Born in Iran, Norouzi studied acting in Germany and made a name for herself in Bollywood with her web series Sacred Games, Abhay season 2 and the Punjabi language film “Khido Khundi”. Bollywood has opened a whole new world for Iranian-born actress Elnaaz Norouzi. She says her journey had its share of ups and downs due to her being an “outsider”, as she had to struggle to prove her mettle and be accepted in the industry. But her debut with the popular web series “Sacred Games” in 2018 and recently released web series Abhay Season 2 has brought a big turning […]
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Being a mom is challenging enough. Add the pressures of a pandemic — and how do you cope? Mothers in Jordan, the Netherlands and Wisconsin share their stories and strategies. (Image credit: Nadia Bseiso, Julia Gunther and Lauren Justice for NPR) Source link
A four-week ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown has been announced in Northern Ireland to curb soaring Covid cases. The restrictions are the toughest introduced anywhere in the UK. On Wednesday, First Minister Arlene Foster announced strict new measures to tackle the Covid pandemic in Northern Ireland. The move sees pubs, restaurants and bars shut for a month, effective from 6pm on Friday, while schools will close for two weeks from Monday. The first minister said she was aware of the impact this would have on people’s lives and paid tribute to young people as they deal with this “difficult time.” We fully appreciate […]
As relations between the world’s two major economies, the US and China, continue to deteriorate, RT’s Boom Bust talks to Professor Richard Wolff about what’s really going on. “What we’re seeing is mostly posturing by Mr. Trump for domestic electoral votes,” he says, adding that the US president thinks the bashing of China could gain him some kind of support. “This is a way of keeping attention, positioning himself for the American market as a ‘tough guy’ but for the rest of the world as seeking some kind of accommodation.” Wolff adds that “Once the election is over, whoever wins will […]
President Donald Trump is largely avoiding discussion of the threats of post-election violence made by left-wing groups, but when pressed on the issue, he says any such mayhem will be quickly quashed. “We want to win, and once we win, we’ll take care of business,” Trump said in an interview with podcast host Dan Bongino, posted on Monday. “We’ll take care of business.” Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, noted that groups such as the Transition Integrity Project – which has ties to billionaire activism donor George Soros – have pledged a “street fight” if Trump tries to claim victory in the November 3 election. […]
Toobin spoke to Fresh Air in 2013 about his New Yorker profile of Ginsburg, written as she marked her 20th anniversary on the Supreme Court. Ginsburg died Sept. 18 at the age of 87. National Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Supreme Court’s ‘Heavyweight’ Source link
In July, the UK had a change of heart regarding the Huawei issue, following months of talks with Washington, announcing the Chinese telecom company’s equipment would ultimately be a no go in the domestic market. President Donald Trump boasted in an interview with Fox News about having had a “tough talk” with his British colleague, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, over the Huawei matter. He told the head of the British government that he could “forget about Scotland Yard” if his country went ahead with its 5G deal with the Chinese telecom titan, “because we can’t do business with you”, Trump outlined […]
The health threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic is particularly intense for people with cancer. Medication weakens the immune system. Cancer treatments are often delayed. FG Trade/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption FG Trade/Getty Images The health threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic is particularly intense for people with cancer. Medication weakens the immune system. Cancer treatments are often delayed. FG Trade/Getty Images Alexea Gaffney battles health issues every day on multiple fronts. As an infectious disease doctor in Stony Brook, N.Y., she treats patients who have COVID-19. And two years ago, at age 37, she was diagnosed with stage 3 […]
President Donald Trump openly mused on Thursday night about sending tens of thousands of federal agents into major U.S. cities seeing unrest, claiming he could “solve these problems so fast” if those cities just “invited” the 75,000 “tough” feds he supposedly has ready to go. Trump, who recently announced a “surge” of hundreds of FBI and Justice Department personnel into Chicago to ostensibly combat violent crime, mused openly about his recent “law and order” push with Fox News host and close confidant Sean Hannity. The president first brought up Portland, which is currently the scene of a federal crackdown on anti-racism […]
Guardian: Night upon night the chant goes up in front of Portland’s federal courthouse: “Whose streets?” Who scared Trumpstain’s warriors? The answer depends on the hour of the day. After Donald Trump sent federal agents to take control of a city he said had been abandoned by its mayor to anarchists and mob rule, the protesters still turning out in support of Black Lives Matter can make a legitimate claim that these are, as the chant goes, “our streets”. Trump’s occupation commander, Israeli citizen Chad Wolf, a serving Major in the Israeli Defense Forces Retweet if you agree #GestapoTrump is using Portland as […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): After facing a major clampdown on predatory discount offers, e-commerce portals like Amazon, Flipkart, and manufacturers will have to pay a heavy price including jail terms in the event of delivering counterfeit goods or using misleading ads. Narendra Modi’s government rolled out a new Consumer Protection Act on Monday, with provisions that empower consumers to drag fallacious advertisers, manufacturers, and sellers to court. The act, which replaced a three-decade-old law, has broadened its grip on e-commerce giants and celebrity endorsements. The new law will tighten the noose on manufacturers, service providers and hold celebrity endorsers accountable for ads […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0a/1079851704_0:406:2918:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_698f9d4492a710535d2ae467513d673b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202007191079931681-he-will-be-crying-for-mommy-trump-doubts-biden-capable-of-sitting-through-tough-interviews/ The US president often questions the mental capability of his opponents, including Dem US presidential candidate Joe Biden, referring to numerous public gaffes by the former vice-president. Trump earlier tweeted that his opponent be given a cognitive test, and boasted of his own outstanding results, should one be administered. US President Donald Trump again mocked Joe Biden, his likely opponent in the upcoming November election, suggesting that the Democrat will not be able to survive “tough” interviews like the one POTUS earlier faced with Chris Wallace, a Fox News anchor News known […]
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2, 2019. Jorge Silva/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jorge Silva/AFP via Getty Images Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2, 2019. Jorge Silva/AFP via Getty Images “Rip apart the defectors, the traitors and the human trash,” demonstrators wearing masks and standing in neat rows shouted at a rally in Nampo City, North Korea, last month, state […]
Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, a common complaint was that he wasn’t being “tough” enough. Not tough enough on foreign policy, on ISIS, on Russia, not tough enough on the Republicans who were stonewalling his agenda in Washington. What those people thought they wanted was a president who would get in there and knock some skulls together, like Harrison Ford fist-fighting at 30,000 feet in Air Force One or Macho Man Randy Savage breaking the fourth wall to guarantee his opponent will be lucky to escape with his life, much less the championship belt. (Donald Trump, by the way, was on hand […]
The US Senate minority leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer, seemingly got on his hobby-horse once more as he demanded new sanctions against Moscow amid reports about Russian agents putting ‘bounties’ on US troops in Afghanistan. “We need, in this coming defense bill, which we are debating this week, tough sanctions against Russia,” Schumer told journalists while emphatically gesturing to apparently add more weight to his point. The reason for the “tough sanctions” is a report by The New York Times that cites some “interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals” and accuses the Russian military intelligence, the GRU, of literally offering bounties […]
When the BitLicense was introduced in 2015, 15 crypto firms including international players like Hong Kong’s Bitfinex and Swiss company ShapeShift (which operates out of Denver) ceased operations in New York. In 2018, ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees called the regulation of crypto in New York “an absurdity.” But the firms that stuck around have a different story to tell. The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved 25 entities to engage in virtual currency services over the last five years. Of those, four are based in or started operations outside the United States, including: BitFlyer, a San Francisco-based company […]
BERLIN (Sputnik) – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed the belief on Monday that it was not surprising that the United States had not coordinated with Berlin the decision to withdraw troops, qualifying the bilateral relations as “difficult”. “I would say it [US-German relations] is difficult … As we see that the decision has not been 100 percent coordinated in the US government, it is not surprising that it has not been coordinated with us, either” Maas said, as aired by the broadcaster ZDF. Earlier, more than 20 Republicans from the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee sent a letter to President […]
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty Four days and three nights of unrest after Derek Chauvin’s knee was on the neck of George Floyd, the now former Minnesota police officer was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said the state investigation moved with “extraordinary speed,” noting that his office has never charged a police officer in “that kind of timeframe.” And yet, after viewing the video of Floyd’s death, most wonder why Chauvin wasn’t charged sooner. The answer is that the law deliberately stacks the deck in favor of police officers. All criminal defendants have […]
Receiving regulator approval to operate in Gibraltar is anything but easy, crypto derivatives exchange ZUBR told CoinDesk. ZUBR, which began trading in March, said Wednesday it had received in-principle approval from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) as a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) provider. The approval is on the condition the exchange addresses some of the regulator’s feedback by the time it gets its license. But just getting to this point has proven difficult. “From day one we realized hundred percent … that we would have to sacrifice a lot to get into the regulated space,” co-founder Oleg Ravnushkin said. Even […]
One particularly ugly feature of the Covid19 crisis is the sight of tax dodging billionaires lining up with grubby demands for state bail outs and/or soft loans from central government despite their long and sordid records of avoiding any tax contributions over many years. Billionaire tax dodgers are nothing but shameless cheats who should be shunned and shamed for their selfish actions in denying vital health services and schools billions of pounds of funding. Every pound the billionaires dodge in taxes is literally stealing from hospitals, classrooms and social care services. Yet many of them are honoured by the British Establishment […]