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Ben Wheatley to helm ‘The Meg 2’ for Warner Bros

12:32 pm October 24, 2020

Los Angeles: Filmmaker Ben Wheatley will be directing the sequel to shark thriller “The Meg”. The 2018 movie, helmed by Jon Turteltaub, featured British star Jason Statham as a shark expert who fights tooth and nail against a giant prehistoric shark called a megalodon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon and Erich Hoeber wrote the most recent draft of the film’s screenplay. Statham and other cast members — Li Bingbing and Ruby Rose — […]

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UK police recover stolen Ming dynasty vase worth $3 million

11:29 pm October 23, 2020

London: British police say they have recovered a 15th-century Chinese vase valued at 2.5 million pounds (USD 3.3 million) that was stolen in Switzerland last year. The Metropolitan Police force said Friday that they have arrested two men over the theft of the Ming dynasty vase. It is thought to have been stolen from a Swiss collection in June […]

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EU to UK on Brexit talks: ‘You can’t have cake, eat it too’

3:14 pm October 21, 2020

Brussels: The European Union took a defiant tone on Wednesday as the standoff over resuming post-Brexit trade negotiations with the United Kingdom intensified, telling London that “you cannot have your cake and eat it too.” European Council President Charles Michel refused to bow to British insistence for the EU to fundamentally change its negotiating stance and cede more to U.K. demands. Michel said instead that […]

UK’s Lords condemns Brexit bill as UK-EU talks stay stalled

11:58 pm October 20, 2020

London: Britain’s upper house of Parliament delivered a resounding condemnation of the government’s contentious new Brexit legislation on Tuesday, as a standoff continued between the UK and the European Union over future trade relations. The House of Lords voted 395-169 to add words to the Internal Market Bill expressing “regret” for the legislation and saying it “would […]

UK festival curator accuses UAE minister of sexual assault

2:20 pm October 19, 2020

London: The chair of Britain’s Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival’s curators alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the tolerance minister of the United Arab Emirates while working with him. Lawyers for the minister later denied her account. Caitlin McNamara alleged she […]