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An elderly Singaporean man has been jailed for 11 years for attempting to rob a retail chain with a bottle of water and snatching HK$14,000 (US$1,802) from a bank with a toy gun after overstaying in Hong Kong for over a decade and exhausting his savings. The High Court on Tuesday (Mar 11) sentenced Leong How-seng on a count of robbery and attempted robbery after the 75-year-old pleaded guilty on the previous day. The court heard Leong, who is married, had remained jobless and lost contact with his wife since arriving in Hong Kong in 2007. He told the court…

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The Filipino authorities arrested Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, on Tuesday, days after the International Criminal Court secretly issued an arrest warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity.The case will be a closely scrutinized test of the legal reach of the court, which investigates accusations of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression from its base in The Hague.Here’s what to know about the court and the lead-up to Mr. Duterte’s arrest.The I.C.C. arrest comes after jurisdiction questions.The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court said in 2018 that it was opening an…

Government shutdown looms amid budget showdown in Congress – CBS News Watch CBS News Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Nikole Killion explains. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Japanese officials visiting Washington this week have failed to win assurances from the Trump administration that the country would be exempt from sweeping tariffs set to hit imports of metals and cars into the United States.Japan’s trade minister, Yoji Muto, told his American counterparts that the country should not be targeted by the new tariffs because it invests large amounts in the United States and employs many people there.U.S. officials, Mr. Muto said, stressed that their priority was on “reciprocity,” as well as reviving local manufacturing and preserving jobs. “It is not that case that Japan will be exempt from…

For Mary Ann and Mike Jeffries, Florida has been their warm-weather sanctuary for the past 15 years, a place where they could escape harsh Canadian winters and live an active, vibrant life. But recent political changes have made their seasonal home feel less welcoming. The couple, who live in Moncton, New Brunswick, has decided to permanently leave their home away from home in Florida—a decision they never thought they’d make.The Jeffries’ are just one of the many Canadian “snowbirds” who flock to the U.S. every year to enjoy the mild Florida climate. But as the U.S. government tightens regulations on…

Despite playing some of the best football, Paris Saint-Germain are once again on the brink of an early exit from Europe’s elite club competition.The French league leaders, who have lost at this stage of the tournament in five of the past eight editions, travel to Liverpool later Tuesday for a mouth-watering Champions League last-16 tie, trailing 1-0 from the first leg.The result was in no way a reflection of last week’s match at the Parc des Princes, where Luis Enrique’s side was excellent but failed to convert a myriad of chances against the Premier League leaders.PSG were ultimately punished by…

On the five-year anniversary of the Covid pandemic, a Times reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, looks back at the success of, and the backlash to, the mRNA vaccine. There’s no question that this vaccine technology saved millions of lives. But the vaccine couldn’t provide total protection against transmission or infection, and there were rare cases of side effects, leading to confusion among the American public.

Do you feel yourself start to move just reading “brrr-ah bah bah-BAH”? In addition to conveying quality and tone, these sounds are often meant to transfer energy from the speaker’s body to the dancer’s body, eliciting a heightened performance. “Even after everybody knows the choreo, I’m still making a lot of noise, because it’s motivational,” Bankhead said.When working on a music video for the pop singer Normani, he noticed the makeup artist recording his voice as he riffed and hollered. “She said, ‘Sean, this is going to be my alarm sound in the morning now,’” Bankhead said, “‘because I feel…

Editorial processes, Dooley said, are “practically unique for each composer,” but they share a quality of trust between composer and editor. With Harrison Birtwistle, whom Cox spent much of her 47 years at Boosey editing, “there were times when he got bored of answering questions and said, ‘Oh, compose it yourself.’” (Birtwistle, who died in 2022, lives on through Cox’s uncanny impersonation of his gruff Lancastrian accent.)Music editing often attracts composers — Cox studied as a composer before working at Boosey — but also those with a passion for design. Gould, who edited composers including George Benjamin, Thomas Adès and…