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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas dead at 103 Kirk Douglas, legendary actor from the golden age of Hollywood, has passed away at the age of 103, his son and fellow actor Michael has announced. “To the world, he was a legend,” the younger Douglas said in a statement on Wednesday. “But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad.” Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky to impoverished jewish immigrants from Russia, Douglas worked a variety of odd jobs before making it big in Hollywood. He is perhaps best known to modern audiences for his titular role in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Spartacus’ (1960), but film connoisseurs remember him for a range of roles, from Vincent Van Gogh in ‘Lust for Life’ (1956) to a cowboy in ‘Lonely are the Brave (1962). He suffered a stroke in 1996 that impaired...

Syrian air defenses engage ‘hostile targets’ over Damascus (VIDEOS) Syria’s air defenses have intercepted a number of enemy projectiles over the capital of Damascus, according to Syrian state media. There are so far no reports of damage or injuries, and the nature of the targets remains unclear. A series of blasts were reported on the outskirts of Damascus late on Wednesday, with unconfirmed images surfacing online purporting to show the attack in progress. Our AD is on it?? pic.twitter.com/pCbyRBEfBN— Marina Syria (@Shiva_sy007) February 5, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Syrian air defenses shot down “most” of the missiles before they reached their targets, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency, which said the at...

Venezuela denounces ‘interventionist rhetoric’ of ‘arrogant charlatan’ Trump Foreign minister of Venezuela Jorge Arreaza called US President Donald Trump an “arrogant charlatan” and denounced the “interventionist rhetoric" in his State of the Union speech. In the joint address to Congress on Tuesday, Trump denounced the government in Caracas as an “illegitimate dictatorship” of President Nicolas Maduro and brought his challenger, self-styled "interim president" Juan Guaido as a guest in the gallery.  Trump is scheduled to meet with Guaido on Wednesday and discuss how the US can “expedite a democratic transition in Venezuela,” the White House said. Though the US and 58 other countries recognize Guaido’s claim, in the year since he has failed to attract any support for actually ...