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Hollywood

In the land of the capitalists

‘Battleship Potemkin’ was premiered at the historic Bolshoi Theatre auditorium in Moscow on December 21, 1925, writes Monis...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Cinema of Tengiz Abulnadze

All of Abulnadze’s important films especially his much acclaimed The Georgia Trilogy exemplify the key fe...

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Gender

Women and Girls with Disabilities more likely to experience Violence

A study published in the Lancet says that both children and adults with disabilities are at much higher risk (u...

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Human Rights

Growing Refugee Crisis resulting in Trafficking and Slavery

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi believes that the refugee crisis has exacerbated human trafficking and modern ...

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Alternative Entertainment

David Bowie: An Avid Reader

For a man who left Bromley Technical High School with just one 'O' level (in art), David Bowie ended up a remar...

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Human Rights

Held Back By Social Norms, Share Of Working Women Not Improving Globally: UN

The share of women in the labour market globally is not increasing even though most females want paid work, according to a major report on employment trends. Social norms o...

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Festivals

How 100 Acid Trips Changed My Life - Becoming Cary Grant, A fascinating Documentary At Cannes

In the late 1950s, at the height of his fame, Cary Grant set off on a trip in search of his true self, unpicking the myth he had spent three decades perfecting. He tried hy...

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Human Rights

Yuwa is hope

To be born a girl in Jharkhand, an Indian state about 700 miles southeast of New Delhi, often is to be sentenced to a life of poverty, illiteracy and violence. So when Fran...

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Human Rights

INTERVIEW-India honors former child maid who saved hundreds others

NEW DELHI, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 21-year-old Indian woman, trafficked and enslaved as a child maid, was given a "Women Power" award by the president on W...

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Environment

As Climate Change Uproots Communities, Innovation Can Rescue Culture

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When powerful Cyclone Heta hit the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue in 2004, it caused huge damage, including destroying...

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