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‘Universal Language’ movie review: Lost in translation, found in kindness
A still from ‘Universal Language’ | Photo Credit: Metafilms Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language is a deadpan daydream, an unplaceable mirage of a film that maps an imagined Iran onto a surrealist Winnipeg. It is at once a cinematic love letter, an identity crisis, and a melancholic joke told with such straight-faced sincerity that it loops…
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Singapore-based shipping firm hit by US sanctions over Iran oil links
SINGAPORE – A Singapore-based company has been slapped with US sanctions for links to the Iranian oil trade, becoming the first in the city-state to be penalised for assisting with oil transfers at sea. Shipload Maritime was sanctioned because it “knowingly engaged in a significant transaction for the transport of petroleum or petroleum products from…
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China urges end to ‘illegal’ sanctions as it hosts Iran nuclear talks
China urged an end to “illegal” sanctions on Iran as it hosted diplomats from that country and Russia on Friday for talks Beijing hopes will restart long-stalled negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear programme. The United States withdrew from a landmark 2015 deal, which imposed curbs on Tehran’s nuclear development in return for sanctions relief, during US…
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How a Russian Mobster Stalked an Iranian Dissident in Brooklyn
New York|How a Russian Mobster Stalked an Iranian Dissident in Brooklyn https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/nyregion/russian-mobster-masih-alinejad.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Khalid Mehdiyev was sent to America to establish a beachhead for his gang. The organization…
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Iran Sanctions Prop Up Oil Prices
Irina Slav Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. More Info By Irina Slav – Mar 14, 2025, 1:44 AM CDT A new round of sanctions targeting Iran’s oil industry and the country’s oil minister boosted oil prices earlier today, offsetting the negative…
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Iran, Russia, China discuss Tehran’s nuclear programme at Beijing meeting
Meeting between top diplomats from three countries signals Tehran may be ready for renewed negotiations on its nuclear programme. Diplomats from Iran, Russia and China are meeting in Beijing for talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme that could lead to negotiations following years of delay. Beijing said the three countries hope to find a “diplomatic” solution…
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Iran’s rulers caught between Trump’s crackdown and a fragile economy
For Iran’s clerical leaders, engaging with the “Great Satan” to hammer out a nuclear deal and ease crippling sanctions may for once be the lesser of two evils. Though it harbours deep mistrust of the United States, and President Donald Trump in particular, Tehran is increasingly concerned that mounting public anger over economic hardships could…
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Why do some asylum-seeking children go missing?
Alex Bish BBC South East Investigations Team Susan Pilcher Kent County Council says it works closely with Kent Police, the Home Office and carers More than 50 of the lone asylum-seeking children who went missing from council care in Kent over a six-year period are unaccounted for, BBC South East can reveal. Figures obtained from…
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China hosts Iranian, Russian diplomats for nuclear talks
The United States withdrew from the landmark deal with Iran, which had imposed curbs on Tehran’s nuclear programme — ATTA KENARE China hosted Russian and Iranian diplomats on Friday for talks Beijing hopes will restart long-stalled negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program. The United States withdrew from a landmark 2015 deal, which imposed curbs on Tehran’s…
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Is Trump trying to pull Putin away from China – and can it work?
As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an explosive meeting that would reveal deep fissures between Washington and Kyiv, he was also asked by a reporter about another world leader: Vladimir Putin. In the very setting in which he joined forces with Vice…