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Getty ImagesParamount Skydance has officially taken over Warner Bros Discovery in a $110bn merger that is set to reshape Hollywood and the media landscape. The takeover – merging two of the biggest studios in Los Angeles – comes after months of legal disputes and widespread criticism over feared cuts and consolidation could harm competition and consumers. It will alter streaming for millions, usher in a new chapter in the film and TV industry, and leave one of the biggest US news outlets, CNN, in uncertain territory.The merger will also bring together a host of entities including HBO, CBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime,…
BBCThere are four weeks to go until the US midterm elections, when voters take part in a ballot that could have a major impact on the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency.What are the midterms?On 3 November, Americans will choose members of Congress, which is made up of two parts – the House of Representatives and the Senate.Elections take place every two years, and when they happen in the middle of the president’s four-year term of office, they are called the midterms.The outcome of the midterms will decide which political party – Trump’s Republicans or opposition Democrats – controls Congress and…
APAgents arrested August Hanning (pictured from 2015) at his home on TuesdayFormer German spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power, the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office says.Hanning headed the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005 and has since been working as a private consultant. Prosecutors allege that he used classified intelligence to “draft an analysis” for one foreign intelligence service and maintained contact with another foreign spying service. Investigators have not disclosed which foreign powers were involved. Police also arrested former BND employee Mandred D, accusing…
Watch: At the scene of protests on the streets of LilleThe demonstrators are calling for better government investment in high schools.13 mins agoEurope
LIVE’We want to be heard, not teargassed’: Students joined by parents and unions in mass French protestsStudents have blockaded hundreds of schools in the past week, with 215 students and 715 police officers injured, the government says.
Trump: US “had a threat” that led to withdrawal of bombers at RAF FairfordPresident Donald Trump has said the US moved its bombers out of RAF Fairford because of “some threats” to the base.The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers – thought to be about a dozen B-1s – from the base back to their home stations in America.Speaking to reporters as he departed for Nebraska on Monday, Trump said the US had known of a “threat”, which led them to move the bombers.US media reports suggested that the decision was made due to intelligence suggesting that…
ReutersOpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon faced a parliamentary hearing into AI in SydneyOpenAI has admitted its actions were “not good enough” after one of its rogue agents breached Australian government websites in June, saying it had added more precautions to its training environments.The company’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon faced a parliamentary hearing into AI on Tuesday in Sydney, saying the breach “should not have happened” and it “should have handled our response better”. It took weeks before Australia was notified via an email to a generic inbox.”We are sorry and we know we have work to do to…
BBCIn 2005, a young space engineer called Craig Clark moved back to his home city of Glasgow. He’d graduated from university just over a decade before, but the only jobs he could find were south of the border. Now Craig wanted to start a company of his own. He called it Clyde Space.I went to school not far from the River Clyde, where the city’s shipbuilding heritage was forged, and knew Glasgow had once been an industrial powerhouse. When I was a child, “Clyde-built” really meant something: craftsmanship and engineering excellence. There was a saying that I grew up with:…
AFPYemen’s government says it has launched an offensive aimed at retaking all territory held by the HouthisYemeni pro-government forces backed by Saudi Arabia say they have “secured” the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, at the start of a major offensive against the Iran-backed Houthi movement.The Yemeni military also said in a statement that National Shield, Giants Brigades and Tihama Resistance forces had captured the Red Sea city of Mokha on Monday afternoon with the help of Saudi air strikes. But in conflicting reports, unnamed Yemeni government and military sources told news agencies Reuters and…
Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has said he will stop using US taxpayer funds to pay for television ads he has fronted, following bipartisan pushback.”The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money,” he said Monday on social media.Trump said it is “a rather standard thing to do” but that he has decided to pay for the “Patriotic Ads” himself and with money he raised through his MAGA Inc super political action committee.The ads, which praise the president…