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Twitter to Focus on Video Commerce in Business Revamp

Under Musk, who has overhauled the C-suite and ordered operational changes at Twitter since his takeover, the company also is focusing on video partnerships to revitalize its business beyond digital advertising. A slide in the investor presentation showed vertical video now accounts for more than 10 percent of the time users spend on the site. Twitter envisions collaborating with content creators to sell ads...

Bill Gates Visits China Xi Jinping

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Microsoft co-founder and chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates on Friday that his country has "always placed our hopes" in the American people, state media reported. According to the Associated Press, the meeting took place in Beijing's Diaoyutai state guesthouse and involved top diplomat Wang Yi. The two discussed how the US and China could...

ADF rebels attack Ugandan school, killing at least 40

At least 41 people were killed in a rebel attack on a school in Uganda near the border with Congo, authorities said Saturday. The attack occurred at the Kasese district's Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe-Lhubiriha. The school is located just over a mile from the Congo border. The Ugandan military said the rebels, believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), attacked the school late...

Daniel Ellsberg, the Military Analyst Who Leaked the Classified Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92

Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose sobbing anti-war epiphany on a bathroom floor in 1971 led him to leak the classified "Pentagon Papers," revealing U.S. government deception about the war and setting off a major freedom-of-the-press battle, died on Friday at the age of 92. His family surrounded him at his home in Kensington, California, his family said in a statement. "Daniel was...

India’s Wholesale Price Inflation Shrinks 3.48% in May

India's annual wholesale prices fell for the second consecutive month in May on easing input costs brought about by lower commodity prices, government data showed on Wednesday. The wholesale price index (WPI) fell 3.48%, compared with a 2.35% fall estimated by economists in a Reuters poll. It fell 0.92% in April. The WPI is an essential measure of pipeline price pressures, tracking the cost...

At least 79 Dead and Hundreds Missing in One of Europes Deadliest Shipping Disasters Off the Coast of Greece

In one of Europes deadliest shipping disasters in recent years, at least 79 migrants drowned and hundreds more were feared dead after their overloaded boat capsized and sank off the coast of Greece. The vessel, carrying an estimated 750 people, was en route to Italy from Libya. The search for survivors was to continue through the night, with military aircraft deploying flares to light up...

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