also breached the order by arguing with her boyfriend, swearing at a neighbour, ‘banging around the house’ and ‘running around in the property’.

The court heard a nearby resident complained that, at about 5am on January 29, ‘Gemma started screaming and shouting whilst having sex, which woke us up. This lasted ten minutes.’

Wale, of Small Heath, Birmingham, did not attend court. The judge noted she ‘has not put herself in a position of showing any remorse for her behaviour’.

I would hear her having sex and my children would too. I used to have to turn the TV up Neighbour

Another judge had imposed the anti-social behaviour order earlier that month, but Wale’s former neighbours in Shard End, Birmingham, from where she was evicted last year, said she had been aa little girl … She was the absolute neighbour from hell. I never ever want to set eyes on her again.'

The woman said her daughter, who was doing exams at the time, had to move out because of the noise. Another neighbour, Adrian Edwards, 38, said Wale was ‘terrible’, adding: ‘You could hear her arguing at 1am or 2am.’

After the case, former neighbours living near to the home where she was evicted last year in Birmingham (pictured) said living next to Wale had been a 'living nightmare'

He added: 'I didn't get the worst of it because I don't stay here all the time, my sister does.

'But Gemma was really loud. I'm sure my sister would have heard her having sex though. She was just so loud all the


Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of being behind the largest leak of state secrets in US history, is expected this week to speak publicly for the first time since his arrest in May 2010.

The alleged source of the massive WikiLeaks dump of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables and war logs is expected to be called as a witness at the latest pre-trial hearing opening in Fort Meade army base in Maryland on Tuesday afternoon. His direct address to the court will be a poignant event that will be followed closely by both his supporters, who see him as a heroic whistleblower, and his detractors, who regard him as a traitor.

Jeff Paterson of the Bradley Manning support network said it would be a very telling moment. "Untilnow we've only heard from Bradley through his family and lawyers, so it's going to be a real insight into his personality to hear him speak for himself for the first time."

The hearing, slated to last until Sunday, also marks a crucial stage in the legal proceedings in the run-up to a full court martial scheduled for 4 February.

Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, is seeking to have any eventual sentence imposed on the soldier radically reduced or even entirely negated on the grounds that he was subjected to pre-trial punishment while he was confined at Quantico marine base in Virginia.

Manning's harsh treatment during the nine months he was held in the brig at Quantico, from 29 July 2010 to 20 April 2011, have become something of a cause célèbre,


with several influential people and organisations castigating the military authorities for subjecting him to a form of torture.

The treatment led to a wave of international indignation, from figures as diverse as the UN rapporteur on torture, Amnesty International, leading law scholars and PJ Crowley, then spokesman at the US state department, who resigned in protest.

Manning's lawyers are expected to make the case to the military judge presiding of the pre-trial proceedings, Colonel Denise Lind, that commanders at the brig in Quantico ignored expert medical advice in subjecting the soldier to prolonged solitary confinement. Coombs has requested to call eight witnesses in total, though it is not clear how many of those have been cleared by Lind.

According to the Manning support network, the first witnesses are likely to beThe programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council (debate)
President
The next item is the statements by the Council and the Commission on the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council.
A different country now holds the rotating Presidency. Hungary is occupying the Presidency for the first time in its history, which is always an important event in the European Union. During the Belgian Presidency, we developed new ways of cooperating with the Presidency and the Council, with meetings at administrative, Commission, ministerial and presidential level, or, in other words, between the Presidency and the President of the European Parliament. We will continue these forms of cooperation during the Hungarian Presidency too, as I have already established with the Prime Minister, Mr Orbán. Today,


crisis management resolution mechanism will also be a key deliverable during the Hungarian Presidency. The Hungarian Presidency will also have an important role to play in shepherding through our efforts to relaunch the single market. Following the public consultation launched by the Commission on the Single Market Act, the EU institutions will be asked to agree on a definitive action plan to be realised by the end of 2012.
Energy will also be an important area in the coming months and already at the European Council meeting on 4 February. The Commission already has a series of important energy initiatives on the table which will feed into the February European Council. These include the energy agenda 2020, our communication on energy infrastructure priorities. We will soon be adopting a'resource-efficient Europe' flagship initiative in which energy also features strongly.
The Commission intends to develop its work around the following five axes: a strong energy policy as a key to competitive and sustainable growth and energy security; the internal market in energy as an asset; building the European Union's new energy infrastructure; making decisive progress on energy efficiency; and developing an effective and united new approach to external energy policy.
Support from the Presidency and the European Parliament will also be essential to ensure an agreement on the European Union Patent. As requested by several Member States, the Commission adopted a proposal for enhanced cooperation in this field on 14 December. The Commission appreciates Hungary's commitment to taking forward work on the EU patent under its Presidency.
Negotiations with Croatia are


aim is to develop a more coordinated approach to bring European added value to this region. The Commission welcomes the Presidency's commitment to this strategy. Hungary has already contributed significantly to its preparation, including producing policy papers and hosting a conference in Budapest which I had the pleasure of attending. It will be in charge of guiding it through the Council and launching the Danube strategy implementation.
Finally, the debate on cohesion policy will intensify in the coming months. The Commission welcomes the intention of the Presidency to discuss the proposals set out in the fifth cohesion report. We will present legislative proposals for future cohesion policy this summer, following proposals on the next financial framework. The fifth Cohesion Forum, to take place at the end of January infrom young people who said that they were proud that their country for the first time had the responsibility of leading the Council of the European Union. Let us make Hungary closer to Europe and Europe closer to Hungary.
There is a lot to do. The Hungarian Presidency can count on every assistance from the European Commission in pushing forward its priorities. It is only by achieving these goals together that we will build a strong Europe, a Europe which delivers growth and jobs, which preserves and reaffirms our values - namely, the sacred values of freedom and justice - and which positions our societies to thrive in a changing world.
(Applause)
Joseph Daul
Mr President, Prime Minister Orbán, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, rarely will the Presidency of the Council of


that pluralism, and that you will change the law as fast as possible.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Mr President, first of all, allow me to say one thing so that there can be no ambiguity.
The Group of the Greens, and I personally, love Hungary. I cried in 1954 when Hungary lost the World Cup. My first demonstration, holding on to my brother's hand, was in 1956 against the Soviet invasion of Budapest. As Mr Verhofstadt said, many intellectuals, many Hungarian writers have supported us politically and intellectually for years.
I sided with Prime Minister Orbán when he fought the Communists at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. I sided with Prime Minister Orbán when he asked liberal Europeans to expel Jörg Haider from the European liberal party. Theretoday, as many socialist Presidents-in-Office of the Council have done in recent years, but instead have made your priorities clear.
Thirdly, we are pleased that Hungary has been a member of the European Union since 2004 and that the governing party in Hungary belongs to the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats). The campaign relating to the new media law, which involves calls for the withdrawal of the right to vote under Article 7, and which was initiated here in Parliament and not by you, but by the parties that lost the 2010 elections in Hungary, they sat here and they are still sitting here now at the front, at least those who have not gone running straight to the press, is hypocritical and intolerable. The assessment


and transit, lack of an interconnected single market and particular vulnerability on the Union's eastern flank.
What we expect from the Hungarian Presidency is that it will utilise the geometry of the Union in the form of a triangle: a north-south Baltic-Adriatic axis or corridor, with energy ports in Poland and Croatia, complemented by the Caspian gas pipeline supplying the EU directly, separately and independently, initially from Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. The Southern Corridor should obviously include the Nabucco project.
So a new source of energy security for Europe is the ultimate challenge for the Hungarian Presidency. The three imperative aims are to build interconnectors, to ensure adequate funding and to boost the external dimension of EU energy policy because energy is a public good for the Union, it needs toFidesz and the only Roma Member of the European Parliament, I am proud that the new Hungarian Government was the first among the Council presidencies to fully embrace the commitment and mission of providing a solution at European level.
The social inclusion of the Roma is one of the most serious challenges in Europe today and, at the same time, one of the most promising opportunities for our ageing societies. In fact, the integration of the Roma is not only a human rights obligation, but also an economic necessity. As the European Parliament's rapporteur on this subject, I sincerely hope that, based on Parliament's report and the Commission's upcoming communication, the Hungarian Presidency will manage to draw up a strategy which is truly in the spirit of the Community,


as a large number of western left-wing liberal intellectuals, condemned the Hungarian revolutionaries, and spoke against them in defence of the Soviet Bolsheviks. Mutatis mutandis, something similar is taking place today. Many of our western socialist and liberal colleagues are siding with a party of ex-communists and pseudo-liberals against the true force behind the change of regime, the followers of the late József Antall, the freedom fighters of Viktor Orbán. This is apparent in the context of the media law. Ladies and gentlemen, let us by no means mistake the once-champions and heirs of the past, these post-communists, with a true and credible left wing. The two are not the same. Back in his day, Albert Camus also had to realise who the Soviet Stalinists truly were, andand its implementation and, if necessary, to take action in relation to Hungary to ensure that this law is amended and brought into line with the fundamental values on which the European Union is based.
Ilda Figueiredo
Unfortunately, Prime Minister Orbán has started off this debate in the worst possible way, beginning his speech with an anti-communist diatribe, seeking to distract attention from his own serious culpability in exacerbating Hungary's economic situation, and in the exponential increase of unemployment and poverty which the country is currently experiencing, whilst shying away from acknowledging the violations of democracy, freedom of expression, trade union rights and other work and social rights, along with violations of the freedom of the press and fundamental human rights.
We view the way things are developing in the European


deny that the Hungarian Presidency took a turbulent start. I was hoping that a convincing introduction by the Hungarian Prime Minister in Strasbourg would dispel the concerns. I note with regret that this was not the case. Mr Viktor Orbán did not introduce himself to the Groups of the European Parliament as a European politician who seeks consensus and compromise, but as a 'fighter,' striking populist and nationalist tones, who is 'protecting the Hungarian people' from 'attacks'. However, neither the Hungarian people nor the Hungarian Government had been insulted by the Members of Parliament, but a great deal of criticism has been voiced against the troubling steps taken by Fidesz, including the media law. It was mostly the Eurosceptics and far-right speakers who adopted insulting tones as theylashed out in conspicuous concert against those criticising the Hungarian Government. It saddens me that the implementation of the Hungarian Presidency programme could be jeopardised by the government's attacks on the rule of law. How events will play out after such a turbulent start will, contrary to Mr Viktor Orbán's warning, not depend on the European Parliament, but instead on whether Fidesz and its leader will be willing and able to engage in politics that respect European values both at home and on the European stage. In fact, the Prime Minister cannot have two hats - one for use at home as head of the government, and one worn in Europe as the President-in-Office - but only one: that of the politician who keeps our shared principles and


the Hungarian Presidency's stated priorities is the expansion of the Schengen area. This issue is exceptionally important to the Bulgarian socialists and all Bulgarian citizens. Since the first day of EU membership on 1 January 2007, the Bulgarian authorities have been working to make Bulgaria a reliable external border of the EU. Now, at the beginning of 2011, this mission has almost been accomplished. I expect the Hungarian Presidency to secure a European Council resolution in favour of Bulgaria and Romania's membership of the Schengen area by the middle of 2011. When the last outstanding technical requirements have been met in the coming weeks, the European Council will have to resolve to include Bulgaria and Romania in the Schengen area without imposing any more political conditions.
Tunne Kelam
in writing.a need for a joint approach to freedom and justice, by strengthening the protection of personal data and promoting civil rights and common values throughout the EU. One of the priorities calls for the sustainable use of resources, thus acting as a continuation of the goals of the previous Spanish and Belgian Presidencies, and reflecting the Commission's extensive efforts in this area. It is vital for planned measures to take into account the diverse conditions and potentials which exist in the Member States.
Petru Constantin Luhan
I congratulate Hungary on its programme which gives priority to economic growth and Europe's position globally. One of the important dossiers on the Presidency's agenda relates to the expansion of the Schengen area through the admission of Romania and Bulgaria. Accession to the Schengen


existing budget lines. The earmarked resources must be supplemented both by the contribution from the states involved and by the possibility of reallocating unused funds from other segments.
Cristian Dan Preda
I welcome that the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union has included in its six-monthly programme support for the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area as a real achievement of European integration for the Union's citizens. According to the document presented by Prime Minister Victor Orbán, the Hungarian Presidency declares: 'We would like to admit these two Member States to the Schengen area as soon as they fulfil all the necessary conditions'. This statement is being made at a time when the discussion about accession to the Schengen area by both countries, whichour commitment to sport and to improving the quality of life of the people living in Europe. In it, we call for grassroots sport to be given due attention in the communication on sport and for a guarantee of sufficient funding for the EU sports programme. Greater EU support for amateur sport means support for a healthier lifestyle for millions of Europeans.
Czesław Adam Siekierski
The central motto of the Presidency as a whole is 'Strong Europe'. The crisis and the decisions that have been made to date at Member State level have shown that we need more Europe, not less, in order to meet the challenges we currently face. Combating the crisis, overcoming the problem of the Member States' public debt and continuing measures aimed at ensuring the stability


importance, since all the Member States should enjoy the same rights. There is also talk of concluding accession negotiations with Croatia during the Hungarian Presidency. A responsible enlargement policy should bring stability, peace and cohesion to the continent of Europe. The point of reference for the work undertaken by the Belgian Presidency was Europe, in the full meaning of the term. This does not mean that the national approach, which is likely to be the one chosen by Hungary, cannot harmonise or even contrast with the Community approach.
Csaba Sógor
In connection with the Hungarian Presidency, many people have criticised the carpet used as part of the image of the Presidency, especially its part that depicts a map of the events of 1848. The map in question is that ofEurope in 1848. Among other things, this is meant to symbolise that, already in 1848, Hungary was fighting for the freedom of the people living in Europe, including for the freedom of the press. As a Hungarian of Transylvanian descent, I am today a citizen of Romania. As a citizen of this country, I would like to comment on the process of the expansion of the Schengen area. The twelve newest Member States undertook to participate in building a common Europe in the hope that the same rights and obligations would apply to them as to the old Member States. Romania, too, believed that, after fulfilling the relevant technical criteria, it could become part of the Schengen area, an area free of internal boundaries, at the pre-defined date.


the Hungarian Government in the face of the controversy that has surrounded the first few days of the Hungarian Presidency, in particular, concerning the law on the media. Nobody is in any doubt that Hungary is a democracy, and Mr Orbán pointed out that he would be prepared to change that law if the Commission identified any inconsistencies with European law. I call on everyone to be responsible and to put a stop to this unnecessary controversy.
Nuno Teixeira
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Cannes Festival Buzz: 50 Films That Could Make the Lineup

With the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival just two months away, The Hollywood Reporter takes an exhaustive look at the titles that could bow on the Croisette.

The 72nd Cannes International Film Festival is just two months away and while nothing has been confirmed yet, rumors and reports are flying thick and fast as to who will be storming the Croisette this year.

After losing Roma to Venice last year — following Cannes' refusal to allow a Netflix-backed film to screen in its competition — Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux will be eager to reach some sort of deal with the streaming giant, if only to make sure he doesn't lose out on hotly anticipated Netflix titles including Martin Scorsese's TheFilm Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation and the Institut Lumiere — which should also give him an opportunity to check in on the status of some of the U.S. films under consideration.

Beyond Hollywood, Fremaux, alongside the programmers of the Directors' Fortnight and Un Certain Regard sidebars, should have plenty of prime features to choose from, including the latest from Palme-winning directors Ken Loach, Abdellatif Kechiche, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Here is The Hollywood Reporter's exhaustive list of titles that could be appearing across Cannes' whole lineup this year.

Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodovar

The Spanish master has had five films in the Cannes competition — as well as opening the 2004 event with the out-of-competition title Bad Education — but has yet to win the Palme


d'Or. Almodovar’s latest sees him reteaming with Antonio Banderas (for the eighth time) and Penelope Cruz (for the sixth time) for a psychodrama about a film director looking back on the choices he’s made as his past catches up with him and starts to upend his present.

As Long as the War Lasts — Alejandro Amenabar

Another Spaniard that could make the Cannes competition cut is Amenabar with his first Spanish-language film since his Oscar-winning The Sea Inside in 2004. As Long as the War Lasts documents the last six months in the life of university rector Miguel de Unamuno, who initially supported Francisco Franco's military uprising but began to question his principles after the fascists took over and he was put under house arrest.

About Endlessness — Roy Andersson

After closinghis acclaimed Living trilogy in style — winning Venice's Golden Lion for A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence in 2014 — Swedish vignette master Roy Andersson could be welcomed back in the Cannes competition lineup (he competed for the Palme d'Or with 2000's Songs From the Second Floor) with his latest head-scratching auteur piece, which portends to be about the preciousness and beauty of our existence and features of series of stories that run the gamut from a champagne-loving woman to Adolf Hitler.

Against All Enemies — Benedict Andrews

The sophomore feature from the Australian director of 2016's Una features the red carpet pull of Cannes favorite Kristen Stewart playing the iconic Jean Seberg in this true-life story of the FBI's attempt to discredit Seberg for her


support of the Black Panther Party. Jack O’Connell plays the ambitious FBI agent trying to take Seberg down, with Vince Vaughn as his boss and Anthony Mackie playing a civil rights activist. Expect at least an out-of-competition slot for Against All Enemies to ensure Cannes doesn't lose out on Stewart's star wattage.

Memoria — Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong won the Palme D'or in 2010 with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a fever dream of a film that brought Northern Thai folk beliefs to vivid life. The art house darling's latest would seem to promise something similarly evocative, although it is his first feature shot outside of his native Thailand and stars Tilda Swinton. Memoria follows a Scottish woman who begins to notice strange sounds while traveling through thecompetition with this biopic about Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-ranking member of the Cosa Nostra to break the Sicilian Mafia’s oath of silence. The Match Factory is handling worldwide sales.

Zombi Child — Bertrand Bonello

Bonello's 2016 drama Nocturama, about a group of Parisian youths following a bomb attack in the city, was rejected by Cannes, but the art house auteur remains a festival favorite, having been in competition three times — with Tiresia (2003), House of Tolerance (2011) and Saint Laurent (2014). Zombi Child is described as a mix of "ethnology and fantasy" that jumps between Haiti in 1962 and modern-day Paris in telling the story of Clairvius Narcisse, a Haitian girl turned into a zombie by a voodoo curse, and her aunt, a voodoo priestess. If the subject


matter is too touchy, or too weird, for Cannes, expect Zombi Child to turn up in Venice, though Un Certain Regard or a midnight slot could also be in the cards.

Parasite — Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho's Ojka divided Cannes audiences when it played in competition in 2017 — mainly due to the fact it was backed by Netflix — but the director's return to Korean-language cinema is hotly anticipated, even if not much is known about the plot of Parasite, except that it is a tale of two families whose lives become strangely entangled. Neon picked up the film for North American release at the American Film Market in November.

Ahmed — The Dardenne Brothers

The Belgian siblings have brought every single one of their films to Cannes — dating backto their first Palme d’Or in 1999 for Rosetta — and there’s very little to suggest this should be any different. Telling the typically socially conscious story of a young boy who is radicalized into religious extremism, Ahmed is thought to be reminiscent of the Dardennes’ early work, with a young unknown actor in the lead role.

The Wild Goose Lake — Yi'nan Diao

Yi'nan Diao's follow-up to his Berlin Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice is tipped to mark the Chinese director's return to Cannes, where his sophomore feature Night Train debuted (in the Un Certain Regard section) in 2007. Memento Films International is selling the crime drama, which centers on the leader of a dangerous biker gang on the run who meets a woman willing to give


everything to get her freedom back. With the Berlin win behind him, expect Yi'nan Diao's latest to be his Cannes competition debut.

Oh Mercy — Arnaud Desplechin

Desplechin is on track to make his sixth appearance in the Cannes competition with this crime drama. It features Days of Glory's Roschdy Zem and BPM actor Antoine Reinartz as a police chief and recent academy graduate in Northern France trying to solve the brutal murder of an old woman.

Matthias & Maxime — Xavier Dolan

Cannes raised Dolan — the Quebecois director has premiered five films at the festival, most recently winning the Grand Jury prize for It's Only the End of the World in 2016. After the English-language misfire that was The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Dolan returns to hislow-budget Quebecois roots for his eighth feature, billed as another deeply personal melodrama in the vein of Mommy and Laurence Anyways with Dolan regulars Anne Dorval and Antoine-Olivier Pilon, as well as the director himself, who is back in front of the camera. If Cannes doesn't give Dolan a competition slot, he will likely take Matthias & Maxime elsewhere — to Venice or Toronto.

Jeanne — Bruno Dumont

Dumont is on track to return to the Croisette with Jeanne, a follow-up to his lauded musical Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, which premiered in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight section in 2017. Jeannette star Lise Leplat Prudhomme returns to reprise her role for the sequel, which Dumont adapted from second and third parts of Charles Peguy’s play The Mystery of the


Charity of Joan of Arc. This time, however, unlike the first's heavy-metal soundtrack, Dumont's new musical will be scored by 1980s French pop singer Christophe. Given the first film's enthusiastic reception, Dumont might make it into Un Certain Regard with the sequel, though a return to Directors' Fortnight would also suit.

Le Daim — Quentin Dupieux

Genre specialist Dupieux could return to Cannes for the first time since his well-received horror comedy Rubber premiered in Critics' Week in 2010 with this crime comedy. Le Dalm sees The Artist star Jean Dujardin as a man obsessed with buying a new jacket who ends up losing all his savings and is plunged into a life of crime. But the genre elements, and Dupieux's reputation as a commercial director (as well as music-videohis success with seminal 1990s titles Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter. But Cannes still loves him, and it is a safe bet that Guest of Honor — a twisted psychodrama about a father and his 20-something daughter who wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she didn't commit — will be a guest of honor on the 2019 Croisette and mark Egoyan's return to Cannes competition.

A Girl Missing — Koji Fukada

Fukada reunites with Mariko Tsutsui, star of the director's Un Certain Regard prize-winning Harmonium (2016), for this tale of a private nurse who become a subject when the daughter of the family she works for is kidnapped and the media reveal the kidnapper to be the nurse’s nephew. A competitition slot might be a reach, but


— who produces through his Plan B outfit — stars alongside Ruth Negga (last seen in Cannes with Loving), Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Kennedy in a story about an engineer who travels through the solar system to find his father, who left on a one-way mission to Neptune to seek out extra-terrestrial intelligence.

Little Joe — Jessica Hausner

After three Un Certain Regard entries (Lourdes, Hotel, Amour Fou), Hausner would seem to have earned her place in Cannes competition, and her English-language debut Little Joe, the story of plant breeders (Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw) whose Cinnabar flower seems to alter the personalities of everyone who comes in contact with it, could be just the ticket.

The Dead Don't Die — Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch was on double directorialduty last time he was at Cannes, thanks to his 2016 drama Paterson and the Iggy Pop doc Gimme Danger. While typically little is known about his next movie beyond the instantly curious words “comedy zombie film,” The Dead Don’t Die could give Cannes its most impressive red carpet of the year, with a near-preposterous cast that reteams the filmmaker with Adam Driver (Paterson), Bill Murray (Broken Flowers), Chloe Sevigny (Broken Flowers), Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive) and Steve Buscemi (Mystery Train), alongside the likes of Selena Gomez, Danny Glover and Daniel Craig. Bill Murray in Cannes? Yes, please! An out-of-competition slot is almost guaranteed, though Cannes will likely want Jarmusch back in the running for the Palme d'Or.

Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo — Abdellatif Kechiche

Kechiche premiered the


first feature in his planned Mektoub trilogy in Venice, but part two could see the director return to Cannes, where his Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or in 2013. Kechiche, however, has long been a contentious figure in France — he infamously put up his Palme d'Or for sale to finance postproduction on his new film — so it is far from certain his Intermezzo will make it to Croisette.

The Truth — Hirokazu Kore-eda

Kore-eda's new film is all but certain to premiere in Cannes. After winning the Palme d'Or last year with Shoplifters, the Japanese director is posed to return to the Croisette with his first film shot outside Japan, a love letter to French actress Catherine Deneuve, who stars alongside Juliette Binoche in amother-daughter drama. Ethan Hawke plays Binoche's American husband in the drama, which IFC Films has picked up for North America.

To the End of the Earth — Kiyoshi Kurosawa

This Japanese genre master has been a perpetual presence in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. His 2008 drama Tokyo Sonata won the section's jury prize, and he later took best director honors for his 2013 romance Journey to the Shore. Currently in postproduction, To the End of the Earth was short far afield from the Japanese archipelago: The film follows a young Japanese woman who finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show. Perhaps this could be the project to finally elevate Kurosawa into Cannes' main competition?

The


love, sacrifice and destiny, Radegund tells the story of an Austrian conscientious objector and stars August Diehl, Valeria Pachner, Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz (in the late actor’s final role). Given the opportunity, it’s unlikely Fremaux and company would turn down Malick and could mark his return since winning the Palme for Tree of Life in 2011. But then, given the director's track record, it could be another couple of years before the pic is ready for public consumption.

The King — David Michod

Michod's Shakespeare-inspired drama — a Netflix title — would certainly get plenty of flashbulbs popping. Timothee Chalamet stars as King Henry V in a dazzling ensemble cast that also includes Robert Pattinson, Lily-Rose Depp, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Sean Harris and Thomasin McKenzie. Get the earplugsready — there's likely to be some screaming from the Croisette. That is, if Cannes lets Netflix join its party this year.

C'est Extra — Guillaume Nicloux

After several excursions to Berlin — with The End, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq and The Nun — Nicloux returned to the Croisette last year with To the Ends of the World, which premiered in Directors' Fortnight. The French filmmaker's latest, which sees Gerard Depardieu and writer Michel Houellebecq taking a spa trip together, looks like perfect Cannes bait, if the festival doesn't blanch at the idea of having Depardieu on the red carpet if the actor is still under investigation for rape. Competition might attract too much attention, but Critics' Week could let C'est Extra in without major incident.

Manor House — Cristi


Puiu

Puiu, whose The Death of Mr. Lazarescu won the Un Certain Regard's top prize back in 2005, could return to Cannes with this period drama based on a A Short Story of the Anti-Christ, an excerpt from the writings of 19th century Russian philosopher Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, who was a friend and confident of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. A sidebar position — likely Un Certain Regard — is most likely.

The Whistlers — Cornelieu Porumboiu

Cannes prides itself on being the platform for the new Romanian cinema and, alongside Puiu's Manor House, Porumboiu's latest also looks like a lock, at least in a sidebar slot. The complicated plot follows a Romanian policeman who has to learn the whistling language of the Gomera people on the Canary Islands inof a single day while on vacation in Portugal; Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Jeremie Renier and Brendan Gleeson star. While Sachs is usually a safe bet for Toronto, the French backing behind Frankie — Said Ben Said's SBS Productions — and Euro-friendly cast could help the director to a Cannes slot, though likely in Un Certain Regard or Directors' Fortnight.

Uncut Gems — Josh and Benny Safdie

Adam Sandler stars in this feature, from the sibling directing team behind Good Time, as a jewelry store owner and dealer to the rich and famous who must find a way to pay his debts after his stock is taken from one of his top sellers and girlfriend. A24 has U.S. rights to the crime comedy, but with Netflix on board


a Critics' Week entry in 2015. His follow-up, the crossover horror pic It Comes at Night, established the American director as one to watch. Waves, a romantic musical dramedy about two couples growing up and falling in love, stars Lucas Hedges, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Alexa Demie and Sterling K. Brown. This could be the film to launch Shults into the Cannes elite, though the festival might want to move him into Un Certain Regard first.

The Laundromat — Steven Soderbergh

Thirty years after he became the youngest director to win the Palme d’Or with Sex, Lies and Videotape, Soderbergh would be a very welcome addition on the Croisette in 2019 with a film that seems right up the fest’s alley. Starring an enviable cast of Meryl Streep, GaryPitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie take the lead alongside Quentin regulars Tim Roth, Kurt Russell and Michael Madsen in the Los Angeles-set ensemble drama in which several storylines play out against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s. Sony has set a July 26 release date, which ties it in very nicely for a Cannes debut.

Sibyl — Justine Triet

Triet's sophomore film Victoria, which opened Cannes Critics' Week in 2016, marked her breakthrough on the international art house scene, so anticipation is high ahead of Sibyl, a dramedy about a jaded psychotherapist who returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. Triet shot the film in secret last summer and with a cast that includes Victoria star Virginie Efira, Adele Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Niels Schneider and Toni Erdmann


actress Sandra Huller. It looks a shoe-in for a Cannes slot, if not, perhaps, in competition.

Proxima — Alice Winocour

Winocour, who picked up best screenplay honors together with Deniz Gamze Erguven in Cannes for 2015’s Mustang, could finally crack the competition lineup with her latest feature. Her most ambitious film to date, Proxima stars Eva Green as an astronaut preparing to go on a one-year mission to the International Space Station, who much first endure a rigorous training period and separation from her 7-year-old daughter. Matt Dillon and German actors Sandra Huller and Lars Eidinger co-star. But it's unclear if the film, which only began shooting in January, will be done in time to make the Cannes cut.

Wendy — Benh Zeitlin

Benh Zeitlin‘s long-awaited follow-up to Beasts of the SouthernWild didn't make it to Sundance, raising expectations it would bow in Cannes. The film, set on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued and where two children from different worlds fight to maintain their grip on reality, promises to be one of the festival's hottest tickets, if it gets selected.

One Second — Zhang Yimou

Could Berlin's woe become Cannes' win? China's most acclaimed filmmaker faced the ignominy of having his self-described "love letter to cinema" yanked from the Berlin International Film Festival's main competition just days before its scheduled world premiere in February. The official explanation from China — parroted, rather spinelessly, by the Berlinale — improbably cited "technical reasons" for the sudden withdrawal, but most industry figures in Beijing believe the film's setting during


China's politically sensitive Cultural Revolution period was to blame. Little information about the fate of the pic has since emerged, but perhaps a freshly censored version of the project might find its way to Cannes for a second stab at European festival glory? Stranger things have happened.

Where It Begins — Zhao Fei

Zhao Fei is making his directorial debut this year with the drama Where It Begins, but the Chinese industry veteran's past work will already be familiar to a whole generation of European festivalgoers fluent in Asian cinema. Best known as a cinematographer, Zhao shot such classics as Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Feng Xiaogang's Cell Phone (2003) and Jiang Wen's The Sun Also Rises (2007). Zhao's first feature as a director follows a group offormer high school friends and rivals who are drawn together in the present day and forced to confront a series of scarring episodes from their school days in 1990s rural China. Thierry Fremaux has often said he wished he had more high-end Chinese titles to elevate at Cannes, so this buzzed-about project could prove enticing. Wildbunch is handling international sales on the film, which is currently in postproduction.

An Easy Girl — Rebecca Zlotowski

After a series of dramas from Zlotowski focused on women in extraordinary situations — from Lea Seydoux and Anais Demoustier bonding over drugs and partying in her 2010 debut Dear Prudence to Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as a pair of 1930s psychic sisters in her 2016 English-language feature Planetarium — Zlotowski is lightening things up


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Donald Trump and members of his campaign have said many times that they never colluded with Russia in 2016. But according to bombshell testimony in federal court Friday, the Trump team did believe that it was collaborating with WikiLeaks, the organization that publicly disseminated Democratic emails that had been stolen by Russian government hackers.

The revelations came during the trial of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone, who is accused of lying to Congress about his contacts with the Trump campaign. Stone was originally a member of that campaign; he departed in 2015 but remained an informal adviser to Trump. Steve Bannon, who became CEO of the campaign in mid-August 2016, testified FridayADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire and killed a police colonel and his aide as their vehicle was passing through a roundabout in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Saturday, a local security official and witnesses said.

The attack on Col. Salem al-Milqat, police chief of Tawahi district, occurred in the restive district of al-Mansoura which has seen several assaults on local security officials.

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PennDOT has downloadable materials, including home and car emergencyconfusion as the story broke Saturday, rivals CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News Channel reported Giffords had died of her wounds - a report that appears to have originated with National Public Radio, according to the Associated Press. ABC News had the inaccurate story and banner headline on its Web site, citing other news sources, for about 10 minutes, but did not broadcast the report on-air.

Sherwood paused again, breaking his previous record, then began to talk about watching ABC News's "Good Morning America" on Sunday morning - and listening as a close friend of Giffords's family described what they went through when the inaccurate news was reported.

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Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the great Mexican muralist/painter, David Alfaro Siqueiros established "Mexican Muralism." The tradition continues in Mexico today and inspired the Chicano art movement in the U.S. During his time in Los Angeles, Siqueiros created América Tropical, an 80x18 foot mural located above Olvera Street, the birthplace of Los Angeles. Completed in 1932, the mural depicts a Mexican Indian crucified on a cross beneath an American eagle, with two sharpshooters aiming at the eagle from nearby. It's the first large-scale mural in the U.S. that created a public space by being painted on an ordinary exterior wall. The mural’s political message about the exploitation of Mexican workers caused immediate controversy, and it was soon completely whitewashed. América Tropical was restored by theThe Islamic apologist website Mypeace.com.au launched the controversial advertising campaign to provoke discussion and promote free literature.

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Scott Cawthon is a nigerian video game designer and animator, working in a subdivision of EA Games, who is most notable for milking the game series Five Nights at Freddy's.[3]

History [ edit ]

Scott Cawthon had developed video games long before Five Nights at Freddy's. On March 19, 2007 he uploaded the first part of an eight part series named The Pilgrim's Progress to his YouTube channel. The animation is a retelling of John Bunyan's novel of the same name.

After releasing The Pilgrim's Progress, Cawthon created several other games including Sit N' Survive, Chipper and Sons Lumber Co., and The Desolate Hope. Some of these were submitted to Steam Greenlight. While The Desolate Hope made it through the process, some games, most notably Chipper and


Sons Lumber Co., were heavily criticized by prominent reviewers for having characters that moved and interacted with each other like animatronic machines. While initially discouraged, almost to the point of stopping game development completely, Cawthon eventually decided to use the animatronic-like characters to his advantage, sparking the development of Five Nights at Freddy's.[4]

On July 24, 2014, Cawthon submitted Five Nights at Freddy's to IndieDB, where it gained massive popularity. He then submitted it to Desura on August 13, 2014, and also submitted it to Steam Greenlight on June 13, 2014, where it was accepted August 18, 2014. When submitted to Steam Greenlight, a trailer was shortly released on July 14, 2014, with a demo following on July 24, 2014. On August 8, when the game was accepted, thegame was released for $4.99 on Steam. The game was well received by critics,[5] and became the subject of a number of popular Let's Play videos on YouTube. Cawthon then went on to develop multiple followup games, and the original game, Five Nights at Freddy's, will be getting a movie adaption.[6]

Personal life [ edit ]

Scott Cawthon is a husband and a father of two children and currently lives in Salado, Texas.[7] He is also credited as part of Hope Animations,[8] a "project of Christian animators aiming to spread the teachings of Jesus Christ". He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Houston, Texas and also has released several independent films, such as Noah's Ark, A Christmas Journey, and Jesus' Kids Club.


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Tiger Woods was drinking before he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree outside his tony Orlando, Fla., neighborhood two weeks ago, according to a witness who also told authorities Woodshad been prescribed the medications Ambien and Vicodin.

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Tiger Woods was drinking before he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree outside his tony Orlando, Fla., neighborhood two weeks ago, according to a witness who also told authorities Woods had been prescribed the medications Ambien and Vicodin.

The witness told the Florida Highway Patrol that Woods boozed the same day of the Nov. 27 crash, the Orlando Sentinel reported, an allegation that led police to believe "impairment" was


partially to blame in the collision, which new sources say left Woods intubated in intensive care.

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The witness who dished on Woods' drinking has not yet been named by the police, but an FHP report says the same witness who told authorities Woods had been drinking also "removed the driver from the vehicle" after the crash. Wife Elin Nordegren Woods told police she pulled her husband from the car.

"A witness stated that the driver had consumed alcohol earlier in the day and the same witness removed the driver from the vehicle after the collision," read the FHP report, which was written by Trooper Joshua A. Evans to request prosecutors' help in obtaining "medical blood results" after the crash.

"Also, the same witness stated that the driverwas prescribed medication (Ambien and Vicatin [sic])," Evans' report read.

According to Evans' report, "impairment of the driver" was "suspected" due to the "careless driving that resulted in the traffic crash." Woods was cited with careless driving and fined $164 for the offense.

Evans' request for blood tests was denied by Florida attorneys.

Woods' condition was more serious than initially reported after the crash, according to a source familiar with Woods' hospitalization, who told MSNBC the golfer was admitted straight to intensive care and intubated when he arrived at the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla.

A police report released earlier Monday said authories arrived on the scene to find Woods "unresponsive" on the ground after the crash with Elin kneeling beside him and his head on a pillow.

"My immediate observations were


light, moving as one patterned unit. It was a school of tuna – another popular fishery target and food item for consumers worldwide. Yellowfin, Big Eye, and Skipjack are the main species targeted for the fishery.

Originally, foreign fleets were allowed access to these fisheries, even in the marine reserve. Since a Special Law passed in 1998, this has no longer been the case (A Brief History of the Tuna Fishery in the Galapagos). However, the fishery continues to exist outside of the marine reserve, and, occasionally and illegally, within it. Nonetheless, government efforts are striving to limit this fishery to account for the overfished nature of tuna worldwide.

Another curious megafauna approached us during a dive. Usually, we could just but hear their echolocation against the steady current andcats she was caring for, and her home-and-shelter was no longer livable. With the help of emergency grants and donations from supporters, she quickly moved to a new location and has a grand reopening planned for Jan. 20, but the group still needs help to recover its losses.

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Across the hardest-hit parts of New York and New Jersey, there are similar stories of hardships at shelters — like the Humane Society of Atlantic County in New Jersey, which had several inches of flooding in its kennels and veterinary hospital, and Rescue Ink in Long Beach, N.Y., which was able to save its animals but is rebuilding after losing everything else in the storm’s destruction.

Just over two months since the storm devastated the area, displacing pets and wreaking


Iran has said it will no longer abide by any limits of an international nuclear deal after the US assassination of top general Qassem Soleimani.

In a statement broadcast on state TV, the government said it would no longer respect restrictions on enrichment of uranium, or research and development, representing another major blow to any hopes of restoring relations between Washington and Tehran on a day that saw hundreds of thousands take to the streets of cities and towns across Iran to mourn Soleimani and demand retaliation.

The announcement marks the most serious blow yet to the 2015 accord, agreed between Iran and a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - that aimed to prevent Tehran from building anSoleimani: Fallout in pictures Demonstrators burn the US and British flags during a protest in Tehran after general Soleimani was killed in a targeted airstrike by American forces Reuters US airstrike kills Iran's Qassem Soleimani: Fallout in pictures A burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike. The Pentagon said Thursday that the US military has killed general Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, at the direction of Donald Trump AP US airstrike kills Iran's Qassem Soleimani: Fallout in pictures Protesters burn Israeli and US flags as thousands of Iranians take to the streets to mourn the death of general Soleimani at the hands of America EPA US airstrike kills Iran's Qassem Soleimani: Fallout in pictures Supporters of Donald Trump pray at an


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It was considered a triumph by the Obama administration after years of tension over Iran's nuclear capabilities and intentions, but President Trump abandoned the deal in May 2018 in favour of a policy of 'maximum pressure' against Tehran, with crippling sanctions against


its financial and oil sectors.

The other parties disagreed and tried to keep the deal in place, but the new US sanctions undermined the accord and its credibility was gradually eroded.

The announcement came hours after Iraq’s parliament voted to oust US and other foreign troops fighting Isis, delivering a blow to efforts to fight the jihadi group following Washington’s decision to assassinate Soleimani in an airstrike.

Iraq’s parliament convened and quickly passed the preliminary vote not only for the removal of foreign troops but also to submit a complaint to the United Nations against the US for violating the country’s sovereignty, marking a nadir in relations between Washington and Baghdad – where the airstrike took place in the early hours of Friday.

“Despite the domestic and international challenges that we mayface, this choice remains the best for Iraq,” Iraq’s caretaker prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, told lawmakers.

“Iraq lived without foreign forces in the period between 2011 and 2014 and its relationship with the US and any other party did not deteriorate.”

US forces in Iraq issued a statement saying they had “paused” anti-Isis efforts over the tensions with Iranian-backed forces a day after Nato nations declared they were pulling all troops out of the country.

A pullout of US and other international troops currently training and providing support to Iraqi forces could jeopardise efforts against Isis remnants attempting to stage a comeback. The group took over a third of the country during the three-year period when US troops were absent, sacking the number two city of Mosul after Iraqi forces


crumbled.

The UK government urged Iraq to allow soldiers to remain in the country to continue the fight against Isis to stop any resurgence by the terror group.

Some 400 UK troops are stationed in Iraq to counter the threat from Isis, while the US has 5,200, prompting fears that a withdrawal could seriously harm the battle against the extremist group.

The Ministry of Defence was believed to be waiting for the decision of the Iraqi government before taking action over the soldiers, based there as part of a US-led coalition.

"We urge the Iraqi government to ensure the coalition is able to continue our vital work countering this shared threat," a MoD spokesperson said.

The killings, ordered by Mr Trump in response to attacks on US sites in Iraq by Iranian-backed militias,have roiled the already volatile Middle East and upped preparations for a long-dreaded war as diplomats frantically sought to defuse the crisis.

Iraqis carry a mock coffin as they march in a symbolic funeral procession (AFP)

The bodies of Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes were transported to the Iranian eastern shrine city of Mashhad on Sunday for burial.

Video footage showed thousands of emotional, grieving Iranians swarming around a white truck carrying their bodies through the centre of the city in scenes reminiscent of the death of Iran’s revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, some three decades ago.

Mashhad is the city where a late 2017 uprising against the government that turned into a nationwide series of protests began. Soleimani, a pillar of the establishment, was celebrated even in anti-regime


topple it.

But for now, few inside Iran were speaking of the economic troubles that had sparked an uprising in November that left scores of people dead, as Iranian officials and some segments of the public sought revenge, and officials spoke of war.

As Iran’s parliament opened, scores of Iranians lawmakers who gathered for an emergency session waved their fists in the air and chanted “Death to America”.

Shia Muslims march to protest against the US strike that killed Soleimani (AFP)

But Iranian leaders also went out of their way to insist they did not seek to harm American citizens.

Iranian leaders appear to have a sophisticated understanding of US domestic political issues, and state media has highlighted comments by Democratic Party officials criticising Trump’s Iran policies, including his decision to abruptly abandonThe Sulwon Award for Scientific Achievement is the Korean Diabetes Association\'s highest scientific award and honors an individual who has excellently contributed to the progress in the field of diabetes and metabolism. Sulwon Award is named after an emeritus professor Eung Jin Kim, who founded Korean Diabetes Association. Prof. Hyung Joon Yoo received the eighth Sulwon Award at 2016 International Conference on Diabetes and Metabolism, October 13 to 15, 2016 at Seoul, Korea

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for the far-right.
Salvini has said he wants to close mosques, and critics say his rhetoric has emboldened far-right hate groups within the country, stirring dark memories of political violence in Italy’s past.
To break the deadlock that followed Italy’s election, Salvini decided to abandon his party’s alliance with longtime Italian power broker Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right party. Instead, he aligned with the populist, ideologically amorphous Five Star.
Five Star, less than a decade old was the party that won the highest percentage of Italy’s vote. The party is led by 31-year-old Luigi Di Maio, a university dropout who was living at home until five years ago. He took over leadership in 2017, offering voters a fresh face and vowing to fight government corruption.
Although Five Star gained more votes in the election,Di Maio and Salvini agreed that neither would be Italy’s next prime minister. Instead, the parties chose law professor Conte as a consensus candidate. Conte, a 54-year-old who specializes in administrative law was until now not anywhere close to a household name.
Within hours of Conte’s nomination, media and lawmakers began to scrutinize his academic credentials. Although he claimed to have studied at New York University, the institution stated told The New York Times that they had no record of him either as a student or a faculty member.
But Salvini and Di Maio stood by Conte, and President Mattarella backed the nomination on Wednesday.
Several other far-right and populist parties have joined coalition governments in Europe in recent years, including Austria last December. But unlike in Italy, most have been


policy of abandoning the Sunni population of Iraq to a sectarian, oppressive Shiite regime in Baghdad, which we armed, funded and installed in power.

The Baghdad regime built by the Bush and Obama administrations is an ally of Iran and a mortal enemy of the Sunnis, who previously were the privileged class under Saddam Hussein. It's no accident that the Shiites would take revenge against the Sunnis. The only question is why we maintained the illusions of "pluralism" and "democracy" while the ethnic cleansing of the Sunni population went on under our gaze.

The disenfranchisement of the Sunnis led to the sweeping military counter-attack by the Islamic State and elements of Iraq's former Baath Party. They cannot be stopped by the Shiites even with U.S. air power. Nor are theylikely to be stopped by tinkering with Baghdad politics and rhetoric about token "inclusion." Only a grant of virtual autonomy to the Sunnis, similar to the autonomy of Iraqi Kurdistan, will provide for the representation, security and power-sharing that Sunnis need in a new confederated and pluralistic state.

The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) grew from the U.S.-funded dungeons in Anbar Province, just as its predecessor, al Qaeda, arose before in the same desert region. There is a key difference between those Sunnis who seek an autonomous role within a new Iraq and those who fighting for a religious Caliphate in which all borders disappear. Those Western officials who want to preserve an Iraqi national state must pay attention to this fundamental ideological difference among the Sunnis and


make substantial concessions as rapidly as possible. Otherwise, the future is one of a sectarian civil war in which the American people have no interest.

The Islamic State offensive is also made possible by Syria having become a vast rear base for the insurgency in Iraq. That rear base is made possible by years of Sunni resistance to the minority Alawite regime in Damascus. While calling for the end of the Assad tyranny, the United States has been ambiguous about its desire to overthrow the Assad regime. As a result, the Islamic State has gained power in Syria in a factional proxy war against other anti-Assad elements supported by the West. The demise of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might divide the ranks of the insurgency between those who demanda change in the Syrian state and those who wish to impose a Caliphate without borders, erasing Syria and Iraq in the process.

Too much commentary has been spent on the violent threat suddenly posed by the Islamic State and virtually none on the question of how to confront the Islamic State at its core political weakness: its rise to preposterous claims of being the new center of the entire Muslim world. That claim to legitimacy is rejected by millions of Sunnis in multiple states, and will lead to internal differences, which will weaken the Islamic State from within.

The reason that the Islamic State wants the Americans and the West to bomb and invade its territory is because they know that foreign aggression is the surest way to unite


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since Jillian's death.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

She looked down at her purse resting on her lap. She twisted the straps in her fingers. "I've never given you the name of my client—the birth mother. I suppose you're going to need that information sooner or later."

"This is a small town, and believe me, we've arranged adoptions with birth mothers we know. We'll handle everything carefully and confidentially."

"That's not what I'm worried about." Her mouth felt as dry as sawdust. "I'm more concerned about how you're going to react." Before he could speak, she continued, "The birth mother is Linn."

Kyle's mouth parted slightly, lines of concern furrowing between his brows. If his silence was any indication, she'd taken him completely off-guard. The crinkles at the corner of his eyes disappeared completely.

"Linn?"was it.

Natalie put her face in her hand and closed her eyes against the sting. Would it ever get any easier? She couldn't save every baby from death, couldn't save every mother from the agony of regret.

But you can save one.

She sat up straight, jarred by the thought. No. She wouldn't think about Linn and her baby. Keith's baby. She couldn't do anything about it, and no one could ask that of her.

Besides, it may be too late for Linn's baby.

Linn could have aborted the baby by now. The weight attached to her stomach dragged downward. That's Alex and Taylor's half-sibling. She closed her eyes. This was all so twisted. So awful. What a terrible mess.

No matter how much she detested what Keith and Linn had done together,


easily two of the most exciting smartphones that will see a release in 2018, and they’ve both been leaked in the same fashion.

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Granted, it could totally be a coincidence, but it does seem rather suspect.

Anyway, here are the two images the subway-riding photographer caught, via SlashLeaks:

The front of the device looks rather indistinct, but the back of the device is very clearly the same as the leaked renders of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro.Washington (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump is turning to a reliable stable of Republican and business world power brokers to fill out his administration, signaling he's looking to push his agenda using the political apparatus he famously pledged to dismantle.

Trump picked his top fundraiser and former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin to the Treasury Department, pulling from a Wall Street world he once criticized as having "total control" over his campaign opponents. Wilbur Ross, a billionaire businessman, will be his Commerce secretary. Tuesday's announcements of Georgia Rep. Tom Price to run the Department of Health and Human Services and Elaine Chao to lead the Department of Transportation added two more Washington movers and shakers to the Trump Cabinet.

Trump pledged in his campaign to "drain the swamp" in Washington, but


has also repeatedly said that he will look to people who understand the capital to help him govern. His selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a former congressman, as vice president and chairman of his transition and choosing long-time political powerbrokers like GOP fundraiser Betsy DeVos as secretary of Education is part of that pattern.

Grassroots supporters of Trump acknowledge fulfilling his legislative agenda requires Washington know-how.

"I think that what our people in Tea Party Patriots are seeing right now is that he's pulling from people who are committed to the promises he made on the campaign trail, and as far as 'draining the swamp' actually goes, I think the first thing and biggest thing to making that happen is to keep that contract with the American voter andturn that into a legislative reality," said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of the grassroots conservative Tea Party Patriots group.

Democrats were happy to point out the irony of Trump nominating a Wall Street stalwart as his Treasury secretary.

"So much for draining the swamp. Nominating Steve Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary -- a billionaire hedge fund manager and Goldman Sachs alumnus who preyed on homeowners struggling during the recession -- is a slap in the face to voters who hoped he would shake up Washington," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Adam Hodge in a statement. "Trump is already heading into office as the most corrupt, conflicted, and unpopular president-elect in history, and now he's breaking his signature promise to the voters who elected him."

When Trump's transition team


was stocked with lobbyists and former lobbyists, Pence took over as chairman and instituted a policy that anyone working on the transition would have to cut ties with lobbying in the policy arena they were working on for the administration. But that only extends so far. Trump's Cabinet picks are stacked with insiders.

Price has been a fierce critic of Obamacare and will likely help lead the administration's efforts to fulfill its promise to repeal and replace the signature health care law. House Speaker Paul Ryan called Price a "very close friend" in a radio interview Tuesday.

Chao was secretary of Labor during the George W. Bush administration. She's also the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and a major force behind his political career.

A transition source says Chaowas a no-brainer for the administration when she expressed interest, and having a proven leader at the Department of Transportation will be key as Trump pursues a massive infrastructure building plan.

Chao and Price join earlier picks that drew from Washington.

One of Trump's first nominees was Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, a longtime senator and a staunch anti-immigration, border hawk. As attorney general, Sessions would oversee the enforcement of the nation's immigration laws, as well as civil liberties moversight.

Trump tapped retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn as national security adviser. While Flynn had a long record in the Department of Defense, he was also pushed out for his reportedly combative leadership style, and has often been at odds with mainstream defense thinking.

Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo has been named


for the post of CIA director. Pompeo is a favorite of conservatives, and was a harsh critic of Hillary Clinton on the House Benghazi Committee. He has called for strengthening America's surveillance apparatus, which was reformed after the revelations of Edward Snowden.

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, has been named White House chief of staff -- a key post in getting policy through Congress and coordinating the administration's agenda. He's a longtime friend of Ryan, and knows Republican officials well.

But even when Trump goes outside the Beltway, the names are familiar within the GOP.

Education secretary nominee DeVos is a Michigan-based school choice activist and major Republican donor. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is Trump's nominee for the ambassador to the UN. Mnuchin and Ross bothcome from the world of investing and big money.

"There's a balance here," said Mike Shields, a CNN commentator and former GOP chief of staff who serves as president of the Congressional Leadership Fund. "This is a President-elect who is known for writing a book that is called 'The Art of the Deal,' and he is going to seek deals. And sometimes amongst conservatives, striking a deal can sound like a bad term."

But, Shields added: "No matter who he brings in, he himself is such an outsider, he's going to bring an outsider perspective to every decision he makes."

Former Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who now works for lobbying and law firm DLA Piper, said Trump has picked people who can get things done -- the most important thing to


getting policy in place.

"I think what he's done so far shows two things. Number one: He has picked people that know how the system works and are willing to make the commitment to him and his policies to make sure the trains run on time and the train stays on the track, and I think that's very important, particularly for someone who ran as an outsider," Chambliss said. "Secondly, I think most importantly, he's picking talent."

Many picks are still to come, experts point out, and could further indicate Trump's thinking. His national security team is still only partially installed, with the State Department and Department of Defense still in flux. Haley, Pompeo and Flynn all have different shades of conservativism, and whether Trump fosters a diverse group onnational security or tries to make more of a coherent thread remains to be seen.

Democratic strategist and Obama administration alum David Axelrod, who is also a CNN commentator, said there's no way to staff an administration without people who have DC experience.

"The fact of the matter is he had no cadre of experienced advisers, so it was axiomatic that he was going to draw on some familiar Washington names," Axelrod said. "The fact that Mike Pence is leading the transition makes that more true, because he is a creature of Washington in many ways."

This story has been updated.


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that consisted of a woman screaming “rape”, a guy wearing sweat pants with a badge in his hand, a uniformed police officer, and an unknown man holding a gun. Several of these characters were fighting on the ground in the middle of a busy four-lane road.

The uniformed cop who put out the call and I got things handled pretty quickly. No one was seriously hurt and a crisis was averted; but let me back up a little and explain how this all came about….

A woman stole a couple very expensive purses from a department store and ran out into the parking lot. Unbeknownst to her, she was being watched by store loss prevention officers. One of the officers identified himself and ordered her to stop. He gave chasewhen she didn’t. The loss prevention officer was dressed as an inconspicuous shopper to better blend in. He was wearing sweat pants and a T-shirt.

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He continued the chase, knocking her to the ground again. She again beat him until she was able to get free and resume running.

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Our robber (a theft involving force is classified as a robbery in my state) got the bright idea that she needed some help. She began yelling “Rape! Rape! He’s raping me!” as loud as she could. Her cries were heard by a man driving by. That man had a gun. The gunman parked his car in the middle of the road, drew his gun and came to the assistance of the “rape victim”.

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SECAUCUS, N.J. -- This time, the Houston Astros couldn't resist drafting Mark Appel with the No. 1 pick.

Houston selected the hard-throwing Stanford pitcher with the top choice in the Major League Baseball draft Thursday night, a year after passing on the hometown kid and instead choosing 17-year-old shortstop Carlos Correa from Puerto Rico.

"I talked to him and told him: 'Welcome home," Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said. "It's a kid's dream to go first in the country, first in the draft and to be taken by your hometown team. It just doesn't get any better than that. It's also really a great opportunity for us."

Appel, who grew up in Houston before moving to California when he was 12, slid to Pittsburgh at No. 8 last year but turnedwas in my control to put myself in the best situation possible."

The deadline for teams to sign draft picks is July 12, but that doesn't apply to Appel because he is a college senior.

"I'm very confident that Mark Appel is going to put on an Astros uniform," Luhnow said. "He's from here. He wants to play here. He's been selected first in the draft. All the indicators are pointing in the same direction, so I assume it will be a fairly straightforward discussion and that he'll sign sometime this summer."

The draft, which is held over three days and 40 rounds, started Thursday night with the first two rounds at MLB Network Studios. Nine prospects attended and sat in a makeshift dugout as they waited for their names to


be called by Commissioner Bud Selig in an event that has grown dramatically over the last few years.

"It really is terrific," Selig said. "This is what we had in mind. I love this night. ... This is the way you build a baseball team. It was true when Branch Rickey said it many, many years ago ... and it's just as true today."

It was the second straight season that the first pick was uncertain going into the draft, with Oklahoma right-hander Jonathan Gray and a pair of college third basemen -- North Carolina's Colin Moran and San Diego's Kris Bryant -- thought to be in the mix for Houston. It was the fourth time the Astros had the No. 1 pick, and they joined Tampa Bay (2007-08) andWashington (2009-10) as teams to have the top selection in consecutive years.

The draft order is determined by reverse finish -- worst to best -- in the overall standings from last season.

With the No. 2 pick, the Chicago Cubs selected Bryant, who led Division I college players with 31 home runs this season. The 6-foot-5, 210-pound junior is a Golden Spikes finalist and Collegiate Baseball magazine's national player of year.

Gray went third overall to the Colorado Rockies. The 6-foot-4, 245-pound flamethrower helped pitched the Sooners into the super regionals of the NCAA tournament, going 10-2 with a 1.59 ERA and 138 strikeouts in 119 innings.

Colorado apparently was not scared off by published reports that cited unidentified sources who said Gray tested positive for the medication Adderall during baseball's predraft


drug testing program.

"I'm not going to talk about that right now," Gray said. "There will be a time for that. Right now, I'm just happy to be selected by the Rockies."

The Houston Astros selected Stanford right-hander Mark Appel with the first overall pick in the 2013 MLB draft on Thursday night. AP Photo/Larry Goren

The first high school player picked was pitcher Kohl Stewart, who went to the Minnesota Twins at No. 4. A right-hander from Tomball, Texas, Stewart has signed to play baseball and football at Texas A&M -- where he would likely be a backup to Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel at quarterback.

The Cleveland Indians followed by grabbing Clint Frazier, a high school outfielder from Georgia who was in the studio to hear his name called bySelig.

"I've had a lot of people tell me I'm going to be a fan favorite because of my red hair," Frazier said. "People put me on a pedestal, like no one else has red hair."

Of the draft prospects in attendance, Frazier was the first to be selected. The second came when the New York Mets chose sweet-swinging California high school first baseman Dominic Smith at No. 11.

Five picks later, Philadelphia took Smith's close buddy, California high school shortstop J.P. Crawford -- cousin of Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford -- who was also at MLB Network Studios. The two hugged, with Smith in a Mets jersey and Crawford wearing a rival Phillies jersey in a neat scene that also might have made some New York and Philadelphia fans squirm.

Crawford acknowledged


that he could be the future replacement for All-Star shortstop Jimmy Rollins.

"Hopefully I can learn something from him," Crawford said, "and someday take his place."

North Carolina third baseman Colin Moran, the nephew of former big league All-Star B.J. Surhoff -- the No. 1 overall pick in 1985 by Milwaukee -- went sixth overall to the Miami Marlins. Moran was the ACC player of the year and led the offense for the NCAA tournament's No. 1 overall seed.

"It's exciting to take the next step in my career," Moran said, "but obviously there is business to take care of this weekend."

Boston, picking as high as seventh for the first time since drafting Trot Nixon in the same spot in 1993, took Indiana high school lefty Trey Ball.

Stephen F. Austin sluggingshortstop Hunter Dozier was the No. 8 overall pick by the Kansas City Royals, who surprised some by taking a player expected to go much later in the opening or second round.

"We followed him all throughout the year," Royals scouting director Lonnie Goldberg said. "As we got in the room and put things together, he became our favorite player."

Pittsburgh, with the No. 9 pick it got as compensation for not signing Appel last year, selected Georgia high school outfielder Austin Meadows. He grew up playing travel ball with Frazier, but the two went to different high schools a few miles apart in the same town of Loganville.

"He's one of my best friends and we've been through this process together since we were like 9 years old," Frazier said.


"I'm going to call him, and wherever he goes, I'm going to support him."

Rounding out the top 10 picks, Toronto chose hard-throwing California high school right-hander Phil Bickford.

A few familiar names went in the opening round: University of Nevada right-hander Braden Shipley, cousin of Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Jordan Shipley, went 15th to Arizona; and North Carolina high school righty Hunter Harvey, son of former big league closer Bryan Harvey, was selected 22nd by Baltimore.

The New York Yankees had the most first-round picks with three and selected Notre Dame third baseman Eric Jagielo at No. 26, 6-foot-7 Fresno State outfielder Aaron Judge at No. 32 and California high school left-hander Ian Clarkin to wrap up the round at No. 33.summarize what it is known about the distance of the Nebula itself (see for reference Fig. 1). According to Straizys et al. (1999) the dust cloud that separates the North America and Pelican nebulae is placed at about 580 pc form the Sun. As for H II region (NGC 7000 itself), the distance is far from being reasonably contrained. In fact different works claim for very different distance estimates, ranging from 420 pc (Beer 1964) to 1980 pc (Dieter 1967). HD 199579, an O6 star considered responsible for at least part of the excitation of the region, is placed at a distance of 1200 pc by Miller (1968) and 830 pc by Garmany & Stencel (1992), which consider the star a member of the Cyg OB7 association. According to many other


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