Your daily round-up of today's news:
- A man has been found guilty of murdering a Met Police sergeant Matiu Ratana by shooting him in the chest with an antique gun he had smuggled into a south London custody center.
- According to reports, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was one of the five casualties from the Titan sub accident, dismissed safety warnings as "baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone'".
- The United Nations warned that the recent violence at the West Bank is driving Israelis and Palestinians "out of control".
- The German parliament has passed a law to make it easier for migrants and asylum seekers to find work in the country.
- Russia accuses Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenaries, of urging "armed mutiny" as the Wagner leader accuses the Russian military of launching a deadly missile strike on its troops in Ukraine.
- An EU agency says Greece ignored an offer to monitor a migrant boat that later sank.
- A coalition of showrunners, creators, and directors has lobbied studios and streamers to expand industry protections at the abortion rights picket, set a year after the SCOTUS overturned the historic Roe v Wade ruling.
- The Love Live! Nijigsaki High School Idol Club series will get a movie trilogy with the first part hitting theaters in 2024.
- During the FTC v Microsoft hearing, it is revealed that Microsoft acquired Bethesda after hearing that the upcoming STARFIELD game would end up becoming a PlayStation exclusive. Microsoft saw Sony paying Bethesda to keep games off Xbox and decided to do something drastic about it.
- The Magnum P.I. reboot series will end on NBC with the final ten episodes set to air during the 2023-24 broadcast season.
- Members of the Directors Guild overwhelmingly vote to ratify a deal with studios and streamers. The deal establishes a new foreign residuals formula and some guardrails on the use of AI.
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