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Rihanna, her partner A$AP Rocky, their three children and her mother were all at home when a woman now charged with attempted murder and many other felony counts is alleged to have fired at the property, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 35, of Orlando, Florida, was charged with attempting to kill Rihanna, along with 10 counts of assault on a person with a semiautomatic firearm and three counts of shooting at an inhabited vehicle or dwelling, authorities said. No one was injured. The singing superstar and her rap star partner were together in a trailer on the property at…

Lynette Howell Taylor has seen the Oscars from a few different vantage points: As a nominee, in 2019 for “A Star is Born,” as a producer of the broadcast in 2020, as a member of the film academy’s board of governors and, for the last three years, as awards chair. It’s made her first year as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feel like a natural transition. And one thing she is certain of is that every Oscars is unique. “Every year is different,” Taylor said in a recent interview alongside film Academy CEO Bill Kramer. “Every season is…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held on Tuesday a phone conversation with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, expressing deep concern over the regional spill-over of current hostilities, his office said in a statement. The two “discussed the current military escalation in the region,” and Guterres “reiterated his position,” calling on all sides to “fully respect international law and international humanitarian law, as well as to refrain from any attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure.” “He also expressed deep concern at the regional spill-over and the impact of the ongoing conflict on the global economy,” the statement added. Iran has retaliated to…

The Kremlin said that US President Donald Trump made no ceasefire request to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their Monday phone call and also did not set a new date for trilateral Russia-Ukraine-US contacts. Speaking at a Tuesday press briefing in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow is grateful to Washington for its mediation efforts on Ukraine and is interested in continuing the process. “President Putin highly appreciates these mediation efforts; we are grateful for this and are interested in this process continuing,” Peskov said. Peskov added that Trump did not ask for a ceasefire in Ukraine before…

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered the dispatch of humanitarian aid to Tehran amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, according to media reports on Tuesday. Ten tons of flour and approximately two tons of medicine and medical supplies, along with other humanitarian goods, have been sent to Iran from Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani state news agency APA reported. “The humanitarian aid sent to the Islamic Republic of Iran by vehicles of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations includes 10 tons of flour, 6 tons of rice, 2.4 tons of sugar, more than 4 tons of water, about 600 kg of tea, and…

Google has been fined 11.4 million rubles ($145,000) in Russia for failing to block access to certain prohibited content. The lawsuit against Google was heard in the capital, Moscow on Tuesday; the court ruled that the company had violated the law by failing to block access to certain banned content. Google had previously been fined for failing to remove banned content, not localizing the personal data of users in Russia, and for other violations. Most recently, on February 27, the company was fined 16 billion rubles for failing to pay previous fines.

The U.S. and Israel traded air strikes with Iran across ​the Middle East on Wednesday as the besieged Tehran government warned its state security forces were ready with “fingers on the trigger” to confront any anti-government protests. Following an exchange of ‌some of the heaviest bombardments in the region yet on Tuesday, the combatants renewed their attacks on opposing targets in Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf as the war stretched into its 12th day. The conflict has effectively blocked vital shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, halting the flow of one-fifth of the world’s fossil energy supplies from the…

British police said they had banned a pro-Iranian march due to take place in London on Sunday, citing the possibility of “extreme tensions” with ​counter-protesters and the risk posed by Tehran during the conflict in the ‌Middle East. The Al Quds march in central London is organised annually by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, which the police said was supportive of the Iranian regime. The threshold to ban a protest ​is high in Britain, with the police saying this was the first ​time the power had been invoked in 14 years, but the ⁠risks of public disorder were “so severe”…

Australian police helped two more members of the Iranian women’s soccer delegation slip their minders to claim asylum, ‌but one has changed her mind and decided to go back to Iran, the country’s interior minister said on Wednesday. Concerns about the players’ safety upon their return home grew after Iranian state television labelled the team “wartime traitors” for refusing to sing the national anthem during a women’s Asian Cup match in Australia earlier this month. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced in parliament that ​21-year-old striker Mohaddeseh Zolfi and support staffer Zahra Soltan Moshkehkar had accepted the government’s open offer…

A Sri Lankan court has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack on an Iranian warship off the ​island nation’s coast last week be handed over to the embassy ‌of Iran, local media reported on Wednesday. The warship, IRIS Dena, was hit by a torpedo from a U.S. submarine while it was returning from a naval exercise organised by India, amid ​the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that has wreaked havoc on global markets, sent ​oil prices soaring, and disrupted trade and travel. The court order was ⁠issued on Wednesday following a request from the Galle Harbour…