Archive du mois : février 2018
Sridevi, one of India’s most celebrated actresses, has died according to multiple reports published by Indian media outlets. The 54-year-old Bollywood icon was attending a family wedding in the United Arab Emirates when she suffered a fatal heart attack, the reports said. Family members confirmed to the Indian Express website that the actress had passed…
When Naqeeb Mehsud, a 27-year-old aspiring Pashtun model residing in Karachi, was killed by the police, there was an outcry on social media by his family and friends, leading to a police investigation and the eventual sacking of Karachi’s Malir district chief of police, Rao Anwar. While Anwar was found to be responsible for 400…
The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. The unanimously approved resolution, passed on Saturday, will allow for aid deliveries and medical evacuations to take place. The vote, held at around 2:30pm local time (19:30 GMT), had been delayed by more than 24 hours due…
In a January 19 article about the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof describes a coastal island on the verge of disappearance and farmers forced to « marry off » their underage daughters as a result of losses linked to sea level rise. This dystopic imaginary of Bangladesh in the time of climate change…
Tory MP Ben Bradley has made an ‘unreserved apology’ (Picture: PA)A Tory MP has apologised to Jeremy Corbyn for a ‘seriously defamatory’ claim that the Labour leader sold British secrets to communist spies. In quite the comedown from Monday, Ben Bradley said his tweet was ‘wholly untrue and false’ and he accepted the distress caused.…
China has demanded the US reverse its decision to impose fresh sanctions on North Korea, saying the « unilateral actions » could undermine cooperation between Beijing and Washington. China’s foreign ministry said it had lodged « stern representations » with the US over the measures – which prohibit US citizens from dealing with more than 50 vessels and companies, and…
Actress Emma Chambers has died aged 53. The British star was best known for playing Alice Tinker in the BBC’s The Vicar of Dibley. The Doncaster-born star also played ditsy Honey Thacker in 1999 Richard Curtis film Notting Hill alongside Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. A statement from her agency said Chambers died from natural…
The Power of Three is almost complete. Sarah Jeffery, a name from NBC’s Shades of Blue and Fox’s X-Files revival, has joined Melonie Diaz as one of the witchy sisters of The CW’s new Charmed pilot. While the original Charmed focused on Prue (Shannon Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs), and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) — Doherty was…
Knife crime in the UK is taking a toll on young black men, who are disproportionately being stabbed and killed in the capital, official statistics show. According to police figures, knife crime rose by more than a fifth in the UK last year, with a third of the recorded 37,443 offences involving a knife or sharp…
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