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Japanese director and actor Takeshi Kitano walks the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival before the projection of his latest feature film "Broken rage". IMAGES
US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle acknowledges that the agency failed in its mission to prevent the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. "We failed," Cheatle, who is facing calls to resign, says during her testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. SOUNDBITE
Russian director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk appear in a Russian military court, where they were sentenced to six years in prison for "justifying terrorism" in a 2021 play about women marrying jihadists in Syria. The pair were sentenced following a closed-door trial, after the women's arrest in May last year sent shockwaves through Russia's artistic community. IMAGES
The White House says it does not support sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the tribunal's prosecutor sought an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. SOUNDBITE
Indian director Payal Kapadia says she hopes it "won't take another thirty years" for an Indian film to win a prize at Cannes after she was awarded the Grand Prix for the film "All We Imagine as Light." SOUNDBITE
A Moscow military court opens a trial against the playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich, in a terrorism case over an award-winning play, as censorship and repressions mount in Russia during the Ukraine offensive. IMAGES
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