Daily Archives: October 31, 2013

Former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, 77, ‘secretly marries his 28-year-old fiancee in private ceremony at his house’

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Silvio Berlusconi has married his fiancée in a secret wedding at his private chapel, a friend has claimed.

The three-time Italian premier, 77, is said to have wed former TV showgirl Francesca Pascale, 28, at a church inside his palatial villa near Milan, three weeks ago.

The couple, who met when Miss Pascale was a teenage activist in his Forza Italia party, have been knocked in recent weeks by allegations that their relationship is ‘a sham’.

Miss Pascale is seeking Euro 10million damages after a TV station broadcast claims by Bulgarian actress Michele Bonev that she is in fact a lesbian. She says the comments are defamatory.

Now close friend ‘Bunga Bunga’ girl Marythell Polanco has said that she was invited to a secret ceremony, which took place just days before Miss Bonev’s claims surfaced.

Asked on Italian radio if the couple would get married, the Dominican model and singer revealed: ‘They are already married.’

She told Italian station Radio2: ‘They invited me but I couldn’t go because I was in labour with my son.

 

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Czech President in Wheelchair After Knee Injury

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Czech officials say President Milos Zeman needs to use a wheelchair after he injured his right knee, limiting his duties for up to six weeks.

The 69-year-old Zeman spent a night at a Prague hospital after falling at his residence on the way to the bathroom Wednesday, according to Health Minister Martin Holcat. The president, who damaged cartilage in the knee but won’t need surgery, was discharged Thursday.

Zeman will be recovering at the presidential castle in Lany, just outside Prague. His condition has forced him to cancel planned trips for the next few weeks.

Zeman, a chain smoker with a well-documented soft spot for alcohol, was recently diagnosed with diabetes. Holcat said alcohol didn’t play a role in Zeman’s injury.

 

Ashton Kutcher Announced as Lenovo’s Product Engineer

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Ashton Kutcher has joined Lenovo as a product engineer. The announcement was made during the release of Lenovo’s new Yoga tablet on Tuesday night, October 29, which was also attended by the “Two and a Half Men” actor.
“It’s somewhat of a dual role,” Kutcher commented on his new job in a phone interview with USA Today. “Lenovo makes really, really, really good hardware. I hope to make their products as consumer friendly as possible.”
Kutcher, who left for China shortly after the announcement to meet the company’s executives and engineers, also talked to Wired about being an engineer.
David Roman, chief marketing officer for Lenovo, believed that their collaboration would “break new ground by challenging assumptions, bringing new perspective and contributing his technical expertise to Yoga Tablet and other devices.” Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.

 

Beijing Calls Tiananmen Crash ‘Terrorist Act,’ Detains Five

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Two days after a deadly fiery car crash in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Chinese authorities officially called it as an “organized, premeditated violent terrorist act.”

On Monday, a Jeep carrying three passengers plowed through groups of tourists and burst into flames right in front of Beijing’s famed Tiananmen Gate where the portrait of Mao Zedong hangs over the iconic square.

The crash killed five, including the three passengers, and injured 40, many of them tourists.

For days the state media and the government called it an accident and stayed largely silent, even censoring images and mention of the smoldering wreckage on Chinese social media.

On Wednesday evening right before the national evening news, CCTV and the state-run news agency Xinhua announced that five suspects are detained in connection with the “terrorist act.”

The three people who died in the Jeep were all Uighurs, the Muslim minority group from the restive Xinjiang region of China. Xinhua reported that the  driver Usmen Hasan, his mother Kuwanhan Reyim and his wife Guliz Gini plowed through the crowd, crashed into the guardrail next to the moat of the Forbidden City, and then lit themselves on fire with gasoline.

The Beijing police said that they found “equipment full of gasoline, two knives and steel sticks as well as flag with extremist religious content” in the wreckage of the Jeep.

According the Xinhua report, the police claimed that the men admitted that they knew the driver Hasan and that they had conspired to carry out the attack.

 

‘Highly sophisticated’ drug tunnel found linking San Diego, Tijuana

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Investigators have shut down a newly-completed, “highly sophisticated” drug tunnel running under the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

It hasn’t been utilized,” ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said late Wednesday. “We were able to shutter it before it was utilized to bring drugs into the interior.”

The discovery was made by the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, which includes members of ICE, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The investigation is ongoing, according to Kice.

Like a 600-yard tunnel discovered along the border in November 2010, this tunnel had lighting and a rail system.

The earlier tunnel connected a warehouse in Tijuana with one in the Otay Mesa industrial area of San Diego.

About 30 tons of marijuana were discovered in that operation, U.S. officials said.

Drug cartels on the border have become so powerful and sophisticated in recent years that many Mexican communities and areas along the border are patches of uncontrollable violence, experts say.

 

A book of condolences has been opened at the Embassy of Poland in Armenia in remembrance of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

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A book of condolences in remembrance of Poland’s first non-communist prime-minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki has been opened at the Embassy of Poland in Armenia. Prominent Polish politician has died at the age of 86 on 18th October 2013.
“A man who had the courage to act wisely during Poland’s crucial moments has died. We say thank you,” said Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, who appointed Tadeusz Mazowiecki his advisor in October 2010. “Mazowiecki was one of the founding fathers of our freedom and independence,” added Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski speaking to the Polish media.
The book of condolence will be open from 11:00 am to 16:00 pm at the Embassy of Poland in Armenia, Hanrapetutyan 44a, Yerevan.

U.S. Embassy remembers journalist Daniel Pearl in Tumo film showcase

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On October 30, The U.S. Embassy hosted a documentary showing of “PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES”, in honor of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl.  Pearl was a Wall Street Journal reporter who was killed by terrorists in 2002.  Following his murder, Danny’s family and friends established the Daniel Pearl Foundation to carry on his legacy, using music and words to address the root causes of the hatred that took his life.  U.S. Embassies around the world celebrate his life annually, through musical and other cultural events.

PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES shows The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Times’ Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all around the world facing layoffs and cutbacks, PAGE ONE chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.  It gives us an up-close look at all that produces the “daily miracle” of a great news organization. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of journalists continuing to produce extraordinary work under increasingly difficult circumstances. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting that helps to define our society?

 

PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES is part of the American Film Showcase showing at Tumo until November 15.