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Australia falls into line with AFC stance but stops short of calling for Infantino’s head
Football Australia has issued a statement backing the Asian Football Confederation’s tougher stance towards Fifa president Gianni Infantino, whose leadership has come under intense scrutiny amid a wider governance crisis at world football’s governing body. Notably, the Australian body stopped short of explicitly calling for Infantino to resign, positioning itself as a cautious but engaged…
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‘Congo Boy’ Is an Autobiographical and Musical Refugee Drama. Its Director Has More in the Works.
Congolese director Rafiki Fariala’s autobiographical drama “Congo Boy” is screening on the Piazza Grande at the 79th Locarno Film Festival on 11 August 2026, following its world premiere in the Cannes Un Certain Regard competition, where lead actor Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset won the best actor prize. The film, a co-production between the Democratic Republic of…
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Locarno: The Filmmakers Behind ‘Piluk,’ From the National Film Board of Canada, Discuss the Language of Animation
The National Film Board of Canada’s new short film “Piluk” has had its world premiere in the Pardi di Domani section of the Locarno Film Festival, and its directors have discussed their deliberately low-tech approach to animation. Directed by artists Marc Séguin and Elisapie Isaac, the film tells its wordless story using hand-drawn imagery and…
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Oil prices rise and gold hits two-month high after Trump makes new deal demands on Iran – business live
Oil prices and gold both rose after Donald Trump issued fresh demands over a new nuclear deal with Iran, including compensation for damage the US claims to have incurred, complicating an already fragile standoff. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil-shipping route, remains effectively closed despite the absence of active conflict, keeping energy markets…
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Nvidia links with Wall Street firms for $500bn AI financing deal
Nvidia has struck agreements with six major Wall Street firms to raise more than $500bn (£370bn) in capital to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, underlining how the AI boom is drawing in institutional investors as governments, companies and startups race to build datacentres. Chief executive Jensen Huang said Nvidia has the option to backstop up to…
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Heritage Monday at the Locarno Film Festival Sees a Future in the Past
At the Locarno Film Festival’s industry programme, this year’s Heritage Monday panel tackled how to draw younger audiences to older, classic films, amid growing interest in restoration and retrospective programming. Panellists including Leslie Vuchot (Timeless Cinema), Amy Homma (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal Filminstitut) and Eddie Muller (Film Noir Foundation) argued…
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Turkey’s parliament approves a pardon-like bill for thousands of PKK militants
Turkey’s parliament approved legislation that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants in a bid to advance the government’s peace initiative with their insurgent group.
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Trump pivots back to sanctions for Iran as other strategies to end his war fizzle
The shift comes as U.S. stockpiles of key weapons have dwindled and as stop-start talks seem again to have stalled. But Trump insists the pressure can lead to a breakthrough.
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Trump says it would be ‘terrible mistake’ to remove Infantino
US President Donald Trump has publicly backed Fifa president Gianni Infantino, warning it would be a “terrible mistake” to remove him from his role. The intervention comes after Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation issued a joint open letter accusing Infantino of breaking trust “through deception” over his now-abandoned Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal,…
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‘We run a lunch club – but we need people to feed’ – BBC
This is a redirect loop through Google’s consent page — I can’t retrieve the actual BBC article content this way, and I don’t have web search access granted. I’ll need to work from the headline alone, as the last summary did. SUMMARY: The available material does not include the actual BBC article — only Google’s…