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• Spanish "Belle Epoque" scriptwriter Rafael Azcona dies aged 81

  - 2008-03-25

  MADRID AFP — Spanish scriptwriter Rafael Azcona, who wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film "Belle Epoque" starring Penelope Cruz, died Monday at the age of 81, Spanish media reported. Azcona's wife Susi said he had been battling lung cancer for a long time, the web site of top-selling...

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• Quirky Wes Anderson unveils 'The Darjeeling Limited' at Venice

  - 2007-09-01

  VENICE, Italy AFP — Quirky US director Wes Anderson will unveil his fraternal bonding odyssey "The Darjeeling Limited" at the Venice film festival on Monday. Three brothers embark on a train journey across India in search of each other, their mother and themselves in this whimsical adventure flick. ...

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• Cult of the blonde still alive after Anna Nicole Smith's death

  - 2007-02-11

  NEW YORK AFP — The death of former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith drew massive media coverage in the United States, where perhaps more than anywhere else blondes have a powerful, even magical, allure. Smith's life was spent in a quest to be Marilyn Monroe, the undisputed blonde bombshell...

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• Anna Nicole Smith: pop-culture icon scarred by tragedy

  - 2007-02-08

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Anna Nicole Smith will be remembered as the stripper who married an aged oil billionaire and became a pop-culture icon before her life collapsed under the weight of tragedy and legal woes. The former Playboy model was once seen as one of the world's most...

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• Israel army concedes old munition may be behind beach deaths

  - 2006-06-14

  JERUSALEM AFP — The military conceded old Israeli ordnance could have been responsible for the death of eight Palestinians at a beach picnic in the Gaza Strip, hours after absolving itself of any blame. As the dispute over the cause of the tragedy continued to rage, the Palestinians called...

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• Nearly half Swedes disapprove of FM's action over tsunamis: poll

  - 2005-01-04

  STOCKHOLM AFP — One Swede in two disapproves of Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds's action after the tsunamis in Asia in which 52 Swedish tourists perished and from which 1,903 are still missing, a poll shows. Forty-nine percent said Freivalds had done her job "very badly" or "quite badly" according...

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• Powell travels to Asia to survey tsunami damage

  - 2005-01-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — Secretary of State Colin Powell departed Washington for Asia, leading a US delegation which will survey the devastation from last week's tsunamis, which relief officials said killed more than 150,000 people. Accompanying Powell on the trip is the brother of US President George W. Bush, Florida...

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• US to give quake aid to Iran, stands with Iranian people

  - 2003-12-26

  CRAWFORD, United States AFP ? The United States said it would offer humanitarian aid to its adversary Iran and sent its thoughts and prayers to survivors of a massive earthquake which killed up to 6,000 people. "This is a terrible tragedy," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters on...

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