Photo is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 The US government is reportedly set to announce wider tariffs on several categories of Chinese goods, including various green products like solar panels and batteries, medical goods, and in particular an increase of tariffs on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100%. The rumors were first reported late Thursday that
In this article @LCO.1 @CL.1 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Palestinians, including children, collect usable belongings in the heavily damaged buildings after Israeli attacks in Rafah, Gaza on February 12, 2024. Building targeted in the Israeli attacks and surrounding structures were damaged as Israel’s air, land and sea attacks continue on the Gaza Strip.
Israel has probably broken international law – that’s the conclusion of a US State Department report that is both damning yet cautiously equivocal too. The report, released late last night, is highly critical of Israel, but will also be seen as intentionally non-committal by its critics. Eagerly anticipated – it was due on Wednesday –
Ireland’s Eurovision entry, Bambie Thug, has called on the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to “gain some conscience” and “humanity,” as the contest bosses struggle to keep politics off the stage at the annual competition. The 31-year-old, who is non-binary and uses the pronouns “they” and “them”, also said “they cried with their team” when they
The European Hospital, in southern Gaza, is a dangerous place to be. The facility is the only remaining hospital east of the city of Rafah and an Israeli military operation has come perilously close to its doors. It was a hazardous time then, for three British medics to begin a short placement, arriving at the
A police officer has been shot in the leg with a crossbow during an incident in High Wycombe. Police say the incident took place as the officer was responding to reports of a man in his 60s suffering a stab wound in the Buckinghamshire town. A 54-year-old man, from High Wycombe, has been arrested on
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Denis Balibouse | Reuters On Friday, advanced nuclear fission company Oklo, for which Sam Altman serves as chairman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which has yet to generate
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Omar Marques | Getty Images A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against Israel’s Bright Data, in a case that involved the scraping of public online data and its appropriate uses. X, formerly Twitter, sued Bright Data, alleging the company “scrapes data from X” and sells it “using
The former head of accounting for the Post Office has been described as the “gatekeeper of the remote access secret”, the inquiry has heard. Rod Ismay authored the first report into faulty accounting system Horizon, in August 2010, which concluded the software was robust. Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted between 1999 and 2015 as
“I am ruthless”. That was Sir Keir Starmer’s account of himself and his decision to let Natalie Elphicke into the Labour Party on our trip to Dover on Friday to unveil his plan to stop the small boats. Because for all the controversy her arrival on the Labour benches caused this week, for Sir Keir it
No deportation flights to Rwanda will take off under a Labour government, Sir Keir Starmer has told Sky News. The Labour leader told Sky News political editor Beth Rigby “there’ll be no flights” as he wants to “scrap the scheme”, which aims to send asylum seekers entering the UK illegally from a safe country, such
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024. Willy Kurniawan | Reuters Apple took on Thursday the unusual step of apologizing for a short advertising video promoting the
Police confront environmental activists in a forest near the Tesla Gigafactory electric car factory on May 10, 2024 near Gruenheide, Germany. Axel Schmidt | Getty Images Climate protesters angry about Tesla’s plans to expand its Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory in Germany tried to break into the plant on Friday, according to a statement from local police. “Multiple
I recently took a trip to China in order to see for myself how many of the e-bike drive systems and components we use daily in the West were originally designed and produced. And no journey to view the origins of the most popular e-bike components would be complete without a visit to Ananda, one
Natural gas demand will likely outpace expectations as electricity consumption surges from artificial intelligence and data centers, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told CNBC on Monday. “It’s a little hard to quantify right now because this is evolving so quickly on the AI side,” Wirth told CNBC’s Sara Eisen at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference in
Andreas Hale, ESPNMay 10, 2024, 07:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions It would be lazy to simplify Derrick Lewis‘ journey to the UFC as the clichéd tale of the Black kid who had to fight his way out of the impoverished confines of New Orleans to escape the fate of incarceration or an early grave.
FIFA has offered to hold peace talks with the World Leagues Association – headed by the boss of the Premier League – to stave off the threat of legal action over a new Club World Cup. In a letter to the WLA and global players’ union FIFPRO seen by Sky News, FIFA interim secretary general
A privately owned used-car platform is circling Cazoo Group, its stricken US-listed rival which is on the brink of administration. Sky News has learnt that Motors.co.uk is a leading contender to acquire Cazoo’s marketplace operation, which would include its brand and intellectual property assets. The process to auction the used-car platform’s constituent parts comes after
Just Stop Oil says two protesters in their 80s have broken the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library. The climate activist group said Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, an 85-year-old retired biology teacher, entered the library and smashed the glass enclosure around the historic document. According to Just Stop
The owner of British Airways has reported a sharp rise in profits amid soaring demand for trips and a fall in the cost of fuel. International Airlines Group (IAG) said its operating profit for the first three months of the year was €68m (£58.5m) – above expectations and up from €9m (£7.7m) during the same