Ukrainian president says Russia unlikely to accept – ‘for them, nothing is sacred’; Australian police arrest army reservist for joining war. What we know on day 1,504 Ukraine’s president has renewed his offer to Russia of a mutual ceasefire on strikes against energy infrastructure . “If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy infrastructure, we will respond in kind,” he said. “This proposal ...
Ukrainian president says Russia unlikely to accept – ‘for them, nothing is sacred’; Australian police arrest army reservist for joining war. What we know on day 1,504 Ukraine’s president has renewed his offer to Russia of a mutual ceasefire on strikes against energy infrastructure . “If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy infrastructure, we will respond in kind,” he said. “This proposal has been conveyed to the Russian side through the Americans.” Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered last week to observe a ceasefire for Easter, which Orthodox adherents mark on Sunday (13 April) in Russia and Ukraine. In his remarks on Monday, after an overnight attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa killed three people and injured at least 16 , Zelenskyy said Russia appeared unwilling to agree to the ceasefire. “We have repeatedly proposed to Russia a ceasefire at least for Easter,” he said. “But for them, all times are the same. Nothing is sacred.” Ukrainian drones attacked the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s oil shipping terminal in southern Russia early on Monday, damaging a mooring point and setting four oil tanks on fire, the Russian defence ministry claimed. The Ukrainian army said it had attacked a different terminal in the port of Novorossiysk – without mentioning the CPC, which did not immediately comment. The CPC pipeline handles about 1% of the world’s oil supplies, as well as about 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports. A reservist in the Australian army has been charged after allegedly working as a drone operator for Ukraine. The 25-year-old man from Felixstow, in the South Australian city of Adelaide, was charged by the Australian Federal Police with working for a foreign military without authorisation, the AAP news agency reported. It is the first time someone has been charged with the offence, with the man facing up to two decades in jail if found guilty. Australian laws limit the work defence personnel can perform with a foreign military, government or company without autho...
moiseXVII/iStock via Getty Images FMC Corp. ( FMC ) up 0.4% post-market Monday after saying its herbicide active ingredient bixlozone, marketed as Isoflex active, received regulatory approval in the European Union, a critical milestone in the product's commercialization process. The company said the approval allows it to introduce formulated products for use on cereals, corn, oilseed rape, and pot...
moiseXVII/iStock via Getty Images FMC Corp. ( FMC ) up 0.4% post-market Monday after saying its herbicide active ingredient bixlozone, marketed as Isoflex active, received regulatory approval in the European Union, a critical milestone in the product's commercialization process. The company said the approval allows it to introduce formulated products for use on cereals, corn, oilseed rape, and potato crops across more than 55M planted hectares in the E.U., adding that it has submitted product dossiers for these crops and expects to launch products containing Isoflex active beginning in 2027, pending regulatory decisions. FMC ( FMC ) said it has already registered and commercialized products containing Isoflex active in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Great Britain, Pakistan, Uruguay, and India. The company said the approval marks the first new herbicide active ingredient approved in the E.U. since 2019. More on FMC Corp. FMC Corp.: Strategic Sale In Play, But What Is A Fair Price? FMC Corp.: High-Risk Play In Fertilizers That I'm Unwilling To Enter FMC Corp. Presents at JPMorgan Industrials Conference 2026 Transcript
An analysis of 84 Microsoft Corp. earnings calls reveals a stark shift in CEO Satya Nadella's strategic communication. Eric Jackson highlights that for the first time in a decade, his sweeping narrative regarding Artificial Intelligence is running significantly ahead of fundamental financial evidence. The Gap Between Ambition And Proof According to a comprehensive study by EMJ Capital founder Jack...
An analysis of 84 Microsoft Corp. earnings calls reveals a stark shift in CEO Satya Nadella's strategic communication. Eric Jackson highlights that for the first time in a decade, his sweeping narrative regarding Artificial Intelligence is running significantly ahead of fundamental financial evidence. The Gap Between Ambition And Proof According to a comprehensive study by EMJ Capital founder Jackson, on Substack, Microsoft has transitioned from a "Cash Machine" era—where nearly every executive
Eight international school operators in Hong Kong, including the city’s largest group, failed to admit enough non-local students this academic year, breaching their pledge to the government. The English Schools Foundation (ESF) said it had been increasing the proportion of “non-local passport holders” since the end of the pandemic, but noted it might take several years to return to mandated levels...
Eight international school operators in Hong Kong, including the city’s largest group, failed to admit enough non-local students this academic year, breaching their pledge to the government. The English Schools Foundation (ESF) said it had been increasing the proportion of “non-local passport holders” since the end of the pandemic, but noted it might take several years to return to mandated levels after being allowed to admit more local students during that period. The Education Bureau told the...
Tech Bros Sound Alarm As AI Data Centers Poll Worse Than ICE Agents The tech bros are only now waking up to what we pointed out 1 year and 8 months ago: the early stages of public backlash against AI data center expansion. Since then, this resistance has spread nationwide as working-class people grow increasingly angry about hyperscalers erecting massive AI data centers in their backyards, with on...
Tech Bros Sound Alarm As AI Data Centers Poll Worse Than ICE Agents The tech bros are only now waking up to what we pointed out 1 year and 8 months ago: the early stages of public backlash against AI data center expansion. Since then, this resistance has spread nationwide as working-class people grow increasingly angry about hyperscalers erecting massive AI data centers in their backyards, with one of the most immediate consequences being surging power bills. " If tech leaders don't organize and get America on their side, the situation on the ground - as seen in the three charts below - will get worse before it gets better ," Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital and co-host of the All-In Podcast, wrote on X . Palihapitiya warned, " That, in turn, will tank the US economy since AI is responsible for much of our incremental GDP. Someone needs to step up. " Palihapitiya posted what appears to be several slides from a Social Capital deck showing alarming trends in public sentiment toward AI data centers, clearly moving deeply negative. Charts AI has a perception problem - and it's getting a lot more political: The first chart shows net favorability of AI is negative (-20), worse than ICE (-18) and close to politically toxic categories. That's a big signal: AI is no longer viewed as neutral "innovation" - it's drifting into polarized, politically charged territory. Translation: regulatory risk is rising, not falling. Surging power bills are the core at public backlash against AI Power prices were relatively stable from 2014-19, then erupted post-2020. The narrative forming (rightly or wrongly): AI plus data centers = massive energy demand = higher bills Whether AI is the main driver doesn't matter - perception is locking in causality. Local backlash is now measurable - and accelerating Data center projects facing opposition are soaring fast Roughly 40% of contested data centers get canceled That's a real constraint on future supply growth The warnings about pu...