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By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -Expedia Group Inc on Thursday beat Wall street estimates for first-quarter revenue on record lodging bookings and increased international travel demand. Shares of the company rose 4.3% in trading after the bell. “The first quarter saw strong travel demand driven by increasing international travel, major city travel, and the reopening in Asia,” Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern said in a statement. Total gross bookings […]

By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -Expedia Group Inc on Thursday beat Wall street estimates for first-quarter revenue on record lodging bookings and increased international travel demand. Shares of the company rose 4.3% in trading after the bell. “The first quarter saw strong travel demand driven by increasing international travel, major city travel, and the reopening in Asia,” Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern said in a statement. Total gross bookings […]

Pakistan Rejects US Commission Report on Religious Freedom Prime minister’s aide tells The Media Line that Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are not being misused against minority groups By Arshad Mehmood / The Media Line [Islamabad] Minorities in Pakistan enjoy equal human rights to other citizens and “there is no misuse of the blasphemy laws against them,” Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, a religious cleric and the Pakistani prime minister’s special representative on interfaith […]

Theodor Herzl: The Solution to Israel’s Modern Problems?  Writer, thinker, and Herzl admirer Gol Kalev believes the Zionist leader’s ideology and strategies are still relevant to current issues  By Felice Friedson and Crystal Jones / The Media Line  Israeli journalist and Theodor Herzl enthusiast Gol Kalev introduced a think tank and book centered around Herzl’s ideas on Sunday evening at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Israel’s capital. The event, […]

By Akash Sriram (Reuters) – Lyft Inc’s first-quarter revenue and core profit topped estimates on Thursday, benefiting from a strong ride-share demand and its move to cut prices to match larger rival Uber, but it forecast second quarter below expectations. The results follow job cuts by Lyft, which is trying to turn around its business under new CEO David Risher who took charge last month. Risher said Lyft should be […]

By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing (Reuters) – Hacker sabotage has disrupted several public services in Dallas, closing courts and knocking emergency services websites offline, officials said on Thursday. Courts were closed Wednesday and will remain closed Thursday, the City of Dallas said in a series of statements posted to the web. Although the statements said emergency services to residents were unaffected, the home pages of the police and fire […]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – JBS USA, one of biggest U.S. meatpackers, is creating an internal company to clean some of its processing plants after a private sanitation firm it employed was accused of hiring children for dangerous work. The launch shows the complexities involved in replacing Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI), a firm that contracts to clean slaughterhouses. The U.S. government in February said PSSI paid $1.5 million in penalties for […]

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The group representing Hollywood studios fired back on Thursday at claims from striking film and television workers that they have been forced into the “gig economy” because of changes brought by the streaming TV era. Roughly 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike on Tuesday, saying that studios had “created a gig economy inside a union workforce.” The […]

By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden attended a White House meeting with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally. Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public’s fancy, sparking a rush among companies […]