The US Justice Department has closed an antitrust probe into Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., saying the deal “is not likely” to hurt consumers or competition in the film and television industry.

The US Justice Department has closed an antitrust probe into Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., saying the deal “is not likely” to hurt consumers or competition in the film and television industry.

Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is being reviewed under the European Union’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation, with regulators probing involvement of Middle Eastern funds helping to bankroll the takeover.

Britain’s merger watchdog has opened a probe into Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Paramount Skydance Corp. is prepared — if necessary — to divest some children’s TV network assets to help win European Union approval of its $110 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

The deal with 279 former students is the latest in the long-running case at the university. In all, nearly 600 people who said they were abused by an athletic department doctor have settled.

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Sky News Arabia to retain name in brand licensing deal after criticism of its coverage of atrocities in Sudan

Sky is exiting its TV news joint venture with the United Arab Emirates, Sky News Arabia, which has been criticised for its coverage of the war in Sudan, with accusations of genocide denial.

Sky and its partner IMI – the investment vehicle controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the vice-president of the UAE and owner of Manchester City – have announced a new commercial deal in which the UK-based broadcaster will relinquish all strategic and operational ownership of the 24-hour Arabic language news and current affairs service.

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Paramount Skydance Corp. stretched, then stretched, then stretched again in its audacious $110 billion takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

It began as a concession in private conversations to assuage wary credit analysts looking at Paramount Skydance Corp.’s blockbuster takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.: a verbal pledge by the Ellison family to do whatever it takes to slash debt at the combined company.

For nearly two decades, the prolific puzzle maker, a retired urologist, charmed solvers with his penchant for witty, waggish puns.

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Serbia, the Kremlin’s closest Balkan friend, is warming its ties with another would-be EU member, Ukraine – despite the two states’ very different relations with Moscow.

Serbia, the Kremlin’s closest Balkan friend, is warming its ties with another would-be EU member, Ukraine – despite the two states’ very different relations with Moscow.

Veteran broadcaster accuses channel of ‘clear violations’ of Ofcom’s due impartiality rules

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The former Sky News political editor Adam Boulton has said GB News should lose its broadcasting licence as he accused Britain’s media regulator of failing in its duty to protect impartial television news.

Boulton, who was Sky News’s political editor for 25 years after the channel launched in 1989, said he believed it was too late to revoke GB News’s broadcasting rights, despite bringing a partisan brand of coverage to British television since its debut in 2021.

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Brussels has already gone cold on a scheme to allow some aspirant countries like Albania and Serbia second-tier membership – but that doesn’t mean that other creative approaches to European enlargement are off the table.

Brussels has already gone cold on a scheme to allow some aspirant countries like Albania and Serbia second-tier membership – but that doesn’t mean that other creative approaches to European enlargement are off the table.

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

At a ceremony at the French national assembly attended by Nobel prize winners, former government ministers, MPs, decorated scientists and academics, all attention was on a previously unknown literature professor.

Florent Montaclair, then 46, a balding, bespectacled figure in an ill-fitting suit and rosé-coloured shirt, was receiving the 2016 Gold Medal of Philology - the study of linguistics – from an international society of the same name.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve a $110 billion takeover by Paramount Skydance Corp. But this is not a done deal yet. Chris Palmeri reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Es ist einer der größten Mediendeals: Ende Juni 2025 hatte RTL die Übernahme von Sky angekündigt. Jetzt endlich geben die Wettbewerbsbehörden grünes Licht. Die Hoffnungen sind groß.

The proposal reflects a global reality in which governments appeal to President Trump’s vanity to get American might on their side.

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Kirsten Vangsness, actress and writer, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets." More than 3,000 Hollywood actors, directors and screenwriters have penned a letter opposing the $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance Corp., citing concerns about job losses and higher costs with fewer choices for consumers. (Source: Bloomberg)