It might have taken the Walt Disney company less than three years to overtake Netflix in streaming subscribers, but its road to domination started more than 15 years ago with a carefully planned $100bn (£81bn) strategy to reinvigorate its empire for 21st century viewers.
Soon after Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday, Chinese nationalists began to celebrate his assassination bid on Weibo, sending him death wishes and terming the attacker a ‘hero’.
Yamagami’s mother, a longtime member of the church, reportedly gave it ¥100m [£618,000] in donations two decades ago, plunging their family into poverty.
He said his mother had made a “huge donation” to the church more than 20 years ago that had crippled the family’s finances.彼は、母親が 20 年以上前に教会に「多額の寄付」をしたため、家族の財政が破綻したと語った。
Dentsu, an advertising giant hard-wired into major Japanese institutions, stood to be Japan’s biggest winner of this year’s Games. But the pandemic has played havoc with those plans.
(서울=연합뉴스) 오명언 기자 = 매회 자체 최고 시청률을 경신하고 있는 ENA 수목드라마 ‘이상한 변호사 우영우'(이하 ‘우영우’)가 시청률 10%를 돌파했다.21일 시청률 조사회사 닐슨코리아에 따르면 전날 오후 9시 방송된 ‘우영우’ 7회 시청률은 11.7%(비지상파 유료가구)로 집계됐다.7회에서는 우영우가 고속도로 건설을 반대하며 집단 소송을 걸고 나선 소덕동 주민들을 변호하는 과정이 그려졌다.
‘Hasta la vista, baby’: Boris Johnson’s last words at PMQs – video
Boris Johnson has signed off from the dispatch box in the House of Commons after taking part in his last PMQs with the words ‘Hasta la vista, baby’ – a reference to an Arnold Schwarzenegger line in Terminator 2. Johnson listed advice to his successor before receiving a standing ovation as he left the chamber
The argument for sacking Ian Foster was given a major boost on Saturday night when a collective groan across the country punctuated the All Blacks’ defeat at the hands of resilient Irish.
But in recent years, the country has signaled a move towards greater military spending, and last December Prime Minister Kishida announced the government was exploring options to give it the capability to strike enemy bases.China is considered a major threat, but the combined strength of Russia and China has put Japan under considerable pressure.
Soon after Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday, Chinese nationalists began to celebrate his assassination bid on Weibo, sending him death wishes and terming the attacker a ‘hero’.
James Caan, the American actor renowned for his role as Sonny Corleone in the mafia epic The Godfather, as well as a string of key films in the 1970s, has died aged 82
Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across the country, is offering endless free noodle refills for a fortnight from election day on Sunday until 24 June, the Mainichi Shimbun said, provided they can show proof that they have voted.全国に50店のラーメン店を営む一風堂は、日曜日の選挙日から6月24日までの2週間、無期限の無料ラーメンを提供していると、一風堂は投票した証拠を提示できればと述べた。
Enter the phenomenon of akiya, or ghost houses.A 2014 government report sounded the alarm, saying that, should things continue at the present rate, about 900 villages and towns throughout Japan will be “extinct.
The abandoned house crisis is so great that some areas are even giving homes away for free.But even free houses aren’t necessarily the cure for Japan’s akiya situation. While other countries with aging populations, like Italy, have given away or sold very cheap houses to foreigners, they often come with a visa or residency permit attached. Japan’s houses, though, do not.As a result, it can be hard to find people willing to live in the homes and fix them up, especially if they don’t speak Japanese or have access to a car.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the pain was “palpable” when he met with grieving families in Uvalde, Texas, this weekend following a mass shooting at an elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
“Your leadership has taken on a critical role in this global stage,” Biden said. “It really has – galvanising action on climate change; the global effort to curb violence, extremism, and online, like happened in Christchurch.”
Южная Корея в ответ на новые испытания КНДР выпустила две баллистические ракеты в сторону Японского моря. Об этом сообщает агентство Yonhap со ссылкой на информацию южнокорейских военных, передает портал «Известия».
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait loom over the Quad summit in Tokyo today.Relations between Beijing and Taipei are at the lowest point in decades, with the Chinese military in recent months sending record numbers of warplanes near the self-governing democratic island.
“The Indo-Pacific strategy cooked up by the United States, in the name of ‘freedom and openness,’ is actually keen on forming cliques,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday as US President Joe Biden wrapped up his trip to Seoul and headed to Tokyo.”It claims that it intends to ‘change China’s surrounding environment,’ but its purpose is to contain China and make Asia-Pacific countries serve as ‘pawns’ of US hegemony.
“The Russian brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe. And the innocent civilians have been killed in the streets and millions of refugees are internally displaced, as well as exiled. And this is more than just a European issue, it’s a global issue,” he said.
NZ On Air was labelled out of touch and wasteful yesterday for awarding $200,000 of taxpayer money on a documentary about Swarbrick.Act Party leader David Seymour said Swarbrick should reject any role in the publicly funded documentary.
NZ On Airは昨日、スワーブリックに関するドキュメンタリーで20万ドルの納税者のお金を授与したことで、手が届かず無駄なラベルが付けられました。法党のリーダーであるデビッド・シーモアは、スワーブリックは公的資金によるドキュメンタリーでのいかなる役割も拒否すべきだと述べた。
Nach mehr als 200 Jahren Bündnisfreiheit fühlt sich Schweden durch die russische Aggression bedroht. Nun will das Land dem Verteidigungsbündnis Nato beitreten.
Seoul (CNN)-North Korea has announced an “explosive” Covid-19 outbreak that has likely killed six people and infected more than 350,000, according to state media, prompting fears of an impending and deadly crisis in the isolated and impoverished nation.北朝鮮は、国営メディアによると、6人が死亡し、35万人以上が感染した可能性が高い「爆発的な」Covid-19の発生を発表し、孤立した貧しい国で差し迫った致命的な危機の恐れを引き起こしました。
The fate of the vast quantities of oil and gas lodged under the shale, mud and sandstone of American drilling fields will in large part determine whether the world retains a liveable climate. And the US, the world’s largest extractor of oil, is poised to unleash these fossil fuels in spectacular volumes.
“We have an oil-based system, so to change that we need to reduce the demand for oil. Europe is moving forward with targets on clean energy, and hopefully this crisis will give a big push to that in the US too.”
Das strahlend schöne Porträt „Shot Sage Blue Marilyn“ von Andy Warhol hat Kunstmarktgeschichte geschrieben. Christie’s konnte das Bild aus dem Jahr 1964 am Montagabend für 195 Millionen Dollar versteigern. Damit ist das Bildnis das teuerste Werk des 20. Jahrhunderts, das je versteigert wurde.
It is also close to certain – 93% – that by 2026 one year will be the hottest ever recorded, beating 2016, when a natural El Niño climate event supercharged temperatures. It is also near certain that the average temperature of the next five years will be higher than the past five years, as the climate crisis intensifies.
“The probability of one of the next five years surpassing the limit is now 50%/…/ As recently as 2015, there was zero chance of this happening in the following five years. But this surged to 20% in 2020 and 40% in 2021.”https://t.co/wnqGIyNK0W
New White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre once urged Democrats to skip a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, claiming it was “severely racist.”
MINAMATA WAS a sleepy little town on Japan’s western island of Kyushu. But in the early 1950s eerie things began happening there. Birds flew in circles and plopped into the sea. Cats “danced”, as locals put it, as if in agony. Soon people, too, were losing their senses; some ended up paralysed and bedridden.
Jaishankar said that “there will be no winners out of this conflict” in Ukraine. He also told his counterparts from Europe that he was “very glad that you are sitting here in India because it would remind you that there are equally pressing issues in other parts of the world.”
“I think we want to be very reluctant to delete things and just be very cautious with permanent bans,” Musk said earlier this month at a TED conference. He added that “timeouts” are better than full-blown bans. In taking the company private, Musk will face little resistance to lowering content moderation guardrails that his predecessors put up. Those who’ve previously run afoul of Twitter’s policies could be reinstated. Content that might have once triggered a warning about, say, Covid vaccine misinformation, may once again be fair game.
Marine Le Pen, vaincue ce dimanche soir au deuxième tour de l’élection présidentielle par Emmanuel Macron, se prépare déjà à la prochaine bataille. Si elle s’incline de nouveau aux portes de l’Élysée, avec 42% des voix face aux 58% récoltés par le président réélu, la candidate du Rassemblement national peut se targuer d’un score historiquement haut, avec près de 10 points gagnés par rapport à 2017.
It is too soon to know if a winner will emerge from the fighting. But, on the other side of the planet, the world’s emerging superpower is weighing its options. Some argue that China will build on a pre-war friendship with Russia that knows “no limits”, to create an axis of autocracy. Others counter that America can shame China into breaking with Russia, isolating Vladimir Putin, its president. Our reporting suggests that neither scenario is likely.
Finland will make a decision on whether to apply for NATO membership in “weeks rather than months”, its prime minister has said.Sanna Marin, speaking on Wednesday, said she was keen to build a consensus to join the alliance within the Finnish parliament.フィンランドは、NATO加盟を「数ヶ月ではなく数週間」で申請するかどうかを決定すると首相は述べた。サンナマリンは水曜日に話し、フィンランド議会内の同盟に参加するためのコンセンサスを構築することに熱心であると述べた。
Australia, Saudi Arabia and Japan were among countries that have tried to make changes to an upcoming UN climate report outlining ways to curb global warming, environmental organization Greenpeace reported on Thursday, citing a major leak of documents.
Budapest, 2022. április 3.
A Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda által közreadott képen Orbán Viktor miniszterelnök, a Fidesz elnöke és felesége, Lévai Anikó (b) leadja szavazatát az országgyûlési választáson és gyermekvédelmi népszavazáson a XII. kerületi Zugligeti Általános Iskolában kialakított szavazókörben 2022. április 3-án.
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A magyar kormány ezzel szemben az orosz agresszió alatt is Brüsszel ellen hirdetett harcot, Ukrajnát kritizálja és Oroszországot próbálta megvédeni például a közös uniós cselekvés akadályozásával a múlt heti rendkívüli EU-egyeztetésen is.
Revealing her diagnosis in 2018, Pinkett Smith has spoken publicly about the condition, which has no known cure. In an episode of her chat show, Red Table Talk, she recalled the “terrifying” moment she first noticed she was losing “handfuls of hair” in the shower. “It was one of those times in my life where I was literally shaking with fear,” she said. “That’s why I cut my hair and continued to cut it.”
But in recent years, the country has signaled a move towards greater military spending, and last December Prime Minister Kishida announced the government was exploring options to give it the capability to strike enemy bases.China is considered a major threat, but the combined strength of Russia and China has put Japan under considerable pressure.
Auckland has recorded one of its wettest hours on record this morning as a major thunder and lightning storm caused widespread flooding and chaos across Auckland and northern regions.
The quake hit off the coast of Japan’s eastern Fukushima prefecture, a region devastated by a powerful quake and tsunami 11 years ago that resulted in a nuclear power plant meltdown.
❗️Девушка, которая вышла в кадр во время прямого эфира программы «Время» на Первом канале с антивоенным плакатом — сотрудница канала Марина Овсянникова.
После появления в эфире ее задержали. Сейчас она, предположительно, находится в ОВД «Останкино» pic.twitter.com/Z4AesCs80j
25 февраля в Ростове задержали фотографа Анастасию Николаеву, которая стояла на улице с пустым плакатом. Полицейские увидели в этом антивоенный протест. Девушку арестовали на восемь суток за «неповиновение полиции», хотя ростовчанка никак не сопротивлялась. Ростовский областной суд 1 марта отклонил апелляцию, оставив Николаеву за решеткой. Корреспондент 161.RU Александра Шевченко пересказывает почти кафкианский процесс.
В пятницу, 25 февраля, ростовчанку Анастасию Николаеву задержали сотрудники полиции. Причиной задержания стал чистый лист бумаги, с которым девушка стояла на одной из улиц города. В тот же день ей назначили арест восемь суток за отказ подчиниться требованиям правоохранителей.
“Судом установлено, что Николаева не выполнила законные требования сотрудников полиции в связи с исполнением ими обязанностей по охране общественного порядка, а именно на неоднократное требование сотрудников убрать баннер реагировала отказом”, – сказано в официальном заявлении.
“Pour se tenir aux côtés du monde en condamnant fermement l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie, les œuvres de Pink Floyd, à partir de 1987, et tous les enregistrements solo de David Gilmour sont retirés de tous les fournisseurs de musique numérique en Russie et en Biélorussie à partir d’aujourd’hui (11 mars)”, a écrit le groupe.
Pour marquer son opposition à l’offensive du Kremlin contre l’Ukraine, le groupe britannique rend sa musique inaccessible sur les plateformes numériques en Russie.
End of an era in Russia as sanctions bite and Western companies take flight
The Iron Curtain, which had divided Eastern and Western Europe for decades, had only just collapsed. Now the fast-food chain beloved by Americans and many others could serve up Big Macs to Russian customers.Thirty-two years later, McDonald’s has nearly 850 branches across the country. But on Tuesday, it announced their doors would close.
Бывший американский лидер Дональд Трамп считает, что Соединенные Штаты Америки больше не уважают в мире. Также он выразил мнение, что сейчас в стране руководят некомпетентные люди.
Vladimir Poutine a affirmé, ce dimanche, à Emmanuel Macron qu’il « atteindrait ses objectifs » en Ukraine « soit par la négociation, soit par la guerre », mais nié s’en prendre aux civils et assuré qu’il n’attaquerait pas les centrales nucléaires, a indiqué la présidence française.
Бывший президент США Дональд Трамп выступил с шуточным предложением о том, чтобы закрепить на американских истребителях F-22 китайские флаги и отправить их бомбить Россию от лица Пекина. Таким образом Штаты смогут обвинить Пекин в нападении на Москву и понаблюдать за их конфликтом, отметил он. Об этом сообщает Washington Post.
World leaders, environment ministers and other representatives from 173 countries have agreed to develop a legally binding treaty on plastics, in what many described a truly historic moment.
Ранее стало известно, что в Киеве прогремела серия взрывов, их слышали жители Троещины и Позняков. Также взрывы и стрельба прозвучали в районе киевского международного аэропорта «Борисполь».
The 400-year-old Sado mine complex, which closed in 1989, was once among the world’s biggest gold producers, but its success was partly built on the exploitation of more than 1,000 Korean labourers.
“Kamila has learned her quadruple jumps with infinite diligence and courage. No doping would have helped her to land these! And especially not with their artistic radiation! If anything, the adults responsible should be locked up for sports forever!”
Peter Jackson is the name at the top of the Forbes’ list of big earners in the entertainment industry. The sale of his visual effects firm last year saw Jackson take home a staggering $868 million (US$580m).
Keeping the 60-year-old Lord of the Rings director company in the Forbes top 10 were musicians Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z.
“Our study published in the journal Science estimates 3 million Covic deaths in India until mid-2021 using three different databases,” Chinmay Tumbe, an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad who co-authored the study, told Reuters.
Although the figures involved are tiny, the increase – less than 2c – is symbolically significant in “inflation-resistant” Japan, where firms have been reluctant to pass rising raw material costs on to consumers.