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Supermarket giant Coles has promised customers it can absorb more price rises as the Iran war drives up costs, as it reported $9.8bn in sales revenue for the first three months of the year.Posting quarterly sales results to the ASX on Friday, Coles says sales revenue rose 4 per cent for the March quarter, while supermarket price inflation (excluding tobacco) fell from 1.7 per cent to 0.8 per cent.But the company warned the Iran war, that started on February 28, was contributing to higher fuel and other commodity input prices.“In recent weeks, we have seen an increase in supplier cost…

Geopolitical factors are also at play, said Wang, with students from Europe and the US becoming more cautious about studying in China – following measures by President Donald Trump’s administration which include visa processing delays, travel restrictions placed on several Asian countries and the revocation of more than 6,000 student visas for alleged violations in 2025.Benjamin Mulvey, a lecturer in equitable education systems and policy at the University of Glasgow noted that the “rise in geopolitical tensions between Western countries and China” has made academic collaboration more difficult. It also affects “student exchanges and study abroad programmes,” Mulvey told CNA.LOWER FEES…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Apple — Shares were up 2%. For the fiscal second quarter , Apple’s earnings came in at $2.01 per share, while revenue landed at $111.18 billion. This beat the earnings of $1.95 a share and $109.66 billion in revenue analysts were looking for, per LSEG. Still, the company’s iPhone sales missed estimates for the second time in three quarters. Roku — The streaming stock popped 6% after Roku posted first-quarter revenue of $1.25 billion, beating the expected $1.20 billion, per FactSet. The company’s $148.4 million adjusted EBITDA was also ahead…

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Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, an alleged assassin burst through a set of double doors one floor above a ballroom where President Trump and roughly 2,600 other White House Correspondents’ Dinner guests were eating a salad course.Seven seconds later, he was apprehended by federal law enforcement, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. After Cole Allen, the 31-year-old alleged assailant, used an interior stairwell to descend from his tenth-floor room at the Washington Hilton Hotel, he arrived at an elevator bank on the terrace level with a set of double doors to his left.There, in a hallway out…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Washington state murder case took a wild turn after a juror who helped convict a man in a fatal stabbing is now accused of carrying out a brutal knife attack of his own just days later, allegedly telling victims he was “sent by Jesus.”Kevin Rodriguez, 35, was convicted April 10 of second-degree murder in the 2019 killing of 56-year-old Evodio Garcia Martinez, along with two counts of assault, according to reporting from The Seattle Times. Prosecutors said Rodriguez used butcher knives in the attack. According to the Monroe Police Department, he…

Prime Minister Mark Carney insisted his government is doing an effective job of keeping Iranians associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps out of the country, after one former IRGC official was granted a visa. When asked Thursday about Iranian Football Federation president Mehdi Taj being denied entry to Canada earlier this week, Carney said he can’t talk about individual cases due to privacy legislation.Online news outlet Iran International reported Monday that Taj was granted a temporary resident visa that allowed him to enter Canada, despite his ties to the IRGC, which is a listed terrorist entity in Canada.Foreign Affairs…

Shares of Apple Inc. edged lower in after-hours trading on Thursday, slipping 0.48% despite the company delivering better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results, as investors weighed strong product demand against ongoing supply constraints.The company posted revenue of $111.18 billion and earnings of $2.01 per share for the quarter ended March 28, beating analyst expectations of $109.46 billion and $1.95 per share, respectively. The performance underscores continued consumer demand for Apple’s ecosystem, particularly its flagship smartphone lineup.iPhone demand drives revenue growthiPhone sales remained the primary growth engine, rising 21.7% year-on-year to nearly $57 billion. The gains were fueled by strong demand for the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! P.J. Walker joins a growing list of players stepping away from football.Before Thursday’s announcement, the former quarterback who spent time with several NFL teams and also had a stint in the now-defunct XFL, was set to suit up for the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders in the upcoming 2026 season.Walker is retiring after nine professional seasons, the team confirmed. “The Stampeders have been informed that quarterback P.J. Walker has decided to step away from football after nine years as a professional,” the Stampeders wrote on X. Quarterback PJ Walker of the Seattle…

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