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11Oct

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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her ‘intense poetic prose’

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm on Thursday. Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) Her novel Human Acts was an International Booker Prize finalist in 2018. The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European ...

22Sep

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EU pledges to loan Ukraine up to $57 billion to help rebuild its economy and power grid

The European Union pledged on Friday to lend Ukraine up to €35 billion ($57 billion) as part of a loan package organised by the Group of Seven (G7) major industrial nations, as it seeks to help the country rebuild its economy and its war-shattered power grid. G7 leaders agreed in June to engineer a $US50 billion ($73.5 billion) loan to help Ukraine in its fight for survival. Interest earned on profits from Russia's frozen central bank assets would be used as collateral, but progress in distributing the loans has been slow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greet each other in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) "We should make Russia pay for the destruction it cau...

23Aug

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Body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch among those recovered from yacht wreckage, officials say

The Italian coast guard said the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch is among those recovered off the coast of Sicily from the wreckage of a superyacht whose builders had called unsinkable. One woman remains missing. She has not been identified, but Hannah Lynch, Lynch's 18-year-old daughter, is reportedly unaccounted for. The family had been celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with the people who defended him at trial in the United States. Five others were recovered by rescue crews following Monday's tragedy. British tech giant Mike Lynch, his lawyer and four other people are among those missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily early on Monday, August 19, 2024. (Composite) The Bayesian, a 56-metre British-flagged ...

Twelve people injured as Qatar Airways plane hits turbulence on flight to Dublin

27May

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Twelve people injured as Qatar Airways plane hits turbulence on flight to Dublin

Twelve people have been injured, including eight taken to hospital, as a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin hit turbulence, airport authorities say. Dublin Airport said in a statement that flight QR017, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, landed safely as scheduled before 1pm on Sunday (10pm AEST). The airport said upon landing the aircraft was met by emergency services, including airport police and the fire and rescue department, "due to six passengers and six crew … reporting injuries after the aircraft experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey". Twelve people have been injured, including eight taken to hospital, as a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin hit turbulence, airport authorities say. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) The airport said al...

Slovak prime minister has had another operation, remains in serious condition

18May

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Slovak prime minister has had another operation, remains in serious condition

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation two days after being shot multiple times and remains in serious condition, officials said on Friday. Fico, 59, was attacked as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Handlova. A suspected assailant has been arrested. FILE - Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives for the V4 meeting in Prague, Czech Republic,in April. (AP) Miriam Lapunikova, director of the University F. D. Roosevelt hospital in Banska Bystrica, where Fico was taken by helicopter after he was shot, said Fico underwent a CT scan and is currently awake and stable in an intensive care unit. She described his condition as “very serious.” She said the surgery removed dead tiss...

Former Spanish football boss Luis Rubiales to face court over World Cup kiss

9May

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Former Spanish football boss Luis Rubiales to face court over World Cup kiss

Former Spanish soccer federation chief Luis Rubiales will stand trial for his unsolicited kiss of national soccer player Jennifer Hermoso, after a High Court judge in Madrid accepted the case, the court said. Rubiales faces one count of sexual assault and one of coercion for his alleged actions following the kiss, which occurred after Spain's World Cup victory last year. Spanish prosecutors are seeking a prison term of one year and 18 months respectively for the offenses, or a total of two years and six months. Spain's Public Ministry has formally accused Rubiales, the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), of sexual assault for kissing Hermoso "without consent or acceptance." Rubiales has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and has said he was gi...