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The week around the world in 20 pictures
ByJim Powell February 27, 2026

Russian airstrikes in Kyiv, Ramadan in Gaza, Trump’s State of the Union address and snow in New York City – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading…

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Seth Meyers on Team Trump’s Iran threats: ‘These guys speak like they’ve been hit on the head’
ByGuardian staff February 27, 2026

Late-night hosts addressed US-Iran tensions, Trump’s failed businesses and Hillary Clinton’s ‘ridiculous’ Epstein hearingOn Thursday night, late-night hosts remarked on the Jeffrey Epstein investigations, the threat of a US attack on Iran and Donald Tr…

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Berlin film festival organisers to hold crisis talks amid Gaza rows
ByPhilip Oltermann and Deborah Cole in Berlin February 25, 2026

Emergency meeting called to discuss festival’s ‘future direction’ after series of controversiesThe organisation that manages the Berlin film festival is to meet for talks amid reports that its American director faces dismissal after a series of rows ov…

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The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture
ByTom Service February 25, 2026

The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s ‘moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We can help keep Afghanistan’s music alive. Plus, Eliane Radigue’s deep listening, and the brilliance of Sinners’s scoreThe horrors of the Taliban…

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Palestine Comedy Club review – roving performance collective finds light in darkness
ByPeter Bradshaw February 25, 2026

This portrait of a multi-ethnic comic troupe could do with more unpicking, but its reflections on the grind of war, life on the road and the reactive nature of comedy are insightfulIt must surely, sometimes, seem to everyone involved that the name shou…

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The week around the world in 20 pictures
ByJim Powell February 20, 2026

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ramadan in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Odesa and flooding in France – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading…

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‘A love letter to Beirut’: Lana Daher on sifting 20,000 sources and 70 years of film to make Do You Love Me
ByYassin El-Moudden February 19, 2026

Remembering and documentation are radical acts in Lebanon, a country with a tumultuous history and no national archive. Daher’s effervescent cultural collage is a direct challenge to collective amnesiaAt one point in Lana Daher’s film Do You Love Me, a…

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A bike with 21 satellite dishes struggles through a desert: Hiba Baddou’s best photograph
ByInterview by Charlotte Jansen February 18, 2026

‘The Peugeot 103 is iconic in Morocco: a symbol of social mobility. But my rider, a living sculpture, is so overstimulated he can’t choose which way to go – and ends up going nowhere’This image, Parabomobile, shows a living sculpture I created. A man i…

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Oscar-nominated co-writer of It Was Just an Accident released from Iranian prison
ByAssociated Press February 17, 2026

Mehdi Mahmoudian released 17 days after arrest for signing a statement condemning Iran’s supreme leader and regime’s protest crackdownMehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated cowriter of It Was Just an Accident, has been released from an Iranian prison 17…

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Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton among those to condemn Berlinale’s ‘silence’ on Gaza
ByNadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent February 17, 2026

At least 80 film-makers and stars sign open letter after German festival jury president Wim Wenders says they should keep out of politicsMore than 80 current and former participants of the Berlinale, including Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKa…

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