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‘A Bit of Light’ Review: A Despondent Man Stumbles Into a Renewed Sense of Connection in a Mournful, Quietly Comic Drama From Iran
Iranian director Ali Asgari’s drama “A Bit of Light” (Kami nour) follows Arash, a Tehran physician whose medical licence is revoked and office sealed after he is arrested for treating wounded protesters. Believing he has “nothing left to live for,” he spends what he intends to be his final day tying up loose ends and…
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Book reveals Ground Zero debris was dispersed across all fifty states
A new book, *Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the WTC* by Samuel Holleran and Max Holleran, traces what became of the nearly two million tons of debris cleared from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, revealing that fragments were dispersed to all 50 US states and beyond. Published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of…
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Houthis claim major advance in Yemen and tighten grip on Red Sea shipping lane
Yemen’s Houthi movement has claimed a major military advance on the Red Sea coast, reportedly seizing Perim Island at the narrow mouth of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and capturing the port city of Mokha from Saudi-backed government forces. The development tightens the Iran-aligned group’s control over one of the world’s most important shipping and oil…
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
The Israeli film-makers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham have made NAZA, a documentary compiling testimony from 24 anonymised Israeli military and intelligence insiders who helped build and operate an AI-driven system for targeting homes in Gaza. Produced by the Guardian and competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, the film matters because…
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9/11 widow confronts Bush, Obama and Biden over Saudi cover-up at memorial … as she issues dire warning to Trump and Vance
At the 25th anniversary memorial for the 9/11 attacks, victims’ families used their platform at Ground Zero in New York to publicly accuse successive US administrations of shielding Saudi Arabia from accountability for its alleged role in the attacks. Terry Strada, widow of victim Tom Strada, directly confronted former presidents Bush, Obama and Biden, who…
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BTS to Broadcast Argentina and Brazil Concerts Live to Cinemas Worldwide
BTS are extending their “ARIRANG” world tour to cinema screens with the first-ever live broadcasts from South America, showing full-length concerts from Buenos Aires and São Paulo to audiences worldwide. The move brings the K-pop group’s return to group activities to a wider international audience beyond those attending the stadium shows, and marks the band’s…
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Israel says it has destroyed major underground Hezbollah base
Israel’s military says it has destroyed a major underground Hezbollah complex beneath the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon, using more than 1,000 tonnes of explosives to blow up over 2km of tunnels. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the site, built over two decades with Iranian funding, housed a command centre for Hezbollah’s Badr…
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Bakery is ‘banned from Borough Market for being too successful’ – ahead of fresh New York venture adding to outlets in the Middle East and Asia
Bread Ahead, a well-known bakery in London’s Borough Market, says it has been told to leave the site because it has become “too successful”, with founder Matthew Jones warning the move could cost 83 jobs. Jones, who left school at 15 to become a chef and built the business from scratch without borrowing money, described…
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QUENTIN LETTS: The BBC used to scrutinise politicians with calm balance. The Leftist aggression of its so-called star interviewer Emma Barnett toward Kemi Badenoch was just snooty and crass
In this opinion piece for the Daily Mail, columnist Quentin Letts criticises BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Emma Barnett for what he calls an aggressive and unbalanced interview with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch. He argues the exchange, meant to explore Labour’s Andy Burnham suggesting welfare spending could take priority over national security, descended into a…
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Oil prices surge as Houthis seize Red Sea port amid growing fears Iran-backed rebels will paralyse supply route vital for the West
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have completed their takeover of the Bab al-Mandab strait, seizing Mayyun Island (also known as Perim) after government forces withdrew, having already captured Zuqar island and the port city of Mokha earlier in the week. The advance gives the Houthis control of one of the world’s most important oil shipping chokepoints,…