Month: March 2021

Minneapolis City Council will pay George Floyd’s family $27m (£19.4m) to settle a civil lawsuit over his killing in police custody. The settlement includes $500,000 for the neighbourhood where Mr Floyd was arrested, the council said. Mr Floyd’s family filed the federal civil rights lawsuit against the city last July, alongside ones against police officer
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Andrew Cuomo has criticised “reckless and dangerous” politicians for calling for him to step down as he told New Yorkers on Friday: “I’m not going to resign.” New York’s governor has said he wants people to “wait for the facts” regarding the sexual harassment allegations against him, adding that he doesn’t want to speculate on
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The owner of All Bar One is facing a shareholder revolt over plans to bolster the guaranteed pay awards of its top executives amid a broader firestorm over corporate governance at the company. Sky News understands that several major institutional investors are planning to oppose Mitchells & Butlers’ (M&B) remuneration policy because it plans to
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ, is warning businesses to urgently update their Microsoft email servers following a state-sponsored espionage campaign. Microsoft has warned that multiple groups are taking advantage of a global and indiscriminate hack of its clients’ on-premise email servers, attributing the attack to state-sponsored group based in China,
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Elon Musk’s plans to send humans to Mars are a “dangerous delusion”, according to Britain’s chief astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees. Lord Rees, who has been the astronomer royal since 1995, dismissed the publicity-friendly billionaire’s plans at a World Government Summit panel in Dubai. He spoke alongside the American astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson,
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China’s “vaccine favouritism” could be damaging public health efforts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading expert has told Sky News. China has pledged to donate coronavirus vaccines to 53 countries and export them to 27 more, according to state media, which has celebrated the deliveries. But critics have accused the country of engaging in vaccine
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