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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Hard-right leader George Simion has won the first round of Romania’s presidential election, according to exit polls, and will face one of two pro-EU centrists in the run-off vote on May 18.Simion won 33 per cent according to an exit poll by CURS, with Crin Antonescu, the joint candidate of three centrist government parties, on 23 per cent. A second exit poll by Avangarde also put Simion in the lead on 33 per cent, but said Antonescu was neck and neck with…

Previous-Generation CardsNot everyone wants to spend $1,000 or more on a GPU, and you have a few options if you’re working on a tighter overall budget. Normally, I’d recommend a previous generation card, but the RTX 40 Series and AMD 7000 cards are almost entirely out of stock or massively marked up at major retailers. These cards are squarely targeting 1,920 x 1,080 for gaming, so don’t get your hopes up if you have a higher resolution or refresh rate.There are still a few older-generation cards you can pick up relatively easily, but the moment you get over $400, check…

التلفزيون الإيراني: الكشف عن الصاروخ الباليستي قاسم بصير بمدى يصل لأكثر من 1200 كيلومتر كأحدث إنجاز دفاعي وزير الدفاع الإيراني: إذا تعرضنا للهجوم وفرضت علينا الحرب سنرد بقوة وسنضرب قواعد ومصالح العدو ليس لدينا أي عداء مع دول الجوار لكن القواعد الأميركية أهداف لنا إذا تعرضنا للاعتداء صاروخ قاسم بصير مقاوم للحرب الإلكترونية ويمكنه تجاوز الأنظمة المضادة للصواريخ الباليستية

Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka won her first WTA title since triumphing at the 2021 Australian Open after beating Slovenia’s Kaja Juvan 6-1, 7-5 in the final of the L’Open 35 de Saint-Malo — a WTA 125 tournament.It was the 27-year-old Japanese player’s first WTA title since she became a mother in July 2023.She took to social media to celebrate the victory.Kinda ironic to win my first trophy back on the surface that I thought was my worst. That’s one of my favorite things about life though, there’s always room to grow and evolve. Thanks to everyone accompanying me…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sir Keir Starmer is facing fresh pressure from his Labour MPs to reverse cuts to the winter fuel allowance after the government’s welfare decisions were partly blamed for the party’s setbacks in Thursday’s local elections.The removal of the winter fuel subsidy from 10mn pensioners was a key reason voters told Labour activists they would not support the party in the run-up to last week’s elections, MPs and party figures said.The policy, which limits the up to £300-a-year benefit to only the poorest…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is getting its own official company town. Residents of an area around SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to incorporate as a city — also named Starbase. According to results posted online by the Cameron County Elections Department, there were 212 votes in favor and only six against. In a post on his social media site X, Musk wrote that Starbase, Texas “Is now a real city!”  The new city’s residents are believed to mostly be SpaceX employees. On Saturday, they also voted to elect three current and former Starbase employees —…

صنعاء – في تطور لافت، أعلن جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي صباح اليوم الأحد سقوط صاروخ أُطلق من اليمن في مطار بن غوريون قرب تل أبيب بعد فشل اعتراضه. وأكد المتحدث العسكري باسم الحوثيين يحيى سريع أن القوة الصاروخية للجماعة “نفذَّت عملية عسكرية استهدفت مطار بن غوريون في تل أبيب وذلك بصاروخ باليستي فرط صوتي، وقد أصاب هدفه بنجاح”. وأضاف -في بيان مصور له- أن من نتائج العملية “فشل المنظومات الاعتراضية الأميركية والإسرائيلية في صدّه، وهروب أكثر من 3 ملايين صهيوني إلى الملاجئ، وتوقف حركة المطار بشكل كامل ولأكثر من ساعة”. صدى القصف بعد استهداف المطار، ألغت شركات طيران رحلاتها المقررة اليوم الأحد…

Arsenal failed to win at the Emirates Stadium for the third straight time in the Premier League on Saturday, losing 2-1 to Bournemouth to give the Cherries their first-ever away win against the Gunners.The home side started the brightest of the two sides with Gabriel Martinelli having plenty of joy on the left flank, but it was the visitors who had the first big chance as Evanilson headed over the bar from Milos Kerkez’s cross. Declan Rice was influential throughout the first half as the Cherries struggled to contain him, and he eventually opened the scoring when easing past goalkeeper…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.If Warren Buffett is to be believed, his announcement after Saturday’s annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway that he plans to step down as chief executive at the end of the year was news to all but a few close members of his family. Neither non-family directors, nor the tens of thousands of shareholders assembled at the annual “Woodstock for capitalists” in his native Omaha had an inkling about the precise timing.They probably should have done. His longtime business partner and acerbic sidekick at…

South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212–6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press.The election took place following a petition that had gained enough signatures by February to force a vote, in which just 283 people were eligible to participate, according to The Texas Tribune. Last week, an analysis by public journalism collaboration The Texas Newsroom found that three in five of those…