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‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors
Film industry figures worldwide have voiced support for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of the documentary NAZA, after Israel’s culture minister Miki Zohar threatened to revoke their citizenship and accused them of treason. NAZA, produced by the Guardian, examines the AI-powered targeting systems Israel used to bombard Gaza, and Zohar’s threat…
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Bristol becomes first British city to ban advertisements for fast fashion
Bristol has become the first British city to ban advertisements for fast fashion, with the Green-run council also imposing new restrictions on adverts for SUVs, airlines, cruises and fossil fuels. The policy, passed by the council’s strategy and resources committee on an eight-to-one vote, applies to all council-owned advertising space, including billboards, bus shelters, and…
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‘Every magazine cover needs to seduce’: designers pick their favourites
Ahead of a one-day event at the London Design Festival, Stack magazine founder Steve Watson has gathered editors, designers, historians and publishers to discuss the enduring appeal of magazine cover design. Watson argues that print magazines should no longer be judged against their mass-market heyday but valued instead for their ability to engage readers deeply,…
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New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert announces she is ‘living with cancer’
Gillian Gilbert, keyboardist with New Order, has revealed she is being treated for cancer, clarifying comments made by her husband and bandmate Stephen Morris in a recent interview that had led fans to believe he was seriously ill. In a statement posted on Instagram, the 65-year-old explained that Morris was in fact well, and that…
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Vintage Violence is an absurdist crime thriller for phone addicts
Cole Sprouse-led thriller Vintage Violence, from director Eugene Kotlyarenko, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival as an absurdist crime comedy that tries to mimic the experience of constant phone use by displaying characters’ screens alongside the main action. The film follows a disgraced influencer who travels to Tokyo to sell vintage denim, only to…
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Melania Trump wades into political showdown during rare official trip as Republicans scramble to save crucial Senate seat
US First Lady Melania Trump made a rare public appearance at a school in North Carolina, encouraging children to embrace artificial intelligence and gifting AI development kits to students. The visit, framed as promoting community resilience and educational technology, comes amid growing national anxiety over AI regulation and follows the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene…
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Welsh Reform leader Dan Thomas resigns in fresh blow to Nigel Farage’s party
Dan Thomas has resigned as leader of Reform UK in the Welsh Senedd, days after being arrested on suspicion of assault and coercive and controlling behaviour. He was absent from First Minister’s Questions on the day of his resignation, with his party initially citing “personal reasons” before he confirmed in a statement that he had…
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Matthew Rhys’s alma mater pays tribute to ‘loyal pupil’ and Welsh language devotee
Matthew Rhys, who made history as the first actor to win two best lead Emmy awards in one night, has credited his Welsh-speaking schooling for nurturing the talent behind his Hollywood success. The 51-year-old, who grew up in Whitchurch, Cardiff, and now lives in New York, thanked “the great and good people of Wales” in…
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Damning Pentagon report reveals brutal taxpayer-footed bill for Trump’s Iran war
A newly disclosed Pentagon Inspector General report reveals that the first phase of the US war with Iran, codenamed Operation Epic Fury, cost $33.4 billion between 28 February and 29 June and left “strategic inventory shortfalls” in munitions stockpiles. The findings contradict repeated public assurances from President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that…
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‘She went to her studio every day and no one was allowed near it’: the glorious nature paintings of Yasmin David
A new exhibition, The Nature of Light, at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, is bringing overdue recognition to the landscape painter Yasmin David, whose extensive body of work only came to light after her death when her daughter discovered hundreds of paintings stacked in a cupboard. David, whose mother was the bohemian Lorna Garman…