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War, uncertainty push proud Ukraine graduates to 'live now'
Anton Yushyn spent four years studying Italian at university in Kyiv but the outbreak of war taught him the most valuable lesson of his student life: to prioritise what matters most.But Yushyn was resigned to life at home.
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Analysis-Megacap stock selloff shows investor concerns about too much tech
A tumble in the heavyweight stocks that have powered markets higher this year is highlighting Wall Street's vulnerability to any weakness in the Big Tech trade and causing concerns that over-stretched stocks are in for more turbulence. Disappointing quarterly reports from Tesla and Google-parent Alphabet sparked a crushing market selloff on Wednesday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite falling 3.6% in its worst day since October 2022. The benchmark S&P 500 slumped 2.3%, with the earnings rep
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India's Axis Bank falls 6% on weak near-term loan outlook, higher credit costs
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Axis Bank's shares fell 6% on Thursday as analysts flagged a slowdown in near-term credit growth and pressure on margins, a day after the bank reported a first-quarter profit that missed estimates. The bank was the top loser on the benchmark Nifty 50 index, which was down 0.8%, as well as on the Nifty Bank index, which fell 1.4%. Going forward, in the short term, credit growth is likely to be constrained by deposit growth given the central bank's increased focus on lowerin
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Mourners gather in Vietnam for leader's funeral
Thousands of black-clad mourners including top Vietnamese officials gathered Thursday in Hanoi for the funeral of Communist party leader Nguyen Phu Trong as two days of national mourning began.- Tributes from abroad - The country's top party officials led tributes, including President To Lam, who was handed the reins of power a day before Trong's death was announced.
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US says air drills with South Korea will 'sharpen' capacity
Ongoing air drills with South Korea will "sharpen" their joint combat capabilities, the US military said Thursday, as the nuclear-armed North ramps up threats and a balloon blitz against Seoul.Seoul and Washington's air forces started around three weeks of joint drills Tuesday in Suwon, south of Seoul, involving US F/A-18 and F-35B combat aircraft.
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Trump Responds To Claims He's 'Cognitively Challenged' In Bafflingly Weird Way
The former president brought it up twice during a rally in North Carolina.
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Foreign residents surge in Japan as number of citizens drops
The number of foreign nationals living in Japan has hit a record high, according to official data released Wednesday that also showed the nation's largest-ever yearly drop in Japanese citizens.The number of Japanese citizens residing in Japan, meanwhile, stood at 121.6 million, the data showed, with 2023's drop of 861,237 the biggest ever recorded and the 15th straight yearly decline. kh/kaf/cwl
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