PARIS : Prolific French composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars and five Grammys during a career spanning more than half a century, died Saturday aged 86, his spokesman said. Legrand lived in a musical whirlwind, with the same appetite for popular music to jazz, from conducting to...
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RIO DE JANEIRO : At least seven people were killed, nine injured and at least 150 others went missing after a tailings dam owned by mining giant Vale collapsed Friday afternoon in Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the state government said Friday evening.
The identities of the...
WASHINGTON : The U.S. federal government reopened late Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump ratified a bill funding the government for three weeks. In a statement, White House said Trump signed into law the “Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019,” which includes...
KHARTOUM : Sudanese police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters trying to march on the presidential palace in Khartoum as anti-government demonstrators raised pressure on President Omar al-Bashir to resign with calls for nationwide rallies on Thursday. The east African nation has been rocked...
LONDON : British Prime Minister Theresa May has reached out to her opponents after narrowly surviving a confidence vote sparked by the crushing defeat in parliament of her Brexit deal. After a tumultuous 24 hours which she admitted voters might find “unsettling”, she conceded the...
LONDON : Prime Minister Theresa May will on Wednesday face a confidence vote after MPs overwhelmingly rejected her deal to leave the European Union, leaving Britain with no plan as it hurtles towards Brexit on March 29.
May suffered the largest government defeat in modern British history on Tuesday...
DAVAO CITY, the Philippines : A moderate magnitude-5.9 earthquake hit the southern Philippines early on Wednesday morning, but no damage was expected, state seismologists said. The tectonic quake jolted around 4:03 a.m. local time at a depth of 48 kilometers and its epicenter located 149...
China : A woman has been diagnosed with a type of hearing loss which means she can’t hear the voices of men – only women, Mail Online reported. The patient, who has only been identified by her surname, Chen, woke up to find she was unable to hear her boyfriend.
Chen, from the city Xiamen, on...
SAN ANTONIO : Julian Castro, the telegenic former mayor of San Antonio, Texas and Obama-era cabinet member, launched his bid to become the nation’s first Hispanic president Saturday, emphasizing a message of hope and diversity at a time when Americans are locked in angry debate over...
TOKYO : President Donald Trump has proposed holding the second summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in mid-February and suggested Vietnam as the venue, a foreign report said Sunday.The report comes amid mounting expectations that the two leaders will soon hold their next summit to...
