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YANGON, Myanmar – The military-backed government of Myanmar has deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie, officials said Tuesday. The Malaysian actress arrived in the country’s main city, Yangon, on June 22 and was deported the same day because she was on a blacklist, a government official said. The official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press, did not say why Yeoh was on the list. But Myanmar’s repressive government has routinely rejected visa requests of journalists and perceived critics for years. Suu Kyi spokesman Nyan Win confirmed Yeoh was deported but had no other details. The Luc Besson movie about Suu Kyi’s life, “The Lady,” is due out later this year, and Yeoh has said she hopes her portrayal of Suu Kyi will raise awareness about the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s story. Suu Kyi, 66, (pictured at left) spent most of the last two decades detained by the former military junta. She was released last year, just days after an election that her party boycotted and in which she was barred from being a candidate. The vote was the nation’s first in 20 years, and in March, the junta handed power to a civilian government. But critics say little has changed and 괴산콜걸 the new government is merely a...

(AP) RAMALLAH, West Bank – Yasser Arafat’s body may be exhumed to allow for more testing of the causes of his death, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a radioactive isotope in belongings the Palestinian leader is said to have used in his final days. Arafat’s widow, Suha, called for an autopsy in the wake of the lab’s findings, first reported by the Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. In an interview with the station, she did not explain why she waited nearly eight years to have the belongings, including a toothbrush and a fur hat, tested. At the time of his death, 온라인카지노 she refused to agree to an autopsy. The Palestinian leader died at a military hospital outside Paris in November 2004 of what French doctors called a massive brain hemorrhage — weeks after he fell violently ill at his West Bank compound. Doctors, including independent experts who reviewed his medical records on behalf of The Associated Press, have been unable to pinpoint the underlying cause of the hemorrhage. Speculation has lingered in the Arab world that he was killed by Israel, which viewed him as an obstacle to a peace treaty. Israeli officials have vociferously denied any foul play. Francois Bochud, who heads the Institute of Radiation Physics in Lausanne, Switzerland, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that...

(CBS) Prince is no stranger to controversy. He courted so much of it that he called his fourth album “Controversy.” These days he’s stirring things up over two topics that have proved incendiary: Religion and his music. The singer, who embraced religion fully and became a Jehovah’s Witness about a decade ago after years of Biblical references in his music, told The Guardian, “It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.” He suggested people who aren’t happy with that are the kind of people who are never happy with anything. Everyone has to change, but this is a guy who sang about losing his virginity in a barn and asked his critics, “Am I black or white? Am I straight or gay?” He wrote “Darling Nikki.” What happened? Prince has always been off-beat. He changed his name to a symbol while he was battling with Warner Bros. over his recording contract and decided “Graffiti Bridge” was a good idea. He’s been all over the news lately with a successful tour and 아산콜걸 his claim that he won’t record and release new music because of piracy on the Internet. In the same Guardian interview, he says, “‘I’m supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It’s like the...

(CBS/AP) JOHANNESBURG – A new Nelson Mandela book featuring more than 2,000 quotations from the anti-apartheid icon was released Monday. The release of “Nelson Mandela by Himself” comes days after U.S. first lady Michelle Obama got an advance copy signed by Mandela when she met him during a visit to South Africa. Editors Sello Hatang and Sahm Venter work for Mandela’s foundation, which oversees charity and development work on his behalf and houses some of his archives. Hatang and Venter say the Nelson Mandela Foundation receives thousands of requests from researchers and others to confirm the accuracy of Mandela’s quotes. The book is, in part, an attempt to settle such questions in one place. The editors turned to speeches, notebook entries, recorded conversations and other material, some until now unpublished, for the book. Hatang and Venter say in their introduction: “We can all honor Nelson Mandela by quoting him correctly and accurately.” The apartheid government once declared it illegal to quote Mandela. He is now, according to Hatang and Venter, among the most quoted people in the world. But they say he often is misquoted. For a book that would slip easily into a jacket pocket, “Nelson Mandela by Himself” has a daunting table of contents. There are 317 subject headings, from accountability to Zionism. “Prison” is divided into a further 26 headings – one short of the 27 years Mandela...