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JioHotstar will be offered inside Starzplay rather than through a standalone service.
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BBC SportSports
MacIntyre may end season over Middle East fears
Robert MacIntyre may have played his final event of the season because of ongoing uncertainty over the situation in the Middle East.
The New York TimesWorld
The Return of Middle East Oil
More oil is moving through the Strait of Hormuz. What does that mean for Iran’s wartime leverage?
The GuardianWorld
Tories accused of prioritising rich voters as Badenoch lays out inheritance tax cut plan
Party hopes to win over affluent middle-class voters as Badenoch rejects calls to ‘unite the right’ in conference speech UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch has announced the Conservatives would abolish inheritance tax on family homes if elected, prompting immediate criticism that she was prioritising…
BBC NewsWorld
India's first bank rate hike since 2023 signals growing inflation concerns
The hike reflects a global shift towards tighter monetary policy as central banks battle inflation fuelled by Middle East conflict.
The GuardianBusiness
Shell refineries forecast to make double the profit from every barrel of fuel
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia Shell’s refineries are expected to make almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel produced owing to record prices caused by shortages around the world. In a market trading update on Wednesday, the energy…
CNBCBusiness
Oil rises as concerns over Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia eclipse supply recovery
Oil rose Wednesday, as concerns over attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia outweigh a higher crude supply in Middle East.
TechCrunchTechnology
The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.
The GuardianPolitics
Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest Darío Sánchez is facing state charges related to a protest he did not attend. Indictments against the 33-year-old Texas middle school teacher have changed three times. He has also been arrested and…
The VergeTechnology
Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end
An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but "lalala" on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of conversations with users. When quizzed about the behavior, Alexa is apparently entirely unaware of what it's been doing…
CNBCBusiness
Yemen forces reclaim key Red Sea port city from Iran-backed Houthis in major counteroffensive
Oil markets remain on edge over potential Middle East supply disruptions, with Brent trading around $100 a barrel as the risk of further escalation persists.
The GuardianCulture
Partita By Barbara Kingsolver review – a quieter follow-up to Demon Copperhead
The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises What is the role of art in an artist’s life? Should you commit everything to honing your talent in the hope of becoming a great master? Or should you use your artistic gift to enrich…
The GuardianCulture
‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose
‘When I couldn’t do the spitting scene, Sean took me aside and said: “Ron, if you don’t actually spit in my face, we’ll be here all day.” So I let one fly – and kept having to redo it’ I read an article about a curious book that had great reviews in Italy, a murder mystery about monks in the middle ages fighting for…
The GuardianBusiness
‘I didn’t know what to do’: collapse of providers of high-end digs leaves students in shock
Cost of living crisis and drop in international students hits market for purpose-built accommodation “It was dead in the middle of summer, it was a shock,” says Nathalie Sriwiboonrattan. The fourth-year game design student at Abertay University was at home with her family thousands of miles away in Thailand when she…
The GuardianClimate
Country diary: Lave net fishing is a tradition in trouble | Gwyneth Lewis
Portskewett, Monmouthshire : For hundreds of years this has been a method of catching salmon in the Severn’s churning waters. I visit one of the few fishermen still going Every time I cross the new Severn Bridge leaving Wales, I check the state of the tide, using a buoy in the middle of the channel. I learned to sail…
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