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Robert Hackwill

Cinema

Tokyo film festival extends special welcome to Chinese filmmakers

Festival opens with rare Chinese-Japanese co-production, "The Legend of the Demon Cat".

Cult

"Burning Doors" sees Pussy Riot take tales of terror in Russian prisons to New York

Pussy Riot's Maria Alekhina's play gets rave reviews in off-Broadway show, while Nadezhda Tolokonnikova blazes her own trail.

USA

America awaits the release of the JFK papers

Worldwide interest grows ahead of the US National Archive's release of the final unpublished documents relating to the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Germany

Prostitution network discovered at Berlin refugee centre

Security guards at one Berlin refugee centre pimp out their wards for cash.

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Colombia

Colombian officials double estimate of FARC holdouts resisting disarmament

Some 800 FARC fighters remain fully-armed and with illegal mining and cocaine production to support them, pose a threat to the peace deal, while criminals occupy areas vacated by former rebels.

World News

Doncic ignites Real rampage in Euroleague

Round three of the Euroleague produced wins for Real Madrid, Zalgiris Kaunas, and Khimki Moscow.

Kyrgyzstan

Krygyzstan grapples with forced marriage of minors

"Taking and running away" custom mostly older men taking underage brides by force in central Asian nation, despite being outlawed.

Turkey

Human rights activists go on trial in Turkey

Eleven human rights activists including the local heads of Amnesty Internationl face 15 years on terrorism charges.

Switzerland

Public invited to show off the power of their minds

An experiment in Lausanne, Switzerland, is inviting the public to hook themsleves up to a brain interface and try and move machinery with the power of thought alone.

United Kingdom

Fans delighted with Pullman's return & "La Belle Sauvage"

After a 17-year interval Philip Pullman has returned to the themes and lead heroine that made his name with the first instalment of the "Book of Dust" trilogy.

Italy

Lombards shrug, but Venetians embrace the possibility of more autonomy from Rome

Reactions differ in the wake of referenda on more autonomy in two northern Italian regions.

Sport

Blue Monday for Koeman

Everton sack Ronald Koeman and seek new manager after disasterous start to season

Russia

Russia stands by Baghdad and insists on Iraq's territorial integrity

Russia dashes Kurdish hopes of support by siding with Baghdad and saying Iraq should not lose its northeastern provinces to an independent Kurdistan.

France

No solution to Calais' migrant problem one year after "jungle" demolition

Migrants continuing to gather in Calais and Dunkirk sleeping rough due to lack of facilities.

Sport

Russia invites disgraced former FIFA and UEFA heads to Moscow for World Cup finals

Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini will be Vladimir Putin's personal guests for the three-week football tournament next year

Italy

Italian regions flex muscles in autonomy refrerenda

Lombardy and Veneto are asking for a bigger share of the tax take and spending powers in twin votes on autonomy from Rome.

No Comment

Neo-nazi "Free speech" event at Florida University goes ahead amid protests

Neo-Nazi event at Florida University meets barrage of protests as university criticised for cost of upholding "free speech".

Japan

Sun sets on Akihito as Japanese press suggests 2019 abdication

A japanese press reports siuggests March 2019 as the abdication date for Emperor Akihito, the first sovereign to step aside in nearly 200 years.

Belgium

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn takes a different message to Brussels

May way or my way Corbyn tells Brussels officials and Europe's Socialist parties as the UK Labour leader warns no deal would be "dangerous".

North Korea

North Koreans undaunted by the prospect of nuclear war

President Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric on North Korea appears to have had the effect of stiffening people's resolve, with some North Koreans even believing they could survive nuclear conflict.

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