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Christian ministry CEO, daughter ID’d as victims in plane crash en route to Jamaica with hurricane relief supplies

The two people killed when a small plane crashed while taking supplies to hurricane-ravaged Jamaica have been identified as a Christian ministry CEO and his daughter. Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena, 22, were killed when the turboprop plane slammed into a residential neighborhood pond near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, soon after take-off Monday morning....

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Sally Kirkland, Oscar-nominated actor of film and television, dies at 84

The actor has over 250 screen credits, including Anna, The Way We Were and JFK, and collaborated with Andy Warhol

Sally Kirkland, the Oscar-nominated actor and one-time member of Andy Warhol’s the Factory, has died at 84.

The star of films including Anna, JFK and Bruce Almighty had entered hospice care two days before her death after a period of ill health. Last year, a GoFundMe page had been set up to help her in the wake of “life-threatening infections” and a number of falls. She had also been diagnosed with dementia.

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© Photograph: Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock

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Istanbul mayor whose arrest sparked outcry charged with 142 offences

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the main political rival of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, faces charges including bribery and extortion

Turkish prosecutors have charged Istanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu with 142 offences that could carry a penalty of hundreds of years in prison if he is convicted, court documents show.

The nearly 4,000-page indictment charges the popular opposition figure, who was arrested on 19 March, with offences including running a criminal organisation, bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, extortion and tender rigging.

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© Photograph: Dilara Senkaya/Reuters

© Photograph: Dilara Senkaya/Reuters

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German man with alleged neo-Nazi links arrested over darknet assassination calls

Prosecutor says suspect ran platform with lists of politicians’ names and requests for crypto donations, to be offered as ‘bounties’

Germany’s chief federal prosecutor has announced the arrest of a German-Polish national with alleged neo-Nazi ties who is accused of calling on the darknet for the assassination of top politicians and seeking donations for bounties on their heads.

More than 20 people were on the list of potential targets, including former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz as well as judges and ex-government ministers, local media reported.

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© Photograph: Matthias Rietschel/Reuters

© Photograph: Matthias Rietschel/Reuters

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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t review – light-as-a-feather magic threequel

The starry franchise returns for a belated third outing, with Rosamund Pike in villain mode and familiar but forgettable tricks

If Steven Soderbergh’s remake of Ocean’s Eleven attempted to capture some remnant of an older Las Vegas, sounding an elegiac note in its scene of the crew departing the Bellagio fountains one by one, then the Now You See Me series seems to aspire to something closer to the Las Vegas of today. The belated third entry Now You See Me: Now You Don’t swells the ranks of its tricky magician thieves to nearly Ocean’s Eleven numbers, then winds them through a heist plot that ultimately has the illusory spontaneity of a pop artist in the midst of a 30-show residency. It’s glitzy, fun fakery that fades quickly unless you’re an inexplicably hardcore fan.

Those fans will recall that it’s been nearly a decade since the most recent adventures of ringleader Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), mentalist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), card trickster Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), and escape artist Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) at the behest of The Eye, a secret magician society that sends particularly skilled illusionists on righteous, spy-like missions. Actually, it’s been even longer for Henley, who wasn’t in the 2016 sequel unforgivably titled Now You See Me 2, apparently saving its more obvious moniker for this three-quel (and therefore squandering the opportunity to call the new one Now You Three Me). But the estranged quartet calling themselves the Four Horsemen are tricked into a testy reunion when a message from The Eye brings Atlas to the doorstep of a younger trio of similarly gifted magicians: Bosco (Dominic Sessa), June (Ariana Greenblatt), and Charlie (Justice Smith). Their task: steal an enormous diamond from money-laundering arms dealer Veronika Vanderberg (Rosamund Pike), a mission mostly in sync with the new kids’ proclivity for wealth redistribution, albeit more neatly traditional in its choice of evildoer.

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© Photograph: Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate

© Photograph: Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate

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