Новости за 22.07.2021

LONDON: British supermarkets and suppliers warned Thursday of possible food shortages due to staff self-isolating, as rising coronavirus cases threaten chaos after the government controversially eased all restrictions earlier this week. With millions of workers and school children currently forced to stay home under COVID-19 tracing rules — in what has been dubbed a “pingdemic” […]

NEW YORK: New applications for US unemployment benefit saw a surprise uptick last week, the government said Thursday, data analysts said may be evidence of the rising threat posed by the Delta variant of COVID-19. Initial jobless claims climbed to 419,000, seasonally adjusted, in the week ended July 17, an increase of 51,000 over the […]

FRANKFURT: European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde warned of growing economic “uncertainty” caused by the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus, as the bank kept its vast stimulus for the eurozone firmly in place. “The euro area economy is rebounding strongly,” Lagarde said. “But the pandemic continues to cast a shadow, especially as the Delta […]

There’s no place like home: and the Academy will finally open the doors to its very own Hollywood film museum in Los Angeles with live screenings of “The Wizard of Oz,” it said Wednesday. Dedicated to the magic of movies and first dreamt up almost a century ago by the group that hands out the […]

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty in a courtroom in Los Angeles on Wednesday to all 11 charges of rape and sexual assault against five women in California hotel rooms. The convicted rapist, who is already serving 23 years in jail in New York, has been brought across the country to face further […]

Director Chloe Zhao, fresh off her “Nomadland” best film win at this year’s Academy Awards, will sit on the jury of the upcoming Venice Film Festival, organisers said Wednesday. The annual international festival, to be held on the glitzy island of Lido from September 1-11, will be headed by Jury President Bong Joon Ho, the […]

Sylvia Plath’s possessions from the early days of her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, including love letters and their wedding rings, sold for over £770,000 ($1.1 million) at auction on Wednesday. The online sale of 55 lots from the private collection of their daughter Frieda Hughes had opened on July 9 at Sotheby’s in […]