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Trump website features image of his bloody face to raise funds

Trump website features image of his bloody face to raise funds
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AFP)
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Updated 15 July 2024
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Trump website features image of his bloody face to raise funds

Trump website features image of his bloody face to raise funds
Updated 15 July 2024
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WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump’s website featured an image of him with a bloodied face on Monday morning to urge supporters to donate to his campaign and come together in the spirit of unity and peace following this weekend’s shooting.
The website redirected prospective donors to a page on fundraising platform WinRed that shows a black and white image taken by an Associated Press photographer that Trump has described as “iconic.”
It shows the Republican candidate’s face streaked with blood and his fist raised in defiance after a bullet pierced his upper right ear at a rally in Pennsylvania. The image was captioned with the words “FEAR NOT” written in upper case letters.
A message below the image read: “Unity. Peace. Make America Great Again.” The page also carried Trump’s signature and gave visitors to the website options to contribute at different levels.
In an interview published late on Sunday by the New York Post, Trump spoke about the images taken of him immediately after he was shot, including the photo featured on his campaign website.
“A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen,” Trump was quoted as saying in the New York Post. “They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture.”
Trump, who is running against Democratic US President Joe Biden in November’s election, was shot by a 20-year-old man with a semiautomatic rifle on Saturday at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
One Trump supporter who attended the rally was killed, two others were wounded and the suspect was shot dead by security agents. The FBI said it was investigating the shooting as an assassination attempt.
Leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties, including Trump and Biden, appealed to the bitterly divided country to unite and maintain calm after the shooting.
A GoFundMe campaign backed by Trump for the victims of the shooting at the former president’s rally had raised over $3.5 million by the end of Sunday.

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One of the world’s largest diamonds found in Botswana

One of the world’s largest diamonds found in Botswana
Updated 22 August 2024
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One of the world’s largest diamonds found in Botswana

One of the world’s largest diamonds found in Botswana
  • The diamond was found in the Karowe Diamond Mine in northeastern Botswana
  • In terms of carats, the stone appears to be not far behind the largest gem-quality diamond ever mined
Updated 22 August 2024
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GABORONE, Botswana: One of the world’s largest diamonds ever unearthed — a rough 2,492-carat stone — has been found in Botswana, a Canadian mining company that discovered the gem announced Thursday.
The diamond was found in the Karowe Diamond Mine in northeastern Botswana, about 430 kilometers (270 miles) from the capital Gaborone, Lucara Diamond Corp. said in a statement.
Lucara did not give a value for the find or mention its quality.
In terms of carats, the stone appears to be not far behind the largest gem-quality diamond ever mined, the 3,016.75-carat Cullinan Diamond discovered in South Africa in 1905.
“We are ecstatic about the recovery of this extraordinary 2,492 carat diamond,” Lucara president and CEO William Lamb said in the statement.
This find was “one of the largest rough diamonds ever unearthed” and detected using the company’s Mega Diamond Recovery X-ray technology, the statement said.
President Mokgweetsi Masisi was due to view the massive stone later Thursday.
Botswana is one of the world’s largest producers of diamonds, which are its main source of income.
Before the find announced on Thursday, the largest diamond recovered in Botswana was a 1,758-carat stone mined by Lucara in 2019 and named Sewelo.

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Lionsgate recalls and apologizes for ‘Megalopolis’ trailer for fabricated quotes

Lionsgate recalls and apologizes for ‘Megalopolis’ trailer for fabricated quotes
Updated 22 August 2024
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Lionsgate recalls and apologizes for ‘Megalopolis’ trailer for fabricated quotes

Lionsgate recalls and apologizes for ‘Megalopolis’ trailer for fabricated quotes
Updated 22 August 2024
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Lionsgate recalled its new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s ” Megalopolis ” Wednesday amid revelations that critics’ quotes were fabricated.
“Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis,” a Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process. We screwed up. We are sorry.”
The trailer, released earlier Wednesday, included quotes from critics like Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert of other Coppola films that did not actually appear in their reviews. The intent, it seems, was to highlight the critical divisiveness of now-classics like “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” leaning into some of the more negative reactions to “Megalopolis,” the self-financed $120 million epic opening in September.
The trailer attributed a quote to Kael that “The Godfather” was “diminished by its artsiness.” But Kael loved “The Godfather,” and this phrase was not used in her March 1972 review of the film for The New Yorker. Ebert also did not write that Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” was “a triumph of style over substance.” Quotes from Rex Reed and Vincent Canby, about “Apocalypse Now,” did not appear in their reviews either.
“Megalopolis” has been decades in the making, and it received many mixed reviews upon its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. It has also come under scrutiny of late for alleged misconduct on set, after videos leaked of Coppola hugging and kissing extras during a club scene. Representatives have not responded to the AP’s requests for comment about the videos.
The film is set to have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month before hitting theaters on Sept. 27.

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Japanese woman, aged 116, set to become world’s oldest person

Japanese woman, aged 116, set to become world’s oldest person
Updated 21 August 2024
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Japanese woman, aged 116, set to become world’s oldest person

Japanese woman, aged 116, set to become world’s oldest person
Updated 21 August 2024
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TOKYO: A 116-year-old Japanese woman who used to be a mountaineer is set to be named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records, a research group said on Wednesday, following the death of a 117-year-old Spanish woman earlier this week.
Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908, lives in the western Japanese city of Ashiya, the US-based Gerontology Research Group said.
She is next in line for the title of world’s oldest person after Maria Branyas Morera died in a Spanish nursing home on Monday, according to the group.
Itooka, a mother-of-three, was born in the year when a long-distance radio message was sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time, and when the Wright Brothers made their first public flights in Europe and America.
In her 70s, Itooka often went climbing and twice scaled Japan’s 3,067-meter (10,062-ft) Mount Ontake — surprising her guide by climbing the mountain in sneakers instead of hiking boots, the research group said.
At the age of 100, she walked up the lengthy stone steps of Japan’s Ashiya Shrine without using a cane, the group added.

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With tourists away, Mount Fuji barrier taken down in Japan

With tourists away, Mount Fuji barrier taken down in Japan
Updated 20 August 2024
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With tourists away, Mount Fuji barrier taken down in Japan

With tourists away, Mount Fuji barrier taken down in Japan
  • Fujikawaguchiko put up the large screen in May after residents complained about streams of mostly foreign visitors causing problems
  • The town’s struggle with unruly tourists made international headlines as record numbers of tourists headed to Japan over the summer
Updated 20 August 2024
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TOKYO: A barrier erected in Japan to block a popular view of Mount Fuji has been taken down — for now — after succeeding in discouraging unruly tourists, a town official said Tuesday.
Fujikawaguchiko put up the large screen in May after residents complained about streams of mostly foreign visitors causing problems while trying to snap photos of Japan’s famous volcano.
The town lowered the screen on August 15 ahead of a typhoon and has decided not to put it back up.
“We wanted to see what would happen,” the town official told AFP.
“There are still some people who come to the place. But we no longer find many people suddenly rushing out into the traffic to cross the road,” he said.
Pictures taken from the narrow pavement in front of a dentist’s office were popular online, with the snow-capped mountain rising photogenically into the sky from behind a convenience store.
The town’s struggle with unruly tourists made international headlines as record numbers of tourists headed to Japan over the summer, creating some opposition among locals.
The Fujikawaguchiko official said the town can put up the screen again if tourists return and cause more problems.

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August’s supermoon is the first of four lunar spectacles

August’s supermoon is the first of four lunar spectacles
Updated 20 August 2024
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August’s supermoon is the first of four lunar spectacles

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Updated 20 August 2024
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Monday’s supermoon is the first of four this year.
During a supermoon, the full moon inches a little closer than usual to Earth. A supermoon isn’t bigger, but it can appear that way in the night sky, although scientists say the difference can be barely perceptible.
September’s supermoon will coincide with a partial lunar eclipse. October’s will be the year’s closest approach, and November’s will round out the year.
More a popular term than a scientific one, a supermoon occurs when a full lunar phase syncs up with an especially close swing around Earth. This usually happens only three or four times a year and consecutively, given the moon’s constantly shifting, oval-shaped orbit.

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