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The well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was posthumously awarded the Dresden International Peace Prize on Sunday. His widow Yulia Navalnaya accepted the award on his behalf, which is endowed with €10,000 ($10,774), at the eastern German city's Schauspielhaus theatre. Former German president Joachim Gauck honoured the man who died in prison almost three months ago as a "selfless, almost superhumanly courageous man who shows that there can be another Russia." Navalny's life's work is "a monument, he remains a role model for all those who believe in freedom and dignity, including ...
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The well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is to be posthumously awarded the first Dresden International Peace Prize on Sunday. His widow Yulia Navalnaya will receive the award, which is endowed with €10,000 ($10,774), at the eastern German city's Schauspielhaus theatre, the organizers said. Former German president Joachim Gauck is expected to deliver the laudatory speech. A requiem by Russian composer Sergei Nevsky for Navalny is also expected to be premiered. The Kremlin critic and prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin died under unexplained circumstances in a Siberian ...
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The Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie, known for "Midnight's Children" and "The Satanic Verses," called legal proceedings brought against cultural critics by Italy's far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni "childish." At the Turin International Book Fair on Thursday, Rushdie said that influential politicians should be able to take criticism. At the risk of Meloni also starting a lawsuit against him, he said, he advised her to "grow up!" Rushdie was referring to a conviction that Meloni secured against Italian writer Roberto Saviano after he had repeatedly called her a "bastard" on a ta...
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US rapper Macklemore has released a song about pro-Palestinian protests and announced that he will donate all proceeds from the song to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In the song, the 40-year-old singer from Seattle, said he is not voting for US President Joe Biden in November's presidential election. "The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all," he raps in the song released on Monday on his social media profiles. The rap, "Hind's Hall," is named after a Palestinian girl who was killed in an attack in Gaza. At protests at N...
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The top prize or Golden Lola at the German Film Academy's annual German film awards went to Matthias Glasner's drama "Dying" about a dysfunctional family. The three-hour film won a total of four prizes: In addition to best film music (Lorenz Dangel), Corinna Harfouch was honoured for best leading actress and Hans-Uwe Bauer for best supporting male role. The awards were presented at a gala at the Theatre on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on Friday evening. Adrian Goiginger's historical film "The Fox" about the strange relationship between a soldier and a fox during World War II won the Silver Lola. ...
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Actress Hanna Schygulla, best-known for her extensive collaboration with the late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, accepted the German Film Academy's lifetime achievement award at the German Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Friday. Schygulla, 80, starred in Fassbinder films including "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (1979) and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980). She also worked with other acclaimed European directors including Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlos Saura and Fatih Akin. "So much honour. I used to not like the word at all. But now I feel that it does me good too," Schygulla sa...
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US pop singer Britney Spears and her father, Jamie Spears, settled the remaining issues in a bitter legal battle over the weekend, around two and a half years after the singer was released from his guardianship. Britney Spears, 42, reached a multi-million-dollar settlement in a Los Angeles court on Saturday over the payment of her 71-year-old father's legal fees and other expenses, US media outlets reported. Details of the settlement were not disclosed, but lawyers for both sides confirmed it in statements to various media outlets. In 2008, her father took over guardianship of the musician aft...
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Billionaire businessman Elon Musk, head of Tesla, held talks with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday after arriving unexpectedly aboard a private flight. During the talks, Li described Tesla's presence in China as "a successful example of Chinese-American economic and trade cooperation." Musk praised the "hard work" of his Chinese team in Shanghai, which had made the Tesla plant there the best performing in the company. Musk added that he was looking to enhance cooperation with China. Media reports indicated that the surprise visit had to do with data transfer issues. Accordi...
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Billionaire Elon Musk unexpectedly landed in Beijing aboard a private flight on Sunday. Musk, who runs leading electric vehicle company Tesla among other ventures, will reportedly meet Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), for negotiations during the visit, according to Chinese state television. His visit also coincides with the Beijing Auto Show, China's largest automotive industry event, although it remains unclear whether Musk plans to visit the trade fair. China remains the second-largest market for Tesla vehicles, and is also a major...
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Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was injured in a car accident on Friday evening after reportedly running a red light. Three people were injured and hospitalized in the accident in Ramle near Tel Aviv, police said, announcing an investigation. Israeli media published a dashcam video from an uninvolved vehicle at the scene of the accident, allegedly showing two cars colliding at a junction. Further footage is said to show Ben-Gvir's car overturned on a road. The Haaretz newspaper reported that in addition to the minister, his daughter, a security guard and the driver of the o...
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