ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The World Video Sport Corridor of Fame inducted its tenth class of honorees Thursday, recognizing Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, SimCity and Ultima for his or her impacts on the online game business and widespread tradition.
The inductees debuted throughout a long time, advancing applied sciences alongside the way in which and increasing not solely the variety of gamers, however the ages and pursuits of these on the controls, Corridor of Fame authorities mentioned in revealing the winners. The Corridor of Fame acknowledges digital video games of all sorts — arcade, console, laptop, handheld, and cellular.
The Class of 2024 was chosen by specialists from amongst a subject of 12 finalists that additionally included Elite, Guitar Hero, Metroid, Neopets, Tokimeki Memorial, Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater and You Don’t Know Jack.
The glory for Atari’s Asteroids comes 45 years after its 1979 debut in arcades, the place it was Atari’s bestselling coin-operated recreation. The sport’s glowing space-themed graphics and sound results made their manner from greater than 70,000 arcade models into hundreds of thousands of dwelling rooms when a house model of Asteroids was made accessible on the Atari 2600.
“By infinite variants and remakes throughout dozens of arcade, house, handheld, and cellular platforms, Asteroids made a easy, but difficult recreation about blasting rocks into one of the broadly performed and influential video video games of all time,” mentioned Jeremy Saucier, assistant vice chairman for interpretation and digital video games at The Sturdy museum, the place the World Video Sport Corridor of Fame is situated.
The following inductee to debut was Ultima, not essentially a family identify however a pressure within the improvement of the pc role-playing style, digital preservation director Andrew Borman mentioned within the information launch. Designed by Richard Garriott and launched in 1981, Utima: The First Age of Darkness impressed eight sequels and is credited with inspiring later role-playing video games like Dragon Quest and Ultimate Fantasy.
The city design-inspired SimCity was launched by Maxis in 1989 and located an viewers amongst adults in addition to kids who had been challenged to construct their very own metropolis and reply to issues. Among the many sequels and offshoots it impressed was 2016 World Video Sport Corridor of Fame inductee The Sims.
“At a time when many individuals considered video video games when it comes to arcade shooters or console platformers, SimCity appealed to gamers who wished intellectually stimulating enjoyable on their newly purchased private computer systems,” Aryol Prater, analysis specialist for Black play and tradition, mentioned.
The journey recreation Myst bought greater than 6 million copies, making it a best-selling laptop recreation within the Nineteen Nineties. The 1993 Broderbund launch used early CD-ROM expertise and allowed for a degree of participant immersion that till then had not been accessible in laptop video games, the Corridor of Fame mentioned.
“Few different video games can match Myst’s capability to open imaginative worlds,” collections supervisor Kristy Hisert mentioned. “It was a piece of inventive genius that captured the creativeness of a complete technology of laptop recreation gamers, and its affect could be seen in lots of immediately’s open-world video games.”
The ultimate honoree, Resident Evil’s “tacky B-movie dialogue, engrossing gameplay, and chilling suspense” helped popularize the “survival horror” style following its launch by Capcom in 1996 and provided mature leisure for older youngsters and adults, online game curator Lindsey Kurano mentioned. Created by recreation director Shinji Mikami, it additionally impressed an motion horror movie sequence that as of 2022 had grossed greater than $1.2 billion, based on the Corridor of Fame.
Anybody can nominate a recreation to the World Video Sport Corridor of Fame. Members of a world choice advisory committee submit their high three decisions from the listing of finalists. Followers are also invited to weigh in on-line. The general public as a complete is handled as a single committee member.
MEXICO CITY — The mom of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico delivered a shifting tribute to her sons Tuesday at a seashore in San Diego.
“Our hearts are damaged and the world has change into a darker place for us,” Debra Robinson mentioned, combating again tears. “They had been younger males having fun with their ardour of browsing collectively.”
Her sons, Callum and Jake, had been allegedly killed by automotive thieves in Baja California, throughout the border from San Diego, someplace round April 28 or 29.
Robinson additionally mourned the American who was killed with them, Jack Carter Rhoad.
The beachside location the place she spoke, throughout the border from the Baja California metropolis of Tijuana, was no coincidence. She famous that her son Callum “thought of america his second dwelling.”
Robinson famous that her son Jake liked browsing a lot that, as a health care provider, he preferred to work in hospitals close to the seashore.
“Jake’s ardour was browsing, and it was no coincidence that a lot of his hospitals that he labored in had been near browsing seashores,” she mentioned.
Choking again tears, Robinson conveyed a closing message that coincided along with her sons’ adventurous existence.
“Stay greater, shine brighter and love tougher of their reminiscence,” she mentioned.
Robinson thanked Australian officers and supporters there and in america.
From left, Jack Carter Rhoad, Jake Robinson and Callum Robinson.NBC Information
Whereas she thanked Mexico’s ambassador to Australia, she notably didn’t thank the native officers in Baja California who finally discovered the our bodies of her sons and Carter Rhoad.
Their killers dumped the our bodies of the boys right into a properly about 4 miles away from the place that they had been attacked at a beachside campsite. Investigators had been shocked when, beneath the our bodies of the three foreigners, a fourth physique was discovered that had been there for much longer. It was unclear if the physique was associated to the present case.
The truth that such killers are usually not caught or stopped within the overwhelming majority of instances in Mexico has led some Mexicans to protest that authorities solely examine such disappearances when they’re high-profile instances involving foreigners.
Robinson mentioned that her sons’ our bodies, or their ashes, will finally be taken again to Australia.
“Now it’s time to carry them dwelling to households and associates,” she mentioned. “And the ocean waits in Australia.”
Prosecutors have recognized three folks as potential suspects, two of whom had been caught with methamphetamines. One among them, a girl, had one of many victims’ cellphones when she was caught. Prosecutors mentioned the 2 had been being held pending drug expenses however proceed to be suspects within the killings.
A 3rd man was arrested on expenses of against the law equal to kidnapping, however that was earlier than the our bodies had been discovered. It was unclear when or if he would possibly face extra expenses.
The third man was believed to have straight participated within the killings. In line with Mexican legislation, prosecutors recognized him by his first identify, Jesús Gerardo, alias “el Kekas,” a slang phrase meaning quesadillas, or cheese-filled tortillas.
He had a felony report that included drug dealing, car theft and home violence, and authorities mentioned they had been sure that extra folks had been concerned.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese advised a radio station within the Robinsons’ hometown of Perth in Western Australia state that each mum or dad felt for the household’s loss.
A rescue employee getting ready to descend right into a water gap the place human stays had been discovered close to La Bocana Seaside, Mexico, on Friday. Guillermo Arias / AFP – Getty Photos
“I feel the entire nation’s coronary heart goes out to the mother and father of Callum and Jake Robinson. It’s each mum or dad’s worst nightmare to lose a son or a daughter. To lose these two brothers is simply terrible and my deepest sympathies and condolences and I’m positive the entire nation’s [are] with the mother and father and with the opposite household and associates of those two tremendous younger Australians,” Albanese advised Perth Radio 6PR.
Albanese mentioned he was reminded of when his solely little one, Nathan Albanese, traveled final 12 months on the age of twenty-two to a music pageant in Spain.
“You do fear, however you suppose as properly that’s a part of the Australian ceremony of passage, is touring round with a backpack and assembly folks and it’s the way you develop as an individual as properly, so that you wish to encourage them,” Albanese mentioned.
In 2015, two Australian surfers, Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas, had been killed in western Sinaloa state, throughout the Gulf of California — often known as the Sea of Cortez — from the Baja peninsula. Authorities mentioned they had been victims of freeway bandits. Three suspects had been arrested in that case.
Video above: The dad and mom of two Australian surfers who had been discovered useless in Baja California, Mexico final week spoke publicly Tuesday, Might 7.
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A person suspected of killing three surfers, two Australian brothers and a San Diego man, has been recognized by Mexican authorities.
Based on the Baja California Lawyer Common’s Workplace, Jesus Gerardo ‘N.’ was taken into custody in connection to the incident. His nickname was reported to be “El Kekas.” His final title was not made public.
The image under, offered by the Baja California Lawyer Common’s Workplace, reveals the suspect, whose face and physique have been blurred out.
(Courtesy of the Baja California Lawyer Common’s Workplace)
The three victims had been on a browsing journey close to Ensenada, Mexico, after they had been reported lacking on the finish of April after not exhibiting as much as their Airbnb.
Shortly after, Baja California Lawyer Common María Elena Andrade Ramírez introduced an investigation into their disappearance had been launched.
It was later introduced on Friday, Might 3, that three our bodies had been positioned in La Bocana, about 130 miles south of San Diego. The human stays had been recovered from a 50-foot effectively.
Relations recognized the three males as Jake and Callum Robinson and Jack Carter Rhoad.
Based on Mexican authorities, it’s suspected that the victims had been killed after an try and steal their truck for its tires.
One other man and a girl remained in custody dealing with drug possession fees. Two different suspects are being sought in reference to the killings.
Border Report’s Salvador Rivera contributed to this report.
On Wednesday night, the New York Knicks are enjoying the Indiana Pacers at Madison Sq. Backyard for Sport 2 of their second-round playoff collection
Through the second half, star ahead OG Anunoby went to the locker room with an harm.
The previous Indiana Hoosier has 28 factors, 4 rebounds, three assists and one block whereas capturing 10/19 from the sector and 4/7 from the three-point vary in his first 28 minutes of enjoying time.
Via SNY’s Ian Begley: “OG Anunoby is headed again to the locker room. Appears to be holding his left hamstring. He has 28 factors up to now in Sport 2.”
OG Anunoby is headed again to the locker room. Appears to be holding his left hamstring. He has 28 factors up to now in Sport 2.
Anunoby was traded to the Knicks throughout the center of the season (by way of the Toronto Raptors).
He completed the common season with averages of 14.7 factors, 4.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.4 steals per contest whereas capturing 48.9% from the sector and 38.2% from the three-point vary in 50 video games.
The Knicks are the second seed within the Jap Convention with a 50-32 file.
They’re within the NBA playoffs for the second straight yr, and beat the Philadelphia 76ers within the first spherical (in six video games).
Could 6, 2024; New York, New York, USA; New York Knicks ahead OG Anunoby (8) controls the ball / Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports activities
As for the Pacers, they’re the sixth seed with a 47-35 file.
They beat the Milwaukee Bucks within the first spherical (in six video games).
Sport 3 of the collection might be on Friday night when the groups journey to Indiana.
Whoever wins the collection will advance to the Jap Convention Finals and face off in opposition to the Cavs or Celtics.
Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. skilled a sequence of well being points lately, together with an abnormality that he mentioned was brought on by a worm that entered his mind after which died, The New York Instances reported on Wednesday.
In 2010, Kennedy, now 70, skilled extreme reminiscence loss and psychological fog, he mentioned in a deposition two years later. In line with the Instances, he consulted prime neurologists aware of the medical historical past of his uncle, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, who had died of mind most cancers in 2009. A New York physician, after reviewing a scan of his mind, instructed him that his well being points might be “brought on by a worm that obtained into my mind and ate a portion of it after which died,” Kennedy mentioned within the 2012 deposition, which involved a divorce from his second spouse, Mary Richardson Kennedy. Robert Kennedy mentioned on the time that his incomes energy had been negatively affected by the cognitive points, the Instances reported.
Across the identical time, the Instances mentioned, he suffered from mercury poisoning, which might result in neurological points equivalent to lack of peripheral imaginative and prescient, muscle weak spot and points with motion, listening to and speech, in addition to reminiscence loss. Kennedy instructed the paper he has recovered from the reminiscence loss and mind fogginess and that the parasite didn’t require remedy.
As well as, he has grappled for many years with atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, an irregular heartbeat. He instructed the Instances it has been greater than a decade since he skilled the situation and mentioned he believes he now not suffers from it.
Kennedy’s marketing campaign declined to offer his medical data to the Instances. In an announcement to CNN, Stefanie Spear, a spokesperson for Kennedy’s marketing campaign, mentioned he had “traveled extensively in Africa, South America and Asia” as a part of his work as an environmental advocate and mentioned he contracted a parasite in a type of journeys.
“The problem was resolved greater than 10 years in the past and he’s in sturdy bodily and psychological well being. Questioning Mr. Kennedy’s well being is a hilarious suggestion, given his competitors,” the marketing campaign mentioned, referring to the superior ages of the 81-year-old President Joe Biden and 77-year-old former President Donald Trump.
In his first public feedback after the report revealed, Kennedy in a social media post supplied “to eat 5 extra mind worms and nonetheless beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate.”
“I really feel assured of the consequence even with a six-worm handicap,” he joked.
Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious illness professional and Dean for the Nationwide Faculty of Tropical Medication on the Baylor School of Medication in Houston, instructed CNN that it’s troublesome to totally evaluation Kennedy’s declare with out trying on the scans. “It’s an incomplete story,” as he put it.
However, talking usually, Hotez mentioned individuals with pork tapeworm infections of their brains — a situation generally known as neurocysticercosis — extra generally expertise seizures and typically have to be on anti-seizure remedy for a very long time as a result of when the worms die, they kind a calcified cyst within the mind that may trigger the mind to launch inflammatory chemical substances known as cytokines.
The connection to reminiscence issues and dementia is beneath examine, Hotez mentioned. These signs are additionally related to mercury poisoning, and Kennedy instructed the Instances that on the time he was recognized with that ailment, he was consuming excessive portions of tuna and perch.
“Yeah, the worms usually are not feeding the mind. They’re residing within the mind,” Dr. Hotez mentioned. The worms get vitamins from the physique, however they aren’t consuming the mind tissue, he mentioned.
Pork tapeworm infections will be troublesome to diagnose as a result of when the worm is alive it masks itself from detection and doesn’t present up on scans. It’s extra frequent to seek out the worm after it has died and left behind a calcified cyst within the mind, Hotez mentioned.
Kennedy mentioned he modified his life-style following these well being episodes, together with getting extra sleep, touring much less, decreasing his fish consumption and present process chelation remedy that seeks to expel metals within the physique.
On the marketing campaign path, Kennedy has portrayed himself as vibrant and youthful in comparison with Biden and Trump, partaking in strenuous actions like snowboarding and weightlifting. Biden’s doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, mentioned in February that there have been “no new considerations” with the president’s well being revealed in a bodily and the White Home has mentioned no cognitive check was administered as O’Connor didn’t discover it obligatory. Trump’s marketing campaign late final yr launched a letter that made broad statements about his well being — together with claims that the previous president is in “wonderful” well being and that his cognitive exams “had been distinctive” — however didn’t embody details about the sorts of checks that Trump took or what the outcomes had been.
Kennedy’s views on private well being, together with his long-held skepticism of sure vaccines, have been a particular function of his public picture. He has disputed ideas that he’s “anti-vaccine,” although he’s the founding father of the Kids’s Well being Protection, a bunch that has been accused of spreading falsehoods about vaccines.
This story has been up to date with further particulars and response.
CNN’s Brenda Goodman and Aaron Pellish contributed to this report.
A bit-known parasitic an infection within the mind acquired a jolt of consideration Wednesday when presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned he as soon as suffered from it.
The situation, often known as neurocysticercosis, is a mind an infection linked to larvae from pork tapeworms. It is uncommon: It hospitalizes roughly 1,000 to 2,000 individuals yearly within the U.S.
Neurocysticercosis causes seizures, complications, blindness, blurred imaginative and prescient, dizziness, psychosis or reminiscence loss. In some instances, it might even be deadly.
The an infection usually follows a sequence of occasions: Folks eat uncooked or undercooked pork that carries a tapeworm. They then shed tapeworm eggs of their stool and contaminate meals or surfaces by not washing their palms. Because of this, they or these round them who eat that meals or contact these surfaces can by chance swallow tapeworm eggs.
As soon as they’re swallowed, the eggs hatch into larvae, which might transfer from the gut to the mind. The larvae type fluid-filled pockets, or cysts, resembling tiny, clear balloons a couple of centimeter in diameter.
The eggs are “actual sticky,” mentioned Dr. Clinton White, an infectious illness professor on the College of Texas Medical Department at Galveston. “They get on individuals’s palms and beneath their fingernails. Hand-to-mouth I feel is a vital route of transmission.”
General, the situation is poorly understood by well being care suppliers, in response to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, which considers neurocysticercosis to be a “uncared for parasitic an infection.”
“It’s an vital illness and will get ignored so much,” White mentioned.
On Wednesday, The New York Instances reported that Kennedy, who’s operating for president as an impartial, as soon as skilled a parasitic mind an infection.
Kennedy’s marketing campaign press secretary, Stefanie Spear, mentioned in an announcement responding to the Instances article: “Mr. Kennedy traveled extensively in Africa, South America, and Asia in his work as an environmental advocate, and in a type of areas contracted a parasite. The problem was resolved greater than 10 years in the past, and he’s in strong bodily and psychological well being.”
In response to the Instances, Kennedy mentioned in a 2012 deposition that, two years earlier, medical doctors had detected an irregular spot on his mind amid signs of reminiscence loss and psychological fogginess. One physician concluded it was attributable to a worm that obtained into his mind after which died, Kennedy instructed the Instances.
NBC Information was not capable of instantly confirm the small print of the Instances report.
The Instances additionally reported that Kennedy mentioned he didn’t know what kind of parasite it was. Nevertheless, in an interview on the internet radio present “Pushing the Limits” on Wednesday, Kennedy instructed host Brian Shapiro that the an infection was neurocysticercosis and that the parasite “comes from consuming undercooked pork.”
Amongst tapeworms, pork tapeworms are mostly related to mind infections.
In March, medical doctors in Florida printed a case examine a couple of 52-year-old man who developed extreme migraines from neurocysticercosis. The person had eaten undercooked bacon for many of his life, so medical doctors presumed he had acquired a pork tapeworm, shed the tapeworm’s eggs after which ingested them, resulting in his mind an infection.
Larval cysts from neurocysticercosis usually stay within the mind for round 5 to 10 years. Once they begin to die, the physique’s immune system assaults them, and the irritation can result in epileptic seizures or life-threatening mind swelling. Some instances of neurocysticercosis are asymptomatic.
In international locations the place pork tapeworms are endemic, neurocysticercosis causes round 30% of all epilepsy instances, in response to the World Well being Group.
“It’s a significant neurologic an infection worldwide,” White mentioned.
“Most U.S. instances are imported,” he added. “They’re in folks that purchase the an infection in endemic areas — significantly in villages, say, in Mexico or Central or South America.”
The an infection can also be endemic in sub-Saharan Africa and several other elements of Asia.
White mentioned neurocysticercosis is beginning to be recognized extra within the U.S., probably as a result of medical doctors have gotten extra conscious of it.
“It’s in all probability the parasitic illness that causes essentially the most issues on this nation,” he mentioned.
Whereas signs might resolve on their very own with none therapy, some sufferers might require seizure medicines or a mixture of steroids and anti-parasitic medication. In extreme instances, sufferers might have surgical procedure to take away the cysts.
The 140-pound contender, who examined optimistic for a banned substance earlier than his victory over Devin Haney on April 20, stated on the Absolutely Tilted Podcast with Bob Menery that he was excessive through the combat.
And he once more denied taking PEDs.
“If I have been on steroids, I’d’ve been in approach higher form,” stated Garcia, who confirmed that he has requested for his B samples to be examined. “I used to be actually ingesting on daily basis, smoking weed – each single day.
“I didn’t cease, not even till the f*cking day of the combat. And I obtained in there excessive as f*ck and I beat his ass.”
Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) created drama earlier than, throughout and after the combat with Haney, a junior welterweight titleholder.
He got here in three-plus kilos obese, which meant he was ineligible to win the belt. He shocked Haney and the boxing world by placing the champion down thrice and profitable the choice.
Then got here information of the optimistic drug take a look at, which leaves the results of the combat and Garcia’s profession in limbo.
If authorities verify that he had the banned drug Ostarine in his system and his attorneys can’t clear him, he nearly actually will lose the victory and be each suspended and fined.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 20: Ryan Garcia (R) talks with Devin Haney (L) after…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 20: Ryan Garcia (R) talks with Devin Haney (L) after their WBC Tremendous Light-weight title bout at Barclays Heart on April 20, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Al Bello/Getty Photos)
NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok will start labeling content material created utilizing synthetic intelligence when it’s uploaded from sure platforms.
TikTok says its efforts are an try and fight misinformation from being unfold on its social media platform.
The announcement got here on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday.
“Our customers and our creators are so enthusiastic about AI and what it may well do for his or her creativity and their means to attach with audiences.” Adam Presser, TikTok’s Head of Operations & Belief and Security advised ABC Information. “And on the similar time, we need to make it possible for individuals have that means to grasp what truth is and what’s fiction.”
TikTok’s coverage prior to now has been to encourage customers to label content material that has been generated or considerably edited by AI. It additionally requires customers to label all AI-generated content material the place it comprises practical photos, audio, and video.
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Ryan Garcia’s eventful spring continues.
The boxing celebrity who scored an upset win over Devin Haney on April 20 solely to have the victory tainted by constructive exams for banned substances has had one other main occasion influence his skilled state of affairs,
On Wednesday, Could 8, longtime boxing insider Dan Rafael reported Garcia had been cleared of a possible constructive drug check for the 19-Norandrosterone metabolite, which comes from a better-known banned substance referred to as Nandrolone.
Per data from Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry, which Rafael referenced, the outcomes had been unconfirmed, resulting in Garcia’s clearing. Garcia’s outcomes for Nandrolone are actually confirmed as unfavorable.
Garcia took to X to proclaim his innocence after the information broke, however extra continues to be to come back.
Garcia’s lawyer, Darin Chavez, has steered the degrees of Ostarine in his shopper’s system are proof that “we’re dealing solely with a recognized complement contaminant within the billionth of a gram vary that offered Ryan Garcia with no performance-enhancing profit in any respect on struggle evening,” per an ESPN report from Mike Coppinger.
The “billionth of a gram” measurement isn’t confirmed. Garcia has requested the testing of his B-sample, however these outcomes received’t be recognized till Could 22.
It is very important notice that any quantity of Ostarine in a fighter’s system is grounds for a constructive check for a banned substance. Nevertheless, many are specializing in the quantity of Ostarine that will probably be confirmed or unconfirmed after the B-sample is revealed.
If the quantity of Ostarine is on the picogram degree, some consider that may help the notion that the failed check was the product of a contaminated complement, and it isn’t prone to have offered Garcia with a aggressive benefit in opposition to Haney on April 20.
Understandably, Haney doesn’t settle for any of the ideas that recommend there needs to be any leniency for Ostarine being in his opponent’s system. He took to X to share his ideas.
The saga continues, and barring a leak, we received’t have definitive information on the following steps till Could 22, when Garcia’s B-sample returns, we obtain evaluation concerning the quantity of Ostarine in his samples, and knowledgeable’s tackle the influence it might need had on the fighter’s efficiency on April 20.
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish investigative Justice of the Peace on Thursday provisionally shelved the most recent probe into an alleged case of tax fraud by pop star Shakira following suggestions by prosecutors.
The Colombian singer had been underneath investigation for the alleged evasion of 6.7 million euros ($7.2 million) in taxes on her 2018 earnings through an offshore firm. She denied wrongdoing.
State prosecutors who initially introduced the allegations stated Wednesday “there may be not enough proof” of a potential fiscal crime and advisable that the probe be closed.
In an announcement Thursday, the investigating courtroom stated that on condition that there isn’t a accusation on behalf of prosecutors or the regional authorities of Catalonia in northeastern Spain, there was no trigger to proceed additional with the case.
The courtroom stated “there isn’t a indication that may show that Shakira Isabel M. R. had consciously and voluntarily omitted data and documentation with tax significance.”
If the ruling shouldn’t be appealed by prosecutors inside every week, it is going to be definitive.
In a separate case, Shakira struck a deal in November with prosecutors whereby she acknowledged she had didn’t pay Spanish authorities 14.5 million euros (about $15.6 million) in taxes between 2012 and 2014.
Shakira at the moment resides in Miami after having left Spain following her breakup with former soccer participant Gerard Piqué.
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