Published by BANG Showbiz English Julia Roberts has led tributes to ‘Notting Hill’ director Roger Michell, after he died aged 65. The 53-year-old actress – who starred alongside Hugh Grant in the 1999 romantic-comedy – praised the late filmmaker as “such a kind and gentle man”. She told E! News: “He always had a sweet
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Published by Reuters By Oliver Hirt ZURICH (Reuters) – A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax lawyers say. If the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), hard-left Linke and environmentalist Greens come to power, the reintroduction of a wealth tax and a
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Published by Al-Araby Israeli forces on Wednesday levelled a large patch of Palestinian land to the south of the West Bank city of Nablus while preventing children from going to school nearby. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, said that Israeli bulldozers razed 30,000 square metres
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Published by Al-Araby All Middle Eastern and North African countries featured in a newonline freedoms report have been ranked as “partly free” or “not free”, with many experiencing a decline in digital freedoms over the past year. In a ‘Freedom of the Net 2021’ report, written by US-watchdog Freedom House, the MENA region was the
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Published by Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – The German election race heated up on Thursday as the lead of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives narrowed to just four points, three days before the federal election. The SPD, whose candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz is currently vice chancellor and finance minister in
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Published by Azer News By Vugar Khalilov Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will discuss security in Syria’s Idlib at the upcoming meeting in Russia’s Sochi, Yeni Shafak newspaper reported on September 23. As part of Erdogan’s one-day visit to Russia on September 29, the leaders are expected to discuss
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Published by Reuters By David Shepardson and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The rate of unruly airline passenger incidents has dropped sharply since regulators moved to impose fines in January but remains twice as high as last year, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday. The incidents were occurring six times per 10,000 flights as of
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Published by Reuters By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday to fund the U.S. government through Dec. 3 and suspend the nation’s borrowing limit until the end of 2022, sending it to the Senate where Republicans have vowed to block it. The
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Published by Reuters By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian-EU trade deal would be mutually beneficial and allow EU members a greater presence in the Indo-Pacific, said Australia’s trade minister, as Canberra tries to repair ties with Paris after the scrapping of a $40 billion submarine deal. Australia last week cancelled a deal with
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Published by Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s northeastern city of Harbin, population 10 million, went into semi-shutdown after reporting new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases for the first time since early February. Three of 16 new local cases reported in China for Sept. 21 were in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, the National Health Commission (NHC)
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