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Romanian Producer Ada Solomon Has 3 Films in Locarno’s Competition and Likes Cinema to Cause Debate: “We Need Dialogue More Than Ever”
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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August 16, 2025
Dracula, the new film from Romanian provocateur Radu Jadu (Kontinental ’25, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World), world premiered in the competition program of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. Among the...
Over Half of Europe and Mediterranean Basin Hit by Drought Since April
República
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PARIS, Aug 14: More than half (52 percent) of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was hit by drought in July for the fourth consecutive month, according to an AFP analysis of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data. Drought levels in the region are...
When Is It Genocide?
The New York Times
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August 13, 2025
In the days after Oct. 7, President Joe Biden tried to help Americans touch the size of Israel’s horror and grief by translating it into the terms of our own tragedies. Since this terrorist attack took place, we’ve seen it described as Israel’s...
Dubai Basketball and its meteoric rise to EuroLeague: 'This is a story from a movie'
The New York Times
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August 14, 2025
Dubai attracting skilled workers from Europe and North America is nothing new. With approximately 3.9 million residents, fewer than 10 percent are Emirati citizens, according to a 2024 government report. But the city of skyscrapers in the United...
Transcending the boundaries of media: Appropriation of collective knowledge, transformation of labor and alternative futures
Bianet
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August 13, 2025
Today's digital world has become the main stage for a fundamental conflict. On one side of this conflict are new control architectures that combine state and corporate power to manage public discourse and appropriate collective knowledge, while on...
In the know: Aug. 15
Mountain Democrat - California
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Aug. 15 Placerville Arts Association will host a Paint Out in Happy Valley, Somerset from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information visit placervillearts.com. The El Dorado Hills Community Services District will host the Summer Sock Hop Senior Luncheon...
Over half of Mediterranean basin and Europe hit by drought since April
The Times of Israel
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August 12, 2025
More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was hit by drought in July for the fourth consecutive month, according to an AFP analysis of European Drought Observatory data. Drought levels in the region are the highest on record for the...
Ji.hlava’s Emerging Producers Reveal Pitches for Upcoming Projects (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety
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August 14, 2025
Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival has revealed to Variety the projects that the participants of its Emerging Producers program are working on. The producers were asked to deliver an elevator pitch for their projects. Since 2010, the festival has...
Israel, the Syrian Druze, and the Ghosts of the “Responsibility to Protect”
War on the Rocks
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August 14, 2025
Though relatively limited in their duration and destruction, Israel’s airstrikes on Syria last month were conspicuous for their rationale. This was no act of self-defense. It was, in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s telling, an act of...
Interview: Ivana Mladenović • Director of Sorella di Clausura
Cineuropa
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“It’s not just reality or just fiction; it’s that middle ground where both come together to create something that can’t be separated” 14/08/2025 - The Serbian-Romanian filmmaker talks about her fourth feature, which follows a self-aware young...
The Stages of Mechanical Breakdown Grief
Adventure Rider
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August 12, 2025
Every adventure rider knows that mechanical breakdowns are part of the deal. What they don’t tell you is that your brain processes these failures with the same psychological stages as actual grief, complete with bargaining, denial, and eventually,...
Students celebrate exceptional A level results across York and North Yorkshire
YorkMix
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August 14, 2025
Welcome to our coverage of A level results day 2025! Students at schools and colleges across York and North Yorkshire are receiving their results today. We’re adding more pictures and details as they come in, so keep checking back. And...
Sexual violence is a daily reality for the women in the wake of the Tigray war
The New Feminist
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August 14, 2025
The Tigray war ended in 2022, but three years on the conflict is still impacting women in grave ways. Sexual violence is still common and may be getting worse. Here is a deep dive into everything you need to know. Despite the apparent ceasefire...
Inside the blacklist: 25 books banned in Jammu and Kashmir for inciting 'secessionism'
The Federal
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August 14, 2025
Once, actor Nargis Dutt vilified cinema maestro Satyajit Ray. In 1980, shortly after Indira Gandhi nominated her to the Rajya Sabha, Nargis hurled a crass accusation at him. Seeing herself as no less than Mother India and thereby, also its...
The conscience of humanity is being tested in Gaza
Al Jazeera
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August 14, 2025
The humanitarian tragedy unfolding in the Gaza Strip must not be perceived merely as a conflict confined to a narrow strip of land; rather, it should be regarded as a deepening humanitarian catastrophe that wounds the collective conscience of...
Thousands Flee Wildfires Across Greece as Heat Withers Crops
Claims Journal
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August 13, 2025
Greek coastguard vessels evacuated tourists and locals, while a volunteer firefighter died in Spain as authorities struggled to quell blazes across the Mediterranean. A wildfire in Volissos forced evacuations from two beaches on the island of...
A heat wave is gripping Europe, fuelling wildfires and forcing evacuations
The Globe and Mail
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August 11, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Smoke billows from a hill behind vineyards during France's largest wildfire in decades near Camplong-d' Aude, southern France, Thursday, Aug.7, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Manu Fernandez/The Associated Press A heat...
Civic Campaigning Politics: a Muscular Mass Politics for Our Time
Liberal Currents
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August 13, 2025
The First American Republic is dead. We currently are in the Magafascist Period, a new system that is still solidifying, but a period that is just one aspect of a much wider Renaissance of Global Fascism. Yet we must not live in despair, as there...
Drought dries up springs in Serbia, leaving livestock in lethal peril
CGTN
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August 14, 2025
A prolonged drought and sweltering heat are taking their toll on villagers, livestock and crops in the mountains of southeastern Serbia, with animals starting to die. Lack of rainfall since May has caused water shortages, wildfires and disruption...
Heat wave scorches parts of Europe
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Land temperatures have risen about 2.3 °C above preindustrial levels, nearly twice the global average, intensifying heat waves and driving record fire seasons. With major outbreaks in Spain, Portugal, and deadly blazes in Greece since late June,...