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2026-07-20 02:21:22 (6 days ago)

Iran shipped billions in oil during the cease-fire.

Le Monde - World News

2026-07-20 02:20:11 (6 days ago)

India's Cockroach movement supporters gather to attempt a march to Parliament

The protesters are demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over exam irregularities, including question paper leaks and technical glitches.

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-07-20 02:12:30 (6 days ago)

Fight to save rare ecosystem of chalk streams

We visit Langford Lakes nature reserve in Wiltshire, home to the River Wylye chalk stream.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 02:10:48 (6 days ago)

Can you solve it? Do you think like a physicist?

A scorching puzzle about heat

In a summer heatwave, you keep the curtains drawn all day.

It helps keep the room cool.

Le Monde - World News

2026-07-20 02:01:21 (6 days ago)

Moscow region targeted by drones, at least two wounded

Russian authorities said they had intercepted 'most' of the over 400 drones that targeted Moscow overnight.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 02:00:49 (6 days ago)

A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies

From the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema

Film critic, historian and author of more than 40 books, David Thomson is back with another three-hour free jazz solo on the subject of the movies, though it’s a performance delivered with the magnificent elan of a 1940s big band leader. He’s as brilliant, eccentric, exasperating and absorbing as ever.

By “the movies”, incidentally, he means Hollywood, with a side order of established European and east Asian arthouse: he takes us from the cine-prehistory of photographer Eadweard Muybridge to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation with its sinister Ku Klux Klan hero-worship, Chaplin, Stroheim, Hitchcock, Capra, Renoir, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe in The Seven-Year Itch, Monroe Stahr in The Last Tycoon, Scorsese’s GoodFellas, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (“Is it drive or dream?”), Kirk Douglas and his alleged rape of Natalie Wood, Barbara Loden’s Wanda, Sean Baker’s Anora, Tracey Emin’s Why I Never Became a Dancer and much more. He subtitles his book a “revisionist” history.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 02:00:49 (6 days ago)

Changing face of the Peloponnese: backdrop to The Odyssey braces for tourism surge

Tracing a journey across the Peloponnese, taking as its starting point the locations of Christopher Nolan’s new film. As the region faces mounting tourism and development pressures, the environment is becoming ever more fragile under the strain of recurring wildfires and demand for natural resources, particularly water

Voidokilia Bay, in the southwestern Peloponnese, has a crescent-shaped beach framed by two historical headlands: a Mycenaean tomb on one side and a medieval fortress on the other. Last spring, its crystal-clear waters became a highly secured Hollywood set for The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film starring Matt Damon and Zendaya. The region of Messenia, with its Ottoman castles and wild coastlines, was chosen to evoke the epic nature of myth.

View of the Ottoman fortress of Methoni from the Venetian castle

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 02:00:48 (6 days ago)

Flavours of Iraq review – vivid childhood memories of 80s Baghdad from writer in Paris exile

Powerful animation portrays experiences of a French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani, with anecdotes about his father, a prominent leftist exile

With a title translated a little inelegantly from Le Parfum d’Irak to “flavours of Iraq” when “the perfume of Iraq” might have been simpler and better, this film is a powerful, vivid animation co-directed by Léonard Cohen with its author, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani, robustly narrated in Alani’s first-person by the actor Malik Zidi. The animation style is stylised and expressionist: shapes and forms like silhouette cutouts suggest the piercingly insistent forms of memory.

It is about Alani’s childhood and fractured family experience growing up in Paris in the 80s as the son of a prominent leftist Iraqi exile who was forced out of his native country on account of his opposition to Saddam Hussein. The story itself is told through a loose series of flashbacks occasioned by his father’s funeral, at which mourners, members of Iraq’s 1970s socialist diaspora brought together by his death, start recounting anecdotes. To these, Alani adds his own reminiscences of going back to see his extended family in Iraq at the end of the 80s, and experiencing the madeleines of those flavours and smells of Baghdad and Falluja: the delicious taste of ice-cream and the fragrances of young men’s exotic hair oil.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 02:00:48 (6 days ago)

Chris Packham takes on a terrifying crime ring: best podcasts of the week

The popular broadcaster investigates what happened after a large pile of murdered animals were dumped outside a primary school in Hampshire. Plus, Lena Headey tackles an idea from an ‘ethical pornographer’

Mangled pheasants, mutilated foxes, weeping kids: the third series of the multi-award-winning show about environmental crime opens with a huge pile of murdered animals outside a primary school. The investigation leads to revelations about the world of illegal bloodsports and rural organised crime. It even recruits Chris Packham. “It’s low-level terrorism, isn’t it?” he exclaims at one point – and it’s hard not to agree. An essential listen. Alexi Duggins
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France 24 - World News

2026-07-20 01:52:51 (6 days ago)

🔴Middle East live: Kuwait says intercepting Iran drone attacks as explosions heard in Bahrain

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-07-20 01:49:38 (6 days ago)

Controversial farm subsidy scheme gets billion pound budget

The protest-hit Sustainable Farming Scheme has been introduced after almost a decade in development.

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-07-20 01:25:27 (6 days ago)

'Hidden time-capsule of UK biodiversity' unlocked

The specimens with links to Charles Darwin will soon be studied by scientists across the world.