内容摘要：The Bank of England has lowered its main rate from a 16-year high of 5.25% by a quarter of a percentage on three occasions since last August, most recently in February,

The Bank of England has lowered its main rate from a 16-year high of 5.25% by a quarter of a percentage on three occasions since last August, most recently in February,

Months later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governmentand imposed sweeping security measures. Since then, India has kept order in the region with a huge security presence and drastically curbed dissent, civil liberties and media freedoms.

India and Pakistan have built up their armies and nuclear arsenals over the years. India was the first to conduct a nuclear test in 1974, followed by another in 1998. Pakistan followed with its own nuclear tests just a few weeks later. The sides have since armed themselves with hundreds of nuclear warheads, missile delivery systems, advanced fighter jets and modern weapons to take on each other.“Wicked” landing on Peacock for home sing-alongs and Ellen Pompeosince stepping back from ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases are some of the new television, films, music and games

Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’and her fiancé, producer and songwriter Benny Blanco, will release a joint album, Dennis Quaid stars in Paramount+’s true-crime series “Happy Face” about a serial killer and Assassin’s Creed Shadows brings Ubisoft’s globetrotting, time-hopping gaming epic to feudal Japan.

— There’s plenty of Oscar winners and contenders coming to streaming services now that the show is over, starting with

debuting on Hulu on Monday. Filmmaker Sean Baker’s odyssey of a Brooklyn sex worker, whose whirlwind affair with the wild son of a Russian oligarch goes very wrong also won best director, best editing and best actress forand was considered a curious choice when made in 2023. HBO is widely considered a gold standard for quality while Max was a reference to the less well-regarded Cinemax network.

Two years later, the company is reviving the HBO Max name, which was used by Warner before the merger. While the company didn’t acknowledge a mistake, the move was loudly applauded Wednesday when announced at a presentation to advertisers.“The powerful growth we have seen in our global streaming service is built around the quality of our programming,” said David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. “Today, we are bringing back HBO, the brand that represents the highest quality in media, to further accelerate that growth in the years ahead.”

Now, HBO executive Casey Bloys told advertisers, he has a desk drawer full of old stationery that he can use again.There are no shortages of challengers to the reigning WNBA champion New York Liberty or star power across the league.