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George and Amal Clooney give $1 mln to combat U.S. hate groups
LOS ANGELES - Actor George Clooney and his humanitarian lawyer wife, Amal Clooney, have donated $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a U.S. non-profit that monitors extremists and domestic hate groups, in response to protests in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month. An Aug. 12 rally in the town organized by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists led to counter-protests and the death of a woman when a car plowed into the crowd. The street battles triggered a political crisis for President Donald Trump, who praised “very fine people” on both sides of the fight. “What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collec-
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tive engagement to stand up to hate,” the Clooneys said in a joint statement. The donation comes from the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which the couple established in 2016 to promote justice in classrooms and courtrooms around the world. Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen thanked the Clooneys for “standing with us at this critical moment in our country’s fight against hate.” (rtr)
Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal pose as they arrive at the 42nd Cesar Awards ceremony in Paris, France, February 24, 2017.
Mark Wahlberg named world’s highest-paid actor in 2017 LOS ANGELES - Mark Wahlberg soared to the top of the world’s highest paid actors on an annual Forbes magazine list that highlighted a huge disparity between male and female Hollywood stars.
Wahlberg, 46, earned an estimated $68 million in 2017 thanks to his pay days for movies “Daddy’s Home 2” and “Transformers: The Last Knight”, according to the Forbes ranking released on Tuesday. The rapper-turned-actor knocked 2016 leader Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson into second place, with estimated 2017 earnings of $65 million. Forbes estimates earnings, before taxes and management fees, from movies, TV and commercial endorsements. The Forbes list again highlighted Hollywood’s gender pay gap. Last week, the magazine named “La La
Land” Oscar winner Emma Stone as the world’s highest paid actress with an estimated 2017 take of $26 million. Forbes said the 10 highest-paid leading men earned a combined $488.5 million before tax in its June 2016-June 2017 scoring period, nearly three times more than the $172.5 million earned by the top 10 scoring women. Forbes attributed the disparity to the prevalence of superhero and action blockbusters that earn big at the box office for Hollywood studios but tend to have fewer leading roles for women. “Pirates of the Caribbean”
star Johnny Depp, who for years has been among the top five paid actors, did not make the top 20 this year, Forbes said. Depp is currently embroiled in a bitter lawsuit with his former business managers who have detailed what they describe as his lavish spending habits. Last December, before the May 2017 release of “Pirates of the Caribbean; Dead Men Tell No Tales,” Forbes named Depp the most overpaid actor for a second straight year as films such as “Alice Through the Looking Glass” and “Mortdecai” did not fare well. Three of Bollywood’s biggest stars - Shah Rukh Khan ($38 million), Salman Khan ($37 million) and Akshay Kumar ($35.5 million) - took the 8th, 9th and 10th places on the Forbes list, respectively. (rtr)
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A person stands in front of a damaged house after an earthquake hits the island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, Italy August 22, 2017.
Italy’s latest deadly quake exposes inaction on illegal homes
ROME - A small but deadly earthquake on the Italian holiday island of Ischia exposed a deep political fault line on Tuesday over the country’s proliferation of unsafe, illegal housing. The tremor, officially recorded in Italy at a modest strength of 4.0, toppled buildings, killed two people and injured dozens in a district where seven years ago residents rioted to prevent bulldozers from razing illegally built homes. “It’s ridiculous that people should die in an earthquake of this strength,” said Francesco Peduto, president of Italy’s national association of geologists. “In other advanced countries a quake like this would do no damage at all.” A fifth of new Italian houses were built illegally in 2015, according to the statistics bureau ISTAT, up from 9 percent in 2008. In four southern regions - including Sicily and Campania, where Ischia lies the proportion stood at well over a third two years ago. The legal status of the buildings that came down on Monday night was unclear. But the deaths reopened a debate over the problem
of builders sidestepping regulations, including those designed to ensure homes can resist earthquakes. “Ischia has always been a symbol of illegal building, random cementification and impunity,” Italy’s environmentalist lobby Legambiente said in a statement after the earthquake. It struck three days before the first anniversary of a much bigger, 6.2 magnitude quake that killed nearly 300 people in central Italy, most of them in the town of Amatrice. The government and political parties say they want to tackle the problem, but they have been reluctant to match words with deeds, especially in the run-up to local
elections in Sicily in November and a national vote early next year. Many houses, especially in the poor south, have been built illegally to save money and time by avoiding taxes and red tape, and their owners resist attempts to enforce the law. Angelo Cambiano, former mayor of the small Sicilian town of Licata, paid a high price for tackling the problem. He first received anonymous threats and was finally forced from office by his own councillors this month after demolishing 67 illegal dwellings, mostly holiday homes on the coast, since he took office in 2015. Cambiano’s approach was unusual. Governments of all
political stripes have preferred to serve up regular amnesties for illegal construction work, allowing culprits to regularise their position with the payment of a modest fine while allowing the structures to stand. The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, favourite to win Sicily’s regional election, came under fire this month when its candidate argued that inadequate housing policies had obliged many Sicilians to build illegally. His words were widely seen as justification for illegal and shoddy construction. Five-Star, whose battle cries are legality and sustainable development, was attacked for burying its principles in a bid for power. Its most prominent member of parliament, Luigi Di Maio, clarified that “all houses served with a demolition order have to come down”.
TRAGIC PRECEDENT Ischia, off the southern port city of Naples, is no stranger to earthquakes. A larger tremor in 1883 killed more than 2,000 people on the island. Yet little has been done to make its houses safer now than they were then. Seven years ago hundreds of its residents built barricades and threw bottles to stop bulldozers reaching the first of 600 illegally built houses due to be demolished. Almost all the houses were spared and the clashes took place in the part of the island worst hit by Monday’s quake. Continued to page 6
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