NEW YORK, (APP/AFP): Four paintings by JMW Turner depicting 18th and 19th century commercial whaling and their possible link to “Moby Dick” are the focus of an exhibit opening Tuesday at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Turner’s Whaling Pictures” features works done in the 1840s as the Briton Turner was near the end of […]
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NY’s Met opens exhibit of Turner whaling paintings
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China landslide death toll rises to 22
BEIJING,(APP/AFP) – The number of bodies recovered from a landslide that engulfed workers at a Chinese construction site rose to at least 22 on Monday with 17 people still missing, state media said. Heavy rain at the weekend buried a temporary shed used by workers at a hydropower station construction site in Fujian province, in […]
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Police, civilians killed in Mogadishu attack
MOGADISHU, (APP/AFP) – The militants killed three police officers in a bomb and gun attack on a police station in the Somali capital on Monday, city authorities said. A suicide car bomber and a gunman also died, as did two civilians, apparently shot by police responding to the attack claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-aligned Shebab. Other […]
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10 dead in Philippine election day violence
MANILA, (APP/AFP) – At least 10 people died across the Philippines in election day violence on Monday, as gunmen attacked polling stations, ambushed vehicles and stole vote counting machines, police said. However authorities described the violence as isolated incidents and that the overall conduct of the elections — which will see tens of millions of […]
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BBC says N. Korea detains and expels reporter
SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – A BBC reporter in North Korea was detained and ordered expelled from the country over his reporting in the run-up to a rare ruling party congress, the British broadcaster said Monday. The reporter, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, was detained on Friday at Pyongyang airport as he was leaving the country with two other BBC […]
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Khan’s triumph as London’s first Muslim mayor boosts Labour
LONDON, (APP/AFP) – New London mayor Sadiq Khan won a landslide victory Saturday, becoming the first Muslim leader of a Western capital, boosting the Labour party and raising questions over failed Conservative tactics. Khan, whose Pakistani parents emigrated to Britain in the 1960s, beat Conservative multimillionaire Zac Goldsmith with 57 percent or 1.3 million votes […]