Three arrests made in case of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing

Police just shared details at press conference in Surrey, BC
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Russia told Ukrainians they were visiting the seaside - but they were kidnapped independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

Vladimir Putin plans to visit China little more than a week after his new terms starts (inauguration is Tues), a source says; the Russian president said last month he intended to travel to China in May, but didn't say exactly when bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Early results suggest the Tories are on course for “one of the worst — if not the worst — Conservative performances in local government for the last 40 years,”
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Tories set to lose “half the seats they’re trying to defend”

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South Africa is enjoying a rare streak of uninterrupted electricity right before elections, drawing more suspicion than praise in a nation that’s grown used to daily power cuts bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Economics

Quite something when former PM Boris Johnson - who introduced voter ID requirement - is turned away from his polling station after forgetting to bring his 🤦. Sky News

'Shifting our center of gravity in the region from Hong Kong to Singapore'

EXCLUSIVE: Turkey stops all trade with Israel, sources say. Total trade was worth $6.8 billion in 2023, of which 76% was Turkish exports. So not a huge trade relationship but clearly shows the pick up in tensions over the war in Gaza bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg Economics

Netanyahu 'has apparently been consumed for several weeks by the ICC's potential threat. In that period he has reversed Israeli policies on supplying aid to Gaza, delayed a planned attack on the southern city of Rafah and become more amenable to a truce' economist.com/middle-east-an…

Elon Musk’s Starlink service is still operating in multiple unauthorized regions, defying warnings issued by the company that its satellite internet will be shut down by May 1 in areas where it doesn’t have a license to operate bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

Huawei has been secretly funding cutting-edge research through an unrelated Washington-based foundation despite US blacklisting, a Bloomberg News investigation finds bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

Taking a carrot-and-stick approach, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has made it easier for foreign firms to operate, but a new law is also forcing them to set up headquarters in the country or risk losing business from government entities bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

Thousands of Russians who fled abroad after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine are returning home, delivering a propaganda victory to Putin and a boost to his war economy bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Saudi Arabia has stepped up the arrest of citizens for social-media posts related to the Israel-Hamas war bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

“It boggles the mind that somebody who caused the country and the economy so much harm still commands significant support.” “He is pushing the ethnic, tribal lines very, very hard and that is primarily where his support is coming from' bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

❗️The Russians shelled #Odesa . Local media are publishing alleged photos of a massive fire resulting from the attack.

The English Premier League is a big spending competition with global reach, but owners and politicians are railing against how it’s managed bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Ireland has no women leading any of its listed companies, highlighting the lack of female leadership across business in Europe bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bbgequality

Handy explainer! Can anything stop the dollar’s dominance? USD-denominated assets are so abundant they’re among the most “liquid” in the world — so can be easily bought and sold. People rush to dollars even when the US itself is in distress bloomberg.com/features/usd-s… Bloomberg

Big picture on Channel crossings is they are now rising clearly this year, regardless of Rwanda: