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Ritchie, a renowned filmmaker, whose reported net worth amounts to more than £100 million ($137.3 million), has used the state-run Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to pay 19 workers of his Fatboy Pub Company, the Sun on Sunday reported, citing government documents it obtained. The filmmaker’s firm which was on the …

The corporation also pledged to close its Los Angeles and Montreal-based studio offices, saying that most of the Stadia Games and Entertainment team working at them will be “moving on to new roles.” The move shows that Google is giving up hope of competing with gaming mainstays like Sony, Microsoft …

The fatal shooting happened near the town of Laytonsville in Montgomery County on Saturday morning, according to a police account of the events. The man that ended up being killed was driving erratically on the road to Olney, running one car off the road and into a telephone pole, and …

Biden’s stance puts him at odds with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said before the US president’s comments aired that the US must lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to “return to its commitments.” “It must lift all sanctions in practice, then we will do verification … then …

“To make our country one of the 10 biggest economies in the world, we’ve turned towards bigger investments in bigger projects,” the president said in his video message during the opening ceremony for a bridge in the eastern Malatya province. He also said that Turkey is realizing more than half …

J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t partial to Federal Dick The FBI was the first agency to lay the smack down on movies. In the 1930s, J. Edgar Hoover insisted on total control of the FBI’s public image and monitored the development of all movie projects about the Bureau. In February 1935, …

The vaccines against Covid-19 are a “fantastic invention” and the world “should be accessing it in an equal way,” David Nabarro, who serves as one of the World Health Organization’s six special envoys tackling the pandemic, said on Sunday in an interview with Sky News’ Sophy Ridge. As a rich …

The incident, which reportedly happened in the border town of Myawaddy on Sunday, shows the fragility of the situation. The mass protests – the largest Myanmar has seen since the 2007 crisis – have so far been largely peaceful, but the country remains in a volatile state since the start …

Asked during an interview with Sky News on Sunday whether the government is looking at the possibility of creating a vaccine passport, as has been speculated, Zahawi said, “No we are not.”  The minister explained that those who receive their first dose of the vaccine get “a card from the …

“Canceling that debt is unthinkable. It would be a violation of the European treaty which strictly forbids monetary financing of states,” the ECB chief said in an interview with France’s Le Journal du Dimanche weekly. The claim comes shortly after the pool of more than 100 economists for the regulator …