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The 38th edition of the Fajr Film Festival, which features the major productions of the Iranian cinema every year during February, will be dominated by political and social dramas.
A large number of Iranian cineastes announced that they would not take part in the festival in sympathy for the victims of the Ukrainian jetliner, which was unintentionally targeted by Iran.
In any case, the festival kicks off today without an opening ceremony.
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India raised taxes on imports of goods such as electronic items, toys and furniture, aiming to give impetus to domestic manufacturing in a move that will hit Sweden’s IKEA and other foreign firms.
IKEA’s India CEO Peter Betzel said the company was disappointed with the increase. “We are further evaluating the impact of the hike on our total business,” he said. IKEA, which has committed more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) in India investments, imports roughly 75% of goods sold in the country.
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Tokyo Electric has collected nearly 1.2 million tons of contaminated water from cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting since the plant was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami which hit eastern Japan in 2011. A panel of experts working for Japan’s economy and industry ministry concluded that letting the water run into the sea was the best option after looking at other proposals.
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Visitors to the month-long show which opened yesterday at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) can relive the past through the 12 vehicles that could be seen plying on Qatar's roads in the 70's, 80's and 90s spread around NMoQ's Baraha Square.
Bouthayna Baltaji, Acting Head of Exhibitions Section at NMoQ said “The whole idea was to show how some things may have changed with modernization, but also some things have stayed very much the same”.
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Head with Horns has been exhibited as a major Gauguin work in some of the world’s leading museums. It was taken off display by the Getty last year, and is now expected to remain in storage. Outsiders believe that the sculpture may have cost around $3m-$5m.
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"My dream has officially come true," said Kenin, the eighth first-time women's champion in the past 12 Slams. Kenin won 4-6 6-2 6-2 against two-time major winner Spain's Garbine Muguruza in Melbourne.
U.S tennis player, who turned 21 in November, is the youngest Australian Open champion since Russian Maria Sharapova in 2008.
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation on Friday after a call from Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric for the government to step down to end weeks of deadly unrest.
The four-atom intermediate formed upon collision is typically too scarce and short-lived to spot, even using ultrafast techniques.
Calcutta in the late 1770s was Asia's biggest boom town: known as the City of Palaces, the East India Company's bridgehead in Bengal had doubled in size to 400,000 inhabitants in a decade.
Pope Francis ordered the return of the thumb-sized relic from Rome's Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore as a gift.
Wearing a fake suicide vest and wielding knives, Usman Khan went on the rampage on Friday afternoon at a conference on criminal rehabilitation beside London Bridge. He was wrestled to the ground by bystanders and then shot dead by police.
The people injured were discharged from hospital late on Friday.
Prime Minister Edi Rama said preliminary figures showed more than 1,465 buildings in the capital, Tirana, and about 900 in nearby Durres were seriously damaged in Tuesday’s 6.4-magnitude pre-dawn quake.
The Simpsons is currently in its 31st season on Fox and was renewed in February for a record-setting 32nd season due to air in the 2020-21 television season. If Elfman is right, that means the show could go off air in two years.
Scientists say they've found evidence of an incredibly large stellar black hole, an object they didn't believe could exist.
Judiciary committee chairman said on Friday he looks forward to ‘prompt response’ while president is at his Florida golf club.
Jair Bolsonaro falsely accuses actor of funding deliberate destruction of rainforest.
Ukraine criticised the tech giant for showing Crimea as part of Russia's territory on its Maps and Weather apps.
All matches were suspended when the violence began six weeks ago.
Man in custody had to be Tasered to be subdued, Winnipeg police say.
It's a stellar black hole — the type that forms after stars die, collapse, and explode. Researchers had previously believed that the size limit was no more than 20 times the mass of our sun because as these stars die, they lose most of their mass through explosions that expel matter and gas swept away by stellar winds.
Now it must find a place to bury the deadly waste for 1 million years.
Police hunt man in grey tracksuit and shawl after incident in Grote Marktstraat shopping area.
Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science.
Jair Bolsonaro falsely accuses actor of funding deliberate destruction of rainforest.
Neil Basu, London’s police counterterrorism head, said 28-year-old Usman Khan was attending a program that works to educate prisoners when he launched the attack, killing a man and a woman and injuring three others just yards from the site of a deadly 2017 van and knife rampage.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s efforts on gun control have gained global praise, but at home - with a general election next scheduled for year - she has faced resistance from the federal opposition National Party, gun lobby groups and ordinary citizens over planned legislation introduced in September.
A person who is released on license is subject to conditions for the duration of their sentence after leaving prison. The Times newspaper reported that Khan had agreed to wear an electronic tag.
Monique Giannelloni says she wasn't searched and didn't sign in during her palace visit to see the Duke after being introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein's alleged 'fixer', Ghislaine Maxwell.
IF it wasn’t Prince Charles who actually pulled the trigger to sack wayward brother Andrew in the wake of the Epstein scandal, he certainly loaded the gun.
Plan is part of ‘green new deal’ but campaigners say it is not enough to tackle climate crisis.
Anger from protesters as Joseph Muscat says his job is to ‘see this investigation concluded’.
The legislation knocked global stocks off near-record highs on Thursday, when U.S. markets were closed for Thanksgiving Day.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had been due to join a student strike in Lisbon, but her environmentally friendly voyage across the Atlantic from New York by yacht was hit by high winds, delaying her by a few days, she told social media followers.
Former Polish president and Ukrainian gas company Burisma board member says no wrongdoing by Burisma while Hunter Biden was on board.
The Irishman confirmed last month that he would return to the Octagon on January 18, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada but didn't disclose who he would be coming up against.
Former PM shared world stage with Reagan and Thatcher but failed in his push to change country’s pacifist constitution.
Dorsey said in a message on the social media platform that he didn't know where he would be living, but he planned to spend up to half of next year in Africa.
His arms are raised overhead, clutching a massive, imposing bell. With piercing focus, his eyes lock on a demon splayed at his feet.
The two-person show at the National Museum of Singapore, titled "Unhomed Belongings," also featured Singaporean artist Shubigi Rao and was co-curated by the museum's director Angelita Teo and Dan Chen, independent curator and director of Chambers Fine Art.
Concerns had been raised about the association with the medieval religious wars between Christians and Muslims.
Jung was also charged with filming the assault and distributing the footage.
This theory has now been toppled by LB-1, the newly-discovered black hole. Located about 15,000 light years away, it has a mass 70 times greater than our sun, according to a press release from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The American was abseiling down El Potrero Chico near Monterrey when he plunged about 300m to his death.
Transitional authorities pass key demands of protest movement that toppled Bashir.
Virginia Giuffre says Met did not act after she alleged she had been forced to sleep with Prince Andrew.
Boris Johnson did not turn up to Channel 4's climate debate, so he was replaced with a melting ice sculpture.
Damac Properties PJSC’s chairman bought Italian fashion group Roberto Cavalli SpA through his private investment firm.
Iran condemned the burning of its consulate in the holy city of Najaf as violence continued into the night across southern Iraq, where security forces had killed 36 protesters and wounded 245 since Wednesday evening, the officials said.
Murphy, a New Yorker who was drawn to the city by the Harlem Renaissance, died Saturday, confirmed her granddaughter, Nefer Nekhet.
PSA’s move highlights how global car manufacturers are struggling in the world’s biggest auto market, where sales contracted last year for the first time since the 1990s.
Both were members of online chat groups that shared secret sex tapes and made jokes about drugging and raping women, the Seoul Central District Court said.
Last year, a fleet of NASA spacecraft got a detailed look at the life cycle of the 2018 global dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission.
A joint Djibouti-U.N. statement on Thursday said up to a quarter-million people have been affected in recent days in the country on the Red Sea that’s home to military bases for the United States, China and others. With heavy rains forecast through the end of the month that number could grow.
He said work on framing the investigation was well underway and the IMF would start work in the first half of 2020.
The company apologized for confusion around its plan to remove accounts.
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