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Tehran, Iran — An Iranian court has sentenced prominent filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to jail time for “collusion against national security,” his lawyer Babak Paknia said Wednesday.
Rasoulof’s film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is to be shown at the main competition at Cannes Film Festival this month.
The director, who is in his early 50s, has been [...]

Tehran, Iran — An Iranian court has sentenced prominent filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to jail time for “collusion against national security,” his lawyer Babak Paknia said Wednesday.
Rasoulof’s film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is to be shown at the main competition at Cannes Film Festival this month.
The director, who is in his early 50s, has been [...]

washington — Israel’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in the country puts audiences at risk of missing out on news and may herald a concerning turn for the future of free expression, analysts say. 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government had unanimously decided to shut down the Qatari-owned news outlet over national [...]

washington — Israel’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in the country puts audiences at risk of missing out on news and may herald a concerning turn for the future of free expression, analysts say. 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government had unanimously decided to shut down the Qatari-owned news outlet over national [...]

united nations — Humanitarians and medical professionals working in the Gaza Strip warned Wednesday that a full-scale Israeli military operation in Rafah would be a catastrophe and said the safe, mass evacuation of civilians is not possible.
About 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah in southern Gaza after moving repeatedly from other parts of the strip [...]

united nations — Humanitarians and medical professionals working in the Gaza Strip warned Wednesday that a full-scale Israeli military operation in Rafah would be a catastrophe and said the safe, mass evacuation of civilians is not possible.
About 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah in southern Gaza after moving repeatedly from other parts of the strip [...]