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Paul “Triple H” Levesque, the chief content officer at World Wrestling Entertainment, made his first public comments after Vince McMahon resigned Friday from the board of WWE’s parent company, TKO Group Holdings, in the wake of a former employee’s lawsuit accusing McMahon of sex trafficking, sexual assault and physical abuse. At a news conference after WWE’s “Royal Rumble” event Saturday in St. Petersburg, Florida, Levesque, McMahon’s son-in-law, said he had not read the lawsuit and had no prior knowledge of it, adding he does not “want to get bogged down into that.” Levesque said he’s doing “everything possible” to ensure employees aren’t taken…

In Gaza, a strip of land fast becoming a wasteland, few international aid bodies can still operate. The United Nations is one of them. Its Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA, was founded in 1949, working in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, caring for the 700,000 Palestinians who were forced or fled from their homes with the creation of the state of Israel. Now, says the agency’s head, the lifesaving assistance on which two million Gazans rely could be about to end, as several Western governments suspend their funding over allegations that some UNRWA…

Japan’s Moon lander has resumed operations after being shut for a week due to a power supply issue. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said it re-established contact with the lander Sunday night, indicating that the glitch had been fixed. Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said. It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as the solar cells pointed away from the sun. With the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) spacecraft, Japan became only the fifth country to achieve a soft touchdown on…

China has tightened its financial industry rules as the government tries to halt a deepening sell-off in the world’s second largest economy. Nearly $6tn (£4.7tn) has been wiped off Chinese and Hong Kong stocks since their most recent peak three years ago. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) says the measures will create “a fairer market order”. Under the new rules limits will be put on so-called “short-selling” from Monday. Short selling is when a trader bets that a share or other asset will fall in value. They borrow the asset and sell it immediately with the aim of buying…

Disposable vapes are set to be banned as part of plans to tackle the rising number of young people taking up vaping, the government says. Measures will also be introduced to prevent vapes being marketed at children and to target underage sales. Figures from the Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) charity suggest 7.6% of 11 to 17-year-olds now vape regularly or occasionally, up from 4.1% in 2020. The ban is expected to be introduced across the UK, the government said. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to explain the plans during a visit to a school on Monday. “As any parent…

North Korea has fired several cruise missiles in waters off its east coast, South Korea’s military says. In recent months the nuclear-armed communist state has tested missiles repeatedly, raising regional tension. Sunday’s launch took place near the port of Sinpo. Neither the number nor type of missiles is clear yet. On Wednesday North Korea test fired a new strategic cruise missile called Pulhwasal-3-31, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says. Reporting the new launch, which took place at 08:00 (23:00 GMT Saturday), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said “our military has been closely coordinating with the United States to…

Three US troops have been killed and dozens injured in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan’s border with Syria. US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant groups”. He added: “We shall respond.” It is the first time that a strike has killed US troops in the region since Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel. Jordan says the attack took place in Syria, not inside Jordan. There have been other attacks on US bases in the region but so far there have been no casualties reported by the US army. It…

Debt-laden Chinese property giant Evergrande has been ordered to liquidate by a court in Hong Kong. Judge Linda Chan said “enough is enough” after the troubled developer repeatedly failed to come up with a plan to restructure its debts. The firm has been the poster child of China’s real estate crisis with over $325bn (£256bn) of liabilities. When Evergrande defaulted two years ago it sent shockwaves through global financial markets. The latest decision is likely to send further ripples through China’s financial markets at a time when authorities are trying to curb a stock market sell-off. China’s property sector contributes roughly a quarter…

Photographer Allison Hunter interviewed in August 2023 for a position taking photos of an historical archive’s collections. During the conversation, she asked the hiring panel for feedback – how did she stack up against other candidates? The question was not well-received. “Shaming is a bit heavy to say, but it was a little like scolding,” says Hunter, who is based in New York City. “‘Oh no, we wouldn’t tell you that’,” she recalls the panelists saying. “‘Just know that your resume has gotten you this far, and this is a very competitive position’.” She regretted asking. “I thought, ‘Oh, this…

A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a 45-year-old man to death for setting fire to the renowned Kyoto Animation studio in 2019, which left 36 people dead in the country’s worst mass killing in almost 20 years, according to public broadcaster NHK. The defendant, Shinji Aoba, was charged with murder and arson after telling police his work had been plagiarized and that he used gasoline to set fire to the studio. He was found guilty by the Kyoto District Court on Thursday. Dozens of people were inside the three-story building at the time of the blaze, which spread so rapidly that many did not have time…