Sat 29 June 2024: Nike’s stock experienced its worst day ever, plunging 20% and wiping out $28.41 billion from its market valuation, Reuters reported. This dramatic drop followed the company’s forecast of a mid-single-digit percentage fall in fiscal 2025 revenue, contrary to analysts’ expectations of a near 1% rise. Investors are worried about Nike’s efforts […]
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Sat 29 June 2024: The Rim of the Pacific exercises involve more than 25,000 personnel from 29 countries and will continue until August. Hawaii, United States – In an era of increased tension and growing competition between China and the United States and its allies, the US Pacific Fleet is hosting Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), “the world’s […]
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Sat 29 June 2024: Rough sleeping in the capital hit the highest level in a decade, with more than 1,100 people living on London’s streets for the first time because of evictions. The number of new rough sleepers seen for the first time by outreach workers between April 2023 and March 2024, surged 25% to […]
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Sat 29 June 2024: President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia should resume producing midrange missiles, previously banned under the now-defunct INF Treaty, amid rising tensions with the United States. This follows Moscow’s accusation that Washington supplied Ukraine with ATACMS missiles used in a recent attack on Crimea, killing four. Russia has vowed a strong response […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: Support for Macron dropped 6 points to 36%, the worst showing since March, according to Toluna-Harris Interactive poll for LCI TV published on Friday, Bloomberg reported. Separate polls are putting National Rally on course to be the biggest group in the lower house of parliament, with Bloomberg’s poll of polls projecting […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: In their first debate since the 2020 election, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump exchanged sharp barbs on a range of issues including global conflicts, immigration, and US democracy. Held at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, the debate took place unusually early in the election cycle, before either candidate […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: An original watercolor illustration for the first edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sold for a record $1.9 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, becoming the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold. The artwork for the first book in the series, created by Thomas […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: In their first debate since the 2020 election, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump exchanged sharp barbs on a range of issues including global conflicts, immigration, and US democracy. Held at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, the debate took place unusually early in the election cycle, before either candidate […]
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Thu 27 June 2024: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer faced off in a heated debate on Wednesday, exchanging personal attacks as they made their final pitches to voters ahead of next week’s election. Trailing in the polls by around 20 points, Sunak accused Starmer of dishonesty on issues like migration, […]
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Thu 27 June 2024: Amazon.com is set to introduce a new section on its shopping site featuring inexpensive items shipped directly to overseas consumers from Chinese warehouses, according to a report by tech news site The Information, which cited slides shown to Chinese sellers. This new marketplace, Amazon’s boldest move yet to compete with discount […]
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