Exclusive-Walt Disney’s Pixar Targets ‘Lightyear’ Execs Among 75 Job Cuts

By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -Walt Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios has eliminated 75 positions including those of two executives behind box office disappointment “Lightyear,” sources said on Saturday, the first significant job cuts at the studio in a decade. The cuts included “Lightyear” director Angus MacLane, a 26-year animator who was part of the senior creative…

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Exclusive-Walt Disney’s Pixar targets ‘Lightyear’ execs among 75 job cuts

By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -Walt Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios has eliminated 75 positions including those of two executives behind box office disappointment “Lightyear,” sources said on Saturday, the first significant job cuts at the studio in a decade. The cuts included “Lightyear” director Angus MacLane, a 26-year animator who was part of the senior creative…

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Timeline: China’s Tiananmen Square demonstrations and crackdown

(Reuters) – Sunday is the 34th anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on their own people. The event remains a taboo topic of discussion in mainland China and will not be officially commemorated by the ruling Communist Party or government. Here…

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China rebukes US, Canadian navies for Taiwan Strait transit

TAIPEI (Reuters) – China’s military rebuked the United States and Canada for “deliberately provoking risk” after the countries’ navies staged a rare joint sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait. The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canada’s HMCS Montreal conducted a “routine” transit of the strait on Saturday “through waters…

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Turkey’s Erdogan signals economic U-turn in picking orthodox Simsek

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Ezgi Erkoyun ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan signalled on Saturday his newly-elected government would return to more orthodox economic policies when he named Mehmet Simsek to his cabinet to tackle Turkey’s cost-of-living crisis and other strains. Simsek’s appointment as treasury and finance minister could set the stage for interest rate hikes…

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