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Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend Allen Ginsberg dubbed “spontaneous bop prosody”.

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Desolation by Hossein Asgari review – an accomplished exploration of love, truth and the cruelty of fate

A storyteller who lies in service of truth meets a writer who doesn’t believe in true stories in this sophomore work set in Adelaide and post-revolutionary Iran

The Guardian - AU

Kathleen Folbigg’s memoir, an ode to condiments and ‘a work of art’: the best Australian books out in September

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation tells the story of Amin, an Iranian man whose life and family are shattered when the USS Vincennes shoots down an Iranian passenger plane in 1988.

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Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no hunger in Gaza, but malnourished children are regularly arriving at Nasser Hospital

The Independent UK

Broken Promise: How the Trump Administration Dismantled Pathways to Protection for Afghans

Even for those who worked alongside the U.S. military, the Trump administration has taken away ways for Afghans to reach safety — and loved ones — in the U.S.

Capital & Main

‘You worry what’s going to come next’: Iranians brace themselves as war looms

Israel’s strikes against Tehran’s military leadership leave already unpopular regime looking increasingly shaky

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Hope on the horizon? What Bangladesh’s regime change could mean for Rohingya refugees

Bangladesh is experiencing a seismic shift after 18 years of Awami League rule ended abruptly due to intensive student protests. This upheaval, and the crackdowns that resulted in the deaths of more than 300 protesters, forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country and ushered in an interim government.

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TV tonight: breathtaking, Oscar-nominated documentary Flee

A gay man’s escape from persecution in Afghanistan is told beautifully through animation. Plus: the dreadful impact of one-punch killings. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a bloody price for Europe’s insatiable appetite for cocaine

For serious drug gangs, thousands of children coming from Morocco and Algeria offer an unlimited pool of cheap, disposable street sellers

The Guardian - UK

Hot Mess Summer review – Rylan’s new reality dating show is an absolute shambles

Eight unlikable twentysomethings are duped into working in a Greek bar they hate – and end up spitting in a customer’s mouth. It’s nauseating, boring and even Rylan can’t save it

The Guardian - UK

Harvest Lost As War Expands In Famine-threatened Sudan

Since Sudan's war spread to Al-Jazira state south of Khartoum, farmers have watched their livelihoods wither away after fighting between paramilitary forces battling the army wreaked havoc on once-bountiful lands.

International Business Times

‘There are thousands more’: Wounded Palestinians cross into Egypt from Gaza

As a small number of injured Palestinians leave the Gaza Strip, many more remain in urgent need of treatment abroad.

Al Jazeera

Mathura: Hearing In Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Case To Be Held On 25 January

The Mathura court on Friday, while hearing the Hindu Sena Amin survey case in the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute matter, listed the case for the next hearing on 25 January. Read on for details:

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The Guardian - UK

Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 4 – Flee

An immensely powerful, humanising documentary about one Afghan’s escape from 1980s Kabul, made all the more thrilling and suspenseful through its animation

The Guardian - UK

‘Something big is happening’: the Iranians risking everything to protest

Five people share their experiences of the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody, as hope of real change grows

The Independent UK

Forty unemployed young people hired after Skill Up Step Up training

The young people are part of the first wave to benefit from the companies who pledged to our campaign

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Residents at Rwandan refugee camp seek safety and a future for their children

With its own security team and police on site, the camp is operated by the UN’s refugee agency the UNHCR.

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The Independent UK

‘Callous’ abuser shared photo of partner bound with electrical cables before he choked to death

Charlotte Dootson was jailed at for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 and a half years in custody

Manchester Evening News

The potential missed opportunities to stop woman who murdered 'vulnerable' partner after years of abuse

Charlotte Dootson, 25, murdered 53-year-old Mohammed Mukhtar at his flat in Miles Platting

Daily Record

'Evil' woman killed partner by fatally strangling him and tying him up while she sexted new man

Charlotte Dootson, 25, repeatedly attacked Mohammed Mukhtar, 53, during a horrifying campaign of abuse.

Manchester Evening News

'Evil' woman murdered partner by strangling him to death after tying him up for hours while she sexted new man

Charlotte Dootson, 25, repeatedly attacked him during a vile campaign of abuse

The Guardian - UK

Mélenchon fans in his bastion north of Paris weigh up their options

With the leftist out of the race, voters in Seine-Saint-Denis favour Macron over Le Pen, who is too extreme for many

Los Angeles Times

‘Flee’ didn’t win an Oscar, but its refugee story couldn’t be more timely

Embedded in every hand-drawn line of the animated documentary “Flee” is a poignantly unfiltered humanism that has galvanized viewers worldwide. Spotlighting a young Afghan man crossing borders to find a safe haven, this portrait based on a real-life story combats the superficial tropes around refugee stories with profound curiosity for…

Salon

A refugee's anonymity through animation

Jonas Poher Rasmussen spoke to Salon about his Oscar-nominated documentary pushing cinematic narrative boundaries

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