Bollywood icon Shashi Kapoor — a star of 1970s Indian cinema and a member of the Hindi film industry’s famous Kapoor family — died on Monday aged 79 after a long illness, his family said. The multiple award-winning actor died at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday evening, his nephew Randhir Kapoor told the Press […]
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International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastPresident Donald Trump reportedly made Hope Hicks, now his communications director, steam his pants while he was still wearing them and scolded her when she forgot the wrinkle-erasing device. Hicks, who worked as his press secretary at the time, was in charge of making sure Trump’s pants and jacket were sharp when they flew on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAA senior Turkish government official on Monday warned of a “major catastrophe” if the United States recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite a flood of warnings from the Arab world. “If the (current) status of Jerusalem is changed and another step is taken … that would be a major catastrophe,” Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag
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Middle East, USARep. Ron DeSantis said Monday that Congress is prepared to hold members of the FBI and Justice Department in contempt for not complying with requests related to the Trump-Russia investigation. “Devin Nunes has been trying to get this information from DOJ and the FBI for months and they’ve stonewalled every step of the way,” Mr.
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USASANAA, Yemen — Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s deposed strongman who ruled the country for more than three decades, was killed Monday as fighting raged between his followers and their former rebel allies, according to officials on both sides of the conflict. There were conflicting accounts about the circumstances of Saleh’s death, but video circulating on
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Middle EastEgypt has declared its intention to hold open elections for the position of president next year, but the fates of those who have thus far thrown their hats in the ring suggests that the competition might not be entirely free and fair. Take the case of former prime minister Ahmed Shaifq, who had been living
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Middle EastBy Judah Ari Gross Two Bedouin Israelis were arrested on Friday on suspicion that they had stabbed a soldier to death in southern Israel last week, the Shin Bet security service announced on Monday. On Thursday night, Sgt. Ron Kokia was stabbed to death at a bus stop in the city of Arad in what
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump took his tacit support of Republican Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore to a full-fledged endorsement Monday with a series of tweets and a phone call to the embattled candidate. To the former judge, who has been hit with a string of allegations that he preyed on and sexually assaulted minors when
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USABilly Bush is back. He might not have a media job (yet?), but he stepped up Sunday with an essay confirming that no matter what the president might say now, it was indeed Donald Trump speaking on the “Access Hollywood” tape that leaked more than a year ago. “Of course he said it. And we
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USAHe has never held public office, once likened power to “poison”, and saw his politician father and grandmother assassinated. Now Rahul Gandhi is poised to take over as leader of the party that has ruled India for much of its history. The 46-year-old’s expected nomination as president of the Congress Party follows years of speculation
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InternationalSheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, is one of the world’s most powerful women, but even she has experienced sexual harassment. In a Facebook post Sunday, Sandberg wrote that she’s never been sexually harassed or assaulted by anyone she’s worked for, but she has dealt with “unwanted sexual advances” on the job. “A hand on
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USAFRANKFORT, Ky. — The communications director for the Kentucky House Republican caucus sued the Legislative Research Commission on Monday, alleging that she is being unfairly punished for shedding light on sexual harassment claims by a female colleague who was in an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with then-House Speaker Jeff Hoover of Jamestown. In her whistle-blower lawsuit,
In an illustrated campaign poster hanging in Sankt Hans Torv in Copenhagen, Muneeza Rosendahl stands like a cartoon superhero brandishing a broom midswing, sweeping dust toward an open door. The dust, in this case, is racism and the patriarchy. “Ud med racisterne! Ind med feministerne!” her campaign poster reads. Translation: “Out with the racists! In
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InternationalCHICAGO — A bus company that runs shuttles between college campuses and the Chicago area drew strong rebukes for a racially charged ad that took a swipe at the number of Chinese students attending University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The ad from Suburban Express, sent Saturday via email, was publicizing routes being offered during the
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