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UN member states finally agreed Saturday to a text on the first international treaty after years of negotiations to protect the high seas. "The ship has reached the shore," conference chair Rena Lee announced at the UN headquarters in New York, to loud and lengthy applause from delegates. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron announces that European Union leaders have agreed to set up "mechanisms" of "European financial solidarity" to face the surge in energy prices linked to the war in Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
A group of 15 EU member states have agreed to take in 40,000 Afghan citizens for resettlement, Commissioner Ylva Johansson says after meeting interior ministers. Germany will accept the bulk of the new arrivals, with 25,000, with the Netherlands accepting 3,159, Spain and France 2,500, and other countries lower numbers, according to a document seen by AFP. SOUNDBITE
Carol Sutton died Friday of Covid-19 complications. She was a native of New Orleans and built a career over decades on both stage and screen. Her death was confirmed by New Orleans Mayor MaToya Cantrell. Cantrell said: "We will always remember her commanding stage presence.' May she rest in God's perfect peace". The actress was best known for her roles in "Steel Magnolias," "Queen Sugar," and "Lovecraft Country". Sutton was 76 years old.
Sometimes, it feels like a storyteller is just hungry for blood. With James Gunn on The Suicide Squad, that might have been more true than you’d think. Taking to Twitter recently, Gunn replied to a fan who claimed that Harley Quinn and a couple other characters had “plot armor,” that trope where characters aren’t allowed to ever face authentic risk in storytelling because they’re just too important for the author to ever consider killing off. Gunn said that this wasn’t true, and that one of his conditions for The Suicide Squad was that he could kill anyone, anyone he wanted.
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