🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron will face his far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the final round of the French election on April 24. Macron's legacy, including efforts to stop the war in Ukraine and forge a common Europe defense policy, may unravel if he's defeated by Le Pen. https://bloom.bg/3ut2Frv

💼 Elon Musk has decided not to join Twitter's board. “I believe this is for the best,” CEO Parag Agrawal said in an internal memo he shared on the social network. https://bloom.bg/3NZJYU6

📦 Billions of dollars and a decade later, and Amazon’s drone-delivery program still isn’t off the ground — plagued by crashes and safety concerns. https://bloom.bg/3DZRDgw

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🇩🇪 German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Ukraine needs more military support, including heavy weapons, as Kyiv reports Russian missile attacks destroyed the airport in Dnipro, the country’s fourth-largest city. https://bloom.bg/3rg0SUM

🏦 Societe Generale agrees to sell its Rosbank unit to the investment firm of Russia’s richest man, taking a hit of about 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) to exit the heavily sanctioned nation. https://bloom.bg/3JweYaN

🇷🇺 Russia has appointed a new commander for its operations in Ukraine as it refocuses its war effort in the east, having failed to secure territory around the capital, Kyiv. https://bloom.bg/3v8Xn3x

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📉 World markets are falling again, with echoes of the rate-spurred 2018 rout. Even oil has pulled back from near records. https://bloom.bg/3js3URl

➡️ The U.S. State Department ordered all non-emergency government staff at its Shanghai consulate to leave due to a Covid surge and the impact of Chinese restrictions. https://bloom.bg/3LUERTh

🍄 Magic mushrooms improve brain connections to ease depression, researchers found, paving the way to treat the condition differently than with conventional medications. https://bloom.bg/3MeKhJ9

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🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin says he remains confident the goals for what he calls Russia’s “special military operation” will be met, as the U.S. predicts “a more protracted and a very bloody phase” of the conflict. https://bloom.bg/3rjjMKp

🚉 Russian Railways says its bonds aren’t in default as it paid its debt on time, but blames intermediaries for holding up the funds. https://bloom.bg/3jvbs68

📈 European natural gas prices edge higher, following seven sessions of declines, with Russian supplies through Ukraine expected to fall. https://bloom.bg/3LSyFek

🚔 A shooter who opened fire at a New York City subway station, injuring 23 people, remains as large. The NYPD has identified a person of interest. https://bloom.bg/3M1ZKvW

👶 Drugmaker Shionogi plunged up to 16%, the most in a decade, after it revealed risks of birth defects from its experimental Covid pill in animal studies. https://bloom.bg/3riGWAw

🏙️ Hong Kong's property market looked unstoppable as recently as August. Now homeowners are struggling to sell. https://bloom.bg/3xENSw3

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🪖 The Biden administration is preparing a military assistance package of roughly $750 million for Ukraine in its battles against Russian invaders, sources say. https://bloom.bg/3xoUAWA

🇺🇦 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy offers to exchange Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk for captive Ukrainians. https://bloom.bg/37HXlHO

🇸🇪 Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Party leaders will support the country’s bid to join NATO in a sign of how the war in Ukraine is redrawing the European security map. https://bloom.bg/3LZSalf

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🇺🇸 President Biden is sending Ukraine $800 million in heavy weapons that will test the limits of how far aid can go without drawing the U.S. directly into the war. https://bloom.bg/3vcwls2

🔮 Jack Dorsey has fashioned himself as Bitcoin’s unofficial spiritual leader over the past two years. The Twitter founder “hasn’t met a cult he didn’t wanna lead,” as one former employee put it. https://bloom.bg/37mV3xQ

💃 And India’s TikTok alternative is thriving — since the Chinese app is banned there. https://bloom.bg/3xrPFEw

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🇷🇺 The flagship Russian missile cruiser badly damaged off the coast of Ukraine is one of the most recognizable symbols of Ukrainian resistance since the war broke out. https://bloom.bg/3uGVzzS

👀 Russia threatens to deploy nuclear weapons in and around the Baltic Sea region if Finland and Sweden join NATO. https://bloom.bg/3vmmf8d

⚓ Clio, a $65-million superyacht tied to Oleg Deripaska, the Russian aluminum billionaire whose connections to Vladimir Putin have put him on sanctions lists, is on the move again after being anchored off the Maldives. https://bloom.bg/3Oe2w36

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💊 Twitter's board is considering adopting a so-called poison pill measure that would protect the company from Elon Musk's hostile bid to take it private, say sources. https://bloom.bg/3uKlg2z

😯 China’s central bank shocked markets and economists by leaving a key policy rate unchanged, when most expected a cut. https://bloom.bg/3vndURB

🇨🇳🦠 Despite its worst Covid surge yet, China’s curiously low death toll is out of step with what happened in other countries with similar outbreaks. Experts are skeptical. https://bloom.bg/3EdQMJc

🔒 China’s economy accelerated 4.8% in the first quarter beating estimates, but the figure doesn't fully reflect the damage from Covid lockdowns. https://bloom.bg/36ndJgx

😷 Meanwhile, Shanghai just reported three deaths — the first in its current outbreak — as skepticism grows over the country's official Covid death toll. https://bloom.bg/3JLpZoF

☁️ Beijing's tech crackdown led Alibaba to lose out on billions from its cloud business — an opportunity Amazon turned into a gold mine. https://bloom.bg/3EmOV4K

🌍 The World Bank warned of further downgrades to the growth outlook after cutting its 2022 forecast for economic expansion to 3.2%, down from 4.1%. https://bloom.bg/3vqMQRm

🎉 Blockchain.com is planning an IPO as soon as this year, sources say. The Coinbase rival said in March it was valued at about $14 billion in a funding round. https://bloom.bg/3xK5bLQ

🎨 Amateur detectives around the world are taking on art traffickers in a $10 billion black market. https://bloom.bg/36pkmin

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🇪🇺 The European Union is planning to establish a solidarity trust fund to finance the reconstruction of war-shattered Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3vuBY4R

🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Moscow has launched a new campaign focused on conquering the Donbas region of Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/36uDdJ2

🪖 President Vladimir Putin has given a special elite designation to an army unit that Ukraine accuses of committing war crimes in the town of Bucha. https://bloom.bg/3M9YIOg

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🦑 Netflix's stock tanked Tuesday after revealing its first decline in subscribers in over a decade. But Asia was a rare bright spot as the only region to report a gain — thanks to "Squid Game." https://bloom.bg/3xKGCid

💥 Ever notice North Korean propaganda is getting slicker? Kim Jong Un's Hollywood makeover is boosting the country's image with drones, graphics and even rocket-mounted cameras. https://bloom.bg/3OrgNt6

🐳 This is how a 30-year-old dubbed the "King of the Lunatics" became Bitcoin's most watched whale. https://bloom.bg/3MdtYfu

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🇷🇺 A small but growing number of senior Kremlin insiders are quietly questioning Vladimir Putin's decision to go to war. https://bloom.bg/385KmQm

🇺🇦 Ukrainian defenders at a sprawling steel plant in the key port city of Mariupol say they are outnumbered and are appealing to world leaders for help as they face what might be their last stand. https://bloom.bg/3EyER9e

🇫🇮 Finnish lawmakers begin NATO debate, debating how neighboring Russia’s attack on Ukraine will reflect on the Nordic country. https://bloom.bg/3OowjpP

🇨🇳 Xi Jinping says China will continue a commitment to open up its economy, but warns the world is still in the "shadow of a once-in-a-century pandemic." https://bloom.bg/3v139W9

📈 New Zealand inflation accelerates in the first quarter to the fastest pace in 32 years. https://bloom.bg/3MohWQD

💰Bill Ackman, one of Netflix's largest shareholders, ditches his stake after losing more than $430 million in less than three months. https://bloom.bg/3vAn4u8

Here's the latest on the war in Ukraine:

🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin says Russia has “liberated” Ukraine’s Mariupol, apart from the massive Azovstal steel plant, which he has ordered be blockaded. https://bloom.bg/3xN0voD

🇪🇺 The European Union is calling on citizens to play their part in breaking the continent’s dependence on Russian energy. https://bloom.bg/3rFWGOq

👀 Russia says it test fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a move President Vladimir Putin says will give the U.S. and its allies something to think about. https://bloom.bg/3Mfvi1k

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🛢️ The second wave of the Russian oil shock is starting, writes Javier Blas for Bloomberg Opinion. The Kremlin is doing its best to conceal the full impact of energy sanctions, but Moscow can’t hide from the satellite data. https://bloom.bg/3K6fsVx

💰 China urged some of the country’s biggest investors to buy more stocks, stepping up efforts to stem the market’s slide toward a two-year low. https://bloom.bg/3vzUSrg

🧐 And after weeks of questions over whether Elon Musk is truly serious about acquiring Twitter, his takeover bid got a lot more real. https://bloom.bg/3EDt9tL

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🇩🇪 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledges to continue shipping weaponry to Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3k0gyHJ

🇷🇺 A Russian general says Moscow aims to extend control over the entire south of Ukraine, including Black Sea ports critical to its export economy. https://bloom.bg/3jYoedz

🪦 New satellite images show apparent mass graves near Mariupol, where local officials accuse Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians to conceal the slaughter taking place in the ruined port city. https://bloom.bg/3rJamb4

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🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election on a pro-business, pro-EU platform, bolstering the bloc in the midst of its worst security crisis in decades. https://bloom.bg/3OwvOtV

📱 “You are throwing me under the bus.” New texts, which came to light as part of an ongoing lawsuit, reveal more about Elon Musk’s spat with a Saudi fund in 2018 and show how the billionaire does business. https://bloom.bg/3va9xKz

👀 And the iPhone 14’s debut is less than six months away. Here’s what to expect: https://bloom.bg/3rQoP5f

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🇺🇸 The U.S. announces additional military aid for Ukraine as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that Washington wants to see Russian forces ground down so they can’t attempt a repeat of the war. https://bloom.bg/38ki7gQ

❌ Neutral Switzerland has turned down German requests to approve the shipment of ammunition made in the country to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion. https://bloom.bg/38f6Z4Z

🌍 Global military expenditure surpasses $2 trillion per year for the first time, and looks set to rise further as European countries beef up their armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3EN25bO