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Iranian drones strike Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi refinery again, sparking fires

Iranian drones struck the Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery in Kuwait on Friday morning, igniting fires across multiple operational units in the latest attack on Gulf energy infrastructure since the U.S.-Israeli air campaign against Iran began in late February. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation told the official KUNA news agency that the 346,000-barrel-per-day......

Morocco launches sovereign AI platform to boost industrial transformation

Aba Technology unveiled a new artificial intelligence platform designed to support Morocco’s push for technological sovereignty and industrial growth, according to a company statement issued in Rabat on April 2 . The launch event took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Rabat under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Trade......

Tesla posts record sales in South Korea and Australia as oil crisis accelerates EV shift

Tesla recorded record sales in South Korea and strong growth in Australia during March, closing out a first quarter driven by the refreshed Model Y and a global oil crisis that is pushing consumers toward electric vehicles at an accelerating pace. Tesla delivered 11,130 vehicles to South Korean customers in March, a result described as a......

European Q1 earnings set to rise 4% as energy sector surges

Corporate earnings for companies in the STOXX 600 index are forecast to grow 4 percent in the first quarter of 2026, marking a rebound after a decline in the final quarter of last year, according to LSEG I/B/E/S data cited by Reuters on Thursday. The turnaround is driven primarily by a surge in the energy sector, where crude oil prices inflated......

Japan warns speculators as yen nears 160 amid escalating Iran conflict

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama intensified warnings to currency speculators on Friday as the yen traded near the critical level of 160 per dollar, a threshold widely regarded as a trigger for government intervention. The warning came hours after President Donald Trump's televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening,......

Anthropic maps 171 emotion-like patterns inside Claude that shape its behavior

Anthropic's interpretability team published research on Wednesday revealing that its Claude Sonnet 4.5 model contains 171 distinct internal representations that function analogously to human emotions — and that these patterns do not merely correlate with model outputs but causally influence its decisions, including triggering unethical......

Container ship Safeen Prestige sinks in Strait of Hormuz after weeks ablaze

The Maltese-flagged container ship Safeen Prestige has sunk in the Strait of Hormuz, nearly a month after being struck by a projectile and abandoned by its crew, according to a maritime traffic advisory issued by regional operators on April 1. The vessel went down approximately 6.5 nautical miles northeast of Ras Mahrouk, with an oil slick......

Airlines face bankruptcy risk as fuel costs soar amid Middle East conflict

A billionaire aviation executive based in Dubai has warned that airlines around the world could begin filing for bankruptcy within weeks if the war in Iran continues to drive jet fuel prices higher, even as the shipping industry posts record profits fueled by the same geopolitical upheaval. Gediminas Ziemelis, chairman of Avia Solutions Group,......

Fossils in China push back origins of complex animal life by millions of years

A cache of more than 700 fossils unearthed in southwestern China has shown that complex animal life was already diversifying millions of years before the celebrated Cambrian explosion, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The discovery, from a site known as the Jiangchuan biota in Yunnan province, includes specimens......

Artemis II crew captures iPhone footage in zero gravity on lunar journey

For the first time in NASA history, astronauts are carrying personal smartphones on a deep-space mission. Videos circulating on social media show the four-member Artemis II crew tossing iPhones across the cabin of the Orion spacecraft in weightlessness, just hours after launching on a historic 10-day journey around the Moon. Artemis II lifted......

JWST finds "forbidden" exoplanet with unexpectedly metal-poor atmosphere

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new findings about TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet already considered anomalous for orbiting a star far too small to have formed it. Observations published this week in The Astronomical Journal show that the planet's atmosphere contains fewer heavy elements than expected — even fewer......

Global fuel prices surge as Iran conflict disrupts oil markets

Fuel prices have climbed to multi-year highs worldwide after one month of conflict involving Iran disrupted global energy flows and tightened supply. The shock has hit consumers across major economies and forced governments to deploy emergency measures to contain economic fallout. In the United Kingdom, average petrol prices reached 148.8......

LVMH posts worst quarterly stock drop in its history as Arnault loses $56 billion

Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, shed roughly $55.9 billion from his net worth during the first three months of 2026, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the world's largest luxury conglomerate recorded its steepest quarterly stock decline on record. The losses reduced his fortune to approximately $152 billion and pushed......

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