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Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for Tomb of Sand, a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine. Originally written in Hindi, it’s the first book in any Indian language to win the high-profile award, which recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated…

A former director of the Louvre Museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of archaeological treasures that investigators suspect were smuggled out of Egypt in the chaos of the Arab Spring, a French judicial source said Thursday. Jean-Luc Martinez was charged Wednesday after being taken in for questioning along with…

BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 27. The official exchange rate of the US dollar and the euro against the Azerbaijani manat as of May 27, 2022 was set at 1.7 and 1.8282 manat respectively, Trend reports with reference to the Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic (CBAR). The manat rate in relation to world currencies on May 27: Currencies Official exchange…

Ray Liotta, the actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67.A source at the Dominican Republic’s National Forensic Science Institute who was not auth…

The White House on Thursday announced more steps to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more accessible across the U.S. as it projects COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the summer travel season.The nation’s first federally backed test-…

Pfizer said Wednesday that it will provide nearly two dozen products, including its top-selling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment, at not-for-profit prices in some of the world’s poorest countries.The drugmaker announced the program at the World Economic …