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...feminist drama set in Iran during the 1953 U.S.-backed coup that placed Reza Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne, earned the runner-up Silver Lion prize for director Shirin Neshat. Ksenia Rappoport took Best Actress as a Slovenian immigrant with a mysterious agenda in the Italian thriller The Double Hour. And Britain's Colin Firth was named Best Actor for his role as a gay professor in mourning over the death of his lover in A Single...
Bill Clinton threatens Japan with a 100% tariff on luxury cars unless Tokyo eases its regulations against U.S. automakers. An 11th-hour deal scuppers the tariff...
...could tell something important was happening. The business class cabin in the seven-and-a-half-hour Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Khabarovsk on the Friday night prior to the summit was peppered with Kremlin officials and their bodyguards. A cavalcade of black SUV's, with tinted windows and the blue lights that signal someone important is inside, was waiting on the tarmac in Khabarovsk...
...protesters redirected what turned out to be a winding, three-hour trek, they pushed more Dumpsters into the street, or downhill toward law enforcement, and smashed the windows of a Boston Market and Mini car dealership, along with 17 banks and other businesses, by police count. The cops countered with repeated use of a projected, high-pitched noise that had many marchers plugging their ears - reportedly the first use of such a device in the U.S. In one of the few times police gave chase rather than standing their ground, they were pelted with rocks and pieces of macadam, countering...
Police amassed in increasing numbers the closer the march got to the convention center's western end, on 10th Street downtown. It never got closer than 32nd Street, at the end of the march's first hour. In total, police reported 19 arrests in seven different locations; 42 more were arrested at a gathering later Thursday evening. More actions by the Resistance Project, which spearheaded the march, were advertised for Friday. The organizers declared a victory - if only because they kept watchful residents and television captive for hours...