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Grammy nominations to be announced, with 5 new categories
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the sixty fifth Grammy Awards on Tuesday with some vital additions.
The academy earlier this 12 months 5 new classes together with songwriter of the 12 months to honor music’s finest composer and a particular tune for social change award.
The non-classical songwriter class will acknowledge one particular person who was the “most prolific” non-performing and non-producing songwriter for a physique of recent work. It would take a unique method than tune of the 12 months, which awards the songwriters who wrote the lyrics or melodies to at least one tune.
This 12 months’s announcement will likely be made on a livestream starting at midday Japanese, 9 a.m. Pacific at https://reside.grammy.com/. Amongst these asserting the nominees this 12 months will likely be Olivia Rodrigo, John Legend, Machine Gun Kelly and Smokey Robinson.
Doable nominees embody Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Types and Adele. Another hopefuls embody Lizzo and Steve Lacy, who each had two of the most important songs this 12 months.
The Grammy Awards will likely be handed out Feb. 5 in Los Angeles.
The brand new class for songwriters is a large step ahead. Final 12 months, a rule replace allowed that any songwriter, producer, engineer or featured artist on an album nominated for album of the 12 months may in the end earn a nomination.
The 4 different classes embody finest spoken phrase poetry album, different music efficiency, Americana music efficiency and rating soundtrack for video video games and different interactive media.
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US citizen imprisoned in Russia given new 15-year sentence in wake of espionage conviction
A Russian-born U.S. citizen who was already behind bars in Russia on a bribery conviction has been handed a second sentence for espionage.
Eugene Spector was sentenced to a new 15-year term for his espionage conviction, according to Russian news agencies. Spector was born and raised in Leningrad, Russia, but later moved to the U.S. and became a citizen.
A Moscow court brought espionage charges against Spector in August of last year, although details surrounding the case were not made publicly available.
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The U.S. State Department said it was aware of reports of a U.S. citizen in Russia being sentenced and that it was monitoring the situation.
Spector, a former executive at a medical equipment company in Russia, was sentenced in September 2022 to three and a half years in prison for enabling bribes to an aide of former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
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The aide, Anastasia Alekseyeva, was sentenced to 12 years in April for accepting bribes of two expensive overseas vacation trips.
Dvorkovich was a deputy prime minister under former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in 2012 to 2018. Dvorkovich is currently head of the international chess federation FIDE.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan: Emergencies ministry
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Passenger plane crashed near the city of Aktau.
An passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country’s Emergencies Ministry said in a statement.
Fourteen people had survived the crash and had been hospitalised, according to the local health officials.
“At the moment, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, including five in intensive care,” the health ministry’s regional department said in a statement. The Emergencies Ministry said fire services had put out the blaze
Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight number J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, but had been forced to make an emergency landing approximately 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh city of Aktau.
Russian news agencies said the plane had been rerouted due to fog in Grozny.
Authorities in Kazakhstan said they had begun looking into different possible versions of what had happened, including a technical problem, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.
More to follow.
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