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| Bieber ‘under the weather’, but expects to perform Posted: 08 Mar 2013 07:04 AM PST
Bieber, 19, suffered from shortness of breath during his performance and, after a 20-minute break during which he was given oxygen by doctors, he completed his set. The "Boyfriend" singer was later taken to hospital. "Justin has been released from the hospital after a check-up and while he's feeling a little under the weather, he's planning on going ahead with tonight's show," the spokesman said in an emailed response to questions. Bieber messaged his 35 million Twitter followers overnight that he was "getting better" and posted a photograph on web service Instagram of him lying shirtless on a hospital bed, wearing earphones and smiling. The pop singer was not suffering from any health issues before the show, a spokeswoman said yesterday. It was not the first time Bieber has collapsed on stage. He suffered concussion during a concert in Paris last June after falling into a glass wall. The London leg of Bieber's sold-out "Believe" world tour has not been without its problems. On Tuesday, the first night at London's O2 Arena, Bieber angered fans by turning up on stage nearly two hours late, blaming technical issues for the delay. After completing the London part of his tour, he is due to travel to Lisbon for two gigs on March 11 and 12. — Reuters |
| Russian police detain several Pussy Riot supporters Posted: 08 Mar 2013 04:43 AM PST
The street-art collective Voina (War) said on its blog that around 10 people were taken away by the riot police at a small demonstration in support of Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, the jailed band members. Moscow police told Reuters that people had been detained, but declined to say how many. A Reuters Television cameraman saw four people led away to police cars. The protest was designed as a one-person demonstration for which no permit is required. Activists took turns in front of the Federal Penitentiary Service building holding posters demanding freedom for Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova. All the band members, including the since freed Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, belonged to Voina. Russian media reported that the arrests were made when other people started holding up posters. Voina said that after the detentions the police allowed the one-person demonstration to continue. Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova are serving two-year sentences after being convicted in August of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred when performing an anti-Kremlin "prayer" early last year at Moscow's main Russian Orthodox cathedral. Samutsevich was released in October after her lawyer argued that she had not taken part in the performance because she was seized by guards before she could start playing her guitar. Alyokhina has been refused early release and Tolokonnikova has just requested one, Russian media reported. When asked yesterday whether the two should be paroled, President Vladimir Putin declined to comment. "It's not up to me, but it is a thing of procedures and applicable legislation," Putin said, according to Russian media. He said he does not remember commenting about the Pussy Riot case before. "I don't remember, perhaps I commented, but today I don't want to," he said. In October, Putin called the Pussy Riot sentencing fair. "They wanted this, they got it," he told the NTV television channel in an interview then. Last week, another one-person demonstration was organised by mothers, wives, sisters, and female friends of opposition members jailed after the protests on the eve of Putin's inauguration in May. No detentions were reported. – Reuters |
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