12 h. ago Family of woman who died from Covid after giving birth sues Brazilian state

Exclusive: Lidiane Vieira Frazão, a black woman from Rio, was repeatedly denied appropriate treatment as President Bolsonaro downplayed the pandemic, lawsuit saysIn the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, Lidiane Vieira Frazão, 35, was expecting her second child but, even at 40 weeks pregnant, she was unable to obtain a doctor’s note to start her maternity leave.Her job as a funeral agent – at times handling the bodies of people who had died from the virus – was on the long list of “essential services” that could not be suspended during lockdown, according to a decree issued by Brazil’s then-president, Jair Bolsonaro. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: What Frederick Forsyth really thought about Eddie Redmayne's Day Of The Jackal

'I got the royalties,' he told a chum, rubbing a thumb against his fingers, making the universal sign of filthy lucre.

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3 d. ago ‘He changed the rules for all of us who came after’: Lee Child remembers Frederick Forsyth

Forsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels writes• Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86I remember two things about the first full week of January 1972. I passed my driving test on the Monday, and on the Friday I made my weekly trip to the library and borrowed The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. I had no idea I would one day be a writer myself – at that point I was merely an insatiable reader – but in retrospect that Friday marked an important way station on the journey from one to the other.I gobbled up the book and thought it was fantastic – fast, pacy, exciting, suspenseful and laced with detail and intrigue. Then I thought, wait, what? How was this book working? It was a twin-track thriller – an assassin hunts his target while law enforcement hunts the assassin. But the intended victim was Charles de Gaulle, a real per...

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4 d. ago Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal author, dies aged 86

British novelist and former MI6 agent died after a brief illness

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4 d. ago Frederick Forsyth dies: Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent passes away aged 86

Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth has died after a brief illness at the age of 86.

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4 d. ago Frederick Forsyth dead aged 86 as tributes paid to The Day of The Jackal author

Famous journalist, turned author, Frederick Forsyth has passed away, with several fans rushing to social media to share their condolences and sadness after hearing the news

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4 d. ago Frederick Forsyth dead: The Day of The Jackal author dies, aged 86

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4 d. ago Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86

Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellersFrederick Forsyth, the author who turned his adventures as a journalist and work with MI6 into bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness aged 86.Forsyth brought a reporter’s eye to his fiction, transforming the thriller genre with a series of novels including The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File and The Dogs of War. Combining meticulous research with firecracker plots, he published a series of novels that sold more than 75m copies around the world, and won him honours including a CBE in 1997 and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger award. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Derby tragedy as Norman's Cay dies in heartbreak for football agent Kia Joorabchian

The football agent’s joy at winning the first juvenile race of the Flat Turf season in March turned to despair at Epsom when Norman’s Cay went wrong

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2 w. ago The Man From U.N.C.L.E. star David McCallum leaves huge fortune to wife after his death aged 90

The Scottish-born film and television star, who gained global recognition for playing a secret agent in the popular 1960s spy drama, died of natural causes on September 25, 2023, aged 90.

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2 w. ago Why do so many Americans join the Israeli military? | Ahmed Noor

Tens of thousands of Americans serve in the country’s ranks amid genocide, investing in and propagating occupationIn his 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth renders a rich plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, the French president. The conspirators are pied-noirs, the term used to describe Frenchmen born in Algeria during the colonial occupation there. They grieve De Gaulle’s exit from north Africa, which they regard as a betrayal. Unable to remain in the former colony, they return home – dejected and emasculated – and murderous. In many ways, the pied-noirs regard themselves as being more French than the French.The novel derives some of its appeal from the fact that it’s rooted in history – revanchist Frenchmen made at least six attempts to assassinate De Gaulle in the 1960s. Yigal Amir, the Israeli settler who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin in 1994, reportedly devoured the book, and drew inspiration from it.Ahmed Moor is a writer and fellow at the Foundation for Middl...

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3 w. ago Music agent Dave Shapiro and drummer among six dead in San Diego plane crash as tributes pour in

Tributes pour in for Shapiro and his contributions to the industry, as he tragically dies in a San Diego plane crash, claiming six lives

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3 w. ago Music agent Dave Shapiro among the dead after plane crashes into San Diego neighborhood

Six people were on board the plane when it crashed on Thursday - all are presumed dead

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3 w. ago San Diego plane crash: Tributes pour in for music agent Dave Shapiro and drummer Daniel Williams

The fiery crash occurred around 3:47 a.m. in the Murphy Canyon neighborhood, igniting cars and homes and injuring eight people on the ground. The total number of victims is still unknown

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3 w. ago Tributes pour in after drummer Daniel Williams and music agent Dave Shapiro named as victims in San Diego plane crash

The fiery crash occurred around 3:47 a.m. in the Murphy Canyon neighborhood, igniting cars and homes and injuring eight people on the ground. The total number of victims is still unknown

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3 w. ago Music agent Dave Shapiro among the dead after plane crashed into San Diego neighborhood

It was not immediately clear how many people were on the plane at the time of the crash, or if those killed were on the plane.

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3 w. ago Bronx backlash for Juan Soto as Mets’ $765m star booed on Yankee Stadium return

The New York Mets slugger was booed lustily on his return to Yankee Stadium after departing in free agency, showing just how deep the Subway Series rivalry now runsDuring the last game of the 2024 baseball season – as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series to clinch a championship in front of a sold-out crowd of disappointed New Yorkers – there were still Yankees fans buying No 22 Juan Soto jerseys at the ballpark. This was noteworthy because as soon as the game ended, Soto was a free agent.He had been traded to New York from the San Diego Padres – where he landed after a bombshell trade from the Washington National team that drafted him and with whom he won a World Series in 2019 – just ahead of his walk year. But Soto had endeared himself to the fervent fanbase quickly. In 2024, he was 80% better than average at the plate according to wRC+ and, with the towering Aaron Judge hitting behind him, led the American League in runs scored. And...

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