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Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report

Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report

E-commerce company posts high cloud computing sales but gives a cautious sales forecast for the fourth quarter Amazon offered a mixed picture of its financial health on Thursday in its quarterly earnings report. The e-commerce company gave a cautious sales forecast for the current fourth quarter, which encompasses the critical holiday shopping period, after delivering fiscal third-quarter results that came in below Wall Street analysts’ expectations.

12h ago
Revista OestePolitics
Foreign press exposes the fiscal hole Lula inherits from himself

Foreign press exposes the fiscal hole Lula inherits from himself

The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the British Financial Times, and the American broadcaster CNBC published, between Monday the 26th and Tuesday the 27th, pieces that expose the imbalance in public accounts that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left for himself for his fourth term. The three outlets linked Brazil's market collapse to a deficit close to 10% of GDP and to the lack of a plan to contain the debt.

1d ago
The HinduEconomyBengaluru
ED searches premises linked to Mudrex, Instadapp over alleged ₹4,600-crore FEMA violations

ED searches premises linked to Mudrex, Instadapp over alleged ₹4,600-crore FEMA violations

Officials of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday conducted searches at three premises in Bengaluru and one in Madhya Pradesh in connection with an investigation into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) involving unauthorised cross-border money transfers through cryptocurrencies, particularly stablecoins.The searches were conducted by the ED’s Bengaluru Zonal Office on October 27 under Section 37 of FEMA. The investigation concerns entities associated with cryptocurrency platforms Mudrex and Instadapp, which allegedly facilitated cross-border financial transactions by using virtual digital assets (VDAs) to bypass authorised banking channels.According to an ED press release issued on October 29, the investigation was initiated following complaints alleging large-scale FEMA violations by Bengaluru-based RPAS Technologies Private Limited, which operates the platforms Mudrex and Saber.money.The agency said its preliminary findings revealed the alleged circumvention of FEMA regulations through an unauthorised cross-border payment system using crypto tokens, particularly USDT/USDC stablecoins.

15h ago
The GuardianLiteratureLondon
Attention Seeking Behaviour by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo review – a slippery liar’s tale

Attention Seeking Behaviour by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo review – a slippery liar’s tale

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize, this compelling interrogation of memory, justice and truth offers no easy answers The Goldsmiths prize-shortlisted debut from British-Greek author Aea Varfis-van Warmelo opens with a confession: “I have never told this story before.” The narrator, who bears the author’s name, goes on to tell the reader that she is a liar. From Humbert Humbert’s self-justifying account of abuse in Lolita to the devastating misinterpretation at the heart of Ian McEwan’s Atonement, the trope of the unreliable narrator exposes the dangerous gap between the stories we tell and the truths they obscure. In Attention Seeking Behaviour, the reader is asked to examine their own capacity for trust. A young woman aspires to be a writer – yet she has paused her postgraduate degree in poetry. She works unfulfilling jobs that demand little from her and has a lot of sex, which she describes as offering her “solitude”. She does all this while lying compulsively. She lies for fun, to flirt, to steal, for sympathy. She lies out of a desire to hurt others, but also to preserve her own privacy. Lying is, as the narrator claims, universal, though success at lying is not. She regards fraudsters and scammers with derision: they are “divorced from reality” and give her “second hand embarrassment”. In her eyes, her own lies are somehow purer.

2h ago
The GuardianCinematic ArtsUnited Kingdom
Black Doves to Stick: the seven best shows to stream this week

Black Doves to Stick: the seven best shows to stream this week

Keira Knightley returns for more chaos and thrills with guns in an espionage drama. Plus, Owen Wilson is back as charming washed-up golf pro Pryce Cahill Helen Webb (Keira Knightley) is now the prime minister’s wife. Will that temper her treachery? Not a bit of it. This hugely entertaining espionage thriller returns with Helen cracking a safe (and adding to her spectacular body count) at an official engagement. The Black Doves spy ring is now in chaos after a key disappearance and, worse still, Sam (Ben Whishaw) has become a loose cannon, forced to take on hit jobs without much due diligence. Soon, absolutely everyone is somehow on a direct collision course. It’s a glorious mess of motive, morality and murder, and the superb cast – which now includes Ambika Mod and Babou Ceesay – are clearly having a ball. So will you. Netflix, from Thursday 5 November

2h ago
The GuardianPublic PolicyCentral Asia
Biodiversity Cop17 seems to be stalling. Is it time to reform the process?

Biodiversity Cop17 seems to be stalling. Is it time to reform the process?

In this week’s newsletter: There are too many meetings, and not enough decisions, say experts – and time is running out • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here When things are not going well at an environmental summit, organisers often tell delegates that the “world is watching” in an attempt to focus minds. But spend any time at biodiversity Cop17 in Armenia and it is clear that the world’s attention is elsewhere. The negotiating halls of Yerevan’s Meridian centre are subdued. Environment ministers have arrived from all corners of the world to plan their response to being so far behind the biodiversity targets they agreed four years ago. Right now, they appear on track to miss nearly all of them. They risk continuing the miserable record of never having met a biodiversity target they have set for themselves. The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act? Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn Angry Labour MPs urge leadership not to overrule energy secretary on Rosebank

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Irish IndependentWar & ConflictEurope
Russian drone strike kills 14 on Ukrainian rail platform

Russian drone strike kills 14 on Ukrainian rail platform

A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people on a crowded rail platform ​in the Ukrainian city ​of Dnipro on Thursday and five in daytime strikes on two other cities, officials said, even as a local truce in Kherson raised cautious hopes for a resumption of diplomacy. Two teenage girls were killed on a central street in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine and three people died ​in strikes on residential buildings in the central city of Kremenchuk.

4h ago
The GuardianWar & ConflictEurope
Ukraine war briefing: Outrage in Europe after Russian drone kills 14 on rail platform in Dnipro

Ukraine war briefing: Outrage in Europe after Russian drone kills 14 on rail platform in Dnipro

EU council president calls deadly strike ‘cruel and devastating’; fragile ceasefire holds in Oleshky. What we know on day 1,710 European leaders have reacted with outrage to a deadly attack by a Russian drone that slammed into a busy railway platform in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Ukraine had intelligence about more ballistic missile strikes to come. French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the need for “far more than a localised ceasefire”, referencing the current truce in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky. The EU council president, António Costa, who described the Dnipro attacks as “cruel and devastating”, called for greater pressure on Russia after the latest strikes against civilians. “The EU will continue to increase the pressure on Russia and to support Ukraine until a just and lasting peace is achieved,” he added. “We call on all our international partners to do the same.” Later on Thursday, Russian forces ⁠launched ⁠an attack ​on the ⁠Ukrainian capital ⁠Kyiv ​with ‌ballistic ‌missiles, Mayor Vitali Klitschko ‌said on Telegram, hitting warehouses and ‌triggering a fire. Emergency services were headed to ​the scene on the east side ⁠of the Dnipro ​River, he said. Describing the Dnipro train station attack – which killed at least 14 people and injured another 14 – as “horrific”, the president of Ukraine insisted “sanctions against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues”. Zelenskyy warned also that Ukraine had intelligence about preparations by the Russians of new ballistic missile strikes. “We need the means to take out all this Russian ‌evil. We are expecting relevant decisions,” he said. Another attack on Dnipro hit a student dormitory, setting it ablaze, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said, adding the assaults had cut power to 350,000 households. The strikes came as Ukraine and Russia kept to a fragile local ceasefire in the ravaged city of Oleshky – under Russian occupation since 2022 and where residents have faced months of food, water and medicine shortages. While the truce held into a third day, strikes elsewhere in Ukraine killed at least 20 people and injured more than 70 people, according to local officials. Russia and Ukraine said on Thursday an operation to bring aid into the town and allow ⁠residents to leave was ready to begin. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military ⁠has paused its strikes on Russian oil refineries after pressure from US President Donald Trump, ⁠according to a report in the Wall Street ⁠Journal ​on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the operations. Ukrainian units carrying out ⁠long-range strikes were told in mid-October that the campaign against refineries was effectively on hold once ⁠missions already in motion were completed, the Journal reported. The ​unofficial pause is expected ‌to last until ‌after the US midterm elections and potentially deeper into ‌November, the newspaper said. After the Dnipro attack, Zelenskyy renewed his criticism of a deal struck between Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to ease some US sanctions on Russia allowing Moscow to release diesel on to global markets. “How many such terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on some Russian oligarchs and the energy sector, instead of de-escalating?” he asked. Late on Thursday, Putin said he supported any steps aimed at restoring relations with ⁠European countries, saying the outbreak of any conflict would leave ⁠a situation with ⁠no ​winners. Commenting on his phone call this week with the leaders of Norway and Finland, Putin told reporters after ‌hosting a summit with African ‌leaders: “And if anyone wants it, let them prepare, but right now they have not achieved their goal – to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. And if things go too far, there will be no winners at all. .”

7h ago
The TelegraphWar & Conflict
Melania Trump’s quest to bring peace to Ukraine

Melania Trump’s quest to bring peace to Ukraine

Eight years ago, Melania Trump caused uproar when she was photographed travelling to a detention centre for migrant children separated from their parents, wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words: “I really don’t care, do you?” The $39 (£29) Zara jacket was worlds away from the blandly expensive Davos-style outfits that Melania usually dressed in. It was feasted on as evidence that beneath the first lady’s conspicuously icy exterior was a core that was icier still.

22h ago
The TelegraphCinematic ArtsLondon
Interview John Malkovich: They’ve told me the words I can’t say on the Oscars circuit

Interview John Malkovich: They’ve told me the words I can’t say on the Oscars circuit

“I believe the original fabric was French vintage,” purrs John Malkovich, gesturing at his olive-green chore coat, which is covered in delicately cross-stitched woodland birds and looks as if it might have been cut from a 17th-century tapestry. “Hold on, I must look up the designer for you.” The actor reaches for his smartphone, taps in a query, and a minute or so later spells out a name composed largely of Zs, Ss and Ts.

2h ago
The GuardianWar & ConflictLos Angeles
‘Like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory’: how did the restaurant end up in a Maga fight over ‘elitism’?

‘Like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory’: how did the restaurant end up in a Maga fight over ‘elitism’?

Obama has been accused of ‘snobbery’ over his Trump diss, as people rush to defend the restaurant chain’s ‘affordable opulence’ Around lunchtime on Tuesday, a Rolls-Royce stopped at the intersection of Beverly Drive and Dayton Way in Beverly Hills, California. Local people in athleisure walked past Balenciaga, Dior and Prada boutiques, as visitors on Hollywood bus tours ogled nearby Rodeo Drive, where Burberry and Louis Vuitton shops meet at a celebrated street corner. Up the street, across from the upmarket Erewhon grocery store – home to $21 smoothies – a few diners sat outside an American landmark: the Cheesecake Factory.

1d ago
Irish IndependentWeatherEire (Ireland)
‘People who are grieving shouldn’t have to put on wellies’ – Flooding in rural Galway cemetery sparks call for action

‘People who are grieving shouldn’t have to put on wellies’ – Flooding in rural Galway cemetery sparks call for action

Grieving families are being forced to navigate flooded pathways to visit loved ones at a rural Connemara cemetery, prompting local councillors to seek immediate solutions. At a monthly Galway County Council meeting covering Connemara, Cllr Gerry King raised concerns about recurring flooding in the graveyard of Errislannan, outside Clifden.

3h ago
Irish IndependentHumanityEire (Ireland)
HSE urged to utilise vacant property on the grounds at Mallow General Hospital

HSE urged to utilise vacant property on the grounds at Mallow General Hospital

The HSE has been urged to examine the potential to utilise a vacant property on the grounds of Mallow General Hospital for the development of residential and respite services for people with disabilities. Fine Gael TD for Cork North West John Paul O’Shea said there is a clear and pressing need for additional residential and respite places for people with disabilities across North Cork.

3h ago
Irish IndependentPoliticiansEire (Ireland)
Row over timing as Arklow RNLI’s 200th anniversary funding tied to future harbour masterplan

Row over timing as Arklow RNLI’s 200th anniversary funding tied to future harbour masterplan

A proposal to allocate funding towards projects marking the 200th anniversary of Arklow RNLI sparked debate at a recent meeting of district councillors in Arklow, with the elected members supportive of recognising the milestone, but differing on the timing and funding of any initiative. The motion, tabled by Cllr Peir Leonard, called on the district to provide €20,000 from its discretionary budget for placemaking, enhancement and regeneration projects in the fishery, harbour and South Beach areas to commemorate the RNLI bicentenary.

3h ago
Irish IndependentCelebrity lifeEire (Ireland)
Tipperary apprentice awarded top accolade at National Apprentice of the Year Awards 2026

Tipperary apprentice awarded top accolade at National Apprentice of the Year Awards 2026

A 23-year-old electrical apprentice from Tipperary has won a top accolade at Ireland’s National Apprentice of the Year Awards 2026 ceremony.Currently completing an electrical apprenticeship with H&MV Engineering in Castletroy, Limerick, Darragh Sweeney was selected as one of the top award winners from a record number of 508 nominations nationwide. The electrical industry award was presented to Darragh, a fourth-year electrical apprentice from Templetuohy, Thurles, at the national awards showcase in the RDS, Dublin, attended by more than 500 guests.

3h ago
Irish IndependentPoliticiansEire (Ireland)
An Coimisiún Pleanála grants green light for 124 apartments in Meath following appeal

An Coimisiún Pleanála grants green light for 124 apartments in Meath following appeal

Planning permission has been granted by An Coimisiún Pleanála for the construction of 124 apartments in Meath. Marina Quarter Ltd, a subsidiary of Glenveagh Homes, has been granted conditional planning permission for a large-scale residential development consisting of 124 apartments across three blocks in Bennetstown, south of the M3 Parkway rail station, Dunboyne North.

3h ago
Irish IndependentPoliticiansEire (Ireland)
Rejection of bid to return Sligo’s Woodhill Lodge to residential use appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála

Rejection of bid to return Sligo’s Woodhill Lodge to residential use appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála

After plans to change the use of a former HSE health care centre, Woodhill Lodge, in Dromore West back to residential use were rejected by Sligo County Council, an appeal has now been lodged with An Coimisiún Pleanála by Padraig and Nicola Leavy. In their planning application, lodged with Sligo County Council in August, the applicants sought permission to, “Change of use / reversion of use of Woodhill Lodge — a former gate lodge in residential use, most recently in use as a health centre and now vacant — back to residential use as one dwelling house.

16h ago
The GuardianScandalVictoria
Erin Patterson began the day with hope. Now Australia’s mushroom murderer knows she’s likely to die in jail

Erin Patterson began the day with hope. Now Australia’s mushroom murderer knows she’s likely to die in jail

Patterson watched on, clad in prison-issued blue, as Victoria’s highest court rejected her appeal against her murder convictions Erin Patterson to die in prison after losing bid to overturn mushroom murder convictions Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Erin Patterson raised her chin and stared out on the brilliant blue promise of a mid-spring morning. To the east, Victoria’s grandest court room was filled with people she had brought together, yet she was there only on a screen.

4h ago
The TelegraphHumanityMelbourne
Killer mushroom cook dished harsher penalty after appeal denied

Killer mushroom cook dished harsher penalty after appeal denied

The Australian woman convicted of killing her in-laws with toxic mushrooms will likely spend the rest of her life in prison after judges rejected her appeal and instead applied a harsher penalty. Erin Patterson launched an appeal against her convictions in the Supreme Court of Victoria after being found guilty of three murders and one attempted murder, with her lawyers arguing that she did not have a fair trial.

2h ago
The GuardianScandalVictoria
Erin Patterson to die in prison after losing appeal against mushroom murder convictions

Erin Patterson to die in prison after losing appeal against mushroom murder convictions

Victorian court of appeal rules Patterson should be jailed for life with no parole over deadly beef wellington lunch that killed three people Erin Patterson mushroom murders appeal – live updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Erin Patterson has lost her bid to overturn her convictions and been resentenced to life behind bars with no chance of release, as Victoria’s highest court handed down its decision on two appeals regarding her triple murder case. The court of appeal ruled on the two appeals on Friday, after justices Lesley Taylor, Stephen McLeish and Peter Kidd heard arguments from her legal team and prosecutors in August.

8h ago
The GuardianScandalMelbourne
Australia’s mushroom murderer loses bid to overturn convictions – as it happened

Australia’s mushroom murderer loses bid to overturn convictions – as it happened

This blog is now closed. Read our full report here: Erin Patterson loses appeal as harsher sentence imposed Patterson showed no emotion on the video feed as McLeish outlined why her appeal had failed, and how the director of public prosecutions had succeeded in seeking a longer sentence. Patterson’s actions mean it is ‘inappropriate’ to fix non-parole period, justice says The applicant’s murderous intent dated back to the invitations to lunch, it persisted through the lunch that the poison was administered … We have concluded that the case involved such calculated criminality that it is inappropriate to fix a non-parole period.

9h ago