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By AP & Doloresz Katanich Published on 09/07/2025 – 17:00 GMT+2Nvidia shares rose 2.5%, or $3.97, in early trading Wednesday, topping $164 each. At the beginning of 2023, Nvidia shares were around $14 each.The poster child of the AI boom, Nvidia has grown into the most valuable company in the world, surpassing Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google parent, Alphabet. The stock’s movement carries more weight on the S&P 500 and other indexes than every company except Apple. Two years ago, Nvidia’s market value was below $600 billion (€512bn).In its most recent quarter, Nvidia overcame tariff-driven turbulence to deliver another quarter of…
“To turn paper into money, you take a 5,000-ruble note, wash it with a special powder mixed with water, then use that liquid to spray the cash inside a suitcase, wrap the money in foil for some time, and after these steps, the bills are supposed to turn into $100 notes,” the woman said Tabi Takang told her. After the woman handed over 500,000 rubles to Tabi Takang, the mendacious magic man took off with the money. According to Kommersant, Tabi Takang said he understood the charges and admitted his guilt. In a second case, Tabi Takang claimed he would…
By Nicole Winfield with AP Published on 09/07/2025 – 16:03 GMT+2Pope Leo XIV held what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass on Wednesday, using a new set of prayers imploring care for God’s creation. The Mass, in the gardens of the Vatican’s new ecological educational centre at the papal summer estate in Castel Gandolfo, indicated a strong line of ecological continuity with Pope Francis, who made environmental protection a hallmark of his pontificate.The private Mass was celebrated for the Laudato Si centre, named for Francis’ 2015 environmental encyclical, in which the first pope from the Global South blasted the way wealthy countries…
She shot to prominence in 2019 as captain of the rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, when she defied Italy’s closed port policy by docking in Lampedusa with 53 saved migrants. Rackete was arrested shortly after the landing but later cleared by an Italian judge, who ruled she acted out of necessity and did not commit any criminal offense. Following the Lampedusa incident, Salvini — who was serving as Italy’s interior minister at the time — publicly criticized Rackete, calling her a “German criminal,” a “rich and spoiled communist” and an “accomplice of human traffickers,” in a series of Facebook posts and…
During a high-stakes meeting with party chairs in Strasbourg on Tuesday, von der Leyen said that payments to regions — which currently make up a third of the EU’s multi-year budget — will continue to be handed out to local authorities as opposed to national governments in the new budget, two people in the room told POLITICO. Von der Leyen’s offer, however, was not enough to quell concerns from the Socialists and Democrats, who have been increasingly critical of her leadership in recent weeks. “We missed clarity and commitment … If nothing changes, it will be difficult for the S&D to…
Indonesia’s participation follows French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to President Prabowo Subianto, now the guest of honour, reflecting deepening military ties between France and Southeast Asia’s largest economy.Over 500 Indonesian military and police personnel, including a full band, are set to march along the Champs-Élysées in what commanders called a historic collaboration.The parade, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille, has been held annually since 1880.
However, while production is down, consumption is up. Russians drunk more in 2024 than at similar stages in the last eight years. And more and more people prefer rum, whiskey, brandy and tequila, a Russian financial auditing firm, Finexpertisa, reported in May. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russians are starting to drink less, claiming more of them prefer sports. “Quit drinking and start skiing,” he joked. The sales of those products grew by 10.2 percent to 3.2 liters a year per capita person, surpassing vodka consumption in some regions. But vodka is still the top…
Published on 09/07/2025 – 12:11 GMT+2•Updated 14:01Judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg delivered two rulings against Russia on Wednesday, stating Moscow has violated international law in Ukraine, the first time an international court has found the Kremlin responsible for human rights abuses since its full-scale invasion of its neighbour in 2022.The court also ruled Russia was behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the first time an international court has found Moscow responsible for the 2014 tragedy that claimed 298 lives.The decisions in Strasbourg are separate from a criminal prosecution in the Netherlands in which…
PARIS — Il faudra encore attendre un peu pour connaître le coût financier de l’accord franco-algérien de 1968. La commission des Finances de l’Assemblée nationale devait se pencher mercredi après-midi sur le rapport des députés EPR Charles Rodwell et Mathieu Lefèvre, censé évaluer les conséquences de l’accord bilatéral — en matière de circulation, de santé et d’emploi — sur nos finances publiques. Or, son examen a mystérieusement disparu de l’agenda de l’Assemblée mardi, a repéré POLITICO. La mise sur pause de la présentation de leur travail, décidée de concert par le duo, n’est en réalité pas la première. L’examen du rapport…
Published on 09/07/2025 – 11:37 GMT+2•Updated 12:19French authorities raided the headquarters of the far-right National Rally (RN) on Wednesday as part of a probe into alleged campaign finance violations, with the party’s president Jordan Bardella calling the action “a new harassment campaign”.The Paris prosecutor’s office said the investigation is examining whether the RN financed its campaigns in part through illegal loans between 2020 and 2024.The probe relates to possible money laundering and the use of forged documents during the RN’s 2022 French presidential campaign, the country’s legislative elections that year and the European elections in 2024, according to the office.…