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NYFF Reveals 2025 Currents Lineup, Including New Films by Tsai Ming-liang and Radu Jude
IndieWire
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August 7, 2025
The New York Film Festival continues to roll out its 2025 lineup, with the 63rd annual edition of the festival promising to give New York cinephiles access to many of the biggest titles emerging from the world of global cinema this year. In...
Trump’s tariffs: What’s in effect and what could be in store?
Interaksyon
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August 13, 2025
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war with an array of tariffs that target individual products and countries. Trump has set a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports to the United States, as well as additional...
"Mom knows best"- Suni Lee reveals her mother's bold prediction that came true
Sportskeeda
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August 13, 2025
Suni Lee posted a throwback picture of her performing a split, while her mother, Yeev Thoj, pinned her hopes on her little daughter becoming famous someday. Lee has been away from the gymnastics mat for a while, even absent from the recently...
‘Too often minority writers have felt the temptation to explain and to translate’: Viet Thanh Nguyen on writing as an other
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Amazon Music | Apple Podcasts | iHeartRadio | Pocket Casts | Spotify | YouTube The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 7 episode of the “Say More” podcast. Jim Dao: I’m Jim Dao. Welcome to “Say More.” It wasn’t long ago that...
Donald Trump trade tariffs: Country-wise, product-specific taxes. Check full list
The Economic Times
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August 12, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war with an array of tariffs that target individual products and countries. Trump has set a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all imports to the United States, as well as additional duties on...
The Most Valuable Cards In The Gundam Card Game's Newtype Rising
TheGamer
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August 12, 2025
The Gundam Card Game’s first-ever booster set, Newtype Rising, released with a huge bang. Players have already fallen in love with Bandai’s venture into the iconic mecha series. Card players love their shiny cardboard, and this game does not...
MOTORSPORTS: Waterloo Motorsports Block Party to return in August
Finger Lakes Times - New York
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Even with Maple Grove Speedway (or Waterloo Speedway) having long gone dormant at the Seneca County Fairgrounds, Waterloo still has remained a hub of motorsports for decades. One of the events celebrating the symbiotic impact of the area on the...
Trump travel bans, restrictions alarm collegiate athletes in Arizona
Cronkite News - Arizona
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August 12, 2025
Arizona State distance runners Evaline and Judy Chepkoech, who are from Kenya, are among the international athletes competing for ASU. (Photo courtesy of Austin Pestka/Sun Devil Athletics) PHOENIX – Arizona State is a haven for athletes from all...
Family visit visas open to all, ‘no salary cap needed’
Kuwait Times
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August 12, 2025
KUWAIT: All expatriates living in Kuwait can bring their extended families on a visit visa to Kuwait as the salary requirement has been abolished, a top interior ministry official has said, as Kuwait eases restrictions for foreign visitors and...
Cao Bằng workshop highlights importance of Đông Sơn culture for national development
Vietnam News Agency
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CAO BẰNG — The People's Committee of Cao Bằng Province has collaborated with domestic organisations to host a scientific workshop titled 'The Đông Sơn Culture in Cao Bằng: New Archaeological Discoveries'. The event attracted many renowned...
Asian Expo Yangon 2025 to hold in September for three days
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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August 12, 2025
Asian Expo Yangon advertisement. Asian Expo Yangon 2025 features an array of Asian top brands and international brands will be held in September in Yangon. It is scheduled from 26 to 28 September at Yangon Convention Centre from 9:00am to 5:00pm....
Butler’s charges to ‘do their best’ in AFC U-20 Qualifiers
Daily Star
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July 22, 2025
Following Bangladesh's emphatic 4-0 win over Nepal on Monday, which helped the team emerge unbeaten champions of the SAFF U-20 Women's Championship, head coach Peter Butler offered an in-depth analysis of the team's growth, collective mentality,...
2025 AFF U-23 Cup: Thailand to Face Indonesia in Semifinals
Tempo.co
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July 22, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The final match of the group stage in the 2025 AFF U-23 Cup concluded on Tuesday night, July 22, 2025. As a result, Vietnam emerged as the champion of Group B after defeating Cambodia 2-1, and Thailand became the champion of...
Run Nabiran run
Daily Star
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July 22, 2025
Some defenders hold the line. Bangladesh's Nabiran Khatun owns it. On Monday night, inside a jubilant Bashundhara Kings Arena in Dhaka with the scoreline reading 4-0 and the SAFF Women's Under-20 Championship trophy already in Bangladesh's grasp,...
Kuwait opens family visas to all, no salary cap needed: official
Kuwait Times
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August 12, 2025
KUWAIT: All expatriates living in Kuwait can bring their extended families on a visit visa to Kuwait as the salary requirement has been abolished, a top interior ministry official has said, as Kuwait eases restrictions for foreign visitors and...
B. Javkhlan: “Mongolia is Leading in Gender Equality in the Region”
Montsame News Agency
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Ulaanbaatar, August 12, 2025 /MONTSAME/. Under the auspices of the President of Mongolia, Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, the “World Women Entrepreneurs Forum” will be held from August 25 to 26, 2025, in Mongolia. The fourth major event, initiated by the...
Bangladesh eye win over Timor-Leste before tough S Korea game
Daily Star
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August 8, 2025
AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers Fri Aug 8, 2025 09:00 AM Last update on: Fri Aug 8, 2025 09:00 AM Sports Reporter Fri Aug 8, 2025 09:00 AM Last update on: Fri Aug 8, 2025 09:00 AM Bangladesh will look to keep their winning momentum going in...
Delaware Fellowship for Christian Athletes holds power camp program at Woodbridge High School
Laurel Star - Delaware
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August 7, 2025
The Delaware branch of the Fellowship for Christian Athletes held one of their power camp programs at Woodbridge High School during the last week of July. Serving as both sports activity and youth ministry, volunteers served as leaders for...
How Elite Special Operations Troops Created a Drug Cartel
Reason Magazine
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August 12, 2025
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, by Seth Harp, Penguin Random House, 368 pages, $30 Despite the drug war, U.S. intelligence agencies have sometimes made common cause with rebel forces or client states that...
Participants in Jesuit Bali workshop learn the ABCD
Catholic News
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August 7, 2025
Jesuit Mission Australia workshop participants in Bali (Supplied) Jesuit Mission Australia recently hosted a six-day workshop in Bali with 47 Jesuits and lay collaborators from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Laos, Timor-Leste, Myanmar,...