Bobby Kotick, chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard, attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2019, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Microsoft first reached out to game publisher Activision Blizzard about a possible tie-up the same week a media report landed asserting that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
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Boris Johnson has responded to a questionnaire from the Metropolitan Police about Downing Street gatherings during coronavirus restrictions. A Number 10 spokesperson confirmed to Sky News that the prime minister has returned the document. Downing Street has previously said Mr Johnson’s responses will not be made public. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible
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Joe Biden has said he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has already decided to invade Ukraine. Speaking at the White House, the US president told reporters that Washington has “reason to believe” Russian forces intend to attack in the coming days and will target the capital, Kyiv. His remarks come amid continuing fears that
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CNN’s Jim Acosta talks to Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg, about Republican Arizona Senate candidate Jim Lamon’s campaign ad depicting him in a gunslinging “showdown” with various Democrats. ‘We’re not asking for magical things’: Anti-gun violence groups launch campaign to pressure Biden four years after Parkland https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/parkland-anniversary-gun-violence-prevention-biden/index.html Los Angeles County DA attempts
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Retail sales rebounded in January after falling in December, posting their biggest monthly rise since the shops reopened last spring. Despite rising prices due to inflation, volumes jumped by 1.9% last month following a drop of 4% in December, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), triggered by surging rates of Covid-19. The figures
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Russian military drills are “purely defensive” and “not a threat to any other country”, Vladimir Putin has said. The Russian president denied he was going to invade Ukraine following Western leaders warning an incursion is imminent as Moscow amasses more than 150,000 troops at the border. Talking at a news conference with Belarus President Alexander
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A new Charlie Chaplin documentary paints a “more rounded portrait” of the silent film star’s “complicated” life – including fractious relationships with his teenage wives. Granted access to unseen archive material from the Chaplin estate, filmmakers Peter Middleton and James Spinney attempt to get to know the man behind the toothbrush moustache in The Real
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