May 18, 2018 - Articles

[umbertino]

Kenny Rogers, country music star, dies aged 81

 

Representatives of Rogers’ family said the singer died peacefully at home from natural causes

 

Guardian staff

Sat 21 Mar 2020 06.52 GMT Last modified on Sat 21 Mar 2020 07.38 GMT

 

 

 

Kenny Rogers has died at 81 on March 20, according to multiple sources

Photograph: Paul Natkin/Getty Image

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/21/kenny-rogers-country-music-star-dies-aged-81

 

[nstoolman1]

R.I.P. Gambler

[boosterbglee]

Ditto......he was very soulful in his music.

[umbertino]

Gangs of New Zealand: explosion of violence prompts fears police have lost control

 

Gangs have existed for decades in New Zealand but years of low-key activity has been shattered by recent wars between rivals

 

Anusha Bradley in Tarndale

Mon 23 Mar 2020 00.42 GMT

 

 

Gangs have existed for decades in New Zealand but poverty and unemployment have helped drive up membership

Photograph: Xavier la Canna/AAP

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/gangs-of-new-zealand-explosion-of-violence-prompts-fears-police-have-lost-control

 

 

[umbertino]

Dionne Warwick on singing, psychics and the hell of segregation: 'We all bleed red blood'

 

The great pop vocalist talks about Elvis, Bacharach and David, her cousin Whitney Houston – and her experience with Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice

 

Mon 23 Mar 2020 06.00 GMT

Amy Fleming

 

 

 

Dionne Warwick: ‘The world is in the most chaotic state ever.’

Photograph: David Vance

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/23/dionne-warwick-on-singing-psychics-and-the-hell-of-segregation-we-all-bleed-red-blood

[umbertino]

Joseph Lowery, American civil rights leader, dies at 98

 

Reverend helped start the influential Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr

 

Associated Press

Sat 28 Mar 2020 05.59 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/joseph-lowery-american-civil-rights-leader-dies-at-98

 

[nannab]

Thank you umbertino 

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RIP Peter Finch

[umbertino]

 

 

[umbertino]

'Bigger and brighter' supermoon graces night sky – video

 

The largest, brightest full moon in nearly seven decades started to show on Tuesday evening over Europe, Latin America, the US and the Middle East.....

 

Source: Reuters

Wed 8 Apr 2020 08.16 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2020/apr/08/bigger-and-brighter-supermoon-graces-night-sky-video

[umbertino]

Amsterdam to Paris in 90 minutes? Dutch tout hyperloop as future of travel

 

North Holland thinks unproven 600mph magnetic hovertrain could help replace air travel

 

 

 

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Published on Fri 10 Apr 2020 13.58 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/10/amsterdam-to-paris-in-90-minutes-dutch-tout-hyperloop-as-future-of-travel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opec, Russia and other oil producers make draft deal to cut output

 

Mexico holds out against scale of reductions which would amount to 10m barrels per day, or 10% of global supply

 

 

Reuters

Published on Fri 10 Apr 2020 06.36 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/10/opec-russia-reduce-oil-production-prop-up-prices

Edited April 10, 2020 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Man believed to be Brazil’s biggest cocaine supplier arrested in Mozambique

 

Gilberto ‘Fuminho’ Aparecido dos Santos caught after more than 20 years on the run

 

Agence France-Presse in Maputo

Published on Tue 14 Apr 2020 17.16 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/alleged-brazil-biggest-cocaine-supplier-arrested-mozambique-gilberto-fuminho-aparecido-dos-santos

[umbertino]

Man expecting to get $1,700 stimulus check finds millions in bank account

 

An Indiana man expecting a $1,700 stimulus check received a windfall instead from the feds — over $8 million deposited, albeit briefly, to his bank account

 

 

April 14, 2020 | 11:05am

By Jackie Salo

 

 

 

WGN9

 

 

Vid

https://nypost.com/2020/04/14/man-expecting-to-get-stimulus-check-finds-millions-in-bank-account/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Chilean author, campaigner and escapee Luis Sepúlveda dies aged 70 of Covid-19

 

Dramatic career took in escapes from Pinochet’s regime in the 70s, sailing with Greenpeace and writing books including The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

 

Agence-France Presse

Thu 16 Apr 2020 17.56 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/16/chilean-author-campaigner-and-escapee-luis-sepulveda-dies-aged-70-of-covid-19

[umbertino]

Brian Dennehy, Tony Award-Winning Actor, Dies at 81

 

A versatile star, he had scores of television and film credits and made a searing impression on Broadway in “Death of a Salesman.”

 

By Neil Genzlinger

• April 16, 2020

 

 

Brian Dennehy in the 2013 television movie “The Challenger Disaster." He was a familiar face for many years on television, in the movies and on Broadway.Credit...Patrick Toselli for Science Channel/BBC

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/movies/brian-dennehy-dead.html

[umbertino]

1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

 

[umbertino]

Italy Liberation Day

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_(Italy)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is Italy's Liberation Day all about?

 

If you work in an Italian office, you've probably got the day off on April 25th, as it's a public holiday across the country. But why?

 

Catherine Edwards

25 April 2016

12:24 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

Members of the Presidential Guard (Corazzieri - Shieldmen) at the Vittorio Emanuele monument during last year's celebrations. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20160425/what-is-italys-liberation-day-all-about-giorno-liberazione-partisans-nazi-fascist-milan-uprising-italian-republic-public-holiday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liberation Day April 25th,1945: Why Remember?

 

Elena Vipera | Apr 25, 2014

 

 

 

https://italoamericano.org/story/2014-4-25/Liberation-Day

[umbertino]

 

Now this is funny... Maybe some of you are aware that I personally don't like firearms ( talking for myself...I do respect everybody else of course)

 

Well then...Just today I received the following e-mail.......WTF

 

 

𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐂𝐖 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐆𝐮𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤

 

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𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘶𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘵: 297 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦, 𝘚𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 1163 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘕𝘝 89449.

𝘜𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦

© 2020 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘥

 

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Pentagon releases three UFO videos taken by US Navy pilots

 

The previously leaked videos were declassified to ‘clear up any misconceptions’ on whether they were real

 

Daniel Strauss

Tue 28 Apr 2020 03.05 BST Last modified on Tue 28 Apr 2020 04.36 BST

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/pentagon-releases-three-ufo-videos-taken-by-us-navy-pilots

[umbertino]

U.S. Navy Awards $5.5 Billion 10-Ship Frigate Contract to Italy's Fincantieri

 

By Reuters

April 30, 2020

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/30/world/europe/30reuters-usa-navy-frigate.html

[umbertino]

Italian volunteer kidnapped in Kenya freed after 18 months

 

Silvia Romano, who was seized by gunmen in November 2018, freed near Somalia's capital, Mogadishu

4 hours ago

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/italian-volunteer-kidnapped-kenya-freed-18-months-200510064858860.html

 

She arrived at Rome Ciampino airport 1 hr ago

 

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Romano converted to Islam while in captivity - Reports

She was found locked in a cave together with other hostages, was in traditional Somali attire

 

 

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-05-11-romano-converted-to-islam-while-in-captivity-reports/

[umbertino]

Jerry Stiller: Seinfeld star and father of actor Ben dies aged 92

 

• 4 hours ago

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52616060

[nstoolman1]

Basement Arty RIP

[umbertino]

Michel Piccoli, renowned French acting veteran, dies aged 94

 

Actor best known for his collaborations with Luis Bunuel and other major directors was a stalwart of French art cinema

 

Andrew Pulver

Mon 18 May 2020 13.25 BST Last modified on Mon 18 May 2020 17.48 BST

 

 

 

Michel Piccoli, who has died aged 94

Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/18/michel-piccoli-renowned-french-acting-veteran-dies-aged-94-bunuel-godard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

German company allegedly cons Warren Buffett out of €643m ($703.51)

 

US investor may have paid over four times too much for firm now being investigated for fraud

 

Philip Oltermann in Berlin

Tue 19 May 2020 05.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/19/german-company-allegedly-cons-warren-buffett-out-of-643m

Edited May 19, 2020 by umbertino