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Yum China, the operator of KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in China, delivered resilient performance in the third quarter despite the downward pressure on the economy and cautious consumer spending. The company's operating profit increased 77% year-over-year to $316 million and system sales grew by 5% year-over-year, outpacing the 2% national restaurant industry average for the same period.

Not wasting any time making major changes to the platform, which is, in turn, raising big concerns out of the midterms. with the social media giant laying off sizeable chunks of its staff on friday, many of whom fight misinformation. that is potentially hobbling the companys capabilities just three days before election day. must tweeted that there are no other choices but to cut jobs because the companys value is plummeting by $4 million a day. but he did say that twitters content moderation pol...

What will he think of next? no idea. for the latest on this moving story check out the bbc news website. some of the worlds biggest venues are using weapons scanners that cant detect some knives. the company making them says they can spot all weapons, but the bbc has seen documents showing that they may fail to spot some blades and parts of bombs. debbie evolves as it told venues of, "all capabilities and limitations close by. there needs to be — and limitations close by. there needs to be mor...

That wasjoe tidy, and now its time for a look at this weeks tech news. there has been a lot of speculation this week about what twitter look like under its new owner, elon musk. for one, he has suggested it will cost verified accounts $8 a month to keep their blue tick. what will he think of next? no idea — for the latest on this moving story, check out the bbc news website. some of the worlds biggest venues are using weapons scanners that cant detect some knives. the company making them says ...

Massive layoffs at twitter. the cuts primarily affect workers responsible for fighting misinformation, potentially hobbling twitters capabilities before the crucial midterms. nbcs jacob -- has more from san francisco. >> thousands of twitter employees are out of a job. after roughly half the staff received this message by email friday, today is your last working day at the company. elon musk saying in a tweet that he had no choice, all of this just seven this after he acquired the company and on...

What youve seen over the last six months, and weve discussed some of the weapons supply and logistics challenges that ukraine has presented to the united states, is the united states in any position to countenance possible confrontation with china, over taiwan, for example, and active confrontation with russia over ukraine? well, that will be a real challenge, because some of the weapons that are needed for ukraine would also be needed in the indo—pacific region. however, the vast majority of ...

Then youre going to see millions of ukrainians heading back into europe again during the winter. and thats exactly what putin and his associates in the kremlin want to see. thats right. which is why the west needs to accelerate the delivery of air and missile defence capabilities to help ukraine stop russia from what its doing. well get to future weapons supplies in a moment. butjust to think about the battlefield, and with your experience commanding the us army in europe, key officer in nato fo...

To the united states. the chinese, if you have to line them up anywhere in this conflict, they are sympathetic to vladimir putin. i think actually the chinese are very angry at vladimir putin right now. he woke up nato. he woke up the united states. hes got us all talking about improving, increasing production of weapons. the alliance, i think, is closer now than weve been in many years. and theres been an energising of our capabilities and intelligence capabilities. and europe is waking up, so ...

They were plain wrong about that. and then, of course, they pivoted and started sending significant arms supplies straight away. but isnt it possible, just as you overestimated russian strength in the run—up to the war, you perhaps now are underestimating putins determination to keep this fight going and do whatever it takes to win. its two different things. we did overestimate russian military. i, personally, grossly over—estimated russian military capabilities. i was so wrong about their a...

On the eastern flank of nato. so maybe intelligence isnt so great, and it can work both ways, both in overestimation, but now maybe an underestimation. sure. which is why you have to constantly revisit it and constantly challenge the assumptions — as ive reflected on, "how could i have been so wrong about russian capabilities? " you know, ifailed to fail to appreciate the depth of corruption and the effect the corruption would have on readiness and quality of parts, even though they had gone t...