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- YouTube Kids, which has been criticized for inadvertently recommending disturbing videos to children, said Wednesday it would introduce several ways for parents to limit what can be watched on the popular app. nyti.ms/2FjSSXM - ConocoPhillips won a ruling on Wednesday that says it is entitled to more than $2 billion from Venezuela's state oil company over the country's expropriation of several oil projects more than a decade ago. - A 15-month legal battle over U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to impose a ban on travel to the United States from several predominantly Muslim countries reached a final stage on Wednesday at the Supreme Court, with its five-member conservative majority signaling it was ready to approve a revised version of the president's plan. nyti.ms/2qSrL1R - As Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, prepares to testify before Congress on Thursday amid a series of spending and ethics investigations, an internal E.P.A. document indicates that he may blame his staff for many of the decisions that have put a cloud over his tenure at the agency. nyti.ms/2JrIIqA (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)Asian stocks were supported on Thursday by robust corporate earnings that helped Wall Street quell concerns about the surge in U.S. bond yields. However, sagging Chinese shares limited the upside potential of the market. Spreadbetters expected European stocks to open higher off the back of firm U.S. stocks, pointing to a rise in Britain’s FTSE of 0.1 percent, an increase in Germany’s DAX of 0.4 percent and in France’s CAC of 0.4 percent. The dollar hovered near 3-1/2-month highs against a basket of currencies, supported by the rise in U.S. long-term debt yields to a four-year peak. South Korea’s KOSPI climbed 1.3 percent, with tech shares buoyed by news of a record quarterly profit from Samsung Electronics. The region’s other gainers included Japan’s Nikkei, which rose 0.5 percent and Thai and Malaysian stocks. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.15 percent, as weaker Chinese stocks weighed on the market. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.9 percent and the blue-chip CSI300 index dropped 1.4 percent as tech shares came under pressure following news that U.S. prosecutors have been investigating if China’s Huawei violated U.S. sanctions on Iran.
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