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Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh has rejected suggestions that she was "brave" for visiting Ukraine. The duchess became the first member of the British royal family to visit the war-torn country since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 when she made a brief trip last month but insists the victims of sexual violence during the conflict are the ones who are truly "courageous". In a diary of her visit for The Sunday Times newspaper, Sophie wrote: "The brave people are those who have endured extreme violence and survived. The courageous are those who have reported the crimes committed against them."...
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Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh has become the first British royal to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded over two years ago. The 59-year-old royal made a one-day visit to the war-torn nation on Monday (29.04.24) to "show her solidarity" with the men, women and children impacted by the ongoing conflict with Russia. Sophie met with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska and also delivered a message on behalf of King Charles. They discussed how to support survivors of sexual violence related to the war and the female peacebuilders who are working to ensure that Ukra...
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Sean Penn says he would have hunted down and slaughtered the terrorists behind 9/11 if he had been US President at the time of the attacks. The ‘Milk’ actor, 63, added he would have gone to jail for his actions if he’d been in charge of America 22 years ago when hijacked planes were used to strike New York’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon. He said in a fiery interview with Variety magazine: “I’d have let White House counsel know they (Amnesty International) are on vacation. “I’m not consulting with them. If I have to go to prison, I’ll go, but I’m going to kill them. I’m killing everyone that di...
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Sean Penn has fumed Will Smith didn’t go to jail for his Oscars assault on Chris Rock – like he did for attacking a movie extra. The Oscar-winning actor and director, 63, raged over Will, 54, assaulting Chris, 58, at the 2022 Academy Awards while referencing how he was imprisoned for a similar incident, when he punched and spat on an extra who starred with him in the 1988 cop film ‘Colors’. He vented in the new issue of Variety magazine: “I don’t know Will Smith. I met him once. He seemed very nice when I met him. He was so f****** good in ‘King Richard’. “So why the f*** did you just spit on ...
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Sean Penn is to star in the Ukrainian film 'War Through the Eyes of Animals'. The 62-year-old actor and director has been cast in the nine-part anthology, directed by nine different Ukrainian filmmakers, that tells the story of the conflict in Ukraine through the perspective of animals caught up in the war. Sean will feature in the ninth and final segment – helmed by acclaimed Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytski – as an American sound engineer who inadvertently witnesses the outbreak of war as Russian forces invade in February 2022. Filming is set to take place in Ukraine and Los Angeles...
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Pope Francis told Volodymyr Zelensky that he is "praying for peace" in Ukraine. The 86-year-old pontiff met with the Ukrainian president at the Vatican on Saturday (13.05.23) and Zelensky explained how he sought support for his peace plan to end the war with Russia. The Ukrainian leader held his hand over his heart and described it as a "great honour" to meet the pope, who was using a cane to help with his knee problem. The Vatican said how the two men discussed Ukraine's "humanitarian and political situation provoked by the war going on". A statement said: “Both agreed on the need to continue...
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Orlando Bloom has travelled to Ukraine and met with the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky. The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star headed to the war-torn cities of Kyiv, Irpin and Demydiv for a three-day trip as part of his role as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' children's organisation UNICEF and met with youngsters who have been impacted by the Russian invasion before scheduling a chat with the Ukrainian leader. During their meeting, Bloom told Zelensky: "To see the children, to see in their eyes, its palpable the anxiety and yet the strength of the Ukrainian people is somethi...
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King Charles is determined to visit Ukraine again before he “gets too old” to see the war-ravaged nation. The 74-year-old monarch – who visited Ukraine in 1996 and welcomed its president Volodymyr Zelensky to Buckingham Palace in early February – shared his desire to go back during a visit on Thursday (23.03.23) to open the new headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Canary Wharf, London. Speaking one day ahead of the 13-month anniversary of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion on the nation, Charles said: “I must go again before I get too old. I w...
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A deepfake detector was trained for eight hours to spot false videos of Volodymyr Zelensky. Hany Farid at the University of California, Berkeley, and Matyas Bohacek of the Johannes Kepler Gymnasium in the Czech Republic developed detection capabilities for faces, voices, hand gestures and upper body movements, and it had 100% accuracy in spotting three fake videos of the Ukrainian president, which had altered his mouth movements and spoken words. Farid told New Scientist magazine: “It can say, ‘Ah what we observed is that with President Zelensky, when he lifts his left hand, his right eyebrow ...
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with US President Joe Biden for more missiles during what is thought to be his first trip outside his war-ravaged nation since Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s invasion 300 days ago. He asked for increased help on Wednesday (21.12.22) on a visit to the White House. Zelensky said during a joint press conference with Biden: “What is going to happen after the patriots are installed? After that, we will send another signal to President Biden that we would like to get more patriots. When the audience in the room laughed, former comic Zelensky said in En...
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