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New photos give glimpse inside Iran’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests

Exclusive: images and testimony from the January uprising, when Iranian security forces are believed to have killed thousands of men, women and children who had flocked on to the streets

The Guardian - UK

Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of pain

The Guardian - UK

Desolation by Hossein Asgari review – an accomplished exploration of love, truth and the cruelty of fate

A storyteller who lies in service of truth meets a writer who doesn’t believe in true stories in this sophomore work set in Adelaide and post-revolutionary Iran

The Guardian - AU

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‘They told me what their bodies had lived through’: how Syrian vigilantes inspired new thriller Ghost Trail

Director Jonathan Millet contacted a secret cell that hunts down Assad’s collaborators while researching a new film. He soon realised that it could not be a documentary …

The Guardian - UK

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation tells the story of Amin, an Iranian man whose life and family are shattered when the USS Vincennes shoots down an Iranian passenger plane in 1988.

The Conversation

A Month After Ceasefire With Israel, Iranians Fear Another War

The ceasefire that ended Iran's 12-day war with Israel has held for nearly a month without incident, but many Iranians remain uneasy, struggling with uncertainty as fears of another confrontation linger.

International Business Times

Woman and Child review – drama of rage and pain in the Iranian marriage market

Saeed Roustaee’s new film takes aim at a slippery, entitled male who thinks he can lord it over a widow he plans to marry

The Guardian - UK

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All the Mountains Give review – gripping portrait of smugglers on the Iran-Iraq border

Arash Rakhsha’s documentary follows two Kurdish friends just about getting by smuggling goods across the mountains

The Guardian - UK

Migrant survivor saw ‘angel of death’ as friends shot dead by French gunman

A French gunman shot dead two migrants and two security guards at the camp near Dunkirk, France

The Independent UK

Iran IPhone Users Signal Dismay Over New Models Ban

At a Tehran cafe, Hamid waves his mobile around hoping to latch onto a faint signal and thus bypass Iran's stringent ban on the latest models of iPhone.

International Business Times

Syrian exiles hunt down Assad’s torturers in gripping Cannes thriller

“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits.

France 24

Sanctions Are for Losers

While sanctions fail to change Iran's policies, they inflict severe hardships on civilians and rally support for the regime.

Reason

Russian army maps show major retreats in Ukraine’s Kherson region

Russian defence ministry maps show rapid pullbacks in key Kherson region amid Ukraine army’s counteroffensive.

Al Jazeera

More people reading Narendra Dabholkar after murder, says his son

Dabholkar, Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti founder and anti-superstition crusader, was shot dead while on a morning walk in Pune in August 2013.

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Iraq Continues to Exhume Mass Graves

A noisy backhoe digs up earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed and the forensics experts get to work on their grim task. A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for…

Wales Online

Britain's Top Takeaways: The couple who split up but still run one of Wales' best fish and chip shops together

The Posh Fish and Chip Shop Company appears on the BBC's Britain's Top Takaways, hosted by Sara Cox

The Hindu

Bail denied to 8 accused in Jahangirpuri violence case

Court pulls up police for 'utter failure' to control 'illegal procession', seeks probe into complicity, if any

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