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☆ 'Hammer to Fall': Freddie Mercury belongings headed for auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Some 1,500 items, including handwritten lyrics, art and collectibles from Mercury's London home, Garden Lodge, have been looked after by his close friend Mary Austin since his death from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991. "For many years now, I have had the joy and privilege of living surrounded by all the wonderful things that Freddie sought out and so loved. "It was important to me to do this in a way that I felt Freddie would have loved, and there was nothing he loved more than an auction." Sale highlights will go on tour in New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong before the main London exhibition begins on August 4. ($1 = 0.8017 pounds)Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Sharon SingletonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Imperious Ireland beat England to clinch Six Nations Grand Slam
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Padraic Halpin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

DUBLIN, March 18 (Reuters) - Ireland completed their fourth Six Nations Grand Slam with a 29-16 victory over England at a pulsating Aviva Stadium on Saturday, emphatically underlining their status as the world's top-ranked team heading into September's World Cup. What a group of coaches," Ireland captain Johnny Sexton, playing in his final Six Nations game, said in a pitchside interview. If it looked like Ireland would cruise towards a Grand Slam in Dublin, following success in Twickenham (2018), Cardiff (2009) and Belfast (1948), England had other ideas and another Owen Farrell penalty after the break made it 10-9. "We've built some foundations over the course of the Six Nations but clearly we want to be a better team." The defeat consigned England to fourth place in the table and a third successive Six Nations with more defeats than victories after winning the championship in 2020.

☆ Young Malaysians urged to 'get mad' and vote to end political merry-go-round
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Ebrahim Harris | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The infighting has exhausted voters, with two local elections held in the past year seeing lower than average turnout. Young voters form a sizeable portion of the six million people newly eligible to cast a ballot, following reforms that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 and allowed automatic registration. Some voters, however, remain turned off by the constant political wrangling, believing that their choices will have little impact. "I'm scared to vote because whoever you choose will be part of a weak coalition," Eddie said. "They have to form alliances with parties who were rejected in the elections, and will end up forming the same type of government."

With the release of director Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” the conversation of the nation’s racist history and violence toward Black people is being revisited. Deadwyler told NBC News that the telling of Till’s story today is just as important as it was decades ago. “In the United States, we tend to think of our history in romantic terms,” Glaude told NBC News. The Senate passed a bill in January posthumously awarding Till and his mother the Congressional Gold Medal. But, Glaude said, even with these initiatives, without a racially just America, Till “died in vain.”“We can never forget,” he added.

☆ Amnesty urges dropping of defamation charges against Bosnia environment activists
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

SARAJEVO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Amnesty International has urged a Belgian-owned hydro-power company to drop defamation charges against young Bosnian activists who publicly criticised the environmental impact of their projects in Bosnia, saying they were baseless. Kovacevic and Tusevljak are part of a larger movement in Bosnia protesting against small hydro-power plants as authorities embrace the technology in an effort to replace aging coal-fired power stations. Activists were successful in getting legislation to ban the construction of small hydro-power plants through the country's Bosniak-Croat Federation parliament last July. The Serb Republic, the other Bosnian region where East Sarajevo is located, also passed legislation in February limiting the size of future small hydro-power plants. "People of Bosnia-Herzegovina have the right to oppose to small hydro-power plants but you cannot attack existing permits," Green Invest's Delacroix said.

☆ Christina Ricci says her 'Yellowjackets' character 'is not somebody that I would choose to be friends with'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Christina Ricci will be the first to tell you she doesn’t like her terrifying “Yellowjackets” character Misty Quigley. “I mean, she’s not somebody that I would choose to be friends with,” Ricci tells CNN of her Emmy-nominated role. “I really enjoy playing characters that don’t follow the sort of normal social constraints that we do,” she adds. “And the freedom of playing someone who’s not bound by any sort of morality but her own, that stuff is really fun. “I really love animals,” she says.

☆ Crăciun de poveste la PRIME: Dimineaţa a început cu o ediţie specială "Prima oră"
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-25 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Crăciun de poveste la PRIME. Ziua de 25 decembrie va fi una specială, în care telespectatorii vor avea posibilitatea să urmărească un program generos de emisiuni de divertisment. Dimineaţa la PRIME a început cu amintiri de acasă într-o ediţie specială pregătită de jurnaliştii de la "Prima Oră".Începând cu ora 9:00, telespectatorii sunt invitaţi să redescopere povestea prietenilor din Epoca de gheaţă. Alex Luca, Lilu Ojovan sau Livia Pavelescu?Iar la ora 20:00, veţi putea urmări ediția specială a emisiunii "100 de moldoveni au zis". Ziua o veţi încheia acasă, în siguranţă, alături de cei mai renumiţi Lăutari, începând cu ora 23:00.

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☆ Crăciun de poveste la PRIME. Ce program vor putea urmări telespectatorii pe 25 decembrie
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-24 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Ziua de 25 decembrie va fi una specială, în care telespectatorii vor avea posibilitatea să urmărească un program generos de emisiuni de divertisment. Dimineaţa la PRIME va începe cu amintiri de acasă într-o ediţie specială pregătită de jurnaliştii de la "Prima Oră". Seara, de la ora 19:00, veţi putea afla cine dintre prezentatorii PRIME, care vor juca la "Roata Norocului" pentru o cauză nobilă, este mai norocos. Iar la ora 20:00, veţi putea urmări ediția specială a emisiunii "100 de moldoveni au zis". Ziua o veţi încheia acasă, în siguranţă, alături de cei mai renumiţi Lăutari, începând cu ora 23:00.

Persons: Crăciun, Diego, Sid, Manny, Crash, Alex Luca, Livia Pavelescu

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