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Director Pedro Almodóvar on semi-autobiographical film ‘Pain and Glory – and refusing to work in Hollywood
Celebrated the world over for his exuberant and rich dramas, the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has just released his 21st movie.
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Modi promises bright future for Kashmir amid state’s lockdown
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a bright new future for the state of Kashmir that he’s had in total lockdown for the past four days.
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UK’s largest ever modern slavery gang jailed
They had trafficked hundreds of vulnerable people to Britain, enriching themselves in the process.
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Modern technology and voice of women empower Amazon tribe to combat illegal poaching
They have traditional dances, bows and arrows, the songs and the warpaint.
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Modi declares victory in India election
India’s general election was supposed to be a close-run thing – but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured a landslide re-election.
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India election: Modi vs Gandhi in epic election – will nationalism triumph?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports from the Indian city of Varanasi – what used to be called Benares. It is the constituency of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, so just the place to begin our journey from north to the south of the country, covering what’s become a bitter battle for the soul of India – the…
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Prof Jayati Ghosh: ‘Modi promised he would deliver justice, he’s given the opposite’
We’ve been speaking to Jayati Ghosh, who is Professor of Economics at India’s elite Jawaharlal Nehru University. A well-known critic, she explained why she feels Narendra Modi’s government has failed. We then spoke to the BJP’s national spokesperson Nalin Kohli, and put it to him that the big failure of Mr Modi was unemployment.
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Former worker claims he saw shoddy production techniques at factory making flagship Boeing model
Boeing has announced that the fall-out from the crash of two of its 737 Max 8 planes has cost the company at least one billion dollars.
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Modi warns of ‘crushing response’ after Kashmir suicide bombing
India’s Prime Minister has warned of a “crushing response” to a suicide bombing in Kashmir which killed more than 40 Indian police officers.
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Republican strategist John Burnett: China’s trade tactics are ‘modern-day neo-colonialism’
Erica York, from the Tax Foundation think tank, and Republican strategic adviser, John Burnett, discuss the trade dispute between the US and China.
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Sir Vince Cable: ‘We need a movement for moderates’
Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable says the UK needs a moderate movement “who completely reject the kind of extremism of the hard left, who’ve taken over the Labour party, and the extremism of the far right, which is taking over the Tory party”.
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Trump back into campaigning mode with fresh attacks on the press
President Trump is out on the campaign trail again – this time in support of Republican candidates standing in the mid-term elections this Autumn. He’s also ramping up his attacks on what he calls ‘the fake, fake, disgusting news’. Last night, he seized every opportunity to attack the press during a raucous rally, in a…
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More than half of families in temporary accommodation are in work
They are called the ‘working homeless’ – 33,000 people in the UK with jobs, but still no proper place to call home. New research by the housing charity Shelter has revealed that more than half of all families living in temporary accommodation are actually in work. The charity says the numbers have shot up by…
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Trump hits back at former lawyer over ‘Playboy model payment tape’
The FBI is reported to have a tape recording of Trump talking to his former lawyer Michael Cohen – just two months before he became President – about paying hush money to a Playboy model he was alleged to have had an affair with. Today the President described it an “inconceivable that a lawyer would…
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Model ‘vindicated’ after kidnapper jailed
A young British woman says she feels vindicated after a man was jailed for almost 17 years by an Italian court for kidnapping her. Chloe Ayling, who’s 20, said she’d been drugged and abducted when she went to Milan for a modelling job in July last year. She was accused of taking part in a…