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Israeli military vehicles move next to damaged buildings in southern Lebanon. April 27, 2026. REUTERS/Shir Torem
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- BP's first-quarter profit more than doubled year-on-year to $3.2 billion - its highest since 2023 - the British oil major reported, beating expectations by 20% after the Iran war boosted its oil trading results.
- The Beijing Auto Show that opened to the public this week is a showcase for how hypercompetition in China has driven new car prices in the world's largest car market to a fraction of the level of the prices in the US.
- General Motors posted a 22% rise in first-quarter core profit and lifted its full-year earnings forecast, bolstered by a resilient U.S. car market and an expected tariff refund.
- Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiated a pact that let Microsoft exclusively sell the ChatGPT creator's artificial intelligence models, clearing the way for the startup to forge new deals with rivals to the software and enterprise giant, including Amazon.
- SpaceX's board has approved a compensation plan for founder Elon Musk with goals as futuristic and celestial as the company's ambitions: colonizing Mars and running data centers in outer space.
- Federal Reserve chief nominee Kevin Warsh says he wants a "good family fight" at the policymaking table once he takes over as head of the US central bank.
- Great power rivalry and upstart technology are testing financial infrastructure. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Stephan Leithner, CEO of Deutsche Boerse, tells Peter Thal Larsen how the EU can become more autonomous.
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Vitalii during an interview in a pre-trial detention center in Chernihiv, Ukraine. He was accused of setting fire to railway equipment on behalf of Russia. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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As dusk fell on a crisp September evening in 2024, a group of Ukrainian teenagers huddled beside train tracks near a village in Chernihiv.
Fifteen-year-old Vitalii pried open the doors of cabinets containing Ukrainian railroad communication and signaling equipment. According to an indictment filed last March by Chernihiv prosecutors, the boys poured flammable liquid over the cabinets and set them on fire.
They paused to film, doused the flames with water from plastic bottles they had packed, then shared the video clip of the flames with another boy, who forwarded it to a man called “Sania,” according to prosecutors and the boys’ lawyer. The man had offered hundreds of dollars online to perform specific tasks – tasks that, Sania neglected to mention, amounted to sabotage against the Ukrainian state.
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A mural depicting British broadcaster and biologist David Attenborough, in Dublin, Ireland. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
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Celebrations to mark the 100th birthday of renowned British naturalist David Attenborough start next week with a show delving deeper into his milestone 1979 TV series "Life on Earth".
That program - with its famous face-to-face encounters with mountain gorillas in Rwanda - set the pattern for natural history documentaries in the decades that followed and helped establish him as one of the world's most authoritative voices on conservation.
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