Algeria has banned the popular Barbie film three weeks after its release in the mainly Muslim North African nation.
The movie promoted homosexuality and did not comply with Algeria’s religious and cultural beliefs, an official source told the Reuters news agency.
The film was officially being banned for “damaging morals”, the privately owned news website said, adding that since its release viewings had sold out every day.
There has been criticism in the Arab world about the movie’s social values, with Kuwait banning Barbie last week to protect “public ethics”.
The film, starring Hollywood A-listers Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is a coming-of-age story based on the children’s toy, where Barbie journeys to the real world and explores her identity.
Barbie has received a warmer welcome from leaders in other countries, such as the UK and Spain, where British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Spanish royal family were pictured on cinema outings to see it.
Mr Roussev, whose most recent address is a seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, also states he once acted as an adviser to the Bulgarian ministry of energy.
The pair, who moved to the UK around a decade ago, ran a community organisation providing services to Bulgarian people, including familiarising them with the “culture and norms of British society”.
At their most recent Harrow home, neighbours said detectives spent a significant amount of time searching it, with a visible police presence for over a week.
Counter-terrorism police have spoken publicly about the increasing amount of time spent on suspected state threats and espionage, especially relating to Russia.
In 2018, Russian operatives attempted to murder former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire, using the deadly nerve agent Novichok.
Later that year, local woman Dawn Sturgess - who was unconnected to the Skripals - died after being exposed to the nerve agent, which had been left in Wiltshire in a perfume bottle.
The currency fell past 100 per dollar on Monday, prompting Russia’s central bank to hold an emergency meeting.
The Bank of Russia said it decided to raise interest rates from 8.5% to curb inflation, which hit 4.4% in August.
Pressure has been mounting on the Russian economy due to imports rising faster than exports and military spending growing for the Ukraine war.
But the latest hike will only have a temporary impact, according to Liam Peach, senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics.
Analysts have said a major factor in the rouble weakening has been Russia’s trade, and therefore its economy, being hit by Western sanctions.
EU leaders introduced a price cap plan to limit the amount Russia earns from its oil exports and the country has also been excluded from Swift, an international payment system used by thousands of financial institutions.
Wow that’s about 7 years of battle. I am glad they got some compensation for that. Their case was taking on pro bono but I still think the compensation should be more considering how long this went on.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government was making every effort to restore peace in the state of Manipur as he addressed the country on its 77th independence day.
The state has witnessed violent clashes which broke out in May between the majority Meitei group and the tribal Kuki minority.
A viral video of an attack in May when two Kuki women were paraded naked by Meitei men shortly after their village was razed sparked outrage and made global headlines.
In his independence day speech, the prime minister referred to recent reports that said that India had overtaken China to be the world’s most populous country with 1.4 billion people.
His claim though is being questioned as India’s middle and lower classes, who make up the bulk of the population, have been hit by skyrocketing prices for essentials in recent months.And official data released on Monday showed retail inflation at a 15-month high of 7.44% in July on the back of a surge in prices of vegetables, cereals and pulses.
The prime minister also touched up the “unimaginable crisis” caused by natural calamities in several states this year.
Looks like is time to move to Europe then, I mean the whole call and write to your senators and representatives only works if they care about their people instead of corporate contributions, the whole vote for someone who cares only works if you have an alternative.
yeah this is what I’m thinking. The fact that US corps want to pull out of the UK just makes me respect the UK more… not that they don’t have their own problems, EU countries seem to be doing better in general
The issue here is that the UK isn’t doing something good in this one circumstance. You can’t create a man in the middle encryption scheme and hope your the only man in the middle. It fundamentally breaks the baseline security and privacy of the solution.
I think the commenter meant the saying we have in the US which is call and write your representatives/senators. They were indicating doing whatever the UK version of that appears to be falling on deaf ears as the article states the politicians do not appear to be taking the advise of educated advisors so they are also likely going to ignore the public.
75% of the current Tory MPs are about to lose their seats in the next election so they don’t give a fuck. The strategy they seem to be adopting to save their jobs is to swing further to the authoritarian right to try and convince boomers to vote for them.
They won’t win by taking the sensible approach to policies like this, so that only leaves incentives to do as much harm as they can in the next year or so in hopes of getting the fascist votes out.
Do as much damage as they can so they can blame it on “the left” and people actually believe them. I’ve been fighting this battle for years in Sweden. Doesn’t seem to matter to people when they’re shown black on white that what they are complaining about is a direct result of policy made by the party they’re hoping is gonna fix it. What matters to them is that they now “identify” as right leaning. Doesn’t help that emphatic and cognitive ability plummets once people turn 60, yet they can vote for another 30-40 years.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched an investigation in February 2021 into allegations of election meddling against Mr Trump and his associates.
Mr Trump, currently the frontrunner in the Republican Party’s race to pick its next candidate for the White House, said the investigation by Ms Willis, a Democrat, was politically motivated.
“This latest co-ordinated strike by a biased prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdiction not only betrays the trust of the American people, but also exposes the true motivation driving their fabricated accusations,” said the statement.
There was confusion earlier on Monday when a list of a criminal charges against Mr Trump appeared on a Fulton County website before the grand jury had even voted to return an indictment.
Mr Trump has already been charged by federal prosecutors in Washington DC with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
At least eight “fake electors”, who signed a bogus certificate claiming Mr Trump won the election in that state, have reached immunity deals in the case after agreeing to interviews with Fulton County prosecutors.
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Click here to see the summaryAt least 12 people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in Dagestan in southern Russia. The blast occurred in regional capital Makhachkala, which sits on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at 21:40 local time (19:40 BST). A further 60 people were injured while, according to one unconfirmed Russian report quoting doctors, the death toll could be as high as 25. Some 260 emergency workers have been deployed, as has an aircraft to evacuate the seriously injured to Moscow, the ministry said. Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted doctors as saying three children were among the dead. An unnamed witness quoted by Russian newspaper Izvestia said the fire had started on a car lot opposite the petrol station.
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