access to it by blocking the regulation nationwide while the state's legal challenge continues. The regulation concerning the

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US trade court rules Trump tariffs illegal, but issues narrow block

A U.S. trade court dealt another blow to President Donald Trump's tariff strategy, ruling that his latest 10% temporary global duties are unjustified under a 1970s trade law, but blocked the levies only for two private importers and the State of Washington.The U.S. Court of International Trade's 2-1 decision leaves the temporary tariffs in place for all other importers while any appeal by the Trump administration plays out. They are expected to expire in July.The court ruled that Trump's imposition of the tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 was misguided. One of the judges said

Both engines shut off and cockpit struggle came before 2022 China plane crash, NTSB data suggests

Man who sprayed vinegar at Rep. Ilhan Omar during town hall pleads guilty to assault

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Market rebound: Why some stocks are looking past the Iran war

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Fed officials are growing anxious about the Iran war

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US military says it intercepted Iranian attacks on 3 Navy ships in Strait of Hormuz

The U_S_ military says that it intercepted Iranian attacks on three U_S_ Navy ships as they transited the Strait of Hormuz and “targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U_S_ forces.”

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US military strikes sites in Iran as countries exchange fire

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Man who firebombed a demonstration in Colorado, killing 1, is sentenced to life in prison

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Vatican and State Department stress solid ties after Rubio's fence-mending visit over Trump attacks

The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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The Pentagon is delaying wind power development — even on private land

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls