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Friday, June 7, 2013
Indian star Amitabh Bachchan to act in TV series
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Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI — Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan says he’ll make his television acting debut in a new series this year. Bachchan announced the new and yet untitled show to reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday. The series, to be aired on the Sony Television channel, will focus on social issues. The show will be the first fictional TV outing for the Indian superstar, who has already hosted the hugely successful “Kaun Banega Crorepati,” India’s version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.” “I just felt that this could be yet another step” to connect with audiences “almost immediately,” the 70-year-old
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Friday, June 7, 2013
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An anti-government protester looks at Istanbul’s Taksim square June 5, 2013. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan returns on Thursday to a nation racked by protests against his leadership, in what could prove a pivotal moment in Turkey’s worst political unrest for decades.
told reporters. The new show will be directed by popular Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. Bachchan has starred in nearly 200 films in a career that has spanned more than four decades. His latest movie was a brief role in the Baz Luhrmann-directed “The Great Gatsby.”
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan gestures speaks during a press conference in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
Venezuela frees US filmmaker jailed as alleged spy Associated Press Writer
Venezuela, who he said did not include President Nicolas Maduro, but “I want to keep those discussions private.” “On both sides there is a desire to have an improvement in the relationship based upon respect, and that’s what’s important,” Delahunt said. He suggested it might help that Kerry, then a Massachusetts senator, met Maduro a decade ago when Delahunt took a delegation of Venezuelans including Maduro on a trip to his district in Cape Cod, Massachussetts. The trip was part of efforts by the “Grupo de Boston” in 2002-2003 to salve internal tensions in the socialist-run South American country after a failed coup against Chavez that was initially recognized by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
Tracy’s expulsion was initially tweeted by Venezuela’s interior minister, Miguel Rodriguez, who described Tracy as having been “captured doing espionage in our country.” He had previously accused Tracy of funding opposition student groups. Attorney General Luisa Ortega said in a statement Wednesday that she had asked for the case against Tracy on charges including conspiracy and criminal association to be shelved, even though “there were elements that could incriminate him.” Family and friends say the Hollywood producer and small-time actor had been in the country since October making a documentary about Venezuelan politics when he was arrested on April 24 at Caracas’ airport as he tried to leave the country to attend his father’s 80th birthday in suburban Detroit.
CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to the United States in a gesture that could signal a thaw in tense relations between the two countries. The release of Timothy Tracy, 35, occurred just hours before the top diplomats of both countries agreed during a meeting in Guatemala to discuss restoring ambassador-level relations. It was secured with the help of former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, who has long worked to improve often strained U.S.Venezuelan ties and was hired by Tracy’s family as an attorney in the case. “He’s been informally advising us since pretty much the onset and we reKanye Westsister, andTifgirltained him last week,” Tracy’s fany Klaasen, said of Delahunt, a member of the U.S. delegation at the March funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Both she and Delahunt also credited the U.S. State Department. The U.S. government and friends had ridiculed the idea that Tracy was spying in Venezuela. His family said he had been making a documentary about the human costs of Venezuela’s deeply polarized society. Following the early morning expulsion, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Guatemala and agreed, said Kerry, to “begin to change the dialogue between our countries and hopefully quickly move” to appoint ambassadors, which they have lacked in each other’s capitals since 2010. Delahunt acknowledged the coinciAP Photo/Alistair Fuller, File dence of Tracy’s release but said “no conditions” were set by Kerry for the FILE - A Friday, May 10, 2002 file photo showing Alexander Litvinenko, meeting with Jaua. He said he had inter- former KGB spy and author of the book “Blowing Up Russia: Terror vened on Tracy’s behalf with officials in From Within” photographed at his home in London.
Turkey’s Erdogan set to return to nation rattled by protest REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Reuters
ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Turkish police clashed with demonstrators overnight ahead of the return of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to a nation rattled by a week of protest against his leadership. Erdogan returns from a visit to North Africa to face demands he apologise over a fierce police crackdown and sack those who ordered it, following six days of protests that have left two dead and more than 4,000 injured in a dozen cities. Riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators who threw stones at them and chanted anti-Erdogan slogans in the heart of the capital Ankara on Wednesday night, witnesses said. In the eastern province of Tunceli, several hundred protesters set up a street barricade and threw stones at police who responded by firing water cannon. Istanbul, which has seen
some of the heaviest clashes, was quiet overnight. What began as a campaign against the redevelopment of a leafy Istanbul park has surged into an unprecedented show of defiance against the perceived authoritarianism of Erdogan and his Islamistrooted AK Party. Police backed by armoured vehicles have fired tear gas and water cannon on stone-
throwing protesters night after night, while thousands have massed peacefully in recent days on Taksim Square, where the demonstrations first began. The straight-talking prime minister left on Monday in a defiant mood, dismissing the protesters as looters and vowing the unrest would be over in a matter of days, comments that his critics said fur-
ther inflamed tensions. AK Party Deputy Chairman Huseyin Celik called on party members not to go to the airport to greet Erdogan on his return to avoid stirring trouble. Erdogan was expected to hold a news conference with his Tunisian counterpart before returning. “Nobody should take it upon themselves to go and greet the prime minister in this situation. The prime minister does not need a show of strength,” Celik said in a television interview.In Taksim Square, protesters remained defiant. “We have the momentum, with people like me going to work every day and coming back to attend the protests,” said Cetin, a 29-year-old
civil engineer who declined to give his surname because he works for a company close to the government. “We should keep coming here to protest until we really feel we’ve achieved something,” he said, one of thousands gathered on Taksim Square until late into the night. “EVERYWHERE IS TAKSIM” Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, formally in charge while Erdogan is away, has struck a more conciliatory tone, apologising for the initial police crackdown on peaceful campaigners in Taksim’s Gezi Park and meeting a delegation of protesters in his office in Ankara. Continued on page 6