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hugely expensive adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Spurned on by the popularity of a 1956 Hollywood version starring Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda, the Russian government spared no expense ...

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A senior United Nations official says more than 16 months of war in Sudan has killed more than 20,000 people, a grim figure amid a devastating conflict that wrecked the northeastern African ...

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He has shied away from engaging with Israeli media during the war but was forced to do this press conference under pressure from the huge protests on the country's streets. If the thousands ...