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11 TV Shows You Forgot Were Based on Comic Books (Photos)

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The “Dark Matter” TV series came years after the debut of the Dark Horse comic book it’s based on, but creators Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie originally conceived of the series — about six individuals who wake up on a starship together with their memories wiped — as a TV show before it was redeveloped as a comic in 2012. Syfy has a number of science fiction series based on lesser known comic book titles, including the fan-favorite “Wynonna Earp,” starring Melanie Scrofano as the demon-fighting descendent of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Читать дальше...

Myanmar Journalists Take Fight for Freedom of Speech to Court

Voice of America 

More than 100 reporters in Myanmar are preparing to protest against laws seen as curbing free speech when two senior journalists go on trial on Thursday, after the military sued them for defamation over an article in a satirical journal. The rare campaign, in which journalists will wear armbands reading "Freedom of the Press," underscores growing public unease at the laws, after the courts recently took up a raft of similar cases. Despite pressure from human rights bodies and Western diplomats... Читать дальше...

Mexico, DiCaprio, Slim team up to help endangered porpoise

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president, its richest man and actor Leonardo DiCaprio signed an agreement Wednesday to try to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise.

Mexico, DiCaprio, Slim team up to help endangered porpoise

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

The agreement struck by President Enrique Pena Nieto, multibillionaire telecoms magnate Carlos Slim and DiCaprio sets the goal of ending gillnet use in the upper Gulf and makes permanent an earlier temporary ban. Because illegal traders pay thousands of dollars per kilogram of the swim bladders, efforts to curb totoaba fishing have been ineffective and the number of surviving vaquitas has fallen rapidly. The agreement will be backed by both the Carlos Slim Foundation and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation... Читать дальше...

Mexico, DiCaprio, Slim team up to help endangered porpoise

«The Bismarck Tribune» (bismarcktribune.com) 

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president, its richest man and actor Leonardo DiCaprio signed an agreement Wednesday to try to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise.





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