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TEENAGER MENSIK WINS MAIDEN ATP TITLE AGAINST DJOKOVIC – Denies Djokovic his 100th in Miami Nineteen-year-old Czech Jakub Mensik beat his childhood idol Novak Djokovic 7-6(4) 7-6(4) in an upset for the ages on Sunday (March 30), claiming his first ATP title at the Miami Open as he denied the former number one his bid for a milestone 100th. The 54th-ranked Mensik faced tough odds in only his second ATP final but harnessed his best weapon to subdue the 24-times major winner with 14 aces and collapsed onto the court, overcome with emotion, after sealing it with an unreturnable serve.…

MUSK’S XAI BUYS MUSK’S X SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR $33 BILLION – The all-stock deal consolidates two of Musk’s multiple portfolio companies Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence firm has acquired Musk’s X, the social media outfit formerly known as Twitter for $33 billion. The all-stock deal consolidates two of Musk’s multiple portfolio companies, which also include automaker Tesla and SpaceX, and potentially eases the billionaire’s ability to train his AI model known as Grok. Including $12 billion in debt, the deal is valued at $45 billion. Musk announced the transaction in a post on X, saying that the combined entity…

W.H.O PROPOSING TO CUT JOBS AND SLASH BUDGET BY A FIFTH – The memo says the suggested budget cut is more than 20% The World Health Organization is proposing to cut staff, slash its budget and scale back its work due to the impact of U.S. funding cuts according to an internal memo. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the WHO upon taking office in January, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises. The memo says the suggested budget cut is more than 20% which is slightly larger than the 18%…

EU READY TO RESPOND TO US ON TRADE TARIFFS SAYS SCHOLZ – Scholz says Europe must do everything to ensure free trade agreements are more numerous and concluded quickly Europe wants to cooperate with the United States but the EU is ready to respond as one if Washington leaves it no choice by imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday (March 30). Speaking at the opening of the Hanover industrial trade fair which this year has Canada as its partner country, Scholz said Europe must do everything to ensure that the free trade agreements…

TRUMP AND STARMER TALK ABOUT PROSPERITY DEAL – The leaders said negotiations will continue British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed “productive negotiations” towards a UK-U.S. economic prosperity deal in a phone call on Sunday evening, a Downing Street spokesperson said. According to a Downing Street statement, the leaders said negotiations will continue this week and agreed to stay in touch in the coming days. Britain was hoping to negotiate a deal with the U.S. to avoid a broader round of reciprocal tariffs. Negotiations are said to be intense, with moves to decrease or even abolish…

AUSTRALIAN OPPOSITION LEADER BEGINS PM ELECTION CAMPAIGN- Dutton said cutting permanent migration by 25% will create more homes. Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton began his campaign to become the country’s next Prime Minister today, promising reduced energy costs, cuts to the fuel excise and the adoption of nuclear power. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier on Wednesday called a national election for May 3, launching a five-week campaign that is set to be dominated by cost-of-living pressures. Albanese’s Labor party won a majority at the last federal election in 2022 Dutton has campaigned on a housing crisis that he says…

ONS ADMITS TRANSGENDER CENSUS DATA WAS INACCURATE – It comes after the Sullivan Review found widespread conflation of sex and gender in official statistics The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has acknowledged that the number of transgender people recorded in the 2021 England and Wales census was inaccurate, marking the first official admission of errors in the data. The census initially reported 262,000 trans individuals, but ONS officials have now stated that this figure “should not be used” as an exact representation of the population. This follows a decision last year by the Office for Statistics Regulation to downgrade the…

RUBIO WARNS OF VISA REVOCATIONS FOR DISRUPTIVE ACTIONS –  Rubio said 300 revoked visas were a combination of student and visitor visas U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the State Department may have revoked more than 300 visas and warned that the Trump administration was looking every day for the perpetrators after Washington, earlier this week, detained and revoked the visa of a Turkish student at Tufts University. Rubio’s comments were in response to a question about Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student who was detained on Tuesday (March 25) evening in Somerville, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, by US agents…

CHELSEA BEAT MANCHESTER CITY 3-0 – In the Women’s Champions League Quarter-Finals Chelsea beat Manchester City 3-0 in the women’s Champions League quarter-finals, overturning a two-goal first-leg deficit to secure a place in the semis with a 3-2 aggregate victory. Chelsea took the lead in the 14th minute when Lucy Bronze’s shot hit the post before Sandy Baltimore pounced on the rebound to beat City goalkeeper Khiara Keating. Sonia Bompastor’s side doubled their lead in the 38th minute when Nathalie Bjorn headed home from Baltimore’s corner and Mayra Ramirez added a third five minutes later, finishing off Lauren James’s cross.…

US SUSPENDS FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO WTO – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources revealed, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending. The Trump administration is retreating from global institutions it sees as at odds with his “America First” economic policies. It plans to quit some, such as the World Health Organization, and has cut contributions to others as part of a broad review of federal spending. The WTO has already been hobbled by a…