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A major figure in the financial scandal known as the Panama Papers, Panamanian lawyer Ramón Fonseca, has died, the National Bar Association of Panama said on Thursday. His death comes just weeks before a judgement is expected in the trial. Fonseca, co-founder of defunct law firm Mossack Fonseca, died at the age of 71 in a hospital in Panama City, according to local media reports. The public prosecutor's office called for a 12-year sentence for Fonseca and his former business partner, Jürgen Mossack. The verdict in the money laundering trial is expected by the beginning of June at the latest. T...
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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 author Paul Auster, best known for his celebrated "New York Trilogy" of mystery novels, has died of lung cancer at the age of 77. The New York Times reported that his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden confirmed Auster's death on Tuesday. Auster was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Newark, New Jersey in 1947 and dreamed of becoming a writer from an early age. He studied literature in New York and France and funded his writing career through teaching assignments and translation. After the failure of his first marriage, he made his breakthrough in the mid-1980s with the "New York Trilog...
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The Iranian-French graphic novelist, illustrator and director Marjane Satrapi has been given the prestigious Spanish Princess of Asturias Award in the Communication and Humanities category. The 54-year-old Iranian-born artist, who lives in France, is one of the most "prominent" names on the international comic scene, the foundation wrote on its website on Tuesday. She released "Persepolis" in 2000, which the foundation describes as "one of the best graphic novels ever published." It is an autobiographical account of her childhood and youth in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. In 2023, togethe...
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French actor Gérard Depardieu will stand trial in October in connection with two cases of alleged sexual assault in September 2021 during the shooting of the film "Les volets verts", the Paris public prosecutor's office said on Monday evening. Depardieu was questioned by police Monday over renewed allegations of sexual assault, a spokesman for his lawyer's office told dpa. The 75-year-old was able to leave the police station in Paris after being questioned, his lawyer Christian Saint-Palais said on Monday evening. "The police custody was ended. He was not kept at the police station." Depardieu...
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French actor Gérard Depardieu has been questioned by police over renewed allegations of sexual assault, a spokesman for his lawyer's office told dpa on Monday. The 75-year-old was able to leave the police station in Paris after being questioned, his lawyer Christian Saint-Palais said on Monday evening. "The police custody was ended. He was not kept at the police station." The actor has denied the allegations made against him, the lawyer said. In February a film-set painter accused Depardieu of sexual harassment during the shooting of the film "Les Volets Verts" ("The Green Shutters") in 2021, ...
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French actor Gérard Depardieu has been summoned for questioning over renewed allegations of sexual assault, a spokesman for his lawyer's office told dpa on Monday. French media reported that the 75-year-old has been taken into police custody. The Paris public prosecutor's office said it could not confirm the reports. A set decorator in February accused Depardieu of sexual harassment during the shooting of the film "Les Volets verts" (The Green Shutters) in 2021, while another woman recently accused him of non-consensual sexual touching and making obscene remarks on the set of the short film "L...
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