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Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024.Noah Berger | Getty ImagesAmazon’s cloud unit said Thursday that it’s launching a service to allow video game publishers to stream their games online. GameLift Streams will deliver games to any device with a browser that supports the WebRTC standard, Amazon said in a blog post. That includes smart TVs, phones, tablets and PCs. One way the service can be used is to rapidly distribute titles in development to testers, and then securely remove access later.”Lots of AAA…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office, on the day he signs executive orders, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 6, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersMajor stock indices dropped sharply this week, as rattled investors struggled to get a handle on President Donald Trump’s sweeping and shifting tariff policies.But when asked in the Oval Office on Thursday whether he thought it was his tariffs that were scaring the markets, Trump pinned the blame elsewhere.”Well, a lot of them are globalist countries and companies that won’t be doing as well,” Trump replied, “Because we’re taking back things…

Costco on Thursday reported an earnings miss, but beat expectations for revenue for the second quarter as quarterly comparable sales rose.Shares ticked down over 1% in extended trading on Thursday evening.Here’s how the wholesale company did compared with what Wall Street was expecting for the quarter ended Feb. 16, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $4.02 vs. $4.11 expectedRevenue: $63.72 billion vs. $63.13 billion expectedCostco CEO Ron Vachris said although it’s difficult to forecast the impact of tariffs, the company aims to minimize cost increases for members. A third of its U.S. sales are from imports, he said, and less…

Listen to article Pakistan has been ranked the second most-affected country in the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2025, with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) emerging as the world’s fastest-growing terrorist organisation, with a 90% increase in deaths linked to its attacks. Pakistan recorded its largest year-on-year rise in terrorism-related deaths in a decade, with fatalities surging 45% and attacks more than doubling from 517 in 2023 to 1,099 in 2024—exceeding 1,000 for the first time since the index’s inception. The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2025 ranks 163 countries, covering 99.7% of the world’s population, based on terrorist incidents, fatalities, injuries, and hostage situations.…

Dodik barred Bosnian authorities from Serb-dominated statelet, sparking fears of ‘coup’ that could break up Bosnia.Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has vowed to ignore a summons from Bosnian state prosecutors who are investigating him for allegedly undermining the country’s constitutional order. Bosnia’s central prosecutor said on Thursday that it was probing Dodik’s passing of separatist laws, which effectively bar national police and the judiciary from the Serb-dominated autonomous statelet of Republika Srpska in Bosnia. “I will not go to their political court, because Serbs no longer submit to inquisitions!” said the 66-year-old leader, a day after he signed the controversial…

Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attend the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Getty ImagesSo much for the Trump bump.After plunging 2.6% on Thursday, the Nasdaq has wiped out all of its post-election gains and is on pace for its worst week since September, as investors fret over tariffs, weaker-than-expected employment numbers and a potential cooling in the artificial intelligence market.The selloff…

A shopper carries her early Black Friday purchases on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2024, at the Citadel Outlets shopping center in Los Angeles. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty ImagesGap on Thursday posted another quarter that blew away expectations, indicating its turnaround under CEO Richard Dickson is working better – and faster – than Wall Street anticipated. Shares jumped 17% in extended trading Thursday.The apparel retailer behind Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta and its namesake banner beat expectations on the top and bottom lines during the all-important holiday quarter and saw comparable sales grow 3%, ahead of expectations of up 1%, according…

‘Mrs.’ captures the quiet oppression of housework but misses the unseen burden of working women’s ‘second shift’. There is a moment in Mrs., a Hindi remake of the Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen, when the camera lingers on a kitchen sink that refuses to stop leaking. The water keeps dripping, an endless cycle that mirrors the film’s central theme: the relentless drip of patriarchy. The kitchen, with its dirty dishes and clogged pipes, becomes the ultimate metaphor for a woman’s place in a home, not just as a caretaker of domestic tasks but as a silent victim of the…

Romanian prosecutors detain six people on charges of treason for allegedly seeking Russian help for coup plot.Romania has detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia’s help, prosecutors said, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his home had been raided as part of the investigation. The suspects were detained on Wednesday, the same day Romania – a European Union and NATO member state – declared the Russian embassy’s military attache and his deputy personae non grata for what it said were acts contravening diplomatic rules. Moscow has said it will respond to the…

Antonio Neri, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, October 20, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersHewlett Packard Enterprise shares slid 16% in extended trading on Thursday as the data center equipment maker issued quarterly and full-year guidance that came in below consensus.Here’s how the company did in the fiscal first quarter in comparison with LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: 49 cents adjusted vs. 49 cents expectedRevenue: $7.85 billion vs. $7.82 billionHPE’s revenue rose 16% year over year in the quarter ending on Jan. 31,…