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Cannes Film Festival showers praise on The Worst Person in the World


July 14, 2021

CANNNES: Nordic movies are among the hottest properties at Cannes this year, bringing their understated cool to the world´s top film festival. On its first full day Cannes fell head over heels for a Norwegian romantic drama, “The Worst Person in the World”, the early favourite for its top prize, the Palme d´Or. Previously unknown lead Renate Reinsve “takes off …

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Bella Hadid secretly dating Marc Kalman since a year: report


July 14, 2021

Bella Hadid has kept her romance with Marc Kalman well under wraps. According to new reports, the supermodel has been secretly dating her beau since more than  a year now. The couple were able to hide their relationship successfully because of the pandemic throughout 2020. “They hid it well,” a Page Six spy said, before detailing the pair’s strategic movements. “If they …

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Toby Kirkup passed away just hours after getting discharged from the hospital


July 14, 2021

Actor Toby Kirkup died last August after he was discharged from the hospital despite suffering from chest pain, a court in England was told this week. The Daily Mail reported that the Peaky Blinders actor, 48 at the time of his death, was suffering from chest pains and a tingling sensation in his arms before he was hospitalized at the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary in …

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South Africa unrest toll climbs to 45 as stampede kills 10 in Soweto


July 14, 2021

JOHANNESBURG: Stores in two South African provinces were ransacked on Tuesday for a fifth consecutive day, hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed troops in a bid to quell unrest that has claimed 45 lives. The premier of Gauteng province, which includes Johannesburg, said 10 bodies were found late on Monday at a looted shopping centre in Soweto, on the city’s …

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Anger mounts after 92 die in fire at Covid ward in Iraq


July 14, 2021

NASSIRIYA: The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq rose to 92, health officials said on Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there. More than 100 people were injured in the blaze on Monday night in Nassiriya, officials said. An investigation showed the fire …

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Man reunited with kidnapped son after 24 years in China


July 14, 2021

BEIJING: A Chinese man has been reunited with his kidnapped son after a 24-year search that saw him travel half a million kilometres across China on a motorbike, chasing tipoffs on the boy’s whereabouts. Guo Gangtang’s son was just two years and five months old when he was abducted in 1997 from in front of the family home in eastern …

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Fear of assassination kept Obama from confronting military: Oliver Stone


July 14, 2021

CANNES: US director Oliver Stone returned to one of his favourite themes as he presented his latest movie at Cannes on Tuesday, claiming that president John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA because he stood up to the American military. Stone, whose new documentary on the killing was premiering at the Cannes film festival, also told reporters that he …

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Britney Spears’ conservatorship battle back in court in Los Angeles


July 14, 2021

Three weeks after Britney Spears sensationally called for an end to her “abusive” guardianship, the pop singer’s legal battle returns to court Wednesday in Los Angeles. Spears gave explosive testimony on June 23 in which she pleaded with a California judge to allow her to end the conservatorship long controlled by her father, and to choose her own lawyer. Her …

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Afghan leaders to hold last-ditch talks with Taliban in Doha


July 14, 2021

KABUL: Senior Afghan leaders will fly to Doha for talks with the Taliban this week, as the insurgent group takes a hard stance on negotiations, even warning Turkey against plans to keep some troops in Afghanistan to run and guard Kabul’s main airport. The eight-member delegation will include senior Afg­han peace official Abdullah Abdullah and former president Hamid Karzai, and …

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Over 40 Delta variant cases reported in Karachi in two weeks


July 14, 2021

KARACHI: More than 40 cases of the Delta variant — a highly virulent Covid-19 strain that has caused devastation in India a few months back — have been reported in the city during the current month. Sources told Dawn the cases also involved a family of five residing in Lyari. According to the health department data, a copy of which is available …

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