Australian Dollar Eyes China Q4 GDP Data as APAC Trading Kicks Off

(Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to keep iPhone production for 2022 roughly flat at about 220 million units, Bloomberg News on Thursday, as China’s COVID-19 curbs, global supply chain issues, and cooling demand continue to hurt smartphone makers. An outbreak of COVID-19 in China has kept its financial hub...

Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations. U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports survived a change in administration, but the trade-war-era levies may not survive record inflation. “We’re certainly looking at where we see costs being raised and,...

Expectant mothers in quarantine are only given two painkiller pills a day — the same treatment given to all COVID-19 patients, sources told RFA.

Former President Donald Trump said he believes the United States is now facing an unprecedented threat of nuclear war.

"No one wants to see the outbreak of a third world war," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters during a briefing.

The FBI also seized financial records and fine art in the October 2021 raids on properties linked to billionaire Oleg Deripaska, per Bloomberg.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov made the comments to Russian state-owned newswire RIA Novosti.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday offered a reward of up to $10 million for information on six people it described as Russian military intelligence officers who had conducted cyber attacks affecting critical U.S. infrastructure. The six officers work in a cyber-focused unit of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate...

Kim Jong-un has vowed to bolster North Korea’s nuclear forces at “maximum speed” in a defiant speech during a massive military parade on Monday night.In his speech, Mr Kim also made an open threat that North Korea would use its “nuclear forces” against countries that provoked it.The military parade that started late on Monday night showcased the country’s largest-known intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) among other weapons.“We will continue to implement measures aimed at strengthening and developing our country’s nuclear forces at the maximum speed,” Mr Kim told his troops and the crowd gathered for the parade at a Pyongyang...

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Shielding those vulnerable to COVID-19, while allowing the virus to spread, largely unmitigated, through the rest of the population, would have failed according to a new modeling paper published today in PLOS Global Public Health by University of Bath scientists. Shielding strategies or "focused protection", as advocated for in the...

Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations. As states issued strict lockdowns two years ago, it was a foregone conclusion that the U.S. housing market would slump. After all, with the COVID-19 recession sending the unemployment rate...

Gross Domestic Product report for the first quarter is scheduled for release at 8:30 a.m. ET. The second estimate for first-quarter GDP is expected to show a 1.3% contraction versus the first estimate's 1.4% contraction. Data on initial jobless claims for the latest week will be released at 8:30 a.m....

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