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Katy Perry felt ‘battered and bruised’ by backlash

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Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter EPA Katy Perry said the “online world” had tried to make her a “human Piñata” Singer Katy Perry has admitted feeling “battered and bruised” by the backlash following her recent space trip, but reassured fans she is OK and would “keep looking to the light”. Writing two weeks after the much-derided … Read more

National dialogue conference kicks off in Syria as battered country seeks to rebuild

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Syria’s new Islamist rulers kicked off a long-awaited national dialogue conference on Tuesday as a “rare historical opportunity” to rebuild the country after fall of former President Bashar Al-Assad and nearly 14 years of civil war. Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new … Read more