Daily Archives: June 24, 2014

Oscar Statuette From 1942 Sold $79,200 at Auction

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An Oscar statuette from 1942 fetched nearly $80,000 at a recent auction in Rhode Island. As reported by The Associated Press, the auction house previously expected that the trophy would be sold at $5,000 to $30,000, but it finally went to a buyer at $79,200 on Monday, June 23.

The statuette went to Joseph C. Wright at the 15th Academy Awards. He was honored with the trophy for his color art direction in “My Gal Sal”.

The 13-inch statue, which weighs around 6 pounds, went to Wright’s nephew when he died in 1985 at the age of 92 in California.

The Academy previously investigated the sale of the statue. Their rule states that starting from 1950 the Oscar winners or their heirs are not allowed to sell the trophies without first offering them back to the Academy for $1.

 

UN: At Least 1,075 Killed in Iraq in June

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United Nations human rights monitors say at least 1,075 people have been killed in Iraq during June, most of them civilians.

The U.N. human rights team in Iraq says at least 757 civilians were killed and 599 injured in Nineveh, Diyala and Salah al-Din provinces from June 5-22.

Spokesman Rupert Colville told reporters Tuesday in Geneva the figure “should be viewed very much as a minimum” and includes some verified summary executions and extra-judicial killings of civilians, police, and soldiers who had stopped fighting.

He says at least another 318 people were killed and 590 injured during the same time in Baghdad and areas in southern Iraq, many of them from at least 6 separate vehicle-borne bombs.

 

 

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Riot police on the streets of suburban LA to control Mexico fans celebrating World Cup victory over Croatia

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Mexican soccer fans were dispersed by police after a celebration turned disorderly.

The majority of the hundreds of fans that poured into the streets of Huntington Park, California after Mexico won its world Cup match Monday were peaceful, but about a dozen began rocking cars and tossing bottles at riot officers.

The team beat Croatia 3-1 to advance from the group stage of the soccer tournament to the knockout round for the sixth World Cup in a row.

Fans poured into the streets of the suburban Los Angeles town waiving Mexican flags and chanting while cars tried to navigate by.

Police on motorcycles and even horseback soon arrived to control the increasingly rowdy gathering.

It took police more than two hours to finally bring the crowd under control and move it out of the busy street, according to KCBS.

 

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EXCLUSIVE: Iraqi Kurdistan leader Massoud Barzani says ‘the time is here’ for self-determination

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massoud-barzani-kurdistanIraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani gave his strongest-ever indication on Monday that his region would seek formal independence from the rest of Iraq.

Iraqi Kurdish independence has long been a goal, and the region has had autonomy from Baghdad for more than two decades, but they have never before said they would actually pursue that dream.

But the latest crisis, in which Sunni extremists have captured a large swath of Iraqi territory on the border of Iraqi Kurdistan, seems to have pushed the Kurds over the edge.

Barzani said that he would make that case to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry when they meet in Erbil Tuesday; America is a close Kurdish ally, but opposes independence for the region.

A reconciliation, Barzani said, could be possible “if there was understanding between Shias and Sunnis, and if there is a guarantee of a true partnership in the authority.”