The Emmys and Amazon have agreed to a six-year deal moving the awards show to Prime Video from the 2027 ceremony. The stream will be free worldwide without a Prime subscription. Deadline reports Amazon will pay about $20 million to $25 million annually, putting the deal above $120 million.

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Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office says former BND chief August Hanning was detained on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason, along with his former bureau chief, Manfred D. Investigators allege Hanning paid for classified information and obtained about 2,000 internal BND documents by 2022. He also made at least seven short trips to Russia between 2015 and 2019 and exchanged political information with foreign intelligence officers.

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Prosecutors say August Hanning, former head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, was arrested and is being investigated for attempted treason and acting as an agent for a foreign intelligence service. His former chief of staff, Manfred D, was also arrested. Prosecutors say Manfred D supplied Hanning with about 2,000 documents over the years, many containing classified information; it remains unclear who they allegedly spied for.

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Prosecutors said August Hanning, who once led Germany’s external intelligence agency, was detained Tuesday. He is suspected of paying to obtain restricted records and drawing on them for an assessment prepared for an intelligence agency abroad.

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Germany’s federal prosecutors say former Federal Intelligence Service chief August Hanning was arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power. Police also arrested former agency employee Manfred D, accused of passing Hanning about 2,000 classified documents for money. The foreign intelligence services involved have not been identified.

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Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office says a former chief of the country’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested over allegations of espionage.

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Germany’s federal prosecutor says former intelligence chief August Hanning was arrested on Tuesday on allegations of espionage. Hanning, who led the Federal Intelligence Service from 1998 to 2005, was detained in southern Germany along with a former aide identified as Manfred D. Prosecutors did not say who they allegedly spied for.

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Paramount Skydance Corp. completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Tuesday, concluding one of the largest media mergers ever after a bruising fight for control with Netflix and a battle against antitrust lawsuits.

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Jim Bakker, a charismatic preacher who built a Christian television empire with his wife, Tammy Faye, saw it collapse in scandal. He has died at 86.

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Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built an evangelical empire with his first wife, Tammy Faye, around the highly successful TV show The PTL Club, has died at 86. The enterprise later collapsed amid a sex scandal and financial crimes.

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U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker died on Monday at 86. He built a multimillion-dollar empire and lived opulently before being disgraced by a sex scandal, a fraud conviction for bilking followers and his divorce from television co-host Tammy Faye.

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Jim Bakker and his first wife, Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful TV show “The PTL Club.” He later lost it all amid a sex scandal and financial crimes. Bakker has died at 86.

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Jim Bakker, the televangelist who became famous through the PTL network in the 1970s before later being convicted of fraud and conspiracy, has died at 86.

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Jim Bakker, who built an evangelical empire with his then-wife Tammy Faye around the hugely successful “PTL Club” television show, has died at 86. The empire later collapsed amid a sex scandal and financial crimes.

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Students, teachers and parents are marching in cities across France, while protesters have blockaded hundreds of schools. It is the largest day of action so far in demonstrations urging the government to address understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.

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Thousands gathered under close police surveillance across France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined high school students protesting for better conditions. The demonstrations had lasted for days and included violent clashes. A France 24 reporter in Paris said students he spoke with remained determined to secure meaningful concessions from the government.

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Student protests in France are growing over teacher shortages, crowded classrooms and poor conditions. Authorities have shut hundreds of schools amid the unrest.

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A student protest that began outside a school in a low-income Paris suburb has spread nationwide, with pupils demanding more education funding and better conditions while opposing riot police. The government reported injuries to at least 215 teenagers, 715 officers and 85 school staff. Ten investigations into possible police brutality are under way.

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The far-right Alternative for Germany’s recent election victory in Saxony-Anhalt has fueled fear among migrants, leaving them uncertain about what their future may hold.

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Germany’s far-right AfD is seeking to lead the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt. The result depends on five BSW deputies, in a vote viewed as an initial test of relations between the parties before the AfD’s attempt to lead the state government in December.

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Saxony-Anhalt’s newly elected parliament is holding its first session more than four weeks after the far-right AfD won almost 44% of the vote. Lawmakers are due to vote on AfD nominee Tobias Rausch as speaker, with the populist BSW backing him. Civil society groups are protesting, while the foreign minister warns that climate change could fuel extremism.

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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is nearing an agreement to purchase nuclear power from Constellation Energy. The deal could approach $1 billion as technology companies compete to secure electricity for the data-center boom.

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Paramount closed its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday. Since its earliest efforts to acquire WBD, Paramount has faced rival bids and an antitrust hurdle; the report traces key events along the way.

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California officials denounced President Donald Trump’s comments as “dangerous” after he appeared to suggest that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego, major cities in a state he has often criticized.

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President Donald Trump suggested Monday at a political rally in Nebraska that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego, prompting condemnation.

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A Middle Eastern official told NBC News that the pilot who tried to bring down an Israel-bound flight had been planning a 9/11-style attack, intending to crash into Israel’s main airport in Tel Aviv.

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About 200 people in Siberia were quarantined after a worker at a plague research institute fell ill and died. Russian media reported she may have contracted pneumonic plague in a laboratory accident, which has not been confirmed. Authorities later said they found no evidence her illness was caused by pathogens she worked with and that the situation was under control.

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Russian authorities are investigating the death of a laboratory worker from an unexplained respiratory infection after unconfirmed reports linked it to pneumonic plague. Experts say the disease can be treated with antibiotics and is unlikely to spread widely.

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BBC Verify examines the death of a woman linked to a plague laboratory in Siberia and what Russia is saying about it.

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US President Donald Trump says Washington is watching the death of a laboratory technician at a plague research centre in Siberia “very closely”. Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced concern that pneumonic plague could spread, while saying there was no reason for panic. Russian officials identified the cause as pneumonia of unknown origin, and said safety inspections found no emergency. Unconfirmed reports suggest the woman became ill after breaking a pathogen tube or after fieldwork in an area where plague occurs naturally among rodents.

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An unsettling case has emerged from southeastern Russia after a 28-year-old woman died of pneumonia. There are concerns she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the laboratory where she worked, but what caused her death remains uncertain.

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Cornell University students held an anti-rape protest on Monday in solidarity with former student “Jane Doe,” who was allegedly gang-raped two years ago after consuming drugs and alcohol at a fraternity house. Demonstrators called for an inquiry into the university’s handling of the case.

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Protests at Cornell are intensifying over the university’s handling of an alleged 2024 sexual assault. Faculty members are reportedly planning a no-confidence vote against administrators, while disciplinary records show fraternity members allegedly tried to coordinate their responses after Jane Doe went to campus police.

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Cornell University students held a mass rally on Monday in solidarity with a classmate whose gang-rape allegations have sparked a national uproar. They called on the Ivy League school to take stronger action against sexual violence on campus.

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A Spanish judge has lifted the arrest warrant for former Catalan regional leader Carles Puigdemont, potentially clearing the way for his return. He has lived abroad since Catalonia’s unilateral declaration of independence in 2017 and left Spain without being detained after briefly appearing in public in Barcelona in 2024.

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Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said a Ukrainian drone strike killed two people, injured nine, and damaged 47 private homes across seven municipalities. Ukrainian monitoring channels and the independent channel Astra claimed that the Volodarskaya oil facility, described in open sources as the region’s largest, caught fire, though local authorities did not report it. Russian officials said 185 drones were destroyed over the region.

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Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said the death toll from the previous night’s drone attack had risen to two, with nine people injured. Rescuers found the body of a 71-year-old man beneath a private home in Barybino, while a 20-year-old man was killed in Radumlya village.

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Officials say an attack involving 650 drones on Moscow was Russia’s second-largest such attack in two years. A file image shows a Ukrainian serviceman examining an FP-1 deep-strike drone before a combat mission.

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Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said an overnight drone attack damaged 10 private homes, outbuildings and two vehicles in Istra and nearby areas. One house caught fire and another was destroyed. Emergency crews are working across the affected locations and assisting residents.

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Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said a Ukrainian drone attack overnight killed a 20-year-old man in Radumlya, in Solnechnogorsk municipal district, and injured six people. He said 185 UAVs were shot down across 16 municipalities in the region.

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An overnight attempt by Ukrainian drones to strike Moscow was among the largest in two years, TASS said, citing calculations based on data from Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. He said 650 UAVs headed toward the Moscow Region between October 5 and 6; most were destroyed at long range and 105 were brought down while approaching Moscow.

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