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 The 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its Open Air Program, consisting of two sections, Open Air and Open Air Premiere.   The program set for the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema will be “showcasing some of the most important arthouse films of the year, as well as cinematic classics,” organizers said. “Some of the films in this program will be presented by acclaimed directors, actors, and screenwriters, [2025] recipients of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, including Paolo Sorrentino, Willem Dafoe, Ray Winstone, Stellan Skarsgård, and Michel Franco,” who received the honor several years ago.  Meanwhile, the new…

A white South African farmer and his two employees accused of shooting dead two black women and feeding their bodies to pigs have gone on trial for their murders.Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, were allegedly looking for food on the farm near Polokwane in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province last year when they were killed.Their bodies were then alleged to have been given to pigs in an apparent attempt to dispose of the evidence.Farm owner Zachariah Johannes Olivier, 60, and his employees Adrian de Wet, 19, and William Musora, 50, are yet to enter a plea and remain…

The Senator Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party (LP) has dismissed the timing of the planned renovation of the Lagos Airport as a misplaced priority. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) last week approved ₦712 billion for the renovation of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. In a statement signed by the Senior Special Adviser (Media) to the Acting National Chairman, Mr. Ken Asogwa, in Abuja, on Monday, the Labour Party argued that the funds would have been put to better use to improve the quality of life of ordinary Nigerians. According to the party, “The recent revelation by the Honourable Minister of…

President John Dramani Mahama will tomorrow, 5 August 2025, host a landmark gathering of African Heads of State, policymakers, and global health stakeholders at the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit. Convened by President Mahama, the summit will serve as a call to reimagine global health governance amid a rapidly shifting geopolitical and economic landscape. It is themed: ‘The Accra Initiative: African Health Sovereignty in a Reimagined Global Health Governance Architecture.’ The summit aims to foster a new era of health sovereignty rooted in national ownership, investment, and leadership. Related Articles Summit deliverables include the creation of a Presidential High-Level Panel to…

What the 2025 Major League Baseball trade deadline lacked in blockbusters it made up for in volume. From the first deal on July 24 to the last at 5:59 p.m. ET on July 31, teams made 63 trades and exchanged 179 players (including those to be named later).One team dealt away 10 players from its big league roster. Another added seven new faces. Every team made at least one move. All of it served to reinforce an indisputable truth: Nobody does a deadline like baseball.To honor that, we present an award ceremony like no other: Honors for the dozen most…

As the country slides towards electoral authoritarianism, even SADC and EAC election observers have been excluded from the polls. Tanzania is approaching its October 2025 general elections with uncertainty. The main opposition party Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) has been disqualified from running, and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) is manoeuvring to claim its seventh consecutive term. CHADEMA chairperson Tundu Lissu is in custody on treason charges due to his party’s demands for electoral reforms. The ‘no reforms, no elections’ campaign has been interpreted by the courts as an attempt to disrupt the polls. Lissu is also charged…

LevelK has boarded international sales for Oscar-winning director Mike van Diem’s upcoming Dutch feature film “Our Girls,” currently in post-production. Van Diem’s debut feature film “Character” (Karakter), a dramatic crime thriller, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film at the 70th Academy Awards, and was released in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics. Van Diem also previously won a Student Academy Award with the student film “Alaska.” “Our Girls” is set during an idyllic holiday in the Austrian Alps, as the long-standing friendship between two couples spins out of control. It is a loose adaptation of Dutch novel…

The vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced multiple times, and many are dying from Israeli-induced starvation. An unprecedented water crisis is also unfolding across the enclave, heaping further misery on its residents.Gaza was already suffering a water crisis before nearly 22 months of Israeli bombardment and ground operations damaged more than 80 percent of the territory’s water infrastructure.“Sometimes, I feel as though my body is drying from the inside. Thirst is stealing all my energy and that of my children,” said Um Nidal Abu Nahl, a mother of four living in Gaza City.Water trucks occasionally reach residents,…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature77th over: England 347-6 (Smith 2, Overton 8) England need 27 to win Krishna to finish off the four balls of last night’s over. Overton pulls the first, a short ball, for four. Bang. The next also greets the boundary – an awkward inside edge, scything past leg stump. Has a dirty swipe at the next, misses. And plays back carefully at the fourth.ShareMorning session – England need 35 to winA full house, a huddle for India, chewing gum for Jamie Smith. Jerusalem the soundtrack.Jamie Smith and Jamie Overton…

How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away? If done with a human eye, weeks or months. If analyzed by an artificial intelligence system, one afternoon. The National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, known by it’s Italian initialism CNSAS, relied on AI to find the body of a person missing in Italy’s Piedmont region on the north face of Monviso—the highest peak in the Cottian Alps—since September 2024.According to Saverio Isola, the CNSAS drone pilot who intervened along…