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Last year, China exported US$1.14 billion worth of fireworks, more than two-thirds of global sales, data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity shows.A year-long nationwide campaign was launched on May 1 to crack down on fireworks and firecrackers – which will include stricter limits on safety, noise, and chemical and explosive content.Xi also ordered authorities to strengthen risk screening and hazard control in key industries, enhance public safety and ensure the safety of people’s lives and property.Xi often issues “important instructions” to local officials after major accidents and disasters with fatalities. Last week, he urged a nationwide upgrade in China’s…

NewsFeedA small plane carrying five people crashed into a residential building in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, shortly after takeoff, killing three and leaving two others hospitalised. The aircraft went down minutes after departing Pampulha Airport, with no injuries reported among residents on the ground.Published On 5 May 20265 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

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HSBC delivered a broadly flat first-quarter profit that fell short of analyst expectations, as a specific fraud-related credit charge in its UK institutional banking unit and rising provisions linked to the US-Iran conflict pushed credit losses sharply higher. The result underscores how geopolitical turbulence and isolated credit events can rapidly erode what might otherwise be a stable earnings picture, even as the bank’s wealth and interest income businesses continued to grow.HSBC Q1 earnings: The headline numbersHSBC reported pretax profit of $9.4 billon for the January-to-March quarter, a $0.1 billon decline from $9.5 billon in the same period a year earlier,…

Artificial intelligence startup Sierra is raising nearly a billion dollars in a new funding round, CNBC has learned, as venture capital investors search for winners in an ongoing deal spree.The San Francisco-based company brought in $950 million in fresh capital at a $15.8 billion post-money valuation, led by Tiger Global and Google’s GV. Benchmark, Sequoia, Greenoaks and other existing investors also participated.The startup was founded three years ago by OpenAI chairman and former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, with former Google executive Clay Bavor. Taylor was also chief technology officer at Facebook, and chairman of Twitter when Elon Musk bought the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cornell University’s president says he was a victim of “harassment and intimidation” after being accused of striking individuals with his vehicle during a campus parking lot confrontation over students’ freedom of speech. The incident unfolded on April 30, after Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff introduced an Israel-Palestinian debate series hosted by the Cornell Political Union and co-sponsored by the Cornellians for Israel, Cornell Progressives and Students for Justice in Palestine, according to a statement released by Kotlikoff.While walking to his car, Kotlikoff said he was followed into the on-campus parking lot by a group…

A local Saskatoon businessman says he has a potential solution to prevent oversized vehicles from striking overpasses, following four crashes earlier this year. Vince Hardy, chief executive officer of ConX Wireless, says he took to the drawing board to think up a solution when he heard of the first strike in early March.“The first overpass hit literally was like, ‘Wow, OK, I got to do this,’” he said.Hardy’s early-detection design uses two laser devices that cast an invisible beam to measure a vehicle’s height as it approaches an overpass. If a truck breaks the beam, the system will transmit a…

Move over Willy Wonka, a “world-leading” experience drawing inspiration from the inside and outside of chocolate bars has passed a major planning milestone.The $150 million project, to feature a chocolate lounge, is slated to sit next to the century-old Cadbury factory in Hobart’s northern suburbs.The plan was approved by a local council on Monday night – it initially made headlines in 2024 for a now-dropped promise to build a giant chocolate fountain.Designers have drawn inspiration from unwrapping chocolate and say the outside of the building will adopt a refined metallic cladding.Inside will sit a “reinvented” chocolate factory with a collection…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Yankees radio legend John Sterling has died, WFAN Sports Radio in New York announced on Monday. He was 87.”We are devastated to hear about the passing of John Sterling, a WFAN and Yankees radio icon whose voice was synonymous with an entire generation of Yankee fandom,” the radio station wrote on social media.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! FILE – In this Sept. 25, 2009, file photo, New York Yankees broadcaster John Sterling sits in the booth before the Yankees’ baseball…

British maritime risk management group Vanguard said authorities would investigate whether the damage might have been caused by an attack, a drifting sea mine or another external object.In response to the incident, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said on Tuesday it had asked Korean vessels in the area to move to safer locations and said authorities were in close communications with shipping companies and stranded vessels.The South Korean government has said 26 South Korean-flagged vessels were stranded around the Strait of Hormuz.In a post on the Truth Social platform, Trump said Iran had fired shots at the ship…