Brendan Ruberry
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🔮 On Friday, Washington announced it would suspend sanctions on Russian diesel, though for Moscow, “the real benefit isn’t the billions of dollars in fresh revenue,” a CNN correspondent wrote.
🔮 European leaders rushed to back Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend amid a widening rift with the US, though the continent’s support for Kyiv may have an expiration date.
🔮 Tesla has waged a social media campaign against EU regulators to win approval for the firm’s “Full Self-Driving” technology, Reuters reported, and Musk last week said the CEO of Delta — the only Big Four airline not to carry Starlink — “will lose his job” for contracting Amazon’s in-flight internet.
🔮 Global trade in goods is expected to grow by 3.9% this year, The World Trade Organization said Thursday, as conflict-fueled disruptions in the Middle East are more than offset by the booming AI trade.
🔮 Though the pipeline hasn’t transported gas to Germany since 2022, the country’s far-right AfD supports resuming flows, which could allow US investors to profit.
🔮 But one proximate trigger of public discontent may have been overlooked: a ban on phones in schools enforced last month.
🔮 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would be “unapologetic” about its “pursuit of national power” at a speech in Athens, as America’s top diplomat made the case for NATO allies to build self-reliance.
🔮 “We are actively talking to working-class people who are not affiliated with the union, and wrapping them into an agenda that they have said will make their lives different.”
The idea for the “contract” was born of a paradox: Union membership has declined from 20% of all workers in 1983 to 10% last year, even as union popularity hovers at 90-year highs.
🔮 Francis Halzen established a laboratory at the South Pole after discovering that the unusual clarity of its ice could be used to track subatomic particles called neutrinos, which otherwise pass undetected through the Earth and the human body: “We could catch them in ice, that was the goal,” Halzen said, adding that his discovery was comparatively minor compared with those the technique could eventually unlock.
🔮 France could be on the precipice of a financial crisis, as escalating student protests roiled an already shaky bond market.
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