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Taylor Swift’s ’Reputation’ reigns atop Billboard 200 chart
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
LOS ANGELES - Taylor Swift ruled at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday as her latest release “Reputation” easily beat off new entries from country music stars Tim McGraw and Garth Brooks. “Reputation,” which entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 last week with 1.2 million album units, sold another 256,000 units across album and song sales and streaming, according to figures from Nielsen Music. It is the year’s biggest album debut. McGraw’s “Rest of Our Life” debuted at No. 2 this week with
104,000 album units. Brooks’ “Anthology: The First Five Years” sold 53,000 album units and debuted at No. 4, just below British singer Sam Smith’s “The Thrill of it All,” which dropped one spot to No. 3 this week. The Billboard 200 chart tallies units from album sales, song sales (10 songs equal one album) and stream-
ing activity (1,500 streams equal one album). No other new albums cracked into the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart this week. On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online single sales, singer Camilla Cabello’s sultry “Havana” held onto the top spot with another 85,000 copies sold. (rtr)
Outcry over Weinstein sex scandal could boost women in Hollywood, insiders say
LONDON - Women working in Hollywood should seize upon the global outrage sparked by the Harvey Weinstein scandal to demand gender equality in the film industry, said female actors, producers and directors on Monday at an awards ceremony in Britain. More than 50 women have said U.S. movie producer Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them over the past three decades. Weinstein has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone. The allegations, which surfaced last month, spurred millions of women worldwide to share ex-
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Harvey Weinstein speaks at the UBS 40th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York, NY, U.S. on December 5, 2012. periences of being abused, groped and raped, flooding social media with the hashtag #MeToo. Amid this groundswell and ac-
cusations against Weinstein from high-profile actresses such as Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, the scandal may prove to be a watershed moment for women working in film, female producers and directors said. “Women have said: ‘Enough is enough, our voices matter, and we should be at the highest levels of the film business’,” said Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood, which advocates for gender equality in the global film industry. “The revolution is here, and women will no longer be kept at bay,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at an awards ceremony in London to mark the initiative’s tenth anniversary. Producer Elizabeth Karlsen, whose films include “Carol” and “Made in Dagenham”, and director Gurinder Chadha, who won fame for “Bend It Like Beckham”, were among the women celebrated in London, following similar events in New York and Los Angeles last month. (rtr)
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People watch Mount Agung volcano erupt from a cafe near Amed, Karangasem Regency, Bali, Indonesia November 28, 2017.
Tourists, authorities feel the heat as Bali volcano keeps airport closed
KARANGASEM - Indonesia on Tuesday extended the closure of the airport on Bali as ash from a volcano swept the island, stranding thousands of tourists as authorities tried to persuade villagers to leave their homes near the erupting mountain. “Aircraft flight channels are covered with volcanic ash,” the transport ministry said in a statement, citing aviation navigation authorities. Bali’s airport, about 60 km (37 miles) from the Mount Agung volcano, will be closed until 7 a.m. on Wednesday (2300 GMT on Tuesday), it said. Frustration at the country’s second-busiest airport were starting to boil over, with an estimated 2,000 people attempting to get refunds and reschedule tickets. “There are thousands of people stranded here at the airport,” said Nitin Sheth, a tourist from India. “They have to go to some other airport and they are trying to do that, but the government or authorities here are not helping.” Others were more relaxed. “No, there’s not a lot of information ...
very little. (But) it’s all right. We’re on holidays so it doesn’t matter. We don’t know what’s going to happen but we can get back to the bar and have another drink,” said Matthew Radix from Perth. Ten alternative airports have been prepared for airlines to divert inbound flights, including in neighbouring provinces, the airport operator said, adding it was helping people make alternative bookings and providing food and entertainment for stranded travellers. The airport on Lombok island, to the east of Bali, had been reopened, authorities said, as wind blew ash westward, toward the southern coast of Java island.
PRAYERS Agung towers over eastern Bali to a height of just over 3,000 metres (9,800 feet). Its last eruption in 1963 killed more than 1,000 people and razed several villages when it spewed out pyroclastic material, hot ash, lava and lahar. On Tuesday, however, life went on largely as normal in villages surrounding Agung, with residents offering prayers as the volcano sent columns of ash and smoke into the sky. Some villagers who fled in September, when the alert was last raised to the highest level, have gone home despite government warnings. On Monday, authorities said 100,000 residents living near
the volcano had been ordered to get out of an 8-10 km (5-6 mile) exclusion zone, warning a larger eruption was “imminent”. While the population in the area has been estimated at anywhere between 63,000 and 140,000, just over 29,000 people were registered at emergency centres, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the Disaster Mitigation Agency. “Not all people in the danger zone are prepared to take refuge,” he said. “There are still a lot of residents staying in their homes.” Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Centre has warned that an eruption of a size similar to that seen in 1963 could send rocks bigger than a fist flying a distance of up to 8 km (5 miles), and volcanic gas a distance of 10 km (6 miles) within three minutes.
Monitoring has shown the northeastern part of Agung’s peak had swollen in recent weeks “indicating there is fairly strong pressure toward the surface”, the centre said. Despite a similar pattern of volcanic activity to that in 1963, which reached a peak after up to three months of ash emissions, it was not clear how long the current eruption would last, said David Pyle, a professor in earth sciences at Oxford University. “It remains possible that the eruptive crisis could continue for some time.”(rtr) 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.