Doris Day dies aged 97: Tributes to legendary Hollywood star
By Legendary American actress and singer Doris Day has died at her California home at the age of 97, her foundation has said. The Doris Day Animal Foundation confirmed the legendary Hollywood star died early on Monday surrounded by her close friends at her home in Carmel Valley. Day, who starred as Calamity Jane in the 1953 film, "had been in excellent physical health for […]
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Trump unveils radical plan to boost high-skilled migration
President Donald Trump called Thursday for radical immigration reform to favor skilled, English-speaking workers over the poorly educated and shut the door on “frivolous” asylum claimants. The reforms, announced in a Rose Garden speech, would be the first major change to the system in decades and would fundamentally pivot from the US tradition of welcoming […]
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Russia scandal triggers mass resignations of far-Right in Austria’s coalition government
The Austrian government was plunged further into crisis on Monday after the far-right FPÖ party resigned their ministerial posts en masse in response to Chancellor Sebastian Kurz sacking the interior minister over a Russia-linked corruption scandal. Mr Kurz fired FPÖ interior ministerHerbert Kickl after a video emerged of FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache offering state contracts […]
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Killing of ‘most wanted’ al-Qaeda linked Kashmir militant sparks protest
Thousands have attended the funeral of a militant leader killed in Indian-administered Kashmir, as security forces cut internet access to stop his death becoming a flashpoint for protests. Indian forces surrounded Zakir Musa on Thursday evening and blew up his hideout when he refused to surrender. The influential 25-year-old, who was described as India’s most […]
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Japan stabbing: Two dead and 16 injured as knifeman attacks children in Kawasaki
A schoolgirl and a 39-year-old man were killed and 15 other young girls injured when a knifeman attacked a group of children waiting for a bus to primary school outside Tokyo on Tuesday. The apparently random attack took place in the city of Kawasaki, just south of the capital, as the children waited with their parents at a […]
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Philippines sends tonnes of illegal rubbish back to Canada in shipping containers
The Philippines has started returning dozens of shipping containers full of trash to Canada after a long-running row over waste exports that has tested diplomatic ties amid threats from firebrand President Rodrigo Duterte. The 69 containers were loaded overnight onto a vessel at the port of Subic, northwest of Manila, and left on Friday for a month-long […]
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German mayor found shot dead in his garden
German police have confirmed that a town mayor who became a hate figure among the far-Right was murdered in his garden over the weekend. Kassel police announced on Monday afternoon they had opened a murder investigation into the death of Walter Lübcke, a veteran politician in Angela Merkel’s CDU party. The 65-year-old was found unconscious […]
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‘They’re killing the people’: How Venezuela’s farmers were devastated by nationalisation and land theft
When they took Marisela Febres’ first farm, it was painful. The 3,500 hectare estate in Venezuela’s agricultural heartland had, like all their land, been in the family for over 100 years; it was a productive, lovingly-tended finca. Expropriated in 2008 by the government, it is now a barren wasteland. When they came for her second […]
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Michael Douglas creates own Hollywood-style trailer in desperate bid to sell £26m Mallorca mansion
Hollywood star Michael Douglas has resorted to lending his own voice to a promotional film in a bid to sell the Mallorca mansion that he first put on the market five years ago. Despite the attractions lavishly put on display in the film, the s’Estaca estate on Mallorca’s spectacular northern coast has failed to generate […]
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Activist arrested in Russia for marijuana days after journalist released in groundless drugs case
A Russian journalist has been accused of financing terrorism and an activist of buying marijuana days after a drugs case against an investigative reporter here was closed under public pressure. Martin Kochesoko, a Circassian activist who had criticised state policies on minorities, has been placed under arrest in Nalchik after officers allegedly found 263 grams […]
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