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Burt Bacharach, the legendary composer who penned dozens of pop hits, has died. He was 94.Bacharach died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes, his publicist Tina Brausam told The Associated Press Thursday.Bacharach was one of the most prominent composers in the 1960s and 70s, writing several top ten hits, including Dionne Warwick’s “I Say A Little Prayer” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose.”He triumphed in many artforms. He was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for “Promises, Promises” and a three-time Oscar winner. He received two Academy Awards in 1970, for the…

Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner backed the FIA’s ban on political statements, saying Formula 1 was “a form of escapism from the s–t going on in the world.” The longtime team principal told The Post he doesn’t believe F1 should be used as a platform “for political gain,” after the sport’s governing body announced that drivers would be prohibited from making political statements during race weekends. “F1 is not a political sport and it shouldn’t be used politically,” he said ahead of Red Bull’s season launch in New York City. “We’re a sport; we’re a form of entertainment and…

Sam Bankman-Fried appeared in a New York federal court on Thursday, just over a week after the judge in the FTX founder’s fraud case tightened the bail conditions in response to allegations of witness tampering. Prosecutors raised concerns after they learned that Bankman-Fried, who has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of fraud and conspiracy, recently sent a text message to the former general counsel of FTX, the bankrupt crypto exchange. The judge said last week that the text message appeared to be a “material threat of inappropriate contact with prospective witnesses.” US District Judge Lewis Kaplan last week ordered…

CNN  —  The GOP-led House committee on the alleged “weaponization” of the federal government kicks off Thursday with its first public hearing with a witness list that suggests Republicans on the committee will push a popular narrative among conservatives that has been disputed by federal officials. The hearing will be split into two sessions, featuring a swath of current and former lawmakers, former FBI officials and legal experts. They plan to discuss allegations of how the government has been weaponized against Republicans, as well as the general belief among some conservatives that federal officials and mainstream media have been working…

Hazel McCallion will lie in state at Mississauga city hall for two days beginning this Sunday ahead of her state funeral. The City said the public is invited to pay their final respects and offer their condolences to the former mayor before she is laid to rest on on Tuesday, which would have been her 102nd birthday.McCallion was Mississauga’s longest-serving mayor and one of the longest-serving mayors in Canadian history. She died on Jan. 29 at the age of 101.McCallion was mayor for 36 years — from 1976 to 2014 — overseeing Mississauga’s transformation from a suburb into one of…

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Egypt’s annual inflation surged to a new high in January as the country continues to battle ongoing price hikes and a depreciating currency, the Egyptian statistics bureau said on Thursday.The state-run Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics published figures showing that the annual inflation stood at 26.5% last month, up from 21.9% in December. In January 2022, the same figure stood at just 8%, before spiking after the outbreak of Russia’s war in Ukraine the following month, shaking the world economy.During January, the prices of basic commodities in Egypt rose steadily. The cost of bread and cereal increased on average…

Fans filed into the rink for a minor league hockey game, vendors sold concessions and the visiting team took the ice for warmups. The national anthem played, and officials were ready to drop the puck. One problem: The home team did not show up. This bizarre scene unfolded over the weekend at what was supposed to be a Southern Professional Hockey League game in Danville, Illinois, between the visiting Quad City Storm and host Vermilion County Bobcats. After a 2-minute delay of game penalty and 5-minute waiting period, the game was declared a forfeit. The visitors tried to give fans their money’s…

A dramatic video has captured the moment a survivor was pulled out from underneath the rubble in Turkey following this week’s devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which now has a death toll that is the highest worldwide since a 2011 earthquake off Japan triggered a tsunami, killing nearly 20,000 people.As of Thursday, more than 19,000 have been confirmed dead in Turkey and Syria from Monday’s earthquake, while rescue crews in both countries are working non-stop in hopes of finding more people who have been buried alive under collapsed buildings. The video taken in the city of Antakya, in the hard-hit Hatay province, shows first…

BANGKOK: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim pledged to “do whatever is required and necessary” to facilitate the peace process in Thailand’s conflict-ridden south during his official visit to the neighbouring country on Thursday (Feb 9). Mr Anwar expressed concern over armed conflicts in Thailand’s southern border provinces near northern Malaysia and promised to assist with the peace process. “I come here with a very clear, categorical message that the Government of Malaysia will not condone any sort of violence to resolve any conflict,” he said during a joint press conference with his Thai counterpart Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha at the Government…