Global News
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Musk offloads $4 billion in Tesla shares after Twitter deal
Following these sales, Musk, the world's richest person, holds just over 168 million shares in Tesla, via a trust
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Can movie theaters save Netflix?
With box offices bouncing back from the Covid-19 pandemic, and Netflix stock plummeting after its first loss of subscribers in a decade, industry trade body head predicts movie theaters could even help the streaming giant adapt to an uncertain future
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Cash-strapped Sri Lanka to sell 'golden' visas
Foreigners who deposit a minimum of $100,000 locally will be granted permission to live and work in Sri Lanka for 10 years under the "Golden Paradise Visa Program", in a desperate need for foreign currency in the island nation
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EU won't bend to gas 'blackmail' as Russia pushes deeper into Ukraine
Moscow cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, two EU and NATO members backing Ukraine in the conflict
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Stay or go? Ukraine refugees torn between safety and home
Women and children are still pouring out of a land being pummelled by what one called Russia's "creatures from Hell" but hundreds of thousands of refugees are returning home, determined to stay. Many others have had to flee for a second time, having thought it was safe to go back only to find it was not
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China detects first human case of H3N8 bird flu
H3N8 is known to have been circulating since 2002 after first emerging in North American waterfowl. It is known to infect horses, dogs and seals, but has not previously been detected in humans
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Twitter future direction 'uncertain' Parag Agrawal says as employees look for answers
Compensation would remain largely the same under Elon Musk, the Twitter CEO said, but he did not make the same assurances about Twitter's policies and culture
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Beijing lockdown talks fuel supply chain disruption concerns
The city government ordered one of its districts to test all 3.5 million of its residents for coronavirus in the coming days, a move that may be a prelude to a larger lockdown in China's capital city
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Nearly 15,000 Russian troops have died since the start of the war
The estimate, based on the British Defense Ministry's assessments, is on the higher end of the 7,000 to 15,000 range that NATO officials estimated a month ago, but is lower than what the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported Monday: about 21,900 Russian deaths
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Asia facing 'stagflationary outlook' amid Ukraine war: IMF
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions on Moscow have driven up food and fuel prices worldwide, and a larger-than-expected slowdown in China due to prolonged or more widespread Covid-19 lockdowns is "a significant risk for the region"
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Coal still top threat to global climate goals: report
China, Japan and South Korea—all historical backers of coal development outside their borders—have pledged to stop funding new coal plants, and yet the worldwide operational fleet of coal-fired power grew in 2021 by 18 GW, and as of December an additional 176 GW of coal capacity was under construction—about the same as the year before