Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the head of global ports operator DP World, resigned from his position as chairman and chief executive on Friday, following mounting pressure over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to BBC Business. His departure came after newly-released files revealed he exchanged hundreds of emails with Epstein over a decade.
DP World announced the resignation, effective immediately, naming Essa Kazim as chairman and Yuvraj Narayan as chief executive, according to the BBC. The BBC approached Sulayem for comment, but did not receive a response. Being mentioned in the files does not indicate any wrongdoing.
In other news, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) suspended some operations at Gaza's Nasser Hospital after armed men, some masked, posed serious security threats inside the building, Al Jazeera reported. The Geneva-based medical charity reported on its website that non-essential work at the hospital in Khan Younis was halted on January 20 due to security concerns.
Meanwhile, a US federal judge ordered that some of the Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a notorious prison in El Salvador must be allowed to return to the United States to fight their cases, The Guardian reported. Luis Muñoz Pinto, one of the deportees, expressed both hope and fear regarding the ruling, stating, "I'm not over that nightmare yet."
Also, Palmerston, a rescue cat who served as the chief mouser of the Foreign Office, died in Bermuda, The Guardian reported. The cat retired in 2020 after four years of service in Whitehall. A social media post in Palmerston's name announced he had come out of retirement to work as a feline relations consultant.
Finally, over 100 prominent artists have signed an open letter supporting the United Nations special rapporteur for occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, who faces international calls to resign, according to Al Jazeera. The letter, from the group Artists for Palestine, offered full support to Albanese, a defender of human rights.
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