The scandal-hit CBI has secured support in its battle for survival by winning a crunch membership vote on plans aimed at restoring trust in the business lobby group. The UK’s largest employers’ organisation needed a simple majority to win the vote in an extraordinary general meeting in London and won 93% in favour of its
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Imaginima | E+ | Getty Images Oil prices jumped following OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut production by another million barrels per day. On Sunday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners — collectively known as OPEC+ — made no changes to its planned oil production cuts for this year, but coalition
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was taken under Russia control in March 2022, becoming one of the first major areas to be captured by Vladimir Putin’s forces. People who work at the plant say they are intimidated by Russian troops to keep quiet about what’s happening behind closed doors, fearing “devastation” on a scale “worse
Researchers and developers warn against the ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity due to artificial intelligence, arguing that the threat of an AI extinction event should be a top global priority. #CNN #News #shorts
Arnold Schwarzenegger has apologised for groping women, 20 years after dismissing the allegations as “made-up”. Six women accused the Hollywood star of groping and humiliating them in a Los Angeles Times report in 2003. The investigation was published in the lead-up to the 2003 California governor election. Schwarzenegger, who won the election, labelled the story
Prince Harry has blamed the tabloid press for “inciting hatred and harassment” in his private life, saying he ended up “playing up to a lot of the headlines” when he was cast as a “playboy prince” and a “thicko” as a young royal. Details of Harry‘s accusations against the publisher of the Mirror newspaper have
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple launched its Vision Pro headset at its annual WWDC event on Monday, ending months of speculation that the Cupertino tech giant was getting ready to launch its own VR or augmented reality product. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple’s mixed-reality headset debut
A dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine has been damaged by shelling, leading to flooding in the area already hit by months of conflict. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials blamed each other for destroying the Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine’s military said that Russian forces blew up the dam. “The
The government is still being “too slow” to recover taxpayer money lost to fraud and error over the pandemic, MPs have said. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also said Whitehall needs a “step change” in its approach to risk in order to prevent a similar “panic response” in the future. In a wide-ranging report,
In a stroke of legal coincidence, Prince Harry will be the subject of a court case in America on the same day he is due to appear in London’s High Court. Lawyers are due in a federal courtroom in Washington DC to demand the US government release the Duke of Sussex’s US visa application form,
One of the most notorious American double agents has died in prison. Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent, was sentenced in 2002 to life behind bars after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years. He had divulged information about US intelligence-gathering since at least 1985 and was
Ferrari’s (RACE) CEO, Benedetto Vigna, said on Monday the Italian luxury sports carmaker’s so-called e-building will be ready next summer. Although Ferrari’s first EV isn’t due out for at least another two years, Vigna claimed he doesn’t expect to see margins shrink. Ferrari CEO says margins will be maintained with EVs Speaking at Bloomberg’s Italy
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. Stocks mixed Crude higher PANW downgrade 1. Stocks mixed The major U.S. stock benchmarks were mixed Monday, as the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.4% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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CNN’s Fred Pleitgen takes viewers to Ukraine as the city of Dnipro is reeling from a deadly airstrike that killed two and injured dozens. Retired Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton and Former US Ambassador of Ukraine William Taylor discuss the developments. #CNN #News
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple announced its mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro, on Monday during its developer conference. The headset is its first major new product since the Apple Watch in 2014. The Vision Pro will allow users to see apps in a new way, in the spaces around
This trial was always going to be explosive and it certainly started with a bang. Not just the testy exchanges about why Prince Harry wasn’t in court, but revelations and claims about phone hacking which started in his childhood. If one sentence from the High Court sums up Harry’s view of press interest in his
The CBI director general Rain Newton-Smith will appeal for members to approve reforms ahead of a finely balanced vote that could decide the future of the scandalised business lobby group. The 59-year-old body, traditionally the voice of big business, faces a potentially existential referendum at an extraordinary general meeting in London, where members will be
Russian reports that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun are being used to distract from Russian losses in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian deputy defence minister has said. The comments from deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar come after Moscow said it had thwarted a major Ukrainian assault in the south of Ukraine‘s Donetsk region. Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian