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Charity warns Italy's ban on NGO planes risks lives
A migrant rescue charity warned Thursday that a new Italian ban on using surveillance planes to spot migrant boats in distress in the Mediterranean could endanger lives.Sea Watch warned the planes do not only play a vital role in spotting boats at risk of sinking, they also document the behaviour of the Libyan coastguard, often accused of violence towards migrants.
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Roblox cuts annual bookings forecast on muted player spending
Roblox cut its annual bookings forecast on Thursday, in a sign that people were dialing back on spending within its video-gaming platform amid an uncertain economic outlook and elevated levels of inflation. The lowered forecast marks the latest downbeat report from the gaming industry, which has laid off hundreds of employees and shut studios this year to cope with declining demand. Electronic Arts also gave a weak revenue forecast earlier this week.
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Greg Gutfeld Makes Truly Vile Comments About 'Sex God' Trump And Stormy Daniels
The Fox News host offered a deeply misogynistic take on the adult film star's testimony about her alleged affair with Trump.
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UK's Cameron urges NATO countries to boost defence spending
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Thursday urged NATO partners to soon start spending 2.5 percent of GDP on defence, during a major speech in which he called for a more muscular approach to Western foreign policy.Last month, UK leader Rishi Sunak announced during a visit to Poland that London would gradually boost defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030.
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Tower Semiconductor beats profit estimates, sees more growth in 2024
(Reuters) -Israeli contract chipmaker Tower Semiconductor beat quarterly profit and revenue estimates on Thursday and said it expects improvement throughout 2024 despite weak demand for industrial and automotive chips due to an economic downturn. Tower, which specialises in analogue chips used in cars, medical sensors and power management, said it earned 46 cents per diluted share excluding one-off items in the first quarter of 2024, versus 55 cents a year earlier.
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Bernie Sanders Calls Joe Biden’s Red-Line Warning To Israel A ‘Good Step Forward’
“I’m glad to see that the president is beginning, beginning to move in that direction,” the Vermont senator said.
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India's 2023/24 fiscal deficit seen slightly better than projected, source says
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's fiscal deficit for the year ending March 2024 is expected to be slightly better than the government's projection of 17.35 trillion rupees ($207.81 billion), a government source told Reuters on Thursday. "Extra tax receipts and some non-tax revenues helped in bettering the fiscal deficit target," the government source, who did not want to be named, told reporters in New Delhi. Indian government will release the 2023/24 fiscal deficit data on May 31.
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