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4 days, 13 hours ago

‘It’s the only way’: Migrants, army face-off along S Africa-Zimbabwe border

South Africa’s military has enhanced border operations along the Limpopo River to halt smugglers and illegal crossings from Zimbabwe. The goma-gomas promise they can evade the police and soldiers patrolling the bushes along the river, but since South Africa’s army launched a new border safeguarding operation last year, many are more worried than before. “In the middle of the river, …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Bizarre meaning behind North West's $20,000 'Skibidi Toilet' birthday gift for Kim Kardashian revealed

Daily Mail

North West gifted her mom Kim Kardashian a birthday surprise that's truly a treasure, as the estimated value of her unique necklace has been revealed. The 11-year-old fashionista presented her makeup mogul mom with a diamond-encrusted nameplate necklace engraved with the quirky phrase 'Skibidi Toilet' for Kim's 44th birthday on Monday. North West gifted her mom Kim Kardashian a birthday …

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6 months ago

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning producer on ’Titanic’ and ’Avatar’, dies at 63

The Hindu

Jon Landau, an Academy Award-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on three of the biggest blockbusters of all time, Titanic and two Avatar films, has died. “I worked with Jon Landau for 31 years and I never saw him downcast once,” Cameron said. “I can’t act and I can’t compose and I can’t do visual effects, so …

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6 months ago

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning producer of Titanic and Avatar dies at 63

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James …

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6 months ago

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ producer, dies at 63

LA Times

Jon Landau, in 2023, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on “Titanic” and the “Avatar” series, has died. Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on three of the biggest blockbusters of all time, “Titanic” and two “Avatar” films, has died. Landau’s partnership with Cameron led to three Oscar nominations and …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Marriage may be more likely to save you from cancer than CHEMO

Daily Mail

Getting married could save your life from cancer, experts have told DailyMail.com. This week, an unreported 2013 study began circulating on social media, finding that married patients were up to 33 percent less likely to die of cancer than unmarried patients. Interestingly, the team found that being married reduced the risk of death by up to 20 percent more than …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Takeaways from AP examination of how 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 originated

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel. They include two debunked testimonies from volunteers with the Israeli search and rescue organization ZAKA, whose stories helped fuel a global clash over whether sexual violence occurred during the attack and on what scale. …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The prosecutor for the International …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said Monday he had reason to believe that three key Hamas leaders bore responsibility for “rape and other acts of sexual …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

New Indian Express

FIRST ACCOUNT: PANTS PULLED DOWN Otmazgin said he was the origin of one of two debunked stories by ZAKA volunteers about sexual assault. SECOND ACCOUNT: EVERYTHING WAS CHARRED Yossi Landau, a longtime ZAKA volunteer, was also working in Be’eri when he entered a home that would produce the second debunked story. Otmazgin said he told Landau that his interpretation was …

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11 months ago

Millions of monarch butterflies have gone missing, and there is one thing humans can do to help

BBC

Millions of monarch butterflies have gone missing, and there is one thing humans can do to help Getty Images Monarch butterfly populations are declining, but humans can do one easy thing to help. The forces driving monarch decline Two distinct populations, the eastern and western monarchs, are being impacted by the same set of threats: habitat destruction, pesticide exposure and …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Unpack the past: Mandela, the keffiyeh and South Africa’s Palestine embrace

Al Jazeera

Ten years after the anti-apartheid icon passed away, his embrace with Yasser Arafat and his donning of the keffiyeh remain powerful symbols of South Africa’s special warmth towards Palestine. To go to the white man’s court as an African, wearing my own outfit and not the one that is desired by court.” In 1995, a year after becoming the first …

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1 year, 1 month ago

‘Titanic’ fandom still runs deep. James Cameron returns the love with a new 4K remaster

LA Times

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from “Titanic.” A new 4K remastering overseen by filmmaker James Cameron hits home video his week. Near, far, wherever they are, what are the most extreme lengths a “Titanic” fan has gone to in their love for James Cameron’s epic 1997 disaster romance? That’s right up there for me.” An image from …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Pablo Picasso's 'Woman with a Watch' fetches $139 million at New York auction

Hindustan Times

One of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces, "Woman with a Watch," was sold at auction Wednesday night for $139.3 million by Sotheby's in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the artist. Sotheby's employees take phone bids during the "The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined" auction for Pablo Picasso's "Femme a la Montre" at Sotheby's in New York City …

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1 year, 2 months ago

‘I have lived the most beautiful lives and died the most beautiful deaths’

LA Times

What if the end of the world is a constant, rather than a finale? “Waves are not stationary objects in nature like roses or diamonds,” writes William Finnegan in his surfing memoir, “Barbarian Days.” “They’re quick, violent events at the end of a long chain of storm action and ocean reaction … The best days at the best breaks have …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Robert Irwin, pioneer of Light and Space art who designed Getty’s Central Garden, dies at 95

LA Times

Artist Robert Irwin, who designed the Getty Center’s Central Garden and led the first original art form to emerge from Los Angeles, has died at age 95. The fastidiousness with which Irwin detailed a ’32 roadster or lowered a ’34 coupe eventually would be cited as instigating the meticulous exactitude he brought to abstract paintings in the 1960s, room-size perceptual …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Israel releases images of babies murdered and burned by Hamas as 'verified photos' of others beheaded by terrorists are 'confirmed' by local media and rescue team reveals pregnant woman 'had child sli

Daily Mail

Israel today released harrowing images of tiny babies who were murdered and burned by Hamas terrorists amid their ruthless attacks this weekend that saw hundreds of Israeli civilians including pregnant women killed in their homes. An Israeli soldier comforts a member of his troop as they look at uneaten bread left on the table of a home which was invaded …

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1 year, 5 months ago

People unable to be buried with animals under SA council's new policy

ABC

A regional South Australian council has made it clear its cemeteries are for humans only after receiving requests for pets to be buried with their owners. Key points: Riverland resident Sue Laidler wants her pets ashes to be spread with her own A regional South Australian council says its cemeteries are for humans only A professor has described the council's …

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1 year, 10 months ago

US citizen killed in West Bank as Israeli-Palestinian tensions rise

CNN

Jerusalem CNN — An Israeli-American citizen was killed in the occupied West Bank as tensions in the region continued to ratchet up after a weekend of violence. Elan Ganeles, 27, was shot dead on Monday evening in what Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service described as a “terror attack” on a highway between Jericho and the Dead Sea. Steve Charter, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

DEA Mexico chief quietly ousted over ties to drug lawyers

Associated Press

MIAMI — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration quietly ousted its former top official in Mexico last year over improper contact with lawyers for narcotraffickers, an embarrassing end to a brief tenure marked by deteriorating cooperation between the countries and a record flow of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl across the border. Nicholas Palmeri’s socializing and vacationing with Miami drug lawyers, detailed …

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1 year, 11 months ago

DEA's Mexico chief quietly removed over ties to drug lawyers

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nicholas Palmeri’s socializing and vacationing with Miami drug lawyers, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

James Cameron honored with handprints and footprints ceremony at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre

Daily Mail

Three-time Oscar winner James Cameron gave his frequent onscreen muse Sigourney Weaver a kiss on the cheek during his handprints and footprints ceremony at Hollywood's historic TCL Chinese Theatre on Thursday. Three-time Oscar winner James Cameron gave his frequent onscreen muse Sigourney Weaver a kiss on the cheek during his handprints and footprints ceremony at Hollywood's historic TCL Chinese Theatre …

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2 years ago

Avatar 2: What is the future for visual effects?

BBC

Avatar 2: What is the future for visual effects? Squires tells BBC Culture that while a positive for the VFX artists working in the industry is the sheer amount of work out there – "digital visual effects have provided incredibly powerful tools for manipulation and creation by VFX artists that has created an explosion of VFX in anything and everything" …

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2 years ago

How 'Avatar: Way of Water' cast, crew made underwater scenes

LA Times

In the long-awaited sea-quel “Avatar: The Way of Water,” now in theaters, James Cameron delivers on his promise to explore Pandora’s glittering oceans 13 years after the historic success of 2009’s hybrid live-action/motion-capture epic “Avatar.” But bringing the blockbuster follow-up to life required the Oscar-winning filmmaker, cinematographer Russell Carpenter and a team of actors, experts and technicians to achieve the …

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‘It’s the only way’: Migrants, army face-off along S Africa-Zimbabwe border

Bizarre meaning behind North West's $20,000 'Skibidi Toilet' birthday gift for Kim Kardashian revealed

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning producer on ’Titanic’ and ’Avatar’, dies at 63

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning producer of Titanic and Avatar dies at 63

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ producer, dies at 63

Marriage may be more likely to save you from cancer than CHEMO

Takeaways from AP examination of how 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 originated

How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

Millions of monarch butterflies have gone missing, and there is one thing humans can do to help

Unpack the past: Mandela, the keffiyeh and South Africa’s Palestine embrace

‘Titanic’ fandom still runs deep. James Cameron returns the love with a new 4K remaster

Pablo Picasso's 'Woman with a Watch' fetches $139 million at New York auction

‘I have lived the most beautiful lives and died the most beautiful deaths’

Robert Irwin, pioneer of Light and Space art who designed Getty’s Central Garden, dies at 95

Israel releases images of babies murdered and burned by Hamas as 'verified photos' of others beheaded by terrorists are 'confirmed' by local media and rescue team reveals pregnant woman 'had child sli

People unable to be buried with animals under SA council's new policy

US citizen killed in West Bank as Israeli-Palestinian tensions rise

DEA Mexico chief quietly ousted over ties to drug lawyers

DEA's Mexico chief quietly removed over ties to drug lawyers

James Cameron honored with handprints and footprints ceremony at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre

Avatar 2: What is the future for visual effects?

How 'Avatar: Way of Water' cast, crew made underwater scenes