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At least 37 people killed and 39 wounded as two buses collide in Bolivia
At least 37 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crash involving two buses in the western Potosi region of Bolivia, police and local authorities have said.
The accident happened on Saturday at 7am local time (11:00 GMT) on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane.
Uyuni is the gateway to the Salar de Uyuni, a major tourist attraction and the world’s largest salt flat at more than 10,000sq km (3,900sq miles).
“As a result of this fatal accident we have 39 people injured in four hospitals in the town of Uyuni, and 37 people have lost their lives,” a spokesperson for the Departmental Police Command of Potosi told reporters.
Police personnel are working to identify people who were killed and those who were injured and hospitalised, the spokesperson added.
One of the buses was heading to Oruro, where one of the most important carnival celebrations in Latin America is currently taking place.
Police officers removed survivors from the steel wreckage, according to images shot by Radio Uyuni, which showed several bodies covered in blankets strewn across the high Andean flatlands.
A police spokesperson said one of the two drivers, who both survived the crash, was spotted by passengers consuming alcohol.
Bolivia’s mountainous, under-maintained and little-supervised roadways are some of the deadliest in the world, killing an average of 1,400 people every year.
[Aljazeera]
The UK’s Lol Crawley won the best cinematography for Brady Corbet’s epic, sweeping – and long – film The Brutalist.
He thanked his family and praised Corbet for “trusting me, allowing me to sail close to the edge and for offering your hand if I fell in, and for offering me the richest diamonds to mine”.
The nominees were:
- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Maria Nosferatu
[BBC]
No Other Land, set in the occupied West Bank, was expected to win this category.
The film follows the fight over Masafer Yatta a community of around 20 villages, and the friendship between Palestinian activist and journalist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham.
For years, the friends have been filming the destruction of houses, a well and a school by the Israeli army, after a court order declared Basel’s community illegal.
Their film, created over five years, explores their friendship and the differences in their lives. It also includes intimate human moments, like when the mother, who moves into a cave, kisses her daughter and tells her: “You’re my love… Tomorrow will be a new day.”
[BBC]
Blockbuster queen Zoe Saldaña has been the front-runner for this award all season for her portrayal of a lawyer called Rita in Emilia Perez.
Her character finds herself involved with a Mexican drug kingpin (Karla Sofía Gascón), who is seeking gender reassignment surgery.
The experimental genre-busting Netflix movie is a far cry from the commercial movies she made her name in, such as the Avatar and Avengers films but it looks like her bold move to try something different paid off.
The nominees in this category were:
- Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown)
- Ariana Grande (Wicked)
- Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
- Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)
- Zoe Saldaña(Emilia Pérez
[BBC]
National People’s Power (NPP) government is committed to eradicate the criminal underworld -President
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