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Hello, on a day when many financial markets are closed, there is still a lot of news coming from Israel and China.

Plus, we bring you a Reuters Special Report on how Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customers' car cameras.

By Edson Caldas

Today's Top News

Smoke and flames rise during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Bashar Talib

Israel reinforced troops near its borders with Lebanon and Gaza following a flare-up in violence that threatened to spiral out of control after police raids this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Early on Friday, Israel's military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza, in response to rocket attacks it blamed on the Islamist group Hamas.
China has imposed further sanctions on Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan's de facto ambassador to the United States, following Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Meanwhile, President Xi Jinping has given his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron an unusually lavish welcome, which some analysts see as a sign of Beijing's offensive to woo allies to counter the United States.
Russian forces have very likely seized the center of the fiercely contested Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and are threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian forces to the west, British intelligence said. Here is why Russia and Ukraine are battling so hard for that city. And these are the latest developments in the war.
US President Joe Biden's administration released a summary of reports that mostly blamed the chaotic 2021 pullout from Afghanistan on his predecessor, Donald Trump. In more news from the US, Trump's prosecution has evenly divided Americans, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement, 25 years on

On April 10 it will be 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement which largely ended three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland, known locally as the "Troubles". Belfast is a very different place now. Today's Reuters World News podcast takes us for a walk through its streets.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has warned of the potential for public disorder by dissident republicans over the Easter weekend, days before a visit by Biden, the BBC reported. The PSNI has made temporary changes to work shifts to put more officers onto frontline duties.

Business & Markets

Samsung announced it would make a "meaningful" cut to chip production, following the lead of smaller rivals, as it grapples with a downturn in semiconductor demand that has sent prices plummeting. The output cut by the world's biggest memory chipmaker came after it flagged a worse-than-expected 96% plunge in first-quarter profit.
The bankruptcy filing by Virgin Orbit has dealt a blow to Japan's hopes of building a domestic space industry, with plans for a Kyushu-based spaceport on hold for lack of funding. Virgin Orbit had marketed itself as a military and intelligence satellite launch platform for the US and its allies, at a time when both Washington and Tokyo see China's rise as a space power as a concern.
The US economy likely continued to churn out jobs at a brisk clip in March even though the labor market is losing its luster as Federal Reserve interest rate hikes dampen demand. The Labor Department's closely watched employment report will be published at 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT).

The Week Ahead

Policymakers and investors head to Washington for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring meetings starting on Monday.
After a decade in charge of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda passes the baton to Kazuo Ueda also on Monday.
US President Joe Biden visits Ireland and Northern Ireland from April 11 to 14 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord.
US inflation data is released on April 12.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visits China from April 13 to 15, continuing a flurry of trips to Beijing by senior European officials.
Climate change and energy ministers from G7 countries meet from April 15 to 16 in Sapporo, Japan.

Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy "is and will always be enormously important to us." The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy." But this Reuters Special Report shows that between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras, according to interviews with nine former employees.

And Finally...

Ukrainian dolphin trainer Sonia Chezghanova interacts with two dolphins at the Constanta Dolphinarium, Romania, April 4, 2023. REUTERS/Olimpiu Gheorghiu

At the dolphinarium in the Black Sea port city of Constanta, Romanian and Ukrainian trainers are letting dolphins guide them despite language barriers. Last year, the dolphinarium took in four dolphins and three sea lions alongside their trainers and doctors fleeing the shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Read more here: Ukrainian dolphins find new home in Romanian aquarium

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