The head of global ports operator DP World, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, resigned on Friday following the revelation of his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to BBC Business. His departure as chairman and chief executive came after the release of files showing he exchanged hundreds of emails with Epstein over a decade. Essa Kazim was named chairman and Yuvraj Narayan as chief executive, effective immediately.
The BBC reported that being mentioned in the files did not indicate any wrongdoing. The BBC approached Sulayem for comment.
In other news, Amazon's Ring is ending its partnership with surveillance firm Flock Safety after facing scrutiny over its privacy practices, as reported by BBC Business. The deal, announced in October, would have allowed agencies working with Flock to retrieve video captured on Ring devices. The decision to cancel the agreement came days after a Ring advertisement aired during the Super Bowl sparked widespread backlash.
Meanwhile, Heathrow Airport's boss stated that the terminal was not crowded, but people were walking in the "wrong place," according to BBC Business. Thomas Woldbye told an industry event that the terminal felt crowded because British people kept to the left and Europeans to the right, causing people to crash into each other.
In other news, a US federal judge ordered that some Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador must be allowed to return to the United States to fight their cases, according to The Guardian. Luis Muñoz Pinto, one of the deportees, expressed both hope and fear. "I'm not over that nightmare yet," he said, according to The Guardian.
Also, Palmerston, the rescue cat who served as the chief mouser of the Foreign Office, has died in Bermuda, The Guardian reported. The cat retired in 2020 after four years of service in Whitehall.
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