Mes: agosto 2019

ISLAMABAD — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday at a time when relations between the two countries have sunk to a new low. The United States last weekend canceled a $300 million Coalition Support Fund payment to Pakistan and on board the plane to Pakistan, Pompeo announced his appointment of an unpopular figure in Pakistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, as the new U.S. special adviser on Afghan reconciliation. Pompeo said he wanted to “reset” strained relations with Pakistan, but the appointment of Khalilzad could complicate his job. “He has been very critical of Pakistan in the past and his appointment will not help move things forward,” said Zahid Hussain, defense analyst and author of two books on militancy in the region: More in Afghanistan: The way forward Khalilzad was born in Afghanistan and served as U.S. special envoy to the country following the collapse of the Taliban from 2001-2003 and then U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003-2005. He has been critical of Pakistan, often blaming the country’s deteriorating security and country-wide chaos on Pakistan’s military and powerful ISI intelligence agency, accusing them of harboring and aiding Taliban insurgents. During his visit to Pakistan, expected to last only a few hours, Pompeo was to hold meetings with new Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as well as the country’s powerful army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and Foreign Minister...

(CBS/AP) MADRID – The lawyers for an elderly Spanish woman who made global headlines when she botched the restoration of a fresco of Jesus Christ say she has no interest in a cut of the tourism windfall her work has brought her northeastern Spanish town. But the attorneys are gearing up to put a stop to potential copyright violations of what she created – even though she had not set out to create anything at all. “We want to put some order to this anarchy,” said Antonio Val Carreras Rivera, one of her lawyers. “You do this little by little under legality, and our job is to coordinate to prevent third parties from profiting. We are at the beginning now, we can’t say if she has rights.” The church fresco in the town of Borja was for decades a little-known piece of religious art by a minor Spanish artist. Following the disastrous touch-up, revealed in August, it has found a new fate as a global icon – used to sell products around the world. The fresco depicts Christ with a crown of thorns before crucifixion, in a style style known as “Ecce Homo” (Behold the Man). It stood in peaceful obscurity in the Misericordia Sanctuary since its creation in 1930 – until Gimenez, a longtime devotee of the work, decided it needed to be rescued from flaking caused by...

Julie Taymor was doing “backyard theatre” at the age of 7, was a member of the Boston Children’s Theatre Company by the age of 11, and traveled in Sri Lanka as a teenager. She says her parents gave her the freedom to be herself, and to follow her interests no matter how far away those interests took her. Taymor also told Moriarty that she was so emotionally close to her parents that she never really felt far from home. From her travels — especially the four years she spent as a young woman in Indonesia — Taymor got insights and skills that informed all of her later work, including “The Lion King.” This show has been widely praised as an innovative stage work unlike anything that came before. What she proposed to Disney as her best idea, while admitting others would also work, was the most original and therefore the riskiest. Taymor created what she calls “the double event” which enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time. Taymor believed in this concept and Disney believed in her. So Taymor’s best artistic vision is what “Lion King” audiences see. This past spring “The Lion King” opened in Johannesburg. Taymor says for her and those she worked with to create the show, 홀덤 that was “the most thrilling, moving experience of our lives...