Netflix co-founder Hastings gives up CEO title, Peters named co-chief

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He elevated Sarandos to co-CEO in 2020 and named Peters COO at the same time. He took the company public and guided Netflix through its triumphant tussle with the video rental chain Blockbuster. Hastings introduced a streaming service in 2007 and four years later separated the streaming business from the DVD-by-mail service. He also gave the streaming service the unfortunate name of Qwikster. But Netflix believes a cheaper, advertising-supported tier for cost-conscious consumers and a crackdown on people sharing passwords will boost growth.
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Rishi Sunak looks set to become next UK PM after Boris Johnson pulls out from race

Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain’s next prime minister after his rival Boris Johnson quit the race, admitting that he could no longer unite their party following one of the most turbulent periods in British political history. Should she fail to hit the threshold, Sunak would become prime minister. Many of Johnson’s supporters had previously accused Sunak of betrayal after he quit as finance minister in the summer, triggering the rebellion that forced Johnson out. If chosen, the former Goldman Sachs analyst would be the United Kingdom’s first prime minister of Indian origin. Read more: Boris Johnson pulls out of UK Conservative leadership race

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Actor Kevin Spacey wins in civil sexual-abuse case brought by Anthony Rapp

The verdict followed a three-week trial in Manhattan federal court and came roughly two hours after jurors began deliberating. Spacey denied the allegation on the stand and said he had never been alone with Rapp. During closing arguments, Rapp’s lawyer urged jurors to discredit Spacey’s memory of the events. It’s not worthy of your belief,” the lawyer, Richard Steigman, said, citing what he claimed were gaps in Spacey’s memory and changes in his recollection. Rapp sued Spacey for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress in November 2020.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter ownership begins with firings, uncertainty

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Can Sunak save Britain?

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Explainer: Why ethnic tensions are flaring again in northern Kosovo

Kosovo won independence from Serbia in 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising against Belgrade’s repressive rule. Ethnic Serb mayors in northern municipalities, along with local judges and some 600 police officers, resigned in November in protest at the looming switch. Serbs in Kosovo want to create an association of majority-Serb municipalities that would operate with greater autonomy. Serbia and Kosovo have made little progress on this and other issues since committing in 2013 to the EU-sponsored dialogue. Read more:Tensions rise in northern Kosovo as local Serbs block roadsSerbia bids to send soldiers back into KosovoSerbia to ask NATO to deploy Serb military, police in Kosovo: President

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Police seek motive to California mass shooting as 11th victim dies

One of the victims hospitalized in critical condition died of his wounds on Monday, Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese told reporters. Even as Los Angeles-area police worked through second full day of their investigation, seven people were reported slain in a separate, mass shooting in the northern California coastal town of Half Moon May on Monday. At a news briefing on Monday, Hilda Solis, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, called Saturday’s gun violence the deadliest mass shooting on record in Los Angeles County, the most populous in the United States and home to some 10 million residents. He had lived in the Los Angeles area since at least the 1990s and moved to the mobile home in Hemet in 2020, address records showed. Read more:Motive of California mass shooter remains elusive as Monterey Park mourns 10 deadSuspect in California shooting that left 10 dead shot and killed himself: Authorities

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How water has been weaponized in Ukraine

The attacks have disrupted electricity across large parts of Ukraine, killing dozens of people and leaving other places without access to clean water. “Ukraine’s water infrastructure, from dams to water treatment and wastewater systems, has been extensively targeted by Russia,” Gleick wrote in an email. In just the first three months of the war, Gleick said, he and his colleagues documented more than 60 instances in which Ukraine’s civilian water supplies were disrupted and dams for both water and hydroelectric power attacked. Ukraine, according to the Pacific Institute’s database, has occasionally also used water as a weapon, cutting supplies off to Crimea after Russia seized the peninsula in 2014. Bottles of water are available in stores, but many residents, impoverished by war, depend on bottled water donations from abroad, even as pools of water snake onto streets from leaking mains.

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