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Barack Obama: Emmy win for narrating Netflix documentary
Former president Barack Obama won the best narrator Emmy Award on Saturday for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks.
The Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, is behind the five-part series on…
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Harry Styles and Daniel Craig films to screen early around UK
Harry Styles' latest film My Policeman and the Daniel Craig sequel Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will have early screenings across the UK as part of this year's London Film Festival.
My Policeman is set in the 1950s and…
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Mexico’s Queen of the Pacific sues Netflix over series
A Mexican woman who served time in jail for her links to drug trafficking is suing Netflix and TV channel Telemundo.
Sandra Ávila Beltrán argues that the TV series Queen of the South is based on her life.
Ávila…
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Britney Spears’ ex-husband convicted of crashing her wedding
A man once briefly married to Britney Spears has been convicted of aggravated trespassing and battery after appearing uninvited at the pop star’s wedding in June.
Jason Alexander, 40, pleaded no contest to two misdemeanour counts in a …
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Getty Museum to send stolen terracotta statues back to Italy
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles is returning a group of lifesize terracotta statues, dating back to between 350 and 300BC, and four other objects to Rome after an investigation concluded the relics had been stolen and smuggled out of Italy.…
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China, Japan share love of dinosaurs, Doraemon at exchange event
About 150 Chinese children, their parents and others shared their love of dinosaurs in a recent exchange event held at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, which featured the screening of a popular animation Doraemon movie and a scholar…
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“Mosaic” decorates the streets of Khartoum… and the first doctorate in this art
Sudanese artists use local materials such as food grains, seashells, pebbles and white sand to spread the art of mosaic, which is gaining wide popularity among Sudanese society.
The past few years have witnessed remarkable interest on…
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Art is a message for coexistence and peace in Darfur
The Jankab cultural group in the city of El Geneina, West Darfur, is trying, through theatrical, lyrical and folkloric arts, to spread a culture of coexistence, peace and acceptance of the other, in a local community suffering from armed…
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Louvre Abu Dhabi displays Filipino artifacts for the first time
The UAE’s Louvre Abu Dhabi unveiled on Wednesday two loans from the Philippines’ Ayala Museum in the first-ever showcase of artifacts from the country.
In celebration of the touristic attraction’s fifth anniversary, these Filipino…
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UK artist David Bellamy releases book of Middle Eastern landscapes
Welsh painter David Bellamy has released his latest book, “Arabian Light,” which features his sketches and watercolors of the region, along with historical facts and information on local customs.
The watercolorist — a frequent visitor to…
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