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Polish director Jan Komasa might be best known in the United States for his 2019 Oscar-nominated film βCorpus Christi,β but his biggest box-office success was in Poland for his 2014 film βWarsaw 44,β about the Warsaw Uprising, the bloody effort by the Polish resistance to expel the occupying German army from the city toward the…
The government’s ‘one in, one out’ swap deal with France has so far returned 75 migrants, while 51 people have arrived in the UK under the scheme. Under the pilot scheme, enacted in August, the UK returns asylum seekers who cross the English Channel via small boat but accepts in exchange the same number of…
TORONTOΒ βΒ As soon as Blake Treinen entered for the ninth inning of Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night, Clayton Kershaw dropped his guard and began to look around. For the previous three hours, the future Hall of Fame pitcher had been locked in on the game, mentally preparing for a potential relief appearance…
The manager of the bulk of TGI Fridays’ restaurants around the world has swooped to buy its British operations in a deal which preserves all 2,000 jobs at the chain. Sky News has learnt that Sugarloaf TGIF Management, run by former TGI Fridays chief executive Ray Blanchette, has struck a deal to take control of…
Is President Trump going to restart nuclear weapons testing? When will this federal shutdown end? Will Californians pass Proposition 50, scramble the stateβs congressional maps and shake up next yearβs midterm elections? Amid a swirl of high-stakes standoffs and unprecedented posturing by Trump, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leaders in Washington and Sacramento, the future…
Nicey Nash-Betts has only ever lived in Los Angeles β and sheβs proud of that. βIβm an OG Angeleno,β says the Academy Award-winning actress whoβs lived all over the county, from Compton to Palmdale. When I ask her why sheβs stayed, she says, βThe weather.β And also: βMy family is here and I feel like…
Only a quarter of people think immigration is an important issue locally – and concern about it is “a manufactured panic,” it has been claimed. A YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community. This was half the 52% who said…
SOUTHERN SECTION PLAYOFFS THURSDAYβS RESULTS First Round DIVISION 2Chino Hills 8, Redlands East Valley 7Etiwanda 11, Santa Monica 10La Habra 13, Alta Loma 10Los Alamitos 22, Walnut 13Orange Lutheran 11, San Marino 10El Segundo 17, Edison 16Damien 14, Crescenta Valley 11Crean Lutheran 21, Carpinteria 13Redondo Union 12, La Serna 8Royal 11, Riverside King 10Ventura 11,…
Tech giants Apple and Amazon have defied industry predictions with better-than-expected financial results. Apple’s success is largely thanks to record-breaking iPhone sales, while Amazon’s is down to cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services (AWS), in spite of last week’s outage which knocked out thousands of websites. AWS revenue accelerated 20.2% to $33bn (almost Β£25bn), which…
After a year of embarrassing sex allegations related to Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew on Thursday was stripped of his title by Buckingham Palace. βPrince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,β a statement said. βThese censures are deemed necessary, not withstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him. Their…
