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Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin dies at 89

Alan Arkin, the Oscar-winning "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Argo" actor known for his wry wit and improvisation skills, has died at the age of 89, according to his sons.

Adam, Matthew and Anthony - who all followed their father into the entertainment industry - said he was "a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man."

’Sopranos’ star Tony Sirico dies aged 79: family

US actor Tony Sirico, best known for portraying Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri in "The Sopranos," has died aged 79, his family and a former castmate said on July 8. 

Sirico played minor mobster roles in television and film for decades before being cast in his fifties as the eccentric and sometimes brutal Paulie on HBO's hit show -- becoming one of the series' most memorable characters.

Chaos on Brooklyn streets: A man with a gas mask wounded several people VIDEO / PHOTO

New York police said that they were looking for that man after "the massacre in train R at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park around 8.30 a.m." local time, the Daily Mail reported.
Witnesses say that he is an African-American, but this information has not been confirmed yet.

Colombia’s most wanted drug lord captured in jungle raid

Colombian security forces have captured the country's most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right.

President Ivan Duque likened the arrest on Oct. 23 of Dairo Antonio Usuga to the capture three decades ago of Pablo Escobar.

Elpidophoros calls for solidarity with ‘abused’ sisters and brothers

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America joins a protest march against racism on Wednesday which marked the killing of Louisville EMT Breonna Taylor, in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Taylor was a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who was killed when the police raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky on March 13.

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