The strike could further complicate Kyiv’s relations with President Donald Trump, which have soured again in recent days.

Infantino spoke at FIFA’s long-awaited executive board meeting in Zurich.

US Federal Reserve boss Kevin Warsh said on Friday that AI technology was the "most consequential change" to the global economy he had seen, predicting its effects would be positive but the path forward would be "bumpy". "I'd say the advent of this new technology is probably the most consequential change to the US and the global economy in my lifetime," he told an event at the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok. Warsh said he takes the macroeconomic implications of the technology – including a short-term driving of inflation through demand-side effects and an expected positive supply-side shock in the long term – "soberly, responsibly" in his role as head of the US central bank. He conceded that the AI investment boom would drive prices up in the short term, but "there really is, I think, a huge benefit to the global economy, to the US economy over the horizon". He said he expected the Fed to use AI to be able to better analyse data in its conduct of monetary policy, as an example of the positive effects. He also reiterated his previously stated belief that the technology would "make economies and countries that put it to good use more productive". He cautioned, however, that the path forward was still laced with uncertainty about how markets would evolve around the technology. "The path from where we are to there is likely to be a very bumpy one, bumpy in our understanding of the technology, bumpy because we really don't know what the market structure is going to be of these new technologies," he said. (AFP) Edited by Aaron Tam

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The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has campaigned for his country's national unity in Alberta, before the oil-rich province votes on whether it wants a binding independence referendum. Polling indicates less than a quarter of Alberta's roughly five million people want to break away from Canada, but Carney, who grew up in the western province, said "polls don't vote". "This referendum comes at the worst possible time," Carney told a rally in Calgary, Alberta's largest city. "This is not poker. A vote against Canada is a dangerous bluff that will lead to years of deep uncertainty and lost opportunities," he continued. "Vote like Canada depends on it. Because it does." Alberta's right-wing Premier Danielle Smith says she is against independence but called Monday's non-binding vote to settle a divisive issue. If a majority votes for independence, she has committed to launching a legally binding separation process. If a majority votes to stay, Smith says she will not approve another referendum. Mitch Sylvestre, who heads the Alberta Prosperity Project, a prominent separatist organisation, said his side might "actually win this referendum". "I would be very surprised if we got less than 40 percent," he said in an interview on Tuesday. Carney has put Alberta's oil industry at the centre of his plans to solidify Canada's economy and reduce dependence on the United States, warning close economic ties have been permanently fractured by President Donald Trump. Carney has backed a new pipeline and other projects to increase crude production, marking a clear break from his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, who was broadly reviled in Alberta over allegations he stifled oil industry growth in favour of environmental policies. Carney has repeatedly cited the proposed pipeline to argue for Alberta's future prosperity within a united Canada. (AFP) Edited by Aaron Tam