Author: France 24

Meta announced a 27 percent jump in Q1 revenues but still saw shares tank after hours, amid fears over the social media giant’s increased capital expenditure on AI infrastructure. Also in this edition: British mining giant BHP makes a $39 billion bid for its rival Anglo American, and Boeing’s losses deepen. Source link

The Spanish government on Thursday announced it will “oversee” the country’s scandal-hit football federation (RFEF) to deal with its current crisis. Source link

Between 80,000 and 100,000 Palestinians have crossed into Egypt from Gaza since the start of the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, the Palestinian ambassador to Cairo said Thursday. The news came as the leaders of the United States, Britain, France and more than a dozen other countries called in a joint statement for Hamas to release the scores of hostages it has been holding in Gaza for more than 200 days. Read our liveblog to follow today’s developments in the Middle East. Source link

India has kicked off its marathon elections, with nearly a billion people eligible to cast ballots. High on voters’ minds will be issues relating to the country’s economy. How has the world’s most populous nation and fifth-biggest economy fared since the 2014 elections that brought Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP to power? Have the lives of India’s people materially improved? We take a closer look in this special edition. Source link

The Eiffel Tower was supposed to greet the world’s athletes in a fresh coat of golden shimmer, the River Seine would be swimmable for the first time in 100 years and Paris was going to host the first-ever off-stadium opening ceremony in Olympic history. The hopes and expectations for the 2024 Games were grand and spectacular but with just three months to go will Paris be able to deliver on its promises? Source link

Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza. Source link

Under intense pressure since a part of the fuselage on its 737 Max plane blew out mid-flight, Boeing reported its first-quarter results with revenue falling to $16.5 billion and a cash burn of nearly $4 billion… though they were still better than feared. The planemaker’s board has yet to name a successor to CEO Dave Calhoun who announced his resignation last month.  Plus, the EU has launched a probe into China’s medical device market, drawing a sharp response from Beijing.  Source link

In this Science segment, we look at how AI is attempting to complete unfinished or lost works by great artists like Klimt but also Beethoven, Schubert and Rembrandt. Scientists use all the information they can to train algorithms called “neural networks” to imitate the style of the artist or musician and guess the logical sequences. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more. Source link

Amnesty International is accusing Israel of a flagrant disregard for international law during its offensive in Gaza. The organisation’s annual report says the situation is being compounded by the failures of Israel’s allies to stop the indescribable civilian bloodshed being seen in the Palestinian enclave. It is one of the main criticisms in the report, which says the world is seeing a near-breakdown of international law, amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and massive human rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. In Perspective, we spoke to one of the researchers on the report…

Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week’s film news, including the Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black”; the release in France of the 1960s American independent film “Bushman”, which explores one Nigerian immigrant’s experience living in the US; and Israeli director Dani Rosenberg’s second movie, “The Vanishing Soldier”. Source link