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Paramount and Warner Bros merge complete: Skydance

Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion US takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, further concentrating power in an industry already run by just a handful of major players.

Paramount and Warner Bros merge complete: Skydance

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AfD struggles to form government in Germany despite landmark election victory

Founded in 2013 as a eurosceptic movement, the AfD won over voters with an increasingly hardline opposition to immigration after around a million people fled to Germany in 2015.

  • AfD secured most votes in Saxony-Anhalt election but lacked majority for government.
  • Firewall policy prevented cooperation between mainstream parties and AfD.
  • AfD leader Ulrich Siegmund became first AfD member to hold state parliament presidency.

Islamist group campaigns against Christian West Bank school over hijab restriction on deaf student

The Popular Movement to Overturn CEDAW claimed that the Ephpheta Paul VI Institute prevented a student from attending classes while wearing an Islamic head covering.

  • Palestinian Islamist group protests Ephpheta Paul VI Institute over hijab restriction.
  • Popular Movement to Overturn CEDAW claims school tampering with religion and clothing rights.
  • Movement demands Palestinian Education Ministry intervene, rejects compromise.

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