When Aziz Isa Elkun learned of his 78-year-old father’s death in 2017, he rushed to ring his mother from his home in north London. As usual, they weren’t able to speak for long. For years, local police in China harassed his family every time he called. So that day, when she said, “It’s a bit difficult to […]
India’s prime minister attracted ire and bemusement yesterday after donning saffron robes to meditate in a Himalayan cave, as the country votes in that final stage of its election. In pictures released by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the PM is seen wearing the orange garments synonymous with Hindu priests and sitting cross-legged in […]
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A big cruise ship that was preparing to dock in Venice lost control on Sunday morning, crashing into the wharf and hitting a smaller tourist boat, local authorities said. Four people were wounded in the accident, which happened in Venice’s central Giudecca Canal, rescuers and port authorities said. Video footage posted on YouTube and local […]
More than 70 conservative mayors and councillors pledged support for President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday in the latest sign that France’s centre-Right opposition party, The Republicans, is in danger of extinction. Some 31 per cent of party supporters favour an alliance with Mr Macron’s LREM party, while 26 per cent would back an alliance with […]
A new biography about North Korea’s reclusive Kim Jong-un has revealed fresh details of a privileged, but cloistered childhood that paved the path to his tyrannical rule as the world’s youngest nuclear-armed leader. Click Here: camisetas de futbol baratas According to The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un, by Washington […]
Comedy is dying a death in Hollywood as stars flee to streaming services like Netflix and studios pour their resources into superhero movies. US cinema box office figures show only eight per cent of revenue last year came from comedy movies, down from 25 per cent a decade ago. Major comedic successes at the box office are now few and […]
Daniel Ricciardo will line up on the fifth row of this afternoon’s Austrian Grand Prix starting grid, but the Aussie reckons his Renault was worthy of a better result in qualifying. Ricciardo’s final flying lap in Q3 was undermined by the off-track excursion of poleman Valtteri Bottas, whose Mercedes veered off into the gravel and […]
A First Nation in southern Alberta was on lockdown Saturday while Prince Edward Island reported new COVID-19 cases for the first time in more than two months, announcing three new cases on Saturday ― including one person who worked at Charlottetown seniors’ home. Dr. Heather Morrison, the province’s chief public health officer, told a news […]
NOTRE-DAME-DE-STANBRIDGE, Que. — A 38-year-old Quebec man was charged with criminal negligence Thursday after three young children were killed and seven people were injured when they were thrown from the front loader of a tractor. Six children and four adults were riding in the loader of the trailer Wednesday evening when the accident occurred on […]
