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Film-makers pledged not to work with institutions linked to ‘genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people’Paramount said it does “not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli film-makers”, making it the first major studio to respond to a recent pledge not to work with institutions that supported or were otherwise involved in the “genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.The pledge circulated by an organization called Film Workers for Palestine has more than 4000 signatures including directors and actors like Jonathan Glazer, Ava DuVernay, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Olivia Colman and Mark Ruffalo. Continue reading... Source

Officer shot after man had ‘attempted to drive his vehicle into the arrest team, striking an officer’, according to Ice statementA man was fatally shot during a vehicle stop on the outskirts of Chicago by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers after attempting to flee the scene, according to officials, and another officer was injured during the altercation.Ice released the following statement after the shooting: “This morning in Chicago, Ice officers were conducting targeted local enforcement activity during a vehicle stop, the suspect resisted and attempted to drive his vehicle into the arrest team, striking an officer and subsequently

President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forwardDonald Trump has said he “couldn’t care less” about reuniting America and fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented

Hopwood DePree has been leading efforts to renovate listed Hopwood Hall, nicknamed ‘Downton Shabby’, since 2017It was a story fit for the pages of a Hollywood screenplay, with a California actor moving to a town in north Manchester to restore his dilapidated ancestral home.But Hopwood DePree’s romance plot has transformed instead to a horror, after he found himself locked out the building he was restoring, and now battling the local council in court for possession of the property. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/12/im-completely-invested-rochdale-council-pulls-out-of-us-actors-ancestral-home-restoration Author : Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent Publish date : 2025-09-12 16:42:00 Copyright for syndicated