Minorities Flee to Erbil as Violence Escalates in North of Iraq

Reuters
As climate shifts, a leafhopper bug plagues Argentina's corn fields
Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the crop. Meet the leafhopper. The world's No. 3 corn exporting country has slashed millions of tons from its harvest projections for the current crop due to a rare plague of the insect that can carry a stunt disease that damages the cobs and kernels of the plant.
AFP
Rescuers search for survivors in deadly S.Africa building collapse
Rescuers said Tuesday they had made contact with 11 people as they raced to save dozens still unaccounted for nearly 24 hours after the deadly collapse of a building in the South African city of George.Contact has been made with 11 people who are under rubble among 48 still unaccounted for, they said.
Yahoo Finance
Stock market today: US futures take a breather as Disney earnings land
Results from Disney took center stage as the media giant posted the first profit for a key part of its streaming business.
Associated Press
US seeks information from Tesla on how it developed and verified whether Autopilot recall worked
Federal highway safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how and why it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles equipped with the company's Autopilot partially automated driving system. Investigators with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have concerns about whether the recall remedy worked because Tesla has reported 20 crashes since the remedy was sent out as an online software update in December. In a l etter to Tesla posted on the agency's website Tuesday, investigators wrote that they could not find a difference between warnings to the driver to pay attention before the recall and after the new software was sent out.
Associated Press
Disney's streaming business turns profitable in first financial report since challenge to Iger
The Walt Disney Co. moved to a loss in its second quarter, hampered by restructuring and impairment charges, but its adjusted profit topped expectations and its streaming business turned a profit. Theme parks also continued to do well. While Disney said Tuesday that it foresees its streaming business softening in the current quarter due to its streaming service in India, Disney+Hotstar, it expects its combined streaming businesses to be profitable in the fourth quarter and to be a meaningful future growth driver for the company, with further improvements in profitability in fiscal 2025.
Politico
Transit union honcho to sue Columbia alleging mistreatment of staffers in building takeover
The union head who represents university custodians accused Columbia of failing to protect workers from pro-Palestinian protesters.
NBC News
What to watch as the battle for the GOP's future comes to Indiana
In Indiana, open races for governor and Senate as well as some key House primaries are on tap Tuesday.
AFP
Putin, launching fifth term, promises Russians victory
President Vladimir Putin vowed at a lavish inauguration on Tuesday to deliver victory to Russians, embarking on a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever.In a video minutes before the inauguration, Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya described Putin as deceitful and said Russia was doomed to remain in a state of conflict so long as he remains in power.
AFP
'Unlike anything we have studied': Gaza's destruction in numbers
As well as killing more than 34,000 people and causing catastrophic levels of hunger and injury, the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas has also caused massive material destruction in Gaza."The fastest rates of destruction were in the first two to three months of the bombardment", Scher told AFP. In Gaza City, home to some 600,000 people before the war, the situation is dire: almost three-quarters (74.3 percent) of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed.
AFP
UBS back in profit after Credit Suisse takeover losses
Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday said first quarter net profit rose 71 percent to nearly $1.8 billion, far exceeding expectations, after two quarters in the red due to the mammoth takeover of Credit Suisse.Analysts surveyed by the Swiss financial newswire AWP had on average expected UBS to post a net profit of $637 million.
Reuters
Tylenol maker Kenvue beats quarterly profit estimates, to cut 4% jobs
Shares of the company rose nearly 4% in premarket trading. Since its spinoff from Johnson & Johnson last year, Kenvue has focused on its 15 priority brands to boost growth and said in February it would increase its advertising spending by 15%, or about $300 million, during the year. The self-care segment - which includes cough and cold medicine such as Tylenol and Benadryl - recorded $1.70 billion in net sales, up 3.5% year-on-year and above the average analyst estimate of $1.56 billion, according to LSEG data.
AFP
Macron hosts Xi in French mountains to press messages on Ukraine, trade
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday was to host Chinese leader Xi Jinping at one of his beloved childhood haunts in the Pyrenees mountains, seeking to press a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade.Macron, joined initially by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urged Xi not to allow the export of any technology that could be used by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine and asked Beijing to do all it could to end the war.
Associated Press
FBI lays out detailed case against Florida man accused in wife's disappearance in Spain
The FBI has laid out a detailed case showing why agents believe a Florida man is behind his estranged wife's disappearance from her apartment in Spain but gave no indication about what they think happened to her. Court documents released late Monday show that agents believe David Knezevich resembles the man wearing a motorcycle helmet who spray painted the security camera lens outside Ana Knezevich's Madrid apartment on Feb. 2. Spanish police say they have security video of the 36-year-old Fort Lauderdale business owner purchasing the same brand of paint and duct tape hours earlier.
CNN
Five dead and 49 missing as multi-story building collapses in South Africa
Five people have died and 49 are unaccounted for after a multi-story building collapsed Monday afternoon in the South African city of George, officials said Tuesday.
CNN
‘I am leaving for the unknown.’ Palestinians fleeing Rafah describe their fear and despair
Palestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, as Israel airstrikes hit Gaza’s southernmost city.
CNN
US soldier arrested in Russia to be detained for 2 months
An American soldier arrested in Russia on suspicion of theft will be detained for two months, a Russian district court said Tuesday.
Reuters
Cambodia's former PM urges Myanmar junta chief to allow video call with Suu Kyi
Cambodia's former Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Myanmar's ruling general on Tuesday to allow him to speak to detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on a video call, a request he said the junta chief would consider. Suu Kyi, the figurehead of Myanmar's struggle against military rule, was arrested during a 2021 coup and has since been sentenced to 27 years in prison for a multitude of offences her allies say she did not commit. Hun Sen, who stepped down to make way for his son last year after nearly four decades in charge of Cambodia, spoke on Tuesday via video telephone call with Min Aung Hlaing, the general who led the coup against Suu Kyi's elected government.
Time
Why Big Tech May Never Recover in China
Although the crackdown has eased since 2022, it has left a profoundly negative mark on the sector and state-business relations.
AFP
Major German companies warn against vote for extremism
Germany's biggest companies said Tuesday they have formed an alliance to campaign against extremism ahead of key EU Parliament elections, when the far right is projected to make strong gains.It added that the campaign will continue after the EU elections, with three eastern German states to vote for regional parliaments in September.
Yahoo Finance
Disney says key part of streaming business was profitable for the first time
Disney will report its fiscal second quarter earnings before the bell on Tuesday. Here's what to expect.

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