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Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi's Health Worsens
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Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi's Health Worsens

Reports indicate a significant deterioration in the health of imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who requires urgent medical treatment. Meanwhile, another Iranian lawyer has been released from prison.

Nigerian Leaders Honor Afenifere Leader Fasoranti at 100
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Nigerian Leaders Honor Afenifere Leader Fasoranti at 100

Prominent Nigerian figures, including the Ooni of Ife and Governor Aiyedatiwa, celebrated Afenifere leader Reuben Fasoranti on his 100th birthday, recognizing him as a symbol of wisdom and moral leadership.

Suspect Detained in Baby Food Poisoning Case
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Suspect Detained in Baby Food Poisoning Case

A 39-year-old suspect has been taken into investigative custody in Austria in connection with the alleged poisoning of baby food, specifically HiPP products, with rat poison. The individual believes GPS data will help prove his innocence.

"The Devil Wears Prada" Endures as Cultural and Fashion Icon
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"The Devil Wears Prada" Endures as Cultural and Fashion Icon

The classic film "The Devil Wears Prada" continues to be celebrated for its portrayal of female power dynamics and its lasting impact on fashion and pop culture. Discussions often highlight Meryl Streep's iconic performance and anecdotes surrounding the movie's inspiration.

‘Very damaging’: how the Iran war is hitting energy-intensive industries
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‘Very damaging’: how the Iran war is hitting energy-intensive industries

Conflict pushes companies struggling with rising costs in sectors such as steel and chemicals to the edge In its 160-year history, Somers Forge’s furnaces in the Black Country have cast steel columns for the Bank of England, part of the anchor for the Titanic and – more recently – propeller shafts for Britain’s nuclear submarines. The economic fallout from the Iran conflict is the latest of many geopolitical headaches the family-owned forge has endured, but it is already “very damaging”, said...

Snake Found in Elbląg Bathroom
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Snake Found in Elbląg Bathroom

Police in Elbląg, Poland, responded to a call after a resident found a snake in their bathroom. The non-venomous corn snake likely entered through a ventilation shaft or drain from another apartment.

Zelenskyy's Former Aide Arrested Amid Corruption Probe and Intense Russian Strikes
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Zelenskyy's Former Aide Arrested Amid Corruption Probe and Intense Russian Strikes

Ukraine's former top aide to President Zelenskyy was arrested as a corruption probe widens, creating an internal political stir. This development coincides with a period of intense Russian missile and drone attacks across the country, including what was described as the worst drone attack since the war began.

Search Underway for Missing Diver in Greece's 'Devil's Well'
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Search Underway for Missing Diver in Greece's 'Devil's Well'

A search operation is ongoing at Limanakia Vouliagmenis in Greece for a 34-year-old diver who went missing in a 28-meter-deep underwater shaft known as the 'Devil's Well,' a site characterized by cave-like features and strong underground currents.

Watch: Inside Nigeria’s backyard mining boom driven by poverty
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Watch: Inside Nigeria’s backyard mining boom driven by poverty

Families in central Nigeria are digging deep mining shafts in their own backyards in search of minerals such as tin and columbite. This video looks at why backyard mining is spreading in Jos, the dangers involved, and how poverty is pushing families to dig for survival beneath their own homes.

Frederick Wiseman brought a uniquely empowering scale to his immersive documents of ordinary life
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Frederick Wiseman brought a uniquely empowering scale to his immersive documents of ordinary life

His maximal studies of US institutions such as welfare bureaucracy and an intensive care unit were packed with human detail and free from explicit commentary • Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96 The documentary form is often thought to be governed by a manageable feature-length high concept: the story of a person, an institution, an historical episode. The subject itself and the film’s attitude towards it, its editorial slant, are habitually plain enough and the procedure is metonymic: the camera focuses on a part, and the whole is illuminated by implication. Often they have a sexed-up, quirky story to tell, which might mean a selective and sneakily tendentious approach to editing the material. But that is not quite the case with the films of Frederick Wiseman. His colossal, immersive movies about ordinary people and ordinary lives enclosed in some kind of institution, and characterised by the absence of voiceovers, intertitles or the off-camera directorial presence of the interviewing voice, are not amenable to the elevator pitch; they are the entire elevator shaft itself, and the whole building that houses it. Whereas epic-length films might be generally held to be appropriate for big and distinctively historical subjects, such as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah or Marcel Ophüls’s The Sorrow and the Pity, Wiseman applies the maximal approach to static cross-section studies of sometimes less obviously momentous topics such as Paris’s Crazy Horse nightclub or the French restaurant Le Bois Sans Feuilles. However his greatest works are top-to-bottom body-politic pictures of public institutions, huge, intricate constructions of unglamour; his movies themselves were virtual institutions, movie-edifices mirroring their subjects in architectural form and indeed almost always funded by one particular public institution: PBS, the Public Broadcasting System. Continue reading...

Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?
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Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?

With audiences fatigued by endlessly interconnected mashups, studios are reverting to movies with one storyline that ends in a natural conclusion – what a radical idea The news this week that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are to return in a new Mummy film for the first time in a quarter of a century feels a bit like Hollywood stumbling out of a very long house party it doesn’t entirely remember attending. The last time the pair appeared together was 2001, when The Mummy Returns (itself an insipid sequel to 1999’s much better The Mummy) hit multiplexes. Since then we’ve had a spin-off (2002’s The Scorpion King, featuring an early turn from Dwayne Johnson) and a second sequel that didn’t feature Weisz, 2008’s forgettable The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. And then, of course, there was the ill-fated “Dark Universe”, forever immortalised by that solemn publicity photograph of Russell Crowe (Dr Jekyll), Javier Bardem (Frankenstein’s Monster), Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp (The Invisible Man) staring into the middle distance like an ageing goth supergroup. The plan was to launch an interconnected saga in which Jekyll would act as a sort of monster-movie Nick Fury, corralling Dracula, Frankenstein and assorted undead assets into a synergised Marvel-style cinematic ecosystem. Fortunately it rapidly fell apart: 2017’s Cruise-led The Mummy landed with all the grace of a cursed sarcophagus dropped down a lift shaft. And that, as far as the Dark Universe was concerned, was that. Universal pivoted to smaller films such as Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, while Bardem’s Monster and Depp’s Invisible Man never materialised at all. Continue reading...