Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch is “very happy” to see compatriot Guy Pearce play him in a new, largely sympathetic movie about his early business life, the actor said on Wednesday. Pearce, known for his role as a dashing detective in “L. A. Confidential” and lately in “The Brutalist”, was cast by Oscar-winning British director […]
Read MoreAustralian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch is “very happy” to see compatriot Guy Pearce play him in a new, largely sympathetic movie about his early business life, the actor said on Wednesday. Pearce, known for his role as a dashing detective in “L. A. Confidential” and lately in “The Brutalist”, was cast by Oscar-winning British director […]
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Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Middle Eastern countries on Wednesday to oppose “external interference” and said Beijing was ready to work with regional states to safeguard maritime shipping, jeopardised by the US-Iran war. Xi’s remarks to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on his first visit to Cairo in a decade, come as Beijing seeks […]
Read MoreKenneth Branagh, the British actor whose career has been built on weighty roles such as Shakespeare’s Henry V, is perhaps an unlikely action hero. But in his new film “Mayday,” whether he’s wrestling soldiers for a gun on a crowded train, smacking down bad guys in a bar fight or hijacking a missile delivery vehicle […]
Read MoreThe United Nations said Wednesday the 1.5C target would be missed and outlined how global temperatures might be brought back down in a first-of-its-kind assessment met with dismay in climate-vulnernable nations. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres last year acknowledged the inevitability of overshooting 1.5C in the next few years but this assessment is the first […]
Read MoreThe head of this year’s Venice Film Festival jury Maggie Gyllenhaal questioned Wednesday why only two women directors had been selected for the main competition at the Italian event this year.”There’s a systemic problem,” the American actress-turned director told reporters at a press conference on the opening day of the festival, sitting next to festival […]
Read MoreThe Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with a customary dose of controversy, as honouree George Clooney slammed the US government, while jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal questioned the dearth of women directors. The glamorous cinema showcase on the sun-splashed Lido is poised to hand the 65-year-old Clooney a lifetime achievement award later Wednesday during the opening […]
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Die Bundesregierung darf in den kommenden Jahren den Bau neuer Gaskraftwerke fördern. Die EU-Kommission genehmigte am Mittwoch in Brüssel die Pläne von Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU), die in diesem Jahr mehrere neue Anlagen ausschreiben will. Die Vergabe soll noch in diesem Monat beginnen. Ziel ist es, die Stromversorgung in sogenannten Dunkelflauten zu sichern, wenn die […]
Read MoreO secretário de Energia dos Estados Unidos, Chris Wright, assinará nesta quarta-feira (2), na Venezuela, um acordo inédito que outorga ao seu país o controle de um quinto das gigantescas reservas petrolíferas venezuelanas. Na última sexta-feira, o presidente americano, Donald Trump, o anunciou como o “maior acordo petroleiro da história”. O pacto concede a Washington […]
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