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NewsFeedMore than 1.6 million Muslim pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, as authorities stepped up crowd-control measures across Mecca. Pilgrims from war-affected Sudan and Yemen spoke about overcoming challenges to reach Islam’s holiest site.Published On 23 May 202623 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s Round-up is exclusively supported by BMI, a global leader in performing rights management, dedicated to supporting songwriters, composers and publishers and championing the value of music.This week, Spotify and Universal Music Group unveiled a licensing deal that will let fans create AI-powered covers and remixes of UMG songs, sold as a paid add-on to Spotify Premium.Meanwhile, Shamrock Capital, the firm that sold Taylor Swift back her masters last year, closed a new…
Stephen Colbert officially said goodbye to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert after more than 10 years as its host. The comedian, 62, used his trademark humor during the Thursday, May 21, series finale of the CBS late-night show such as including an amusing sketch about finding a worm hole backstage that was ready to suck him away. “I didn’t think my show would end like this,” Colbert joked. In the segment, Colbert was approached by fellow talk show hosts, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon for a final farewell. When Colbert questioned why none of the…
Anthony Joshua has shared his verdict ahead of this weekend’s Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven battle. After years of dominating the heavyweight landscape and defeating fellow top stars like Joshua, Tyson Fury and Daniel Dubois, Usyk will defend his WBC title in a controversial showcase bout against Dutch kickboxer Verhoeven. The fight will take place at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, with Verhoeven not given much chance of claiming victory, though he wouldn’t be the first man to find success in boxing after initially beginning in kickboxing. After coming up short in two fights against Usyk, along with time…
The region of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where Ebola broke out has made the virus difficult to contain.With the area consumed by years of conflict that have displaced more than a million people and stripped health capacity, the rare form of the virus circulated undetected for weeks. Where Ebola has spread in central Africa Note: Data as of May 21. Most of the case and death counts are suspected and not confirmed. Source: World Health Organization; Democratic Republic of Congo Ministry of Communication and Media. The New York Times The number of suspected and confirmed deaths is already…
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This May on Netflix, crime is at an all-time high — and that’s just the way the streamer likes it. The platform has more great mysteries to watch than competitors like HBO Max and Hulu, and they just added two more that will make you want to cancel your other streaming subscriptions. The new crime show Nemesis is already one of Netflix’s most popular shows, which isn’t a surprise since it was cocreated by Power’s showrunner. The other series that Watch With Us is obsessed with this month is The Chestnut Man, which returns for a second season with another…
The Minnesota Wild want a Quinn Hughes extension and the need for a center Dave Pagnotta of The Fourth Period was on Sirius XM NHL Network Radio Power Play segment with Steve Kouleas and Anthony Stewart, and was asked about the priorities for the Minnesota Wild this offseason. As Pagnotta noted, it is about extending Quinn Hughes and finding a number-one or number-two center. NHLRumors.com Transcriptions Priority One for the Minnesota Wild This Offseason: Get a Center Steve Kouleas: “Bill Guerin, priority one is resigning Quinn Hughes. It’s very, very early. I don’t know if you have anything on that,…
It was a federal indictment against the left-wing authoritarian Maduro that was used by the Trump administration as its justification for its raid on the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to seize him and his wife, Cilia Flores. The pair are now due to stand trial in New York on charges including drug trafficking.
Intuit beat expectations across nearly every major metric in its third quarter. But the company also announced it was cutting roughly 17% of its workforce. For the quarter ended April 30, the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp grew total revenue 10% to $8.6 billion and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share 10% to $12.80, topping the high end of its own guidance and Wall Street consensus. The company also raised its full-year outlook above the prior top end of guidance on the top line and every non-GAAP metric. Even GAAP results would have cleared consensus and the top…