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Meta announced a 27 percent jump in Q1 revenues but still saw shares tank after hours, amid fears over the social media giant's increased capital expenditure on AI infrastructure. Also in this edition: British mining giant BHP makes a $39 billion bid for its rival Anglo American, and Boeing's losses deepen.

Under intense pressure since part of the fuselage on its 737 MAX plane blew out mid-flight back in January, Boeing has reported its first-quarter results, with revenue falling to $16.5 billion and a cash burn of nearly $4 billion. Yet the figures were still better than feared. The planemaker's board has yet to name a successor to CEO Dave Calhoun, who announced his resignation last month. Plus, the EU launches a probe into China's medical device market, drawing a sharp response from Beijing. 

On Tuesday, the US Senate approved a measure that would force the owner of social media app TikTok to either sell the US unit of the company or face a ban. The Chinese-owned group stands to lose a lot if it leaves the US market and is already planning to fight the bill in the courts, arguing it goes against users' free speech rights. Also in this edition, FRANCE 24's Bryan Quinn looks at Tesla's falling revenues and profits amid competition from cheaper rivals.

A war of words is escalating between the Australian government and the owner of X, with PM Anthony Albanese calling Elon Musk an "arrogant billionaire who thinks he's above the law" in response to Musk's social media comments accusing the Australian government of censorship. The spat stems from X's reluctance to comply with an order from the country's internet regulator to take down footage of last week's alleged terrorist attack in Sydney at a church. We take a closer look.

As India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi claims on the campaign trail that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made the country into a "centre of unemployment", we look at the situation that young Indians face on the job market. Also in this edition, the US will see its first high-speed rail line in 2028, when commuters will be able to travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in just over two hours.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in Iraq this Monday on his first official visit in over a decade. Erdogan signed a raft of deals in a bid to reset rocky relations. High on the agenda was the water issue, stemming from Turkey's construction of dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that has reduced water supply downstream to Iraq. We take a closer look.