Aides to President Donald Trump say he will not stop James Comey from speaking to members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Comey is the former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Committee members want to question

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Miral, a new film by acclaimed director Julian Schnabel, is based on a book by Palestinian author Rula Jebreal. It chronicles the lives of four Palestinian women - from 1948 when the state of Israel was created to the 1990s. Through the four women, a

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AS IT IS 2015-02-12 WHO Names First Woman as Africa Director The World Health Organization has appointed a new regional director for Africa. For the first time, the director is a woman. Matshidiso Moeti promises to shake up the office, or make change

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Nigerian security forces have questioned the presidential campaign director for former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida in connection with the independence day bombings that killed 12 people. Babangida campaign director Raymond Dokpesi was questioned

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 05 February 2008 The director of the Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed that his agency used the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three terrorism suspects nearly five years ago. In testimon

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COPENHAGEN, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg won the annual Nordic Council Film Prize for his latest movie Submarino on Wednesday. According to a press release from the Nordic Council(北欧理事会), Vinterberg receive

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BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Fast and The Furious film franchise will reach its peak in the sixth installment to be screened in May around the world, the film's director said in Beijing on Monday. Fast Six is a conclusion of the Fast series and th

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WASHINGTON, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Tuesday that it has selected French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to serve as its next Managing Director. The Executive Board of the IMF said it has picked Lagarde t

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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at Sunday night's 85th Academy Awards Ceremony. He beat Michael Haneke for Amour, Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Steven Spielberg fo

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Argo director Ben Affleck has won the Golden Globe for best director in a motion picture at the 70th annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony which is taking place at the Beverly Hilton in Hollywood, California Sunday nig

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BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing News reported Wednesday that director Jia Zhangke plans to open his own arthouse movie theater in Beijing. The paper cited a Sunday entry from Jia's microblog on Weibo.com, a popular Chinese microblogging sit

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BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Liu Yunshan on Monday praised a recently deceased fighter jet production director as a most beautiful Chinese. Luo Yang, head of production for China's new J-15 fighter jet,

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The ongoing Beijing Music Festival co-organized a Master-class of Daniel Kramer, who is the Artistic Director of the English National Opera, and an internationally recognized opera and theatre director. The festival wants to enable audiences to hear

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MADRID, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Zinedine Zidane announced this Thursday that he is to become the new director of Football for the first team at Real Madrid. Zidane was speaking at the presentation of the television programme, Futbol Cracks when he made hi

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Thursday turned out to be bittersweet for Ben Affleck, as his Iran hostage drama Argo was honored with top awards including best picture and best director at the 18th Critics' Choice Movie Awards, but was apparently s

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Famed British film director Tony Scott jumped from a Los Angeles bridge to his death on Sunday, local media outlets reported. He was 68. Scott, who was famous for filming a number of blockbuster hits including Tom Cru

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Academy award-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood has teamed up with actor Leonardo DiCaprio on J. Edgar, a biopic of the former FBI head, J.Edgar Hoover, who died in 1972. The film focuses on J.Edgar's controversial personality. It follows him as he ma

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BERLIN, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Robin Dutt has joined German Football Association (DFB) as sporting director on a four-year contract, the DFB announced at an official press conference on Wednesday. The 47-year-old Dutt is the successor of Matthias Sammer

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Among the honors to be bestowed at the Cannes Film Festival, let's not overlook the technical skills that make movies possible. This year, Chinese director Gao Xixi is among jurors for the festival's Vulcan Award. Let's hear from him now. Gong Li at

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BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson will serve as president of a seven-member jury for this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), the festival's general manager said on Thursday. Levinson, a 69-year-old Ame

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