AT&T seeks to buy Time Warner for nearly $86bn
US telecoms giant AT&T has announced that it will buy entertainment group Time Warner for nearly $86bn (£70bn).
The deal - one of the biggest this year - still needs approval from regulators.
If the takeover goes through, it would combine AT&T's distribution network with content from the Warner Brothers film studios and the cable TV channels HBO and CNN.
AT&T's chairman described it as "a perfect match" but critics say it concentrates too much media power.
The deal is likely to be closely scrutinised by US antitrust regulators. AT&T is already the third largest cable TV provider in the US.
Randall Stephenson, who is both chairman and CEO of AT&T, said he did not anticipate any regulatory obstacles, saying any concerns could be overcome if concessions were made.
Fear stalks final hours of Calais camp but its children still smile
As the toxic symbol of Europe’s migrant crisis is demolished, the personal tragedies continue for the thousands involved
Some refugees have already left. But not to go where they wanted: not across the Channel to Britain, which they believed would offer sanctuary. Instead, they have headed along the French coast, others south towards Paris and some down towards Italy.
As dawn breaks over northern France on Monday, demolition will begin at the sprawling camp on the outskirts of Calais, home to up to 10,000 refugees, including an estimated 1,300 lone children. Sixty buses are scheduled to arrive to take away 3,000 people, scattering them to accommodation centres throughout France. The exercise is expected to be repeated on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It is the endgame for a site that has increasingly become the toxic symbol of Europe’s migrant crisis and the subject of rancorous debate among French politicians and the British media.
Venezuela opposition rallies after referendum bid rejected
Women were at the forefront of a rally in Caracas to protest the decision to prevent a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro. Protests are expected to continue in the National Assembly and on the streets.
Lilian Tintori and Patricia Gutierrez, both wives of jailed political leaders and advocates of hard-line tactics against the government, led a rally of thousands in the Venezuelan capital on Saturday, blocking the city's main thoroughfare.
Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, has called for civil disobedience in Venezuela as, she claims, there are no democratic options left. Former congresswoman Maria Corina Machado and Patricia de Ceballos, opposition mayor of San Cristobal, also took part.
On the Ground in MosulA Precarious Alliance Takes on Islamic State
The battle for Mosul, a key city for Islamic State, has begun. On one side, a fragile alliance with conflicting political goals, and on the other, a ruthless enemy who might go to extreme lengths to defend the Iraqi metropolis -- incluing chemical weapons.
By Christoph Reuter
A thundercloud, heavy and dark gray. That is what it looks like from a distance. But the closer you get to Mosul from the south, the bigger and darker this cloud becomes. Instead of floating in the sky, it grows out of the ground, ultimately becoming a towering, opaque wall that swallowing entire villages, making them disappear into the darkness.
Driving to Mosul is a drive into the apocalypse. Or at least that's what it feels like, with the gigantic clouds of smoke coming from burning oil wells, reservoirs and ditches -- laid out by Islamic State over the last two years and now set alight one after the other. Although it would normally be a sunny midday in fall, the military jeeps coming from the other direction have their lights on.
Here's what crippled the internet
An unprecedented and alarming attack on the internet's core infrastructure shutdown much of the web Friday in another sign of the growing sophistication of malicious cyberattacks.
Twitter wasn't working and neither was Netflix. Spotify was down, too. And anyone visiting Amazon, PayPal, or Reddit probably encountered trouble on the web.
For much of the day Friday, the internet's core infrastructure was under a massive attack, shutting off access to many sites and slowing down the internet for much of the East Coast.
The disruptions were caused by a series of cyberattacks on Dyn, a provider of internet performance services to many of the biggest tech companies. Starting early Friday, Dyn experienced multiple distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks in which adversaries overload a victim's network with traffic directed from a large number of malware-infected devices.
All hail Xi, China’s third ‘core’ leader
Chinese president to be put on a par with former paramount leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping whose authority must not be challenged
OCTOBER 23, 2016 11:09 AM (UTC+8)
President Xi Jinping is likely to be formally endorsed as the “core” leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the four-day 6th Plenum of the party’s decision-making Central Committee starting on Monday.
This will put him on a par with former paramount leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping whose authority is firmly established and must not be questioned let alone challenged.
Xi’s endorsement is in keeping with the agenda of the 6th Plenum which includes deliberation and endorsement of a code of political conduct to rein in party members especially high-ranking officials. One party rule that is likely to be written into the code is the stipulation banning party cadres from wantonly making inappropriate comments on policies set by the power center.
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