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Asian markets were mostly up Wednesday as investors weighed bullish growth targets announced by China despite its sluggish economy and the looming prospect of a global trade war. "Investors don’t like tariffs, and they are deeply uncomfortable with President Trump's new world order, which is weighing on market sentiment," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB trading platform.

A US judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's request to prevent OpenAI from becoming a for-profit business in a loss for the Tesla tycoon amid his feud with Sam Altman.

The first commercial mission of Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 has been rescheduled for Thursday, French company Arianespace announced, after an "anomaly" forced a last-minute postponement. But minutes before Monday's blast off from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the company found an "anomaly" in one of the refuelling pipes.

Nigerian authorities have been told what to do after Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of sexual harassment.

A former Nigerian immigration boss, David Shikfu Parradang, has died in a hotel room in Abuja. The police waded into the strange death of Parradang.

President Donald Trump's tariffs and the retaliation they attracted will likely weigh on US growth and boost inflation, according to analysts, but, beyond that, uncertainty surrounding the levies threatens to overshadow optimism about his future policies.

Australia's plan to exempt YouTube from a world-leading teen social media ban is "illogical" and a "mockery", rival tech giants Meta and TikTok said Wednesday. While a host of countries from France to China have mooted similar measures, Australia's looming ban would be one of the strictest in the world.

Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 in the Champions League round of 16 first leg and could potentially meet Arsenal who beat PSV 7-1 in the other matchup.

An internet rights group on Tuesday raised alarm over reports the United States may steer billions of dollars to Elon Musk's Starlink by making changes to a rural broadband deployment program. Starlink is a unit of Musk's SpaceX company.
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