Intellus Advisors LLC cut its stake in Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR - Free Report) by 31.7% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 25,045 shares of the company's stock after selling 11,615 shares during the period. Palantir Technologies accounts for approximately 0.6% of Intellus Advisors LLC...
Intellus Advisors LLC cut its stake in Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR - Free Report) by 31.7% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 25,045 shares of the company's stock after selling 11,615 shares during the period. Palantir Technologies accounts for approximately 0.6% of Intellus Advisors LLC's investment portfolio, making the stock its 26th largest holding. Intellus Advisors LLC's holdings in Palantir Technologies were worth $4,569,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. A number of other hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Modern Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in Palantir Technologies by 74.0% in the third quarter. Modern Wealth Management LLC now owns 29,979 shares of the company's stock valued at $5,469,000 after buying an additional 12,749 shares during the last quarter. Guardian Capital LP grew its position in shares of Palantir Technologies by 10.6% during the third quarter. Guardian Capital LP now owns 7,376 shares of the company's stock worth $1,346,000 after acquiring an additional 709 shares during the last quarter. Sunpointe LLC increased its holdings in shares of Palantir Technologies by 2.4% in the 3rd quarter. Sunpointe LLC now owns 3,959 shares of the company's stock worth $722,000 after acquiring an additional 94 shares during the period. Paragon Financial Partners Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Palantir Technologies in the 3rd quarter worth about $255,000. Finally, Integrity Advisory Solutions LLC bought a new stake in Palantir Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at about $952,000. 45.65% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors. Get Palantir Technologies alerts: Sign Up Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades A number of research firms have issued reports on PLTR. Phillip Securities started coverage on shares of Palantir Technologies in a research note on Thursday, ...
At least 23 people were killed in flash flooding overnight in the capital Nairobi, police said Saturday, amid search and rescue operations and widespread devastation. Torrential rains lashed the city late on Friday, turning major streets into rivers and flooding thousands of homes and businesses. Rescue teams were still pulling out bodies and rescuing trapped residents on Saturday, while reporters...
At least 23 people were killed in flash flooding overnight in the capital Nairobi, police said Saturday, amid search and rescue operations and widespread devastation. Torrential rains lashed the city late on Friday, turning major streets into rivers and flooding thousands of homes and businesses. Rescue teams were still pulling out bodies and rescuing trapped residents on Saturday, while reporters saw heavily damaged roads and infrastructure from the city’s vast slums to upmarket areas like Parklands. Advertisement “We are seeing devastation ... a huge number of areas in the city were affected, but also counties all over the country,” said Kenyan Red Cross spokesman Munir Ahmed. George Seda, the police boss in Nairobi, warned that the death toll may rise. Advertisement He said some people drowned and some were electrocuted.
Key Points Terry Smith thinks this trend is creating significant differences between market prices and intrinsic values. If investor sentiment changes, it could spark a deep and prolonged sell-off in some stocks. His plan to navigate the current market is simple and time-tested. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › Terry Smith, founder and chief executive of British investmen...
Key Points Terry Smith thinks this trend is creating significant differences between market prices and intrinsic values. If investor sentiment changes, it could spark a deep and prolonged sell-off in some stocks. His plan to navigate the current market is simple and time-tested. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › Terry Smith, founder and chief executive of British investment management company Fundsmith, is often compared to Warren Buffett because he's a fan of simple investment rules for success. The Oracle of Omaha also liked to keep things as simple as possible throughout his tenure as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He said Berkshire's strategy is to buy wonderful businesses at a fair price. Smith's three-step strategy is pretty similar: Buy good companies. Don't overpay. Do nothing. Like Buffett, Smith is also a fan of sharing market insights and wisdom in his shareholder letters, and his most recent letter comes with a stark warning. It's a warning that might go against one of Buffett's most popular recommendations, and suggests one trend is pushing the market toward "a major investment disaster." Here's what investors need to know. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » A big change in how we invest Over the last 20 years or so, we've seen a huge rise in assets held by passive index funds. Low-cost index funds are seen as the simplest way to get started investing and ensure your fair share of the stock market's returns. Smith points out that assets held in passive funds overtook assets held in actively managed funds in 2023 and have continued to take share since. That trend has taken hold over time as passive funds have lower management costs; they're offered in defined contribution plans like 401(k)s, which have replaced defined benefit plans (i.e., pensions); a...
In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall makes the case for Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) as one of the best -- if not the best -- semiconductor stock to own over the coming decade, even as chip giants including Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) , Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) , and others reap the rewards of massive and growing demand. *Stock prices used were from the Morning of March 6 2026. The video was publish...
In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall makes the case for Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) as one of the best -- if not the best -- semiconductor stock to own over the coming decade, even as chip giants including Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) , Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) , and others reap the rewards of massive and growing demand. *Stock prices used were from the Morning of March 6 2026. The video was published on March 7 2026. Continue reading
Modern Wealth Management LLC raised its position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSM - Free Report) by 1,066.8% in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 129,827 shares of the semiconductor company's stock after acquiring an additional 118,700 shares during the period. Mode...
Modern Wealth Management LLC raised its position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSM - Free Report) by 1,066.8% in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 129,827 shares of the semiconductor company's stock after acquiring an additional 118,700 shares during the period. Modern Wealth Management LLC's holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing were worth $36,260,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Brown Advisory Inc. raised its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 43.2% during the 2nd quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. now owns 6,650,983 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $1,506,389,000 after purchasing an additional 2,006,745 shares during the last quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership raised its holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 109.5% in the 2nd quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership now owns 3,526,160 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $798,640,000 after acquiring an additional 1,842,951 shares in the last quarter. DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral Genossenschafts Bank Frankfurt am Main lifted its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 268.2% in the second quarter. DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral Genossenschafts Bank Frankfurt am Main now owns 2,499,677 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $566,152,000 after purchasing an additional 1,820,852 shares during the period. Alliancebernstein L.P. lifted its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 18.0% in the second quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 10,457,800 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $2,368,587,000 after purchasing an additional 1,593,786 shares during the period. Finally, Stockbridge Partners LLC boosted its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 135.5% during the...
In some corners of the internet, the Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga has taken on mythical proportions. Social media and tabloids across the globe credit her with predicting the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Last week, some headlines went further, asking: “Did she foresee the Israel-Iran war, US interference, missiles and airspace shutdowns?” An earlier article ...
In some corners of the internet, the Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga has taken on mythical proportions. Social media and tabloids across the globe credit her with predicting the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Last week, some headlines went further, asking: “Did she foresee the Israel-Iran war, US interference, missiles and airspace shutdowns?” An earlier article mused on her “predictions for 2026”, which purportedly included the start of world war three and humanity’s first contact with aliens. Such claims garner clicks, but a chorus of voices from Bulgaria and beyond has warned many of the prophecies attributed to Vanga were probably never said by her. Instead, they say, the so-called “Nostradamus of the Balkans” has become a potent avatar, used for everything from sensationalised clickbait to the pushing of pro-Russian narratives. “It’s absurd,” said Ivan Dramov of the Bulgaria-based Baba Vanga Foundation as he listed off false claims – amplified on TikTok, YouTube and publications that range from UK tabloids to Albanian state-run media – of Vanga’s visions of nuclear catastrophe or world wars. “Absolute lies have been told about this holy woman,” said Dramov, whose organisation was launched by Vanga’s followers and was chaired by Vanga herself in the years before her death. “Vanga dealt mainly with people’s health problems, not with upcoming cataclysms in the world.” Known around the world as Baba Vanga, Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova was born in 1911 in what was at the time the Ottoman Empire. As a teenager, she was said to have been thrown into a field by a tornado, leading to the gradual loss of her eyesight. She found herself in the local limelight during the second world war as people began visiting her to find out whether their loved ones would return from the front, said Dramov. View image in fullscreen An aerial view of the spiritual site in Rupite, a small village in Bulgaria, that is dedicated to Baba Vanga. Photograph: ...
Veteran striker who played in 2019 final brings experience to League One club in fifth round for first time in 30 years There is no shortage of FA Cup pedigree at Port Vale. Emblazoned on plaques and walls around Vale Park are memories of their 1996 victory against Everton under the legendary manager John Rudge. That 2-1 victory, in a fourth-round replay having held the Cup holders at Goodison Par...
Veteran striker who played in 2019 final brings experience to League One club in fifth round for first time in 30 years There is no shortage of FA Cup pedigree at Port Vale. Emblazoned on plaques and walls around Vale Park are memories of their 1996 victory against Everton under the legendary manager John Rudge. That 2-1 victory, in a fourth-round replay having held the Cup holders at Goodison Park, was the last time Vale had reached the fifth round until Tuesday’s extra-time win over Bristol City. Now Sunderland await at Vale Park on Sunday – another chance to make history. “It’s been 30 years since we’ve been to this stage – but it’s now about putting in a performance that can be memorable,” said their head coach, Jon Brady. “You want to put in performances they can go home talking about, and that they can be proud of. You want to see smiles on faces and people feeling really upbeat about the team. You want to create special memories that will live long, and the other night will live long in the players’ and fans’ memories.” Continue reading...
In just a few days, research has shown that gen Z like binge drinking, hold more traditional gender views, have started Chinamaxxing, prefer solo dining and believe environmental values are as important as physical attraction. A search for the term on Google brings up millions of articles meticulously documenting every aspect of gen Z behaviour – from their finances and mental health, to their foo...
In just a few days, research has shown that gen Z like binge drinking, hold more traditional gender views, have started Chinamaxxing, prefer solo dining and believe environmental values are as important as physical attraction. A search for the term on Google brings up millions of articles meticulously documenting every aspect of gen Z behaviour – from their finances and mental health, to their food habits and hobbies. They’re arguably the most studied, analysed and surveyed generation in history. So why are we so obsessed with gen Z? Many say the internet and social media play a big part – born between 1997 and 2012, gen Z were the first to be fully immersed in the technology from infancy, and that sets them apart from the generations that came before them. “They’re the first generation growing up with ubiquitous technology – some had social media profiles even before they were born,” said Paul Redmond, former director of student experiences at Liverpool and Manchester universities, who now delivers talks on generational diversity. “So there’s a lot of curiosity there, and they are demonstrating very different behaviours than other generations have.” View image in fullscreen Chinatown in London. ‘Chinamaxxing’ is apparently gen Z’s latest cultural obsession. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer He said things like gen Z’s approach to work (they’re more likely to jump around jobs), and their different spending habits make them ripe for studying and surveying. Employers want to know how to hire them, companies want to know how to sell to them. This has led to the rise of gen Z-driven marketing agencies, which know that companies, now spearheaded by gen X – roughly those born between 1965 and 1980, are desperate to connect with this cohort. “They are the generation that grew up through the social internet, economic instability, anxiety around climate, the pandemic, and now there’s AI,” said Joanna Allcock, brand and growth director at Seed marketing agency. “This com...
Families of victims of the infected blood scandal have criticised the government for imposing a “penalty for dying” in its compensation scheme, which has seen them lose out on hundreds of thousands of pounds. The scheme awards payouts to living victims and the families of those who have died after being infected with HIV or hepatitis as a result of being given contaminated blood products by the NH...
Families of victims of the infected blood scandal have criticised the government for imposing a “penalty for dying” in its compensation scheme, which has seen them lose out on hundreds of thousands of pounds. The scheme awards payouts to living victims and the families of those who have died after being infected with HIV or hepatitis as a result of being given contaminated blood products by the NHS. More than 30,000 people in the UK were given treatments before 1996 infected with HIV, hepatitis C or hepatitis B – or a combination of them – and more than 3,000 victims have died. Last month, Sir Brian Langstaff, the chair of the infected blood inquiry, announced the body would end its work on 31 March, having “exercised the power it has”. Under the compensation scheme, each infected person is entitled to a basic financial loss award of £12,500, plus an additional financial loss award, which calculates loss of earnings after their infection through NHS treatment. However, for victims who died before the start of the scheme, families have been told that no future financial loss will be paid to the estate, with loss calculated only from the date of infection until death, which in many cases was just a short time. In an open letter, charities including the Haemophilia Society and the Hepatitis C Trust have said this means that, if a person died in the early 1990s in the middle of their working life, it equates to a difference of nearly 50 years of financial loss. “The current scheme creates the situation where an infected person is financially penalised for dying before the government finally agreed to properly address the scandal of infected blood,” the letter reads. “They and their estates are being penalised for their inability to survive the wrongdoing of government, the very wrongdoing which the compensation is being paid to address. “Every single person infected as a result of contaminated blood deserves to be valued equally, regardless of whether they survive today...
Brendon McCullum has defended his record as head coach after England’s elimination from the T20 World Cup, insisting the white-ball side will “achieve some special stuff”, but only if their talent is “harnessed the right way”. The Guardian revealed on Friday that McCullum is to remain in his post despite the disappointment of a 4-1 Ashes series defeat, England’s semi-finals exit and widespread cri...
Brendon McCullum has defended his record as head coach after England’s elimination from the T20 World Cup, insisting the white-ball side will “achieve some special stuff”, but only if their talent is “harnessed the right way”. The Guardian revealed on Friday that McCullum is to remain in his post despite the disappointment of a 4-1 Ashes series defeat, England’s semi-finals exit and widespread criticism of the New Zealander’s methods. The perception that the coach has fostered an environment that is more focused on golf and fun than on elite performance has been particularly damaging, but before leaving India the 44-year-old insisted that impression of his tenure was inaccurate. “It’s never been about that,” he said. “That’s a perception which is not necessarily reality. I think there’s a perception that we run a casual operation. It couldn’t be further from the truth. We run an informal operation but the work is done, the preparation is put in place. “There’s an environment which operates in a certain way, but because you are relaxed around that doesn’t mean the work is not being done. That’s just an attitude to try and allow guys to be as free as possible to implement the skills and tactics that you’re trying to achieve. Look, I make no apologies for running an informal, positive environment, but to call it a casual environment is not fair.” McCullum singled out Harry Brook for particular praise after his first senior tournament as captain. “I’m incredibly proud of him. He’s grown immensely in the last couple of months under difficult circumstances,” he said. “There’s a real identity to how Harry Brook’s England white-ball side is going to play. It’s hugely encouraging because a couple of months ago you probably didn’t have that. He has done an amazing job.” On Thursday, England lost an extraordinary semi-final to India, the highest-scoring game in the tournament’s history, by seven runs. Though they reached the last four with a 100% record in the Super 8s, the to...
Nearly two decades after his second tour, Nathan Wendland is still troubled by his experiences in Iraq. Like 700,000 other Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the 46-year-old former US army staff sergeant receives compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder. Last January, Wendland checked himself into a psychiatric emergency room because he was worried he would kill himself. He was on the mend, but...
Nearly two decades after his second tour, Nathan Wendland is still troubled by his experiences in Iraq. Like 700,000 other Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the 46-year-old former US army staff sergeant receives compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder. Last January, Wendland checked himself into a psychiatric emergency room because he was worried he would kill himself. He was on the mend, but then Donald Trump ordered a sustained campaign of airstrikes on Iran. All those memories came flooding back. “This war brings triggers into the news cycle every hour,” he said. “I cannot focus on my daily life.” For Wendland and other veterans of the post-9/11 wars, the attack on Iran brings troubling echoes of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, another war of choice based on questionable claims of weapons of mass destruction that threatens to destabilize the entire region, with no clear endgame and a seemingly callous disregard for civilian casualties. Nathan Wendland. Photograph: Courtesy of Nathan Wendland Six US military service members have been killed by Iran’s retaliatory strikes. In Iran, US-Israeli airstrikes struck a girls school and left more than 100 children dead. “We’ve put young men and women and support staff in bases all over the world at risk for no reason,” said Shawn VanDiver, a navy veteran and founder of #AfghanEvac, a coalition of 250 veterans, national security and human rights groups which helped rescue thousands of America’s Afghan allies after Kabul’s 2021 fall to the Taliban. VanDiver said the irony was that many veterans voted for Trump specifically because he promised to keep the US out of wars. “Too many of our generation and friends died fighting these illegal wars that he said he wasn’t going to get us back into,” he said. In Washington, lawmakers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have been among the most outspoken in their rebuke of the administration. “It’s a scary situation when you don’t hear what the plan is, what the victory is, when the ...
Late last month, a Minnesota federal court judge, Patrick Schiltz, issued an opinion detailing hundreds of instances in which the Trump administration has failed to comply with court orders. He threatened to find it in contempt and to impose penalties. Schiltz and other federal judges have made such threats before, but they have not followed through. It is time they did, lest they turn their court...
Late last month, a Minnesota federal court judge, Patrick Schiltz, issued an opinion detailing hundreds of instances in which the Trump administration has failed to comply with court orders. He threatened to find it in contempt and to impose penalties. Schiltz and other federal judges have made such threats before, but they have not followed through. It is time they did, lest they turn their courts into paper tigers. The administration knows what it is doing. It treats judicial decisions the same way it regards elections. As the president has said many times, he will abide by the results of elections only if they are “fair”. And in his mind, an election can only be fair if his side wins. The same thing seems to be true for court decisions. The latest example occurred in the wake of the supreme court decision holding his imposition of tariffs to be unconstitutional. The president reacted by accusing the justices who ruled against him of being “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution”. But he didn’t stop there. He accused the court of being “swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think”. He has used such invective many times before. And in December, the attorney general, Pam Bondi, weighed in with similar claims, this time directed against judges in the eastern district of Virginia after they ruled that the administration violated the law in its appointment of US attorney Lindsey Halligan. Bondi accused them of “engaging in an unconscionable campaign of bias and hostility” and called them “rogue judges who fail to live up to their obligations of impartiality because of their own political views”. I could multiply the examples, but Trump and his colleagues have made clear their contempt for judges who don’t see the constitution and laws the way they do. That’s why, almost from the start of the president’s second term, his administration has perfected the art of what the law professors Leah Litman and Da...
This week, I sat in the gallery of the House of Commons and watched a historic moment unfold: Hannah Spencer was sworn in as the MP for Gorton and Denton, making her the first female plumber to sit in parliament, and the first ever Green MP in the north of England. It marked the start of a new era: for Gorton and Denton, for the Green party and for British politics across the board. It’s not hyper...
This week, I sat in the gallery of the House of Commons and watched a historic moment unfold: Hannah Spencer was sworn in as the MP for Gorton and Denton, making her the first female plumber to sit in parliament, and the first ever Green MP in the north of England. It marked the start of a new era: for Gorton and Denton, for the Green party and for British politics across the board. It’s not hyperbole to say that our win – in a seat that was 127th on our target list – has changed everything. A major poll this week proves this, showing that people intend to vote Green at the next election in higher numbers than ever. We have leapfrogged Labour in the polls and are nipping at Reform UK’s heels – because people can see that we are the only party genuinely taking the fight to Reform and spelling out clearly how we’ll end rip-off Britain. In less than 70 days’ time, we will have elections for local councils, mayors and the Welsh Senedd. I predict a Green wave sweeping England and Wales. I’ve been visiting local Green parties from Hackney to Huddersfield. Even before our win in Gorton and Denton, the energy and drive from the hundreds of supporters turning out in each place was breathtaking. That energy will only gather force now. There are some in Labour who are clearly looking to learn lessons for their party from the massive loss they suffered in Gorton and Denton – notably Sadiq Khan, writing in this paper. But still, Keir Starmer, their leader, is burying his head in the sand, accusing us of pursuing “sectarian politics”. The opposite is true: our message of hope and a plan for change resonated with voters across divides of faith. Thinking now about the result, it is not hard to explain why that happened. In the summer of 2024, this Labour government swept into power promising change. Since then, we’ve had precious little of it – instead, we’ve seen managed decline accompanied by culture-war posturing. Our economy, for all Labour’s tinkering, is still fundamentally r...
BBC Television Centre, 2 May 1990. “Who would spend £7m on an egg?” The question echoes around the TV studio. At home, six million people watch as chatshow host Terry Wogan smiles knowingly, his brown eyes twinkling. “Seven million pounds,” he repeats in his Irish brogue. “And you can’t even eat it.” The audience laugh. A heckler shouts that he’d offer a fiver for it. The band strike up. At the ba...
BBC Television Centre, 2 May 1990. “Who would spend £7m on an egg?” The question echoes around the TV studio. At home, six million people watch as chatshow host Terry Wogan smiles knowingly, his brown eyes twinkling. “Seven million pounds,” he repeats in his Irish brogue. “And you can’t even eat it.” The audience laugh. A heckler shouts that he’d offer a fiver for it. The band strike up. At the back of the studio, two burly bodyguards stand silhouetted. The egg’s diamond-studded shell sparkles under the bright lights. “It was no silly goose that laid this, the world’s biggest golden egg.” Wogan gestures towards the giant jewelled object, his voice infused with pantomime-style levels of excitement. “And let’s welcome the man who made it,” he says smoothly. “Paul Kutchinsky.” My father saunters out, beaming from ear to ear. His shiny new loafers glide across the studio floor and he stretches his arm out towards Terry Wogan to steady himself. With his unruly mane, slender build and gold-rimmed glasses, he looks a bit like a mad professor. The camera zooms in on the egg atop its golden pedestal. At 2ft tall, it’s the size of a small child. Its surface shimmers with thousands of pink diamonds, casting shadows across the studio floor. Its heavy gold shell is open to reveal the first of its surprises: a glittering miniature library topped by a tiny diamond clock. View image in fullscreen ‘I felt a mix of pride and bafflement towards my father’s creation’: Paul Kutchinsky’s egg. Photograph: Serena Kutchinsky For Paul, the past few days have been a whirlwind and the enormity of what’s happening is only just sinking in. His lifelong ambition is being realised – but somehow, alongside the elation, he feels piercing darts of dread. The egg is everywhere. On display in a museum. Splashed across the pages of national newspapers. Starring on breakfast TV. The press are comparing Paul to the legendary Carl Fabergé, whose ornate jewelled eggs won him the patronage of Russia’s last t...
China’s top envoy to Russia has urged more transport infrastructure along the countries’ shared border to cut logistics costs and address challenges. Zhang Hanhui, Beijing’s ambassador to Moscow , said on Thursday that the two countries could explore cross-border transport corridors as major maritime logistics had been affected by sanctions. “I have suggested to the Russian side that more convenie...
China’s top envoy to Russia has urged more transport infrastructure along the countries’ shared border to cut logistics costs and address challenges. Zhang Hanhui, Beijing’s ambassador to Moscow , said on Thursday that the two countries could explore cross-border transport corridors as major maritime logistics had been affected by sanctions. “I have suggested to the Russian side that more convenient crossings should be built along the China-Russia border, such as cross-river bridges,” Zhang said on the sidelines of the “two sessions” , the annual meetings of China’s top legislature and top political advisory body. Advertisement “There are still some boundary rivers where bridges could be built. For instance, on the Ussuri River, a bridge could also be constructed near Raohe,” he said, referring to a border county in the eastern part of Heilongjiang province. Zhang mentioned two bridges connecting China and Russia , and highlighted the need for more efforts in cross-border infrastructure. Advertisement One of them is a railway bridge connecting the countries across the Heilong (Amur) River from Tongjiang in China to Nizhneleninskoye in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
A relaxed environment has been part of McCullum's England set-up since he took over the Test side in 2022 - an attempt to relieve players of the pressures of playing international cricket. England were accused of a lack of adequate preparation for the Ashes, playing only one warm-up match against England Lions at a club ground in Perth before the first Test. After the Ashes it was revealed Harry B...
A relaxed environment has been part of McCullum's England set-up since he took over the Test side in 2022 - an attempt to relieve players of the pressures of playing international cricket. England were accused of a lack of adequate preparation for the Ashes, playing only one warm-up match against England Lions at a club ground in Perth before the first Test. After the Ashes it was revealed Harry Brook was punched by a nightclub bouncer the night before a one-day international in New Zealand, while a mid-series trip to Noosa was heavily scrutinised. A review by the England and Wales Cricket Board into England's winter is under way, the culmination of which will confirm McCullum's future, but there have already been some changes. There will be a warm-up match when they travel to Australia for the 150th anniversary Test next year and preparation matches are also likely before next winter's other tours. England also added fielding coach Carl Hopkinson to their set-up for the World Cup after a host of dropped catches in Australia. That addition brought greater intensity to their training to the World Cup. McCullum will now return home to New Zealand before any formal announcement on his future is made. "We'll allow this period to land and you look back on the last five or six months, which has been pretty intense, and you look at what you got right, what you got wrong and start trying to work out ways you can improve on the areas that you need to," said McCullum. "That's just doing it with a bit of sound reason and logic when your emotions are out of it. "I make no apologies for running an informal, positive environment but to call it a casual environment is not quite fair. "But in the end people are always going to have their views on how you go about things and that's the role of the leader."
When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete. It hasn’t worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has walked back plans for an all-electric lineup of Boxster ...
When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete. It hasn’t worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has walked back plans for an all-electric lineup of Boxster and Cayman models, seemingly spooked by technical hurdles and tepid response from its fanatical customers. Lamborghini last week scrapped plans for its first all-electric model, with the CEO saying the brand’s customers have almost “zero interest” in a car without a gas engine. And yet, the Corvette ZR1X hybrid — surreal, spectacular, and a screaming bargain versus rivals — demonstrates how electrification is revolutionizing the highest ranks of performance, just not in the way people expected. That includes Formula 1 racing, where 50 percent of power this season comes from hybrid electricity. Among supercars and hypercars especially, if you don’t have a hybrid boost, you can no longer compete. My test of the ZR1X, at Sonoma Raceway and on roads in Napa Valley, underscores the inevitability of that electric helping hand. Read these numbers, and feel free to weep: 1,250 hybrid horsepower, up from 1,064 in the gasoline-only ZR1. A 0–60mph moonshot in 1.67 seconds, nose-to-nose with a $2.5 million Rimac Nevera R EV, and quicker than any Tesla or Lucid. Previous Next 1 / 5 A storming lap of Germany’s benchmark Nürburgring circuit took 6 minutes, 49 seconds and change. That set a new American production-car record, beat the Rimac by 16 seconds, and just nipped Porsche’s track-specialist 911 GT3 RS. It also handily beat the Yangwang U9 extreme, the 3,000-horsepower, roughly $235,000 Chinese EV that’s more a prototype than a legitimate “production car,” since no more than 30 will ever be built. That Yangwang clocked an impressive 6 minute, 59-second lap, the first EV in history to...
Getty Images At the start of this article, we first explain why the recent U.S. multi-theater strategy in Venezuela and Iran was not an opportunistic power grab. It was a deliberate plan, consistent with the National Security Strategy laid out at the beginning of Trump’s second term, aimed at denying adversaries access to resources in the Western Hemisphere and the Middle East. It is important tha...
Getty Images At the start of this article, we first explain why the recent U.S. multi-theater strategy in Venezuela and Iran was not an opportunistic power grab. It was a deliberate plan, consistent with the National Security Strategy laid out at the beginning of Trump’s second term, aimed at denying adversaries access to resources in the Western Hemisphere and the Middle East. It is important that we clearly establish this context before analyzing its implications for China: higher energy costs are structural and set to endure for the remainder of the Trump administration. The multi-theater strategy aimed to neutralize China’s two main sanctioned crude sources Two weeks after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference. In that speech, he made two central arguments. First, that the United States may be located in the Western Hemisphere, but it will “always be a child of Europe,” reaffirming that the U.S. and Europe remain strategic partners as they share the same culture, language, and heritage roots. Second, he stated that the U.S. will abandon its “delusion[al]” post-Cold War liberal democracy doctrine in favor of strength and direct interventions. The liberal democratic peace theory emerged and popularized after the Cold War; it believes that democracies are less likely to go to war with each other because they share institutions, norms, and constraints. A simple illustration is the France and U.K. alliance - despite hundreds of years of warfare and rivalry, the two nations forged a close relationship and alliance once both were led by democratic governments. Parallel reconciliations were seen in other historical rival pairs, such as France and Germany, Japan and South Korea, and more. For decades, the liberal democratic peace theory dominated U.S. foreign policy, with the belief that the United States should leverage its world-leading soft power and influence to promote democracy and fo...
Germany Is Now Officially A Planned Economy Authored by Eduard Braun via Mises Institute , Germany’s push for a social-ecological market economy rests on far-reaching state interventions in energy and industry, including a government-driven hydrogen strategy. In a recent report Germany’s Federal Audit Office explicitly describes the policy as a planned economy and highlights fundamental problems. ...
Germany Is Now Officially A Planned Economy Authored by Eduard Braun via Mises Institute , Germany’s push for a social-ecological market economy rests on far-reaching state interventions in energy and industry, including a government-driven hydrogen strategy. In a recent report Germany’s Federal Audit Office explicitly describes the policy as a planned economy and highlights fundamental problems. At the same time, it doubts that the government will reach its own targets, indicating that these climate-policy experiments are likely to fail even on their own terms. Germany’s “social-ecological transformation” is the political program of turning the existing social market economy into what the government calls a “social-ecological market economy.” In practice, this means that climate and environmental targets are placed above the spontaneous outcomes of markets, and the state increasingly directs investment, production, and consumption through detailed regulation, bans, subsidies, and new bureaucratic structures. The federal government has committed itself—through the Paris Agreement, the EU Green Deal, the EU Climate Law, and Germany’s own Climate Change Act—to achieving greenhouse-gas neutrality by 2045 . On this basis, it is pushing a comprehensive restructuring of the entire energy and industrial base. Fossil fuels are to be phased out and replaced by renewable energy sources and new technologies. To enforce this, Berlin is tightening emissions limits, introducing sector-specific reduction paths, and expanding carbon pricing. At the same time, it is rolling out large-scale subsidy programs and support schemes aimed at “climate-friendly” investments, ranging from energy-intensive industries to housing, transport, and agriculture. According to the Scientific Service of the German Bundestag, the transformation will cost about 13 trillion euros (roughly 15.3 trillion dollars). Central to this transformation is not merely setting general framework conditions, but steerin...