BENGTSFORS, Sweden, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Uma Thurman is to star in Lars von Trier’s new serial killer thriller “The House That Jack Built”, producers announced Tuesday as shooting got underway in Sweden. The US actress — no stranger to gore thanks to her roles in “Pulp Fiction” and “Kill Bill”, will appear alongside Matt Dillon and […]
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Uma Thurman joins cast of new Lars von Trier thriller
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VW chief seeks to regain trust after ‘Dieselgate’
GENEVA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Volkswagen is on track for dealing with the recall of cars involved in the “Dieselgate” emissions scandal but, longer-term, needs to regain the trust of its customers, its chief executive Matthias Mueller said Tuesday. His comments came as the EU and European consumer protection agencies hiked pressure on VW to fully compensate […]
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Railway suicides cluster near mental hospitals: study
PARIS, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Railway suicides in Austria are suspiciously clustered near psychiatric hospitals, scientists reported Wednesday. More than 1,100 people in Austria took their own lives from 1998 to 2009 by laying on the tracks or hurling themselves in front of oncoming trains, they noted in a study published in Royal Society Open Science. Using […]
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Public hearing on Russian election meddling set for March 20
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – The first public hearing into Russian interference in the US election will take place on March 20, with top intelligence officials invited to take the stand in Congress on the snowballing controversy. Devin Nunes, the chair of the House of Representatives intelligence committee which is probing the allegations dogging the government of […]
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Mexico decries US idea of splitting up immigrant families
MEXICO CITY, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Mexico has objected to the United States about a potential plan to separate immigrant children from their parents if they try to illegally enter the US, an official said Tuesday. If the United States pursues that idea, “many families” will suffer an “irreversible damage,” said Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said at […]
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Philippines aims for ‘golden age of infrastructure’
MANILA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Desperately needed airports and trains are part of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s envisioned “golden age of infrastructure”, but graft, red tape and other perennial problems threaten the $170-billion plan. Unprecedented influxes of money from China and Japan are key planks of the hoped-for building frenzy, which aims to rectify decades of underspending […]