252 result(s) for “policy”
Large-scale protests spread across French cities on October 17 as student-led actions joined broader marches over rising living costs, prompting stepped-up security, early arrests in Paris and widespread disruptions to schools and transport.
The 70th BFI London Film Festival moves into its last full weekend, bringing Hollywood names, major premieres and industry players to the UK while sharpening awards season trajectories and commercial strategies for British and international films.
President John Dramani Mahama on October 16 commissioned four new envoys, directing Ghana’s ambassador to Israel to uphold the country’s long standing support for a two state solution while advancing labour mobility talks and sector partnerships that serve Ghana’s development needs.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers convenes its 87th public meeting in Bali on October 17, 2026. The six day hybrid gathering brings global policymakers, registry operators and technical communities to Indonesia as discussions on DNS abuse, domain policy and platform accountability gain renewed urgency.
Beijing announced a draft revision to its Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export that would add 40 technologies across artificial intelligence, biomedicine and photovoltaics, require temporary pre export registration and open the changes to public comment.
Skydance’s completion of its takeover of Warner Bros consolidates major film and TV libraries under a single company, promising scale but prompting scrutiny over jobs, creative greenlights and franchise stewardship.
Shah Rukh Khan is curating UNIFYD, a new one-day Indian music and culture festival set for March 20, 2027 at Etihad Live, Yas Island, bringing leading Hindi and Punjabi artists together for a diaspora-focused event with plans for wider expansion.
Japanese police say evidence from a recent domestic voice phishing arrest led to an international probe with Vietnamese authorities that has dismantled a money laundering network used to move stolen funds overseas and return proceeds to scam operators.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has published a new ART framework for responsible AI in banking and announced a collaboration with Cyberport and the University of Hong Kong to build an AI training data sharing platform, tying supervisory guidance to practical data access and quality controls.
Warner Bros and London-based Locksmith Animation announced new casting additions to Bad Fairies today, reinforcing the film's strong British creative footprint and underscoring the rising profile of U.K. animation talent on major Hollywood projects.
A draft Greek law introduced in mid October would require new data centres to source at least 60 percent of annual electricity from renewables, pay full grid upgrade costs and post large bank guarantees. The measures aim to curb speculative applications, protect grid stability and steer cloud and AI investments toward low carbon power, but they raise questions for operators and AI research projects that rely on large, flexible compute.
Chinese regulators have quietly directed state funds, brokerages and listed firms to buy shares and curb selling after a renewed rout in technology and AI related stocks pushed major indexes lower on October 16, 2026. The measures aim to stabilise markets and blunt a wider hit to growth expectations, but they also underline Beijing’s readiness to intervene in capital markets to manage risk.
Chancellor John Healey has not ruled out raising the bank profits surcharge in his first Autumn Budget on October 28, a move that has weighed on UK bank shares and drawn caution from the IMF. The proposal would be intended to raise revenue to close the fiscal gap created by higher borrowing costs and energy shocks.
Netflix released all eight episodes of The Diplomat season 4 on October 15, 2026 in the United States. The full-season drop and a startling cliffhanger make the show this fall’s most immediate political thriller, with cast returns and narrative choices that sharpen its relevance to American viewers.
On October 15, 2026 Pakistan’s finance minister held a series of meetings in Bangkok focused on diversifying external finance. Key topics included possible Boeing aircraft financing, digital asset regulation and the use of tokenised Eurobonds, moves designed to lower borrowing costs and extend maturities while safeguarding reserves.