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Ukrainian drone strikes on a city in Russia's Tatarstan region, more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) from Ukraine, hit a residential building on Friday, Russian officials said, forcing cancellations of state holiday celebrations. Kyiv's army said it struck the major TANECO oil refinery in Tatarstan, as well as a factory producing synthetic rubber for use in ballistic missile production in Togliatti, on the Volga river in the Samara region. Ukraine has upped its strikes on Russia, which it says is fair retaliation for more than four years of Moscow's full-scale offensive, sending drones into Russia as far as the Urals. The mayor of Nizhnekamsk — an industrial city of some 240,000 people by the Kama river in the east of the republic of Tatarstan — said the city had been attacked. ‘A drone hit a residential building,’ Mayor Radmir Belyayev said on Telegram, adding that nobody had been killed but four people were wounded. More than 20 people had been placed in a temporary accommodation camp, he said. ‘For safety reasons, it has been decided to cancel all public events scheduled for today,’ Belyayev said. Russia celebrates Russia Day on Friday, marking the 1991 creation of the Russian Federation after the end of the USSR. The main festivities on Moscow's Red Square were also moved to an indoor location outside the city centre, Russian media outlet Msk1 reported. Around a dozen drones headed for the Russian capital were shot down on Friday, said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. This year, Kyiv has regularly hit Russian cities, often hundreds of miles from Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin admitting last week that Russia needed to improve its air defences. At least three civilians were killed in Russia and Ukraine overnight, both countries said. US-led talks to end more than four years of conflict have led nowhere in recent months, with Washington's attention diverted towards the Iran war. Moscow's full-scale offensive against Ukraine has turned into Europe's worst conflict since World War II, with thousands of civilians and at least tens of thousands of troops killed. ...
Shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX jumped as much as 30% on their trading debut yesterday after the biggest IPO in history, making the polarising entrepreneur the world's first trillionaire as he vowed to take humanity to Mars. The blockbuster initial public offering, which raised more than $75bn, is expected to kick off a series of major IPOs by AI companies in the coming months. The debut on the Nasdaq exchange in New York capped weeks of investor frenzy over the rocket company turned AI and satellite conglomerate. ‘SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the Moon, take you to Mars, and ultimately beyond,’ Musk said at a launch event in Starbase, Texas, surrounded by staff, many of whom became multi-millionaires with the launch of trading. ‘I'm confident at this point that with the incredible team that we have here at SpaceX, that we will do that for you,’ Musk added. About 100 people assembled outside the Nasdaq's home in New York, where SpaceX also marked the occasion with a neon sign in Times Square. Musk ‘sets very futuristic goals that no one else is doing, and I think that has got a lot of people excited,’ said Sarin Sio, of financial company Dovetail, who had come to the Nasdaq headquarters. The company priced more than 555mn shares at $135 each in a Thursday filing with the US markets regulator, valuing SpaceX at just under $1.8tn. In its first hours of trading on Wall Street, the price hit as much $175, up more than 30%. Friday's gain lifted SpaceX's market value to more than $2tn, placing it among the 10 most valuable American companies — ahead of Tesla, Facebook-owner Meta and Walmart. Options for nearly 83mn additional shares could push the total raised above $86bn. Co-founded by Musk in 2002, the rocket startup has since expanded into a major satellite operator and has also folded in Musk's artificial intelligence company — xAI — which includes the social media platform X. Trading under the ticker symbol ‘SPCX,’ the conglomerate is being closely watched for how Wall Street absorbs the offering and what it will mean for its AI rivals looking to trade on the public markets as early as this year. OpenAI and Anthropic both recently filed initial documents with regulators. The record IPO is nonetheless a testament to Musk's continued support among investors, with Bloomberg reporting that the offering was more than four times oversubscribed. Demand among retail investors — for whom 20 percent of shares were reserved — was also reported to be high. The IPO is expected to mint thousands of new millionaires and several billionaires, with former and current employees — and a long list of investors — from the company's near quarter-century history looking to cash in. While SpaceX is growing quickly — revenue hit $18.7bn in 2025 — it is also losing money, producing a net loss of $4.9bn, mainly on spending to build AI capacity. In an extraordinary prediction, SpaceX's filing claims it can pull in more than $28.5tn in revenue from its various markets. The milestone makes Musk by far the world's richest person — an achievement that earned criticism from some quarters. ‘The world will get its first trillionaire while Americans across the country are scraping together every dollar to save for retirement,’ said Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren. ...
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