WSJ News Exclusive | Activision Blizzard to Pay More Than $50 Million to Settle Lawsuit That Spurred Microsoft’s Takeover

[ad_1] Updated Dec. 15, 2023 10:35 pm ET Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay more than $50 million to settle a high-profile lawsuit by a California regulator that helped spur Microsoft’s…

South Africa’s ‘Too White’ Farms May Lose EU, UK Access

[ad_1] South African farms deemed “too white” will no longer be able to export their produce to the UK and the EU, according to postings in the Government Gazette, the…

Firms in EU face sanctions over harmful impact of business partners

[ad_1] Firms operating in the EU will in future be held accountable for the environmental damage and human rights abuses caused by their suppliers and business partners, under a newly…

House Condemns Campus Antisemitism Testimony of Penn, Harvard, MIT Presidents  

[ad_1] Updated Dec. 13, 2023 9:51 pm ET The House voted Wednesday to condemn the testimony of the three university presidents whose comments on campus antisemitism last week sparked calls…

Bill Ackman’s Clash With Harvard Over Stock Gift Reveals the Messy World of Big Donations

[ad_1] Prestigious universities are learning the costs of the big gifts they receive from prominent donors.  The strings that fund managers Bill Ackman and Ross Stevens attached to sizable donations…

Hong Kong’s reopening brings scant gains after pandemic and crackdown

[ad_1] Six months after Hong Kong reopened to the world, the city still faces a steep climb to reclaim its place as Asia’s premier finance and tourism hub. Led by…

EU awards Sakharov prize to ‘brave and defiant’ Mahsa Amini

[ad_1] The EU said Amini’s death triggered a women-led movement in Iran, and representatives of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran were in Strasbourg, France, to attend the solemn…

Riots in France Expose Decades of Failure in Tinderbox Suburbs

[ad_1] As fierce clashes burst out last week in France’s worst riots in nearly two decades, protesters set buses on fire and charred the facade of a swimming pool being…

At COP28, 12,000 surveillance cameras are causing privacy concerns

[ad_1] The UAE has one of the highest concentrations of surveillance cameras on Earth. Some of those at COP are linked to an Emirati group accused of spying. ADVERTISEMENT At…

FDIC Hires Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb to Handle Workplace Culture Review

[ad_1] A special committee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it had hired the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to conduct a review into the workplace…