Marilyn Monroe statue stolen from popular tourist landmark in Hollywood
A small statue of Marilyn Monroe, in her iconic pose from her 1955 hit film “The Seven Year Itch”, has been stolen from the top of the Ladies of Hollywood Gazebo, a popular landmark at Hollywood Boulevard. The gazebo, created in 1993 and dedicated to the late actor in 1994, celebrates women in films from different cultures who brought a change to the film industry. The statues of Dolores Del Rio, Dorothy Dandridge, Mae West, and Anna May Wong hold up the gazebo while a small statue of Marilyn Monroe is on top of it.
Evacuation in Japan
Evacuees rest at a gym-turned shelter in Murakami, Niigata prefecture, northwestern Japan, early Wednesday, June 19, 2019, after an earthquake.
A powerful earthquake jolted northwestern Japan late on June 18, causing minor injuries to 21 people and a brief evacuation of coastal homes until the risk of a tsunami passed.
More than 1,500 people took shelter at evacuation centers in Murakami city and elsewhere in Niigata prefecture, but many of them left Wednesday morning to check their homes. Public broadcaster NHK showed people using flattened cardboard boxes as mattresses to sleep on in a school gym. Many others, including children, were still awake and sitting against the walls. Bullet train service was suspended in parts of the region because of power outages and for safety checks, but were functioning normally Wednesday morning. About 9,000 households in Yamagata and Niigata lost power, according to Tohoku Electric Power Co.
Deadly crackdown on Sudan sit-in haunts protesters
A Sudanese man plays a local music instrument ahead of a meeting with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Himediti, deputy head of Sudan's ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) and commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, in the capital Khartoum on June 18, 2019.
Crowds of protesters camped outside the Khartoum army headquarters were violently dispersed that day by armed men in military fatigues, leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded, according to doctors and witnesses.
They had been gathered at the complex since April, initially seeking the army's help to oust longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir, and later to demand the generals hand power to a civilian administration.
Akram said some of the armed men wore police uniforms, while others were in military fatigues generally worn by the feared Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
He said it was difficult to count how many they were, but the gunmen arrived in trucks and raided the sit-in from all sides.
Trump launches 2020 re-election bid with mega rally, says ‘Keep America Great’
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts on stage formally kicking off his re-election bid with a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida, U.S., June 18, 2019.
US President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign with a jam-packed rally in Florida on June 18, urging his supporters to “keep this team in place” for four more years as he vowed to “Keep America Great“.
The 73-year-old real estate investor-turned-politician, who became the 45th President of the United States of America in 2017, told a crowd of 20,000 people in Orlando that the economy of the US under him has become “the envy of the world“.
Confederate monument in Tennessee vandalised
A monument to Confederate soldiers is defaced with red paint in Centennial Park Monday, June 17, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Police discovered Monday the monument was vandalized with red paint and the phrase "They were racists" was painted over the names of Civil War soldiers.
A monument to Confederate soldiers is defaced with red paint in Centennial Park Monday, June 17, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Police discovered on June 17 the monument was vandalized with red paint and the phrase "They were racists" was painted over the names of Civil War soldiers.
(With inputs from agencies)
