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/ 21 January 2001

LIBERIA RECALLS AMBASSADOR FROM GUINEA

LIBERIA has recalled its ambassador from Guinea, accusing its neighbour of backing rebel attacks on its territory during months of border fighting and mistreating its diplomats. A foreign ministry statement noted four recent rebel incursions into Liberia’s northern Lofa county. The statement also referred to the alleged rape of Liberian refugees in Guinea, the beating […]

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/ 21 January 2001

SUDAN JAILS EDITOR FOR ?DEFAMATORY? ARTICLE

A Sudanese court has jailed an editor-in-chief until her newspaper publishes an apology for a ”defamatory” article alleging financial mismanagement in the courts, her newspaper, Al-Rai Al-Akher, reported on Thursday. The independent daily said Amal Abbas had been transferred to Omdurman prison for women, near Khartoum. The judiciary recently filed a lawsuit against the newspaper […]

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/ 19 January 2001

Praying for a power failure

When the end credits of <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> began to roll at Cannes, I at first thought the applause and cheering for this Scandinavian musical, made in Sweden and Denmark in a form of English, to be ironic. How could anyone have admired or been moved by this tedious, banal, incompetent movie?

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/ 19 January 2001

Dark victory

With <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> it is as though Lars von Trier set himself the challenge of making a musical from the most unpromising materials possible. Here we have the tragic or melodramatic story of Selma Jezkova (Björk), a Czech immigrant, a single mother with a young son, working in a factory somewhere in middle America.