News Headlines - 05 April 2018
▽Women ordered off stage at sumo contest after trying to help stricken mayor | The Guardian
A number of women ran on to the ring to give emergency treatment, but the sumo judge at the event repeatedly called over the PA system for them to step off the arena. Two of the women could be seen starting to dismount, but then returning to help, in a video broadcast on multiple television networks.
The actions of the judge drew criticism from television commentators and on social media in Japan.
▽Japan's Abe faces fresh headache over Iraq troop dispatch logs
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government faced criticism on Thursday, after his defense minister said the army last year found activity logs from a controversial 2004 to 2006 deployment to Iraq, but had failed to report them to his predecessor.
Sky News could be sold off to Walt Disney or ringfenced under concessions put forward by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, as part of the corporation’s efforts to seize full control of the broadcaster Sky.
Fox, which is attempting to buy the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already own, faces a number of regulatory hurdles after the UK’s competition watchdog found the ￡11.7bn deal was not in the public interest.
▽Amazon Severs Ties With Top Lobbying Firms in Washington - Bloomberg
Amazon ended its relationship with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the law firm that attracts more lobbying revenue than any other K Street operation, and Squire Patton Boggs, last Friday, according to a person familiar with the decisions... In their place, Amazon hired Paul Brathwaite of Federal Street Strategies LLC and Josh Holly of Holly Strategies Inc., according to the person. Both formerly worked as outside lobbyists for Airbnb Inc. and Oracle Corp. at the defunct Podesta Group, which was once dubbed the "King of K Street," before becoming entangled in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
▽Most distant star ever seen spotted by Hubble telescope 9 billion light years away | The Independent
Astronomers have identified a star 9 billion light years from Earth – the farthest individual star ever seen... Previously used to locate planets far outside the Milky Way, lensing involves galaxies within astronomers’ line of sight bending rays of light and effectively magnifying objects in distant parts of the universe.
