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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
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Scrap with Becks recalled Melanie C believes her depression was sparked after a row with Victoria Beckham. The Spice Girls star has had a long battle with eating disorders and depression and believes it all stemmed from the dressing down she received after a row with her bandmate at the Brits in 1996. “I was so hurt and embarrassed. We’d all had a few bevvies and there was a little scuffle. We can’t say this on air but I asked her to go away. I was told if that ever happened again, then I would be out. I began to be really, really hard on myself. I couldn’t relax because if I did I might mess it all up.”
Medics and rescue workers carry a wounded boy to an ambulance after an earthquake hit villages in Baskale town in Van province, Turkey yesterday. PHOTO AP
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Deadly 5.7 quake Nine people were killed in eastern Turkey by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake early yesterday, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. The quake centered just east across the border in neighbouring Iran, west of the Iranian city of Khoy, and affected villages in the Turkish province of Van. At least three of the dead were children, according to Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. The health minister later said at least 37 people were injured, including nine in critical but not life-threatening condition. Iran’s official IRNA news agency said at least 75 people had been injured inside Iran, six of whom were hospitalised. A second earthquake – also of magnitude 5.7 – struck in the same area in Iran,
according to the country’s seismology centre. It was not immediately clear if the second quake caused further damage or casualties in either country. The US Geological Survey put the second earthquake’s magnitude at 6.0. Varying magnitudes are common in the immediate aftermath. Turkish broadcaster NTV showed images of locals and soldiers digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings yesterday, as families sat in snowy streets fearing further tremors. Emergency teams were sent to the remote mountainous region, which has a history of powerful earthquakes. Last month, a quake centered on the eastern Turkish city of Elazig killed more than 40 people. In 2011, more than 600 were killed when
a quake struck north of Van province’s capital. According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center, the first quake happened at 9.22am local time (0552 GMT) at a depth of five kilometres. The effects of the quake hit four villages in Van. Seven of the fatalities occurred in Ozpinar village, where Soylu said search and rescue teams had arrived. He added that the quake caused 1066 buildings to collapse while the Education Ministry said a number of schools were damaged. Koca said 25 ambulances, a medical helicopter and 13 emergency teams had been sent to the region. The Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) said 144 tents for families had been dispatched.
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Miley Cyrus has announced she’s heading to Australia to headline a bushfire fundraiser concert next month. The Slide Away singer will be joined by Lil Nas X (of Old Town Road fame), The Veronicas and DJ Seb Fontaine for the World Tour Bushfire Relief charity concert at the Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne on March 13. In a tweet, Cyrus explained that the money raised from ticket sales “will go to Australian charities working to restore forests, wildlife, and communities affected by the devastating fires”.
Tamaki going on DWTS
Coronavirus ‘didn’t start in seafood market’ The coronavirus did not originate at a seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan as previously thought, scientists say. The disease, which has claimed the lives of more than 2400 people worldwide, was
Miley doing fire concert
instead imported from elsewhere, said researchers under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research. The team found that while the virus had spread rapidly within the Huanan Seafood
Wholesale Market in Wuhan, there were also two major population expanses on December 8 and January 6, suggesting the virus was introduced from outside the market. Earlier reports said the first known patient showed symp-
toms on December 8 and that subsequent cases had links to the seafood market. The team’s analysis said it was possible that the virus began spreading in early December or even as early as November.
MediaWorks is under fire with revelations that controversial Destiny pastor Hannah Tamaki is set to compete on Dancing With The Stars New Zealand. Tamaki, wife of Brian Tamaki, will compete on the show alongside transgender personality Mary Haddock-Staniland. Social media users have been left angry and upset. “Casting Hannah Tamaki isn’t an edgy take, it’s a smack in the face to some of our most vulnerable communities,” a Twitter user wrote.
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