To Consider:

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic

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  1. The Geneva-based institution says American tariffs will send international trade into reverse.
  2. The chip manufacturing giant will require licences to export its H20 AI chip to China.
  3. Inflation falls in the year to March as the price of petrol drops.
  4. Economic uncertainty globally and in the UK means there are conflicting forces at play with prices.
  5. Downdetector, which tracks platforms, shows more than 20,000 people have reported Spotify is not working.
  6. Helsinki wants to become a top European start-up hub, but can it challenge London and Stockholm?
  7. The UK accounting regulator says it will look at whether EY met accounting standards.
  8. The shift comes as Beijing refuses to back down in an escalating trade war with Washington.
  9. British exports have been hit with tariffs by US despite having no trade deficit, but the UK may have some leverage.
  10. Stock is piling up in warehouses as exporters grapple with new levies that total up to 145%, reports the BBC's China correspondent Laura Bicker.