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Oilprice.com 

Oil Prices Drop as War Premium Evaporates

Crude oil prices slumped today following the news that Israel had accepted a proposal aimed at solving disagreements on a plan for ceasefire in Gaza. Brent crude dropped below $78 per barrel in midmorning Asian trade and West Texas Intermediate slipped below $74 per barrel earlier in the day, with little in the way of bullishness to arrest the slide. Find our full list of prices for over150 oil and fuel blends here “Prices seem to find some headwinds from geopolitical developments in the Middle East... Читать дальше...

Variety 

‘The Room Next Door’ Trailer: Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton Play Estranged Friends in Pedro Almodóvar’s First English-Language Feature

The first footage from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” starring Oscar winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, is here. Sony Pictures Classics dropped a teaser trailer on Tuesday for the film, which marks Almodóvar’s first English-language feature and is set to premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2. According […]

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

A German court upholds the conviction of a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp, age 99

A German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. The Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 by a state court in northern Germany. She was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, function. Читать дальше...

Thedailybeast.com 

William Furious That Harry and Meghan Still ‘Deliberately’ Call Catherine ‘Kate’

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty

Friends of Prince William and Kate Middleton have told the Daily Beast that William took offense at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle publicly referring to his wife as Kate rather than Catherine, “even when they were sending her get-well-soon messages after her cancer diagnosis.”

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Telecompaper.com 

MTS sells pre-sale vouchers for iPhone 16

(Telecompaper) Russian operator MTS has started selling digital vouchers enabling customers to purchase the iPhone 16 smartphones when they launch later this year....

Telecompaper.com 

Huber+Suhner reports rise in telecoms EBIT in H1

(Telecompaper) Cabling manufacturing group Huber+Suhner's telecoms segment has reported sales turnover of CHF 156 million in the first half of 2024, down 8.2 percent year-on-year...

Cyprus Mail 

Despite empty capital, burglaries drop in August

The number of burglaries across Nicosia has decreased in the ‘worrisome’ month of August this year, according a report on Tuesday. August is usually the month where the capital is all but empty, as residents go on holiday or choose to leave the city for a beach vacation elsewhere in the country. As such, Nicosia […]

Lagosstate.gov.ng 

GLOBAL FUND BOOSTS LAGOS HEALTHCARE WITH FIVE NEW MICU AMBULANCES 

… As LASG Restates Commitment to Swift Medical Emergency Response The Lagos State Government has received five brand new state-of-the-art Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) ambulances from the international donor organisation, Global Fund, to enhance swift medical emergency response in the state. The multi-million naira MICU Ambulances, donated to the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS), …