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A sign is seen outside of the inaugural physical store of Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc in Burlingame, California, May 4, 2022.Brittany Hosea-Small | ReutersCheck out the companies making headlines before the bell.Meta — The social media stock dropped 22.8% after Meta reported an earnings miss and a weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter forecast. Meta reported earnings of $1.64 per share on revenue of $27.71 billion. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting $1.89 per share on revenue of $27.38 billion. Concern over rising spending to build out the metaverse also hurt the stock. Ford — Shares dropped 1.7% after Ford reported a net loss…

CNN  —  An opposition leader in exile from Belarus has demanded that President Alexsandr Lukashenko be held to account for his regime’s complicity in the Ukraine war and for Russian soldiers to withdraw from Belarusian soil, after a CNN investigation revealed new evidence that the country provided medical assistance to injured Russian troops. Russia used Belarus as a staging ground for its invasion of Ukraine in February, deploying troops and weaponry to its territory. A CNN report published Wednesday found that Belarus’ authoritarian government also provided medical aid to Russian military personnel, who were secretly ferried to several civilian hospitals…

Prince Harry’s highly anticipated memoir will be entitled “Spare” and is set for a January 10 release, its publisher revealed on Thursday. The 416-page book will include Harry’s recollection of Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997, when the 12-year-old prince walked behind his mother’s coffin, Penguin Random House said in a press release. Its title appears to nod towards Harry’s perceived role within the royal family, from which he and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex stepped back as working royals in early 2020. Since then, the couple have relocated to the US, and worked to make themselves financially independent by…

Global fossil fuel emissions are expected to peak in 2025 as countries commit huge sums of money toward low-carbon fuels, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In its annual World Energy Outlook report, published Thursday, the agency said that Russia’s assault on Ukraine had the potential to “hasten” the global transition to clean energy sources. The IEA said it expects global investments in low-carbon energy to increase to $2 trillion a year until the end of the decade — up 50% from today’s spending. “Energy markets and policies have changed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, not…

The German government unveiled plans for the legalization of recreational cannabis for adults on Wednesday, though many details have yet to be worked out and must be squared with European Union law before legislation is put forward. Germany’s Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced plans to allow for controlled distribution and recreational use of cannabis among adults, which would make it one of the first European governments to do so, following the approval of the plan by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet. The planned legislation would allow adults to possess up to 30 grams of marijuana, as well as allow limited amounts…

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A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Tech stocks are taking a beating this week as they prove less resilient to the economic downturn than investors had hoped they would be. What’s Happening: Dreary earnings results from Google parent company Alphabet (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) weighed down markets on Wednesday, showing how this year’s $5.5 trillion selloff has not yet bottomed out. The tech-heavy Nasdaq ended the day down 2%.…

Russia’s foreign ministry has used an outdated photo online to claim that Ukraine is preparing a “dirty bomb”.The image posted on Twitter dates back to at least 2010 and was first posted by the Slovenian Radioactive Waste Agency (ARAO).Moscow claimed that the photo showed evidence that “two organisations [in] Ukraine have been directly ordered to create the so-called dirty bomb”.”The works are at their concluding stage,” the foreign ministry claimed on Twitter, quoting the defence ministry.Ukraine and its Western allies have denounced the allegations as “absurd” and “dangerous” and have suggested that Russia was instead preparing to escalate the war.On…

Uzbek workers of a waste processing plant in the western Russian city of Oryol, who were handed mobilisation notices and ordered to show up at the local conscription point, asked their president for help, a local news outlet reported. Moscow started the mobilisation campaign, its first since World War Two, last month as its military campaign in Ukraine stalled and Russian forces began to lose ground. Hundreds of thousands of men have since fled Russia to avoid being sent to the front lines. According to the Istoki video report, Oryol authorities sent out a fresh batch of mobilisation notices this…