Tag: boy
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Starving Palestinian Boy Whose Photos Reflected Gaza Famine Dies
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Yazan al-Kafarneh, a Palestinian boy whose emaciated appearance offered the world a stark illustration of Gaza’s accelerating starvation crisis, has become one of the latest children in the territory to die of severe malnourishment. Yazan was receiving medical treatment with the few resources available at Abu Yusuf al-Najjar Hospital in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah,…
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Boy injured in Osteen church shooting lost âportion of his frontal lobeâ | Houston
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A boy who was shot in the head at celebrity Joel Osteenâs Houston megachurch on 11 February has lost âa portion of his frontal lobeâ while recovering at the hospital, according to his grandmother. In a Facebook post three days after the shooting, Walli Carranza said her seven-year-old grandson â Samuel Moreno-Carranza â âhas lost…
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Vigil held for 5-year-old migrant boy who died at Chicago shelter
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CHICAGO — Hundreds of migrants and other people turned out Wednesday night for a vigil held for a 5-year-old migrant boy who died after becoming ill in a Chicago shelter. Jean Carlos Martinez was a resident at a warehouse retrofitted as a shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood when he suffered a medical emergency, the city…
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Vigil held for death of 5-year-old migrant boy in Chicago
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Hundreds gathered outside a migrant shelter on the Lower West Side Wednesday night, three days after a 5-year-old migrant staying there died in a medical emergency that has confused and frustrated migrants, volunteers and health care advocates. For advocates, the death of Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero is a symbol of the effects of repeated chaos…
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Studio Ghibli’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ tops box office
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A pair of Japanese film titans reigned at the box office this weekend. Animation great Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” took the top spot, earning a record-breaking $12.8 million for its opening weekend (the film premiered Nov. 22 in Los Angeles and New York). It’s the first original anime film ever to top…
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Mother of ‘extremist’ grammar school boy gave son Mein Kampf when he was 10
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A grammar school student and Right-wing extremist who started reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf from age 10 after his mother gave it to him for Christmas has been jailed for six years. Malakai Wheeler was described as a “deeply entrenched racist and white supremacist” by a judge as he was sentenced for terrorism offences. The 18-year-old…
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Mother of 6-year-old boy killed in Plainfield released from hospital
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Sunday after sunset, on a patch of grass near the Bath and Tennis Club in Oak Brook, a crowd gathered with candles in the dark. The quiet of the night was punctuated with the chirping of crickets. The vigil for Wadea al-Fayoume, the 6-year-old Palestinian boy who was stabbed to death in an alleged hate…
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Plainfield man charged with killing boy, mother for being Muslim
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About a decade ago, a young couple from the city of Beitunia in Palestine’s West Bank fled conflict in the Middle East and moved to the United States, where their new start seemed especially promising six years ago when they welcomed a baby boy. The boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, grew to love “everything” and “everybody,” his…
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ Review: A Few New Fantasies by Hayao Miyazaki
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More often than not, Hayao Miyazaki’s heroes have been young women — from Ponyo to Princess Mononoke, mischief-seeking Kiki to the two sisters spirited away by furry forest guardians in “My Neighbor Totoro.” That’s the most obvious departure the anime maestro’s fans will notice in “The Boy and the Heron”: It’s about a boy, Mahito…
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Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Opens San Sebastian
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Living legend Hayao Miyazaki’s animated fantasy epic “The Boy and the Heron,” the latest from Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli, will open the 71st San Sebastian Festival, screening on Sept. 22. Bowing San Sebastian, Miyazaki’s film, which he has declared to be his last, will score an extraordinary double of opening both the Toronto and San…
