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Thursday, April 4, 2019
Mick Jagger to undergo heart surgery: report WASHINGTON - Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger will undergo surgery to replace a heart valve, with the band postponing the North American leg of a tour as a result, a report said Monday. The iconic British band had announced Saturday it was delaying the “No Filter” tour for the 75-yearold rocker to receive an unspecified medical treatment.Leading industry magazine Rolling Stone reported on Monday the cause was heart valve surgery, following an earlier report from Drudge Report, which added the procedure would take place this Friday in New York. “Mick Jagger has been advised by doctors that he cannot go on tour at this time as he needs medical treatment,” the band said in a statement after the postponement. “The doctors have advised Mick
that he is expected to make a complete recovery so that he can get back on stage as soon as possible.” Jagger himself tweeted: “I’m so sorry to all our fans in America & Canada with tickets. I really hate letting you down like this. “I’m devastated for having to postpone the tour but I will be working very hard to be back on stage as soon as I can. Once again, huge apologies to everyone.” Jagger has eight children, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, but has maintained his energetic stage performances well into his 70s, playing Britain’s Glastonbury Festival in 2013. The band, who formed in 1962, were due to play 17 shows in the US and Canada between April and June. (afp)
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Actress Michelle Williams
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Actress Michelle Williams at US Capitol to push for pay equality
WASHINGTON - Hollywood actress Michelle Williams came to Congress Tuesday appealing for a vote on a law to close the gender pay gap, recalling how she was once paid dramatically less than a male colleague for similar work.
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In this file photo taken on July 1, 2014 British singer and frontman of rock band The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger performs during a concert in Stockholm.
Nominated for four Academy Awards during her career, the star of “Manchester By the Sea” and “Brokeback Mountain” learned that while she earned $1,000 in 2017 to reshoot scenes for the film “All the Money in the World,” her male costar Mark Wahlberg received $1.5 million “for the exact same amount of work.” The reshoots on the Ridley Scott film were done to remove appearances by Kevin Spacey, who had played a leading role and recently had been charged with sexual assault. “If it was like this for me, a white woman in a glamorized industry, how were my sisters suffering across their profession?” Williams said. The 38-year-old actress’s appearance at the US Capitol was organized by House Democrats to mark Equal Pay Day, meant to symbolize how far
into the year a woman must work to make what men earned in the previous year. “Today, American women still earn, on average, only 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man, while African-American women earn only 61 cents and Latinas earn only 53 cents for every dollar paid to men,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives last week passed the Paycheck Fairness Act aimed at ending gender-based pay discrimination, still a problem decades after the Equal Pay Act of 1963 passed into law. The new measures would prevent employers from asking prospective workers how much they made in previous jobs, and by barring companies from punishing women when they try to negotiate salaries.
No date has been set for a vote in the US Senate, which is controlled by Republicans. “The ball’s now in the Senate court,” Williams said. “This is the next critical moment, please don’t let it pass by.” The Williams/Wahlberg pay discrepancy made national headlines when actress Jessica Chastain revealed it on social media, and it gained traction amid the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. Following the backlash, Wahlberg donated his $1.5 million earnings to a charity that addresses inequality and injustice in the workplace. Several Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls including senators Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged the Senate to follow the House’s lead and pass the pay equity legislation. (afp)
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, walks into a courtroom at Kuala Lumpur High Court in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. Najib appeared in court Wednesday for the start of his corruption trial, exactly 10 years after he was first elected to office only to suffer a spectacular defeat last year on allegations he pilfered millions of dollars from a state investment fund.
Malaysia ex-PM Najib goes on trial over 1MDB mega-scandal
Malaysia’s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to all charges against him as he went on trial Wednesday over a multi-billion-dollar fraud, almost a year after his shock election loss. The 65-year-old faced the first of several trials over his alleged involvement in the looting of sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, a state investment vehicle established to develop the economy of the Southeast Asian nation.
The former premier and his cronies are accused of plundering billions of dollars from the fund and spending it on everything from high-end real estate to artworks and a luxury yacht. He had been tipped to win another term in office easily last year and extend his coalition’s six-decade stranglehold on power, only to be soundly defeated by his former boss, Mahathir Mohamad, who rode a wave of public anger over 1MDB to the premiership. In the months that followed, once-dormant investigations into the controversy were relaunched and Najib was hit with dozens of corruption charges linked to the plundering of the fund. A small crowd of supporters was waiting for Najib as he arrived at the Kuala Lumpur court ahead of his trial, and he prayed with them for a few minutes before entering the building to shouts of “Long Live Najib”.
- ‘Near absolute power’ Looking relaxed in the dock, he denied seven corruption and moneylaundering charges related to the alleged theft of 42 million ringgit ($10.3 million) from SRC International, a former 1MDB unit. It is just a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars that he allegedly stole. Opening the prosecution, Attorney-General Tommy Thomas told the High Court it was the “first trial in our courts against a former prime minister, who for nearly a decade occupied the most powerful office in the land and wielded near absolute power. Continued to page 6
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