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Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari’s “With Hasan in Gaza” will be for many a hauntingly poignant visual journey through Gaza as it existed in 2001. Based on recently rediscovered video footage shot on a trip to the region 24 years ago, Aljafari describes his latest work as “an homage to Gaza and its people, to all that was erased and that came back to me in this urgent moment of Palestinian existence, or non-existence. It is a film about the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists.” Kicking off this year’s International Competition in Locarno, “With Hasan in Gaza” follows Aljafari and…

Lee is accused of going online and offering to assist Russian authorities in exchange for Russian citizenship.An active duty soldier has been charged with seeking to pass sensitive information about the United States Army’s main battle tank to the Russian government, the US Justice Department has announced.The suspect, Taylor Adam Lee, has been charged with “attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license”, the Justice Department said in a statement on Wednesday.Lee, a 22-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas, has yet to enter a plea in…

Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website, a spokesman recently told WIRED — was with his girlfriend around 3 a.m. Sunday in Washington’s Logan Circle when a circle of roughly 10 teens approached their car and made comments about taking…

The US will require citizens from Malawi and Zambia to pay a $15,000 (£11,300) deposit for a tourist or business visa, according to the US state department.The 12-month pilot programme aims to curb visa overstays “or where screening and vetting information is considered deficient”, according to a notice published by the state department.Officials say that citizens of countries other than Malawi and Zambia may soon also need to pay a similar deposit, which will be returned at the end of their visit to the US.The US administration has taken several steps to further President Donald Trump’s agenda of stemming illegal…

A Civil Service Employee Assistance Programme (CSEAP) was last Thursday launched in Accra by the Minister of Labour, Jobs and Employment, Dr Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo. Launched under the theme; “Empowering employees, supporting well-being, towards vibrant quality service delivery” it is spearheaded by the office of the Head of Civil Service and marks a significant shift towards building a resilient and people-centred civil service. Dubbed: “CARE HUB” initiative, the programme aims at enhancing the mental, emotional, and professional wellbeing of public service workers across the country. CSEAP has newly established the Civil Service Care Hub, a dedicated counselling unit offering professional…

MONTREAL — Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko rallied to reach the National Bank Open final, beating ninth-seeded Elena Rybakina 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4) on Wednesday night.Mboko, 18, dropped to the court after Rybakina’s shot sailed long on match point as the crowd — lined with “Allez Vicky” — erupted. Mboko saved a match point in the third set and broke Rybakina twice to force the tiebreaker.”Incredible match,” Mboko told the crowd in French. “Thank you to everyone for supporting me. It was really difficult, but anything can happen.”On Thursday night, she’ll face Japanese star Naomi Osaka, a 6-2, 7-6 (7) winner…

China’s DeepSeek took the AI world by storm this year. Where is it now? And: AI doomsday?

US President Donald Trump said the tariff will not impact companies if they have already invested in US facilities.United States President Donald Trump says he will impose a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made semiconductors, although exemptions will be made for companies that have invested in the US.“We’ll be putting a tariff on of approximately 100 percent on chips and semiconductors, but if you’re building in the United States of America, there’s no charge, even though you’re building and you’re not producing yet,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Wednesday evening.The news came after a separate announcement that Apple…

No one really saw Barbarian coming, the playful 2022 horror about an Airbnb reservation gone horribly wrong. That was part of the plan, a teasing trailer that only told a small part of the story and a swaggering title that promised something grander than we could initially see, and that might be why I found the reaction to be a little alienating. It was showered with euphoric praise upon release and first-time writer-director Zach Cregger, whose background is in comedy, was immediately heralded as a new king of the genre. For me, it was more trick than treat, a sizzle…

155 Cameroon has taken another major step in boosting electricity supply to its key industries, especially in the southern region. On August 6, 2025, the country’s Minister of Water and Energy, Mr Gaston Eloundou Essomba, officially launched the construction of a new 225 kilovolt (kV) high-voltage transmission line in Kribi, located in the South Region of the country. The project is being handled by Sonatrel, which is the national electricity transmission company. According to government officials, this major electricity project will connect the 216-megawatt Kribi gas-fired power plant directly to a brand-new 225 kV transformer substation that is currently under…