Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Rasoulof’s latest film won three prizes at Berlin, including the top award An Iranian director has been summoned to serve a year in prison by Iran’s authorities, just days after winning top prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Mohammad Rasoulof, whose film There Is No Evil won the prestigious […]
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Image caption Toilet paper seems to be top of the stockpilers’ shopping lists As coronavirus, and the fear of it, continues to spread, there are a growing number of reports of empty shop shelves as people rush to buy products such as hand soap, loo roll, pasta and rice. Some supermarkets have reported seeing spikes
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Brynna Maxwell and reserve Lola Pendande, both freshman, scored 17 points apiece, combining for 25 in the second half to lead eighth-seeded Utah to a 72-63 win over ninth-seeded Washington in a first-round game of the Pac-12 Conference tournament March 6, 2020, 1:04 AM 2 min read LAS VEGAS — Freshmen Brynna Maxwell and Lola
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Her role has not been finalized, in part because she is weighing family considerations, but it is expected to be arranged in the coming days, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions. Mr. Biden has long had a sort of bullpen-by-committee approach to his senior staff, and longtime advisers like Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and
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WASHINGTON — One of President Trump’s greatest strengths in his presidential campaign is his economic salesmanship: He has convinced a devoted share of Americans that his leadership has made the U.S. economy bulletproof and that markets would crash if he were defeated in November. The president’s ability to set the economic narrative is buoyed by
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Image caption Catherine McConville’s appeal for knitted cannula covers went viral A paediatric nurse who appealed for knitted sleeves for premature babies says she now has more than enough – after receiving 48 sackfuls in a week. Catherine McConville, of the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge, asked knitters to create tiny cannula covers for babies in
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Dating-based reality television shows are notoriously whitewashed. (See: The entire “Bachelor” universe.) But on Netflix’s new hit show “Love Is Blind,” the epic, sweeping love story that fans can’t stop swooning over has a Black woman at its center. Lauren Speed, a 32-year-old content creator from Michigan, and Cameron Hamilton, a 28-year-old data scientist from
Image copyright Joy Sterling Image caption Joy Sterling and her daughter, Sophie My Money is a series looking at how people spend their money – and the sometimes tough decisions they have to make. Here, Joy Sterling from South Gloucestershire records her spending over a week and shares tips for saving. Following an accident in
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People with direct knowledge of the negotiations say the Chicago White Sox have agreed to a $70 million, five-year contract with Yoán Moncada, locking up another one of their promising young hitters By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer March 6, 2020, 12:05 AM 2 min read MESA, Ariz. — The Chicago White Sox have agreed
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday sharply criticized Attorney General William P. Barr’s handling of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, saying that Mr. Barr put forward a “distorted” and “misleading” account of its findings and lacked credibility on the topic. Judge Reggie B. Walton said Mr. Barr could not
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