Category: Flash News

On the evening of April 3rd local time, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Organization (Jihad) issued a statement stating that the organization had launched a rocket towards Israel that evening. The Israeli Defense Forces had previously stated that an alarm sounded in the Nahal Oz area near the Gaza border that evening, and the Israeli army subsequently intercepted the rockets. Israeli Defense Forces Arabic spokesperson Adraj subsequently issued evacuation warnings to residents in some areas of Gaza. Adraj stated that the rockets were launched from residential areas in Gaza, and the Israeli military will respond to this. To avoid civilian casualties, the Israeli military calls on residents in multiple areas including the old town of Gaza City, Sabra, and Terwaha to evacuate as soon as possible.

On April 4th, Citigroup reiterated its forecast for quarterly Brent crude oil prices, which are $68, $65, and $60, respectively. Under basic circumstances, the outlook for crude oil prices in the second quarter of 2025 remains unchanged at $68 per barrel. The sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, as well as the final tightening of oil supply through the purchase of Russian oil, offset the impact of commodity tariffs. A package of tariffs of only 10% could potentially reduce the expected global oil demand growth in 2025 from the current 900000 barrels per day to 600000 barrels per day, with further downside risks in the event of retaliation.

On April 4th, Slovak Foreign Minister Branal requested Spain to deploy air defense systems in Slovakia through a rotation mechanism until the country has independent air defense capabilities. Branal also thanks Spain for deploying troops in Slovakia as part of the alliance’s eastern front presence. After holding bilateral talks with Spanish Foreign Minister Alvarez in Brussels on the same day, Branal announced the news through social media. This meeting is taking place on the occasion of the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. Alvarez provided political support for this idea.

On April 4th, the US Department of Defense’s monitoring agency will launch an investigation into the “group chat leak” incident against Defense Secretary Hergeseth. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, revealed on the Atlantic website on March 24th that he received a connection request from a user with the same name as Waltz, the National Security Advisor to the President, on the “Signal” software on March 11th. Two days later, he was added to the “Houthi PC Group” group chat. On the 15th, a user in the group chat with the same name as US Defense Secretary Hegesi sent a message revealing the US military plan to launch an attack on the Houthi militants in Yemen in two hours, including details such as attack targets, attack sequence, and the weapons that the US will deploy.

On April 4th, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement strongly condemning Israel’s recent attacks on Syrian territory. The statement stated that the Israeli attack involved multiple areas in Syria, including the attack on the Hama military airport from the 2nd to the 3rd local time. The Iraqi government opposes Israel’s continued invasion of Syrian territory. The statement pointed out that the Israeli attack resulted in dozens of innocent civilians being killed or injured, highlighting Israel’s continued expansion and aggression intentions, constituting a blatant violation of international law, and damaging Syria’s national sovereignty. The statement reiterated that Iraq firmly supports the position of the Syrian people and urged the international community to fulfill its responsibilities, stop Israeli violations, protect civilians, respect the human rights of people of all countries, and enable them to live in security and peace.

On April 4th, the US Federal Court of Appeals suspended a lower court order from last week on April 3rd local time, which gave government officials and consumer rights advocates a significant victory in opposing the Trump administration’s attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). However, the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit have largely maintained the status quo, retaining the temporary agreement to prevent the government from firing employees or canceling contracts, and expressing their understanding that the agency will continue to fulfill its legally required functions. The ruling states that the suspension will give the appellate court time to consider the urgent request from the Department of Justice. The panel of three judges warned that this should not be interpreted as a sign of what decision they will ultimately make. Previously, a US federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the Trump administration from dissolving the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and preventing the agency from mass layoffs of employees. The lawyer from the Ministry of Justice stated that they intend to appeal the order.

On April 3rd, Zhengli New Energy announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that the company plans to issue approximately 122 million H-shares globally, 12.1524 million shares in Hong Kong, approximately 109 million shares internationally, and an additional 15% over allotment option; IPO from April 3rd to April 9th, 2025; The offering price is HKD 8.27 per share, with 300 shares traded per lot; The expected shares will start trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 14, 2025.

On April 3rd, it was learned from the University of Science and Technology of China that Professor Lu Junling’s team has collaborated with domestic peers to innovatively introduce cutting-edge molecular orbital theory into the design of single atom catalysts. The research team has successfully developed a single atom hydrogenation catalyst that combines high activity and stability, achieving experimental evidence and breakthrough applications of frontier molecular orbital theory in multiphase catalysis. The relevant results were published online in the international journal Nature.

On April 3rd, the Open Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (OpenAI) in the United States announced the launch of PaperBench on April 2nd local time – a benchmark for evaluating the ability of AI agents to reproduce cutting-edge AI research. The intelligent agent needs to reproduce 20 ICML 2024 Spotlight and Oral papers from scratch, including understanding the contributions of the papers, developing code libraries, and successfully executing experiments. It is reported that after testing multiple cutting-edge models on PaperBench, it was found that the best performing agent, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new version), combined with open-source frameworks, achieved an average reproduction score of 21.0%. In the end, it recruited top machine learning PhDs to try some of the test sets and found that the performance of the above models had not yet surpassed the human baseline.

① 09:45 China’s March Caixin Service PMI; ② 14: 30 Swiss March CPI monthly rate; ③ 15: 50 France’s March Service PMI Final Value; ④ 15: 50 France’s March Service PMI Final Value; ⑤ 15: 55 Germany’s March Service PMI Final Value; ⑥ 16: 00 Eurozone March Service PMI Final Value; ⑦ 16: The final PMI value of the service industry in the UK for March 30; ⑧ 17: Euro zone PPI monthly rate in February; ⑨ 19: The number of layoffs by challenger companies in March in the United States is 30 19: 30 European Central Bank releases minutes of March monetary policy meeting; ⑪ 20: Initial jobless claims and February trade account for the week ending March 29th in the United States 21:45 US March S&P Global Services PMI Final Value; ⑬ 22:00 US March ISM Non Manufacturing PMI; ⑭ 22:30 US EIA natural gas inventory for the week ending March 28; ⑮ At 00:30 the next day, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Jefferson delivered a speech.