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Monday, February 11, 2019
Stalker ordered to stay away from Rihanna for 10 years after break-in
Monday, February 11, 2019
HOLLYWOOD - A man has been ordered to stay away from Rihanna for 10 years after accepting charges of stalking. Eduardo Leon spent 12 hours in the singer’s home in the Hollywood Hills before being found by her assistant. The 27-year-old, from California, had jumped over a fence and broke into her property. Leon pleaded no contest to felony counts of stalking and vandalism, and a misdemeanour count of resisting arrest, in relation to the incident in May last year. No contest means he accepts the charges but has not pleaded guilty. Leon was sentenced to formal probation for five years and placed on GPS monitoring for 90 days. The judge also ordered him to stay away from Rihanna for 10 years - and issued a ban on social media while he is on probation. Prosecutors said he must also take part in mental health and drug treatment programmes. If he violates the terms of his probation, he could face up to four years and eight months in a state prison. Rihanna, who is 30 and was born in Barbados, is known for hits including Umbrella, Diamonds and We Found Love, as well as her Fenty cosmetics line and other businesses. (net) Thank U, Next: Ariana Grande is not happy with the Grammys.
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Ariana Grande accuses Grammys boss of ‘lying’ about her reasons for not performing
CALIFORNIA - Ariana Grande has accused the organiser of the Grammys of lying about her reasons for withdrawing from performing at the ceremony.
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The singer posted several tweets explaining her reasons for not attending the show after Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich said her absence was down to not being able to organise her set in time. Grande denied this, saying she could “pull together a performance overnight”, and instead said Ehrlich had “stifled” her creativity. In her first post, the singer said: “I’ve kept my mouth shut but now you’re lying about me. I can pull together a performance over night and you know that, Ken. It was when my creativity & self expression was stifled by you, that I decided not to attend. I hope the show is exactly what you want it to be and more.”
Grande has been featured on billboards promoting the show, which takes place in Los Angeles on Sunday. In her tweets, she accused organisers of “playing games”. “I offered 3 different songs,” she said. “It’s about collaboration. It’s about feeling supported. It’s about art and honesty. Not politics. Not doing favors or playing games. It’s just a game y’all. And i’m sorry but that’s not what music is to me.” She then joked that she had “passed a Grammy’s bus with my face on it” as she was typing the tweets, before saying she was “still grateful for the acknowledgement this year”. (net)
Young polar bear Nanook plays in the snow during his first winter at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Cold winter weather has captured even lower regions in Germany.
Russian Arctic archipelago sounds alarm over aggressive polar bears
A Russian Arctic archipelago on Saturday declared an emergency situation over an “invasion” of dozens of aggressive polar bears that have entered homes and public buildings. Russia’s northeastern Novaya Zemlya archipelago, which has a population of around 3,000 people, has appealed for help to tackle “a mass invasion of polar bears into inhabited areas,” regional authorities said in a statement. Russian authorities have so far refused permission to shoot the bears but are sending a commission to investigate the situation and have not ruled out a cull. Polar bears are affected by global warming with melting Arctic ice forcing them to spend more time on land where they compete
for food. They are recognised as an endangered species in Russia and hunting them is banned. Russia has air force and air defence troops based on Novaya Zemlya. Since December, 52 polar bears have regularly visited the archipelago’s main settlement, Belushya Guba, with some displaying “aggressive behaviour,” local official Alexander Minayev said in a report to regional authorities. This included “attacks on people and entering residential homes and public buildings,” said Minayev, the deputy chief of the
local administration. “There are constantly 6 to 10 bears inside the settlement,” he said. “People are scared, they are afraid to leave their homes... parents are frightened to let their children go to schools and kindergartens.” The head of the local administration Zhigansha Musin said that the numbers of polar bears were unprecedented. “I’ve been on Novaya Zemlya since 1983 and there’s never been such a mass invasion of polar bears,” he told regional officials. Bears are constantly inside a
military garrison and “literally chase people” he said as well as going into the entrances of blocks of flats. Local officials complained that measures to scare off polar bears such as vehicle and dog patrols have not been effective as polar bears feel secure and no longer react. The federal environmental resources agency has refused to issue licences to shoot the most aggressive bears. A working group of regional and federal officials is set to visit the archipelago to assess the situation and the measures taken so far. The Arkhangelsk regional authorities, which oversee Novaya
Zemlya, said that if all else failed “shooting the animals could be the only possible forced measure.” In January, a defence ministry official said that hundreds of disused military buildings had been demolished on Novaya Zemlya because polar bears were settling inside them.(afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.