Business, General China unexpectedly leaves benchmark lending rates unchanged after Fed’s jumbo cut September 20, 2024 The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said it would keep the one-year loan prime rate (LPR) at 3.35%, as well as the five-year LPR at 3.85%.
Starmer says US ‘backstop’ needed for Ukraine peace deal The PM says “a US security guarantee is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again”.
Google Releases Gemini-SQL2: Gemini 3.1 Pro Text-to-SQL Scores 80.04% on BIRD Single-Model Leaderboard Google Research team has announced the launch of Gemini-SQL2 on X. They described this system as a breakthrough text-to-SQL capability…
Hong Kong court finds pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai guilty of sedition and collusion with foreign forces The 78-year-old was charged under Hong Kong’s controversial national security law, enacted by Beijing in 2020.