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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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German filmmaker Michael Verhoeven, best-known internationally for directing the 1982 film "The White Rose" and the 1990 film "The Nasty Girl," has died. He was 85 years old. Verhoeven died on Monday after a short, serious illness, according to his family, who confirmed his death to dpa on Friday. "A world has been lost. It is unimaginably painful," said his son, director and screenwriter Simon Verhoeven. Michael Verhoeven dealt intensively with Germany's Nazi past in his work. "The White Rose" portrays a real-life anti-Nazi resistance group in Munich that included the siblings Sophie and Hans...
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Former British defence minister Ben Wallace is not planning to publish his memoirs after leaving the House of Commons, he told German press agency dpa on Thursday - and is instead considering his options in tech. "I basically spent seven and a half years in a world of secrets. So I can't write anything," Wallace said. Wallace was minister of state for security from 2016 until 2019, before he served as secretary of state for defence under former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Wallace resigned in August 2023 and said he did not plan to stand a...
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Rumours about the health of Ramzan Kadyrov, the ruler of the Chechen Republic, have flared up again in Russia following a media report that he is suffering from an incurable pancreatic disease. The exiled newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Monday about the health of Kadyrov, who is loyal to the Kremlin and known for his brutal treatment of dissidents. Kadyrov's power apparatus, which denied similar rumours a few months ago, initially made no official comment on the latest media report. But the usually well-informed newspaper wrote that "the state of health of 47-year-old Ramzan Kadyrov...
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