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Mozambique President’s Photo With Putin Sparks Viral Mockery Over Height Difference

A picture released by Mozambique shows Daniel Chapo towering over Vladimir Putin and highlights how official image choices shape public perception.

Report: Millions of Christians Driven From Homes by Violence and State Repression

Ken Russell’s The Devils Reissued With Long-Lost 'Rape of Christ' Sequence

U.S. Recalls Chargé After Nicaragua Refuses Ambassador Nominee

Julia Loktev’s Six‑Hour Film Chronicles Exiled Russian Journalists

My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile Chronicles Russian Journalists in Persistent Peril

Olivia Colman and Susan Sarandon Join Ronan Bennett’s Army of Shadows

Nicaragua’s Assembly Bars ‘Traitors’ From Running and Extends Presidential Term

São Paulo Education Manager Removed After Praising Hitler and Other Dictators

Top Supreme Court Justices Warn Brazil’s Democracy Remains Vulnerable

Trump Administration Moves to Remake Federal Institutions, Analysts Say

Almeida Staging of Under the Shadow Wins Praise for Slow‑Burn Horror

Colchester Council's Notice Restricting Church Preaching Faces May 1 Court Test

Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’ Earns Praise for a Chilling Portrait of Stalinist Red Tape

Fifty Years After Argentina’s 1976 Coup, the Missing Still Haunt the Nation

Séries Mania Opens in Lille With ‘The Testaments’ as Festival Trains Its Gaze on Authoritarianism

Analysts Cast Trump’s Florsheim Shoe Gifts as Loyalty Test and Humiliation Ritual

The Man in the High Castle Lands on Netflix for the First Time

Belarus Dissident Maria Kolesnikova Collects Charlemagne Prize in Aachen

White House Centralizes Hiring to Build Loyal Federal Workforce, Washington Post Reports