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UTA Debuts Christian Music Division As Genre Grows

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UTA Debuts Christian Music Division As Genre Grows

United Talent Agency (UTA) has announced a dedicated Christian music division as the genre experiences exponential growth. The new division will be led by Jonathan Roberts, who joined UTA in May 2024. Roberts is an industry veteran with over a decade of experience in Christian-focused music arts and a proven track record as a cultivator [&#8230…
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Chelsea bin-fire will leave them with a ‘squad of Anthony Martials’

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Chelsea bin-fire will leave them with a ‘squad of Anthony Martials’

Chelsea are the gift that keep on giving with Enzo Maresca’s latest quotes an astonishing turn of events. Send your views on Chelsea and indeed anything else football to [email protected] Who would join Chelsea? I thought I’d throw a bit more petrol on the Chelsea fire with another angle that doesn’t get mentioned…
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Will This Star Survive Another Round With a Black Hole?

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Will This Star Survive Another Round With a Black Hole?

A team of astronomers has observed a star in a distant galaxy repeatedly interacting with a supermassive black hole. Initially thought to be destroyed in 2018, the star survived and has since made periodic close passes, leading to additional material being consumed by the black hole…
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NNPC Commences Natural Gas Export To China, Japan

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NNPC Commences Natural Gas Export To China, Japan The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has commenced shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas cargoes to Japan and China on a Delivered Ex-Ship basis. It said the move was in line with its strategic vision to be a dynamic and reliable global energy supplier of choice…
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Syria’s al-Assad says Turkey rapprochement efforts unsuccessful

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Syria’s al-Assad says Turkey rapprochement efforts unsuccessful

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says efforts to mend ties with Turkey had so far brought no tangible results.

“The initiatives did not yield any results worth mentioning despite the seriousness and genuine keenness of mediators,” al-Assad said on Sunday in a speech to the Syrian parliament, referring to recent conciliation efforts by Russia, Iran and Iraq.

Turkey severed ties with Syria in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, in which Ankara supported rebels seeking to oust al-Assad.

The Syrian president and his regime have been accused by international bodies and human rights organisations of committing war crimes after millions of Syrian civilians have fled areas under the control of the government as well as the country as a whole.

“The solution is openness,” al-Assad said. “Restoring a relationship requires first removing the causes that led to its destruction.”

The Syrian president also made clear that while he wants Turkish troops to withdraw from Syria, that was not a condition for talks.

“It’s not correct what was announced by some Turkish officials recently, that Syria said if there is no withdrawal, it will not meet with the Turks,” al-Assad said.

“This talk is far from reality,” al-Assad added.

In July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a fervent supporter of the anti-Assad Syrian opposition, said he would extend an invitation to al-Assad “any time” for possible talks to restore relations.

Al-Assad said later that month that he was open to meeting Erdogan but it depended on the encounter’s “content”, noting Turkey’s presence in Syria was a key sticking point.

Russia has been trying to facilitate a meeting between the two leaders in an effort to restore ties. Iraq also said in July that it may seek to try to bring the two leaders together.

A Turkish newspaper earlier reported Erdogan and al-Assad could meet in August, but a Turkish diplomat denied the report.

Since the civil war began, Turkey has been a lifeline for the Syrian opposition, providing a base for military and political figures.

The country has also been involved militarily in areas along its border with northern Syrian because Ankara considers the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its affiliates, who are present in this region, its primary security threat, which has to be dealt with.

The PKK has conducted a war against the Turkish state since 1984 and is considered a “terrorist” organisation in Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

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In July, Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, told Al Jazeera that the Turkish government had a foreign policy of “normalisation”, part of Erdogan’s “vision of peace”.

“The region is now in a climate seeking peace and stability,” Fidan said. “The spirit of our time forces us to seek peace and stability.”

However, he emphasised that the policy did not mean the Syrian opposition would be abandoned.

“We are not changing our position regarding the Syrian opposition. The Syrian opposition’s relations with the regime are based on their own free decision, their own free choice,” Fidan said before pointing out that opposition fighters had fought alongside Turkish troops to protect Turkey’s security.

“It is not possible for us to forget this sacrifice. … It is out of the question for us to forget these sacrifices and let them down,” Fidan added.

But within Turkey, the continued rise of anti-Syrian sentiment remains, putting the Turkish government in a difficult position.

Turkey is home to 3.6 million registered Syrian refugees – the most in the world.

While Erdogan has continued to back the principle of giving Syrians refuge, their future regularly comes up in Turkish political debates with some opponents of Erdogan promising to send them back to Syria.

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Brent Plunges Below $75 as Bearish Sentiment Builds

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Brent Plunges Below $75 as Bearish Sentiment Builds

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By Charles Kennedy – Sep 03, 2024, 8:29 AM CDT

Oil prices fell early on Tuesday with Brent breaking below the $75 threshold for the first time this year as concerns about global oil demand continued to trump Libya’s production decline.

As of 9:21 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Brent Crude had slumped by 3.47% at $74.79. The U.S. benchmark, WTI Crude, was down by 2.98% on the day to trade at $71.30.

Signals from OPEC+ sources that the group would proceed with a gradual easing of the cuts in October have already depressed oil prices and market sentiment at the end of last week.

At the start of this week, oil remained under pressure on Monday in lighter Labor Day trade in New York. Prices were weighed down by the latest economic data from China, which showed that factory activity continues to contract.

This weekend, the official Purchasing Managers’ Index from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China’s manufacturing activity contracted for a fourth consecutive month in August and slumped to the lowest reading in six months.

Another weak manufacturing dataset from China weighed on the outlook of oil demand in the world’s top crude oil importer.

While the production outage in Libya keeps a floor under prices, it has so far failed to boost oil, with traders currently focused on the weaker-than-expected oil demand in China and low refining margins in the U.S. and Europe.

The fact that the supply outage in Libya has failed to boost oil prices “further underscores the current weak sentiment, which increasingly threatens Brent and WTI’s ability to hold above key support levels that have been in place for more than a year,” Ole Hansen, Head of Commodity Strategy at Saxo Bank, wrote in a Tuesday note.

A break below the $75 a barrel support level in Brent may attract fresh momentum selling and a move towards the next major area of support around $71, Hansen added.

“While the Libyan disruption might have opened the door for OPEC+ to proceed with their planned production increase—starting with 180,000 barrels a day from next month—the risk of prices falling further below the group’s desired and increasingly elusive target of USD 90 per barrel Brent may now compel them to reconsider or postpone this decision.”

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These 3 Altcoins Will Explode 20,000% When Trump Wins The Election Race!

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These 3 Altcoins Will Explode 20,000% When Trump Wins The Election Race!

A bull run and altcoin season are predicted to be just around the corner. The current market is calm, holding its breath in anticipation. Altcoins are at low prices but are primed for a potential explosion in value. Among these altcoins, three in particular stand out. These specific coins are anticipated to soar up to 20,000% with an expected event on the horizon. As the 2024 election race heats up, the possibility of Donald Trump’s victory could be the catalyst. This article unveils which altcoins are poised for this unprecedented growth. Readers will explore which coins are ready to make significant gains, provided Trump wins the race.

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Asif Kapadia on Taking Aim at the Rich and Powerful in Dystopian Docudrama ‘2073’: ‘If I Don’t Work Again, at Least I Made This Movie’

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Asif Kapadia on Taking Aim at the Rich and Powerful in Dystopian Docudrama ‘2073’: ‘If I Don’t Work Again, at Least I Made This Movie’

Asif Kapadia sees a future vision of the world where “chairwoman” Ivanka Trump is celebrating her 30th year as leader of a nightmarish fascist police state that was once America, a land mostly reduced to rubble following an unknown “catastrophe” that occurred in 2036.

“It’s kind of a joke, but it’s also not a joke,” says the British filmmaker of mentioning Donald Trump’s daughter in “2073,” his chilling docudrama about the dystopia humanity is potentially hurtling towards and the very real and very contemporary factors concerning politics, the environment, corruption, race and technology that he says are propelling us in that direction.

“Because if you look at American politics, you have certain families that just keep being in power — the number of people that have come from a tiny gene pool is insane,” he says.

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While the inclusion of Ivanka may be a little splash of humor, the rest of “2073” — which comes backed by Neon, Double Agent and Film4 and is world premiering in Venice on Tuesday — offers little else to be tickled by. The film is what Kapadia says is his response to the world — and the entertainment industry — having got to a “place where people cannot say anything” that criticizes the status quo or those in power without risking losing their jobs or worse.

And so “2073” says a lot, a whole lot. The film essentially lays the blame for the impending disaster — be it nuclear war, climate change or whatever it might be — at the foot of leaders, demagogues, tech billionaires and the 1% and what they’re doing to the planet and society. Alongside the Trumps, there’s the Murdochs, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Xi Jinping, Mohammed Bin Salman, Narendra Modi, the Koch brothers, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and many more, spliced alongside news clips and amateur footage from the last couple of decades showing examples of police brutality, rising fascism, the refugee crisis, mass detentions, bombings and wild fires.

Originally the project — which came about during lockdown (Kapadia put out a tweet asking for help and soon gathered a team of researchers from around the world) — was to be a “doc set in the future where everything from the future will be factual and created out of bits of the present.” But he soon decided to use his drama background to mix the two, creating a version of life in 2073 in which Samantha Morton plays a mute survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past and living underground as surveillance drones patrol the surface.

This past is pieced together using “footage from around 60 different countries, which I made to look like one place,” says Kapadia. Some of footage is extremely recent. In the opening scenes revealing this earth-shattering catastrophe, we see clips of recent devastation in Gaza.

“Having been doing this for a while, if you feel like you’re onto something in a horrible way, the world comes into synch with the film,” he says. The war in Gaza, plus the rise of AI and the growing feeling that the next presidential election could be “the end of democracy in the U.S.” all began after he started making the film. “And then a few weeks ago in England we had all these riots.”

“2073” may seem like an unexpected feature from the Oscar-winning documentarian best-known for “Amy,” “Senna” and “Diego Maradona,” but he claims this trilogy of profiles all came about “by accident,” and were each infused with his previous experience in drama and fiction and were each made that way. “’Senna’ is an action movie, ‘Amy’ is a musical, a Bollywood film, and ‘Diego Maradona’ is a gangster film set in Naples,” he says.

But “2073” — an experimental dystopian thriller — still feels like a major key change for the director, a highly provocative and uncomfortable to watch feature with global themes that he hopes will make people realize that “what’s happening over there will get closer and closer and eventually come to you.”

As he notes: “And if you don’t think that’s a problem, then it’s just a movie. But if it is a problem, then you, me, us … we’ve got to do something.”

Kapadia is already among the most outspoken filmmakers on social media when it comes to discussing politics and especially in condemning Israel for the bloodshed in Gaza. While this hasn’t appeared to have hindered his career in the way it has others, he says “2073” — given the topics and the very powerful, very wealthy people it discusses — might.

“I’ve been lucky enough to have made films and in what I do I’ve been successful,” he explains. “So honestly, I went into this going, ‘I’m going to chuck it all in, I’m not going to be afraid to say what I see and if I don’t work again, fine, at least I made this movie.’ ”

Record High Interim Dividend Declared as Net Profit Soars—-CNOOC Limited Announced Its 2024 Interim Results, Business News

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Record High Interim Dividend Declared as Net Profit Soars—-CNOOC Limited Announced Its 2024 Interim Results, Business News

HONG KONG, Aug. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — CNOOC Limited (the “Company”, SEHK: 00883 (HKD Counter) and 80883 (RMB Counter), SSE: 600938) announced today its 2024 interim results. – Making solid progress in reserves and production growth, net production increases by 9.3% year-on-year (“YoY”) – Sustaining effective control over all-in cost, net profit attributable to equity
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On Independence Day, Ukraine says it will regain ‘territorial integrity’

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On Independence Day, Ukraine says it will regain ‘territorial integrity’

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