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Ariana Rosas

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Ariana is a producer for “Marketplace Morning Report.”

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  • COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - APRIL 24: Riot police officers gather behind the barricade while university students protest amid the country's ongoing economic and political crisis on April 24, 2022 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  Street protests have increased island-wide with pressure building for Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government to resign. One protester was shot and killed by police on Tuesday in Rambukkana, during a demonstration against the shortage of fuel.  (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
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    The war in Ukraine is worsening debt risk in developing countries. Rising commodity prices, higher borrowing rates, and other factors are making the economic situation harder for countries like Sri Lanka. Many of the countries facing these challenges were previously considered risky, but the war is exacerbating poor conditions and may push some past the tipping point. Elon Musk and Twitter are reportedly in talks for the social media platform to be acquired by the SpaceX and Tesla billionaire. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues convenes in New York City for a week of discussion on issues like indigenous rights related to business and the economy.

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  • Supporters of the re-elected French President Emmanuel Macron at the Eifel Tower in Paris.
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    From the BBC World Service: EU leaders breathed a sigh of relief as France’s centrist incumbent, Emmanuel Macron, warded off the challenge of far-right challenger Marine Le Pen to be re-elected as French president. Also today, panic-buying in Beijing over fears of a fresh lockdown, and English soccer is set to get a new regulator.

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  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 21: An advertisement for CNN+ is displayed in Manhattan on April 21, 2022 in New York City.  Only three weeks after its launch, CNN has announced that it's new streaming service is already planning to shut down. CNN+ had attracted well known names in media and entertainment to its line-up, which looked to compete with other streaming services and to appeal to a younger audience.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    The vehicle that was supposed to usher CNN into the streaming era appears to have been stopped in its tracks. Less than a month after launch, CNN+ is being shut down. We discuss some of the factors that led to this point. Christopher Low talks mortgage rates during our markets discussion. Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak clues us in on life in Shanghai, which has been in COVID lockdown for weeks. It’s National Parks Week, and many parks are still using early pandemic reservation systems. Is it going to stay that way?

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  • View of residential units during a COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on April 21, 2022.
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    COVID cases still number about 18,000 per day, and many people have had to make sacrifices.

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  • MYKOLAIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 21: A view of a Mykolaiv Regional Council building which was destroyed as a result of a shellfire on April 21, 2022 in Mykolaiv area Ukraine. Mykolaiv, a port city near where the Southern Bug river flows into the Black Sea, has been a target of Russian attacks throughout its current invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian forces here repelled an initial advance from Russian-held territory nearby, but the city has experienced frequent shelling and air strikes even as Russia shifts the focus of its war to the eastern Donbas region. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)

    President Biden recently announced an additional $800 million in assistance to Ukraine. However, there’s been a noticeable change in the kind of military aid the U.S. is sending, and that change could hint at the U.S. outlook on how the war is going. To help us break down the U.S. aid package, we spoke to Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Florida lawmakers have approved a bill to strip Disney of special tax privileges through self-government of its land in Orlando.

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  • A community volunteer (C) wearing personal protective equipment gestures as residents line up during a test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in a compound during a Covid-19 lockdown in Pudong district in Shanghai on April 19, 2022. - China OUT (Photo by LIU JIN / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by LIU JIN/AFP via Getty Images)

    From the BBC World Service: China’s government introduces even tougher COVID lockdown restrictions, including alarms on people’s doors. France has issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of the Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi car alliance. After being charged with financial wrongdoing in Japan in 2018, Ghosn fled to Lebanon and has been there ever since. And, we meet a 100-year-old man in Brazil who’s worked for the same company for 84 years.

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  • A construction laborer works on the site of a new residential building in the Hudson Yards development in 2016 in New York City.
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    There’s been a surge of multi-unit construction going on, and we look into the reasons for it. Among them – as people moved out of cities during the thick of the pandemic era, they headed to the suburbs. That triggered higher rents and the kind of motivation to build more apartments and condos. Diane Swonk stops by to offer insight on how the inflation-fighting tactics in the U.S. could have ripple effects throughout the rest of the world. Speaking of rising prices, another issue appears from above: avian flu, which is driving up the cost of eggs.

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  • The cap of a former student of Jefferson County Public Schools can be seen as they clap within their row during a makeup graduation ceremony at Central High School on May 28, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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    May 1 is National College Decision Day, but as that day approaches, there’s data that shows a drop in college enrollment during the pandemic. The freshman enrollment rate last fall was 9.2% lower than prior to the pandemic in the fall of 2019, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. This is causing many counselor to rethink how the approach broaching the subject of the future with students. For more, we spoke to Steve Schneider, a school counselor at Sheboygan South High School in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s ruling that voided the nationwide transportation mask mandate.

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  • Podium lectern with two microphones and French flag in background

    From the BBC World Service: The final two candidates for France’s presidency – incumbent centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen – went head-to-head in a live TV debate last night. They clashed over issues ranging from France’s place in Europe to Le Pen’s alleged proximity to Russian President Vladimir Putin. China’s president, Xi Jinping, has restated Beijing’s opposition to sanctions imposed by western countries on Russia. And a global survey has found that, in general, women are wearing less makeup to the office.

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  • Biden offers a financial power-up to nuclear plants
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    A recent report from an advocacy group has detailed the perils of gig worker life in the United States – more than 50 drivers have been killed on the job in the last five years. The Biden administration is extending a financial lifeline to nuclear power plants in danger of closing before their licenses expire. Susan Schmidt of Aviva Investors talks about the rising confidence of investors reflected in the market, even in the face of rising prices.

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