Gandhi

Kemal Ghandi

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu speaks during an anti-government rally in Istanbul, Turkey, 21 May 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN

The Oscar-winning British costume designer who created Darth Vader’s iconic black outfit in Star Wars has died.

London-born John Mollo, who has passed away at the age of 86, began working in movies as a military history expert.

Mohandas "Mahatma-Venerable" Gandhi embarked on his "Salt March" in order to protest an unfair British salt tax system on March 12, 1930. On the 24th day of his march, which he had started with 78 companions, and despite British attempts to stop it, Gandhi reached the town of Dandi by the ocean and pinched a handful of un-taxed salt of his own country.

Global opinion leaders and observers of politics all agree that 2016 was a "terrible year." All have good reasons to complain: American liberals suffered from their grave presidential election defeat, British liberals suffered from the Brexit vote, and European liberals worry about the rise of the far right.

Launching its snap election manifesto, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has pledged to restrict the power of the Turkish president to a "symbolic level," lifting the controversial discretionary fund recently granted to Turkey's head of state.

British director and actor Richard Attenborough has died aged 90 after a sparkling career spanning six decades, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) said on Aug. 24.
      
"We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of esteemed filmmaker and former BAFTA President, Lord Attenborough," the organisation said in a statement.
      

British film actor and director Richard Attenborough has died at the age of 90, the BBC has reported.

In his career of six decades Lord Attenborough appeared in films like “Brighton Rock”, “The Great Escape”, “Doctor Dolittle” and blockbuster “Jurassic Park” and as a director he won two Oscars for “Gandhi.”