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The filmmaker behind The Brutalist has spoken about the realities of low-budget movies (Picture: Stuart Wilson/Bafta/Getty) Bafta-winning director Brady Corbet has said making his awards favourite movie The Brutalist for under $10,000,000 (£7,939,721) was ‘not a great way to operate’. His passion project, which was over seven years in the making, wowed upon its debut at Venice Film Festival and was even compared to last year’s garlanded movie Oppenheimer, the budget of which was around tenfold more. Corbet’s film tied with Conclave and four wins as the most awarded movie at Sunday night’s Bafta Film Awards, picking up best director,…

The US says it killed senior al-Qaeda affiliate during an airstrike in northwest Syria the day before. US Central Command described the person in a statement as a “senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din.” US says it killed senior al-Qaeda affiliate US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it conducted the strike Saturday “in Northwest Syria targeting and killing a senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an Al-Qaeda affiliate,” according to a statement on X. Syria’s quest for national unity is critical to any sustainable peace plan and the US must stop interfering. The strike…

Wednesday’s phone call between US President Donald Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated a radical shift in Washington’s stance. Prior to Trump-Putin Ukraine talks, there had been no direct communication between the US and Moscow since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Now, Trump has said that he hopes to meet President Putin in Saudi Arabia for “US-Russia peace talks” to end the war. However, he did not say anything to suggest that Ukraine would be included in the meeting. Trump foreign policy on Russia Trump’s secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, has declared that Ukraine…

The president of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, expressed his desire that Ukraine “be a member country of the European Union in 2030”, as a solution to avoid future invasions of Russia in the country that presides over Volidimir Zelenski, to whom he expressed his support to achieve a “fair and lasting peace.” Sanchez made these statements this afternoon during his participation in Congress that the Socialist Party of La Rioja celebrates to choose Javier García as the new regional leader after his partner Concha Andreu lost the autonomous power in the elections of 2023…

One prisoner described conditions in Israeli detention centres as “more difficult than you can imagine” [Getty]Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in exchange for three Israeli captives freed by Hamas, completing the sixth prisoner exchange since the ceasefire came into effect last month. Four of the Palestinians released were in “critical condition” and had to be rushed to hospital in the occupied West Bank for treatment, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, providing more evidence of the harsh treatment of detainees in Israeli detention centres. One prisoner described conditions in Israeli custody as “more difficult than you can…

A mother and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries sustained two days ago when a car deliberately rammed into a trade union demonstration in Munich on Thursday. The attack wounded 37 people, including children, police said. Mother and two-year-old daughter die days after Munich car ramming

A teenage boy has been killed and four more people wounded in a knife attack in southern Austria Saturday, police said. One person killed and four wounded in knife attack in Austria, police say

France is in talks with its allies about holding an informal European summit on Ukraine on Monday, diplomatic sources said Saturday. Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg earlier said that Europe would not have a role in Ukraine peace talks planned between the US, Ukraine and Russia. France planning to host informal European summit on Ukraine, diplomatic sources say

Exporters in Mexico take up to eight hours to cross the US. They are facing delays of up to eight hours to cross the border with the United States, after the activation on Friday of security protocols and documentation inspection in the Mexican city of Tijuana, before the measures of the US president, Donald Trump. Exporters in Mexico take up to eight hours to cross the US These protocols were carried out exclusively in the export lane where heavy load transport travels, in the Otay border port, generated long lines of up to 38 kilometers and road chaos in the…

UK’s Starmer set to visit Trump shortly. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting Donald Trump is soothing news to a panicked downing street as the parties hatch a plan to hold talks soon in Washington, the two sides confirmed Friday. “He asked for a meeting, and I agreed,” Trump told reporters. “We’re going to have a friendly meeting. We have a lot of good things going on. “I think he wants to come next week or the weekend.” Starmer met Trump’s special envoy to the UK Mark Burnett in London on Thursday “during which he took a call from President…