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I WAS surprised to see a new BBC primetime drama starring Worcester’s own Kit Harington had been receiving criticism in recent days. The drama, Gunpowder, is focused on the plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 so you could imagine this was never going to be fluffy Saturday night entertainment. |
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Call Me By Your Name (15) Dir. Luca Guadagnino, 132 mins, starring: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois. Coming of age films set over long, lazy summers constitute a mini-genre in their own right. Few, though, have the freshness or poignance of Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name . |
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The Armenian Artsvaber Monastery in Van’s Ercis (Archesh) region is on the verge of disappearance. Treasure hunters have dug deep holes in the monastery, while local residents throw the garbage there, Akunq.net reports, quoting Turkish Gazetekarinca.com website. |
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Under the new leadership presented yesterday, Wang Yang should be the head of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference which deals with religious groups. Despite being considered a liberal, he must toe the line dictated by Xi Jinping on the "sinicization of religions. |
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IT’S sport vs religion in a high-stakes, winner-takes-all match between a defender of the faith and a radio veteran. The stakes? A fiver. The Londoner hears that a dispute over vital statistics has broken out between Giles Fraser and John Humphrys. It centres on the intriguing question: which draws.... |
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A lecture in Lancaster will mark 100 years since the fall of the Russian Empire. On the night of October 25 1917, platoons of armed soldiers, sailors and civilian workers known as the Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in Petrograd, capital of the old Russian Empire, and arrested the members of.... |
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Pope Francis would make a call to the International Space Station (ISS) today, Oct. 26, at 9:00 AM EDT, 9:00 PM, Singapore time, and 11 PM IST from the Vatican. The pope would speak to the Expedition 53 crew who are working aboard the ISS. The schedule of NASA said:
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Artistry in death. The Emerald Art Center will present “The Artful Dead,” a fundraiser for the center’s youth art works programs, at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27. The center encourages participants to come dressed as their favorite dead artist or as a work of art. |
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Seasonal. GREENWOOD-A-GLOW, 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 18, Greenwood library, 310 S. Meridian St. Free, except for $1 photos with Santa. The tree lighting will begin at 5 p.m. with Isom Elementary and Greenwood High School choirs singing and Santa flipping the switch to light the tree; carriage rides, live.... |
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PORTLAND — The DarSalam Iraqi restaurant, with its steaming plates of falafel and kebab, has for years served as a popular community gathering spot here. The Iraqi family who ran it felt welcome in this eclectic city. But all of that changed one night last spring when a man with a shaved head walked in and took a seat. |
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Making his first visit to one of Africa’s most troubled countries since he took the UN helm in January, Guterres observed a minute’s silence and laid a wreath in memory of peacekeepers who lost their lives in the last year. He said he came “to express solidarity, gratitude and admiration. You do extraordinarily courageous work. |
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