Monday, December 23

Tag: World

11Oct By AdminsNo Comments

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 ...
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6Oct By AdminsNo Comments

French President Emmanuel Macron calls for halt to arms shipments to Israel amid global plea for restraint

French President Emmanual Macron has called for a halt to arms shipments to Israel during a radio interview. Macron said on radio station France Inter that finding a "political solution" to Israel's war on Gaza was a priority and an arms embargo should be considered. The president said his position would be that "arms used to fight in Gaza are halted. France doesn't ship any." French President Emmanuel Macron said a political solution to the confict would be an arms embargo. (AP) Paris has already stopped arms deliveries to Israel, Macron added. "I think we are not being heard," the president said of global calls for a cease-fire. "And I consider it a mistake, also for Israel's security." Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly responde...
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27Sep By AdminsNo Comments

Melania Trump calls her husband’s survival of assassination attempts ‘miracles’

In her first interview in more than two years, former First Lady Melania Trump said she saw her husband's survival in two attempts on his life as "miracles" and offered new details about the former president, including his desire to have more children. The Slovenian-born former fashion model has remained somewhat of an enigma in the 2024 election cycle. She has stayed largely absent from the campaign trail, breaking norms in not speaking at the Republican National Convention and skipping key moments for her husband, Donald Trump, including his primary-night victory parties and court appearances in New York and Florida. Melania Trump speaks during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016. The former First Lady has been notably quiet dur...
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27Sep By AdminsNo Comments

Murdoch family holds its breath as future of media empire hangs in the balance

The fate of Rupert Murdoch's vast media empire, including Fox News, is now in the hands of a Reno probate commissioner, who will decide whether the 93-year-old media mogul can change his succession plan to preserve the right-wing editorial bent of his influential outlets. Murdoch and his eldest children descended on a Reno courthouse to appear for evidentiary hearings in a secret trial to determine whether the 93-year-old can alter the family trust that he established decades ago, giving his four oldest children equal votes over the future of his conservative media empire after he dies. Murdoch wants to amend the trust so that his eldest son and chosen successor, Lachlan, will remain in charge for decades to come. Rupert Murdoch, centre, and his wife Elena Zhukov...
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22Sep By AdminsNo Comments

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...
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14Sep By AdminsNo Comments

Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer

Aircraft assembly workers went on strike on Friday at Boeing factories in Washington, Oregon and California after union members overwhelmingly rejected a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25 per cent over four years. The work stoppage involving 33,000 machinists will not disrupt commercial flights immediately but was expected to shut down production of Boeing's best-selling airliners, presenting another setback for a company already dealing with a damaged reputation and financial losses. Boeing stock was down 2.2per cent in morning trading, bringing its loss for the year so far to 38.9 per cent. Boeing Machinists Union members Dave Hendrickson, left, and Steven Wilson, right, on the picket line at the Renton assembly plant, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, i...
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