Afghan cinema in fight for survival

21/06/11 15:21 CET

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UN condemns Syrian government for Houla shelling

Protests have erupted across Syria after Friday’s massacre of at least 100 people, many of them children, in the town of Houla. With international…

IMF chief back-tracks over Greek tax-dodging

Greek and French politicians are making political capital out of remarks made by the IMF chief…

Greek anger at Lagarde tax avoidance comments

Haneke wins top prize as Cannes

This year’s jury president at Cannes, actor director Nanni Moretti announced the winner of…

More winners at the Cannes Film Festival

Earthquake hits northern Argentina

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 has struck northern Argentina in the early hours of Monday morning. It happened at around 2.00am local time, 116km east-southeast of the city of Santiago…

French journalist to be freed by Colombia FARC rebels

The International Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed they will be involved in the operation to free captured French journalist Romeo Langlois from Colombian FARC rebels. A humanitarian mission…