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The acclaimed Australian crime writer had a deep appreciation for the folly of things Email was invented entirely for the benefit of Peter Temple. He knew this and he made full use of the fact. From ...

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Wahidullah Waissi, Australian ambassador for Afghanistan, at the G7+ Ministerial Meeting in Dili, Timor-Leste, April 2025 As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns ...

After delivering his 1985 masterpiece on the surreal barbarity of war, Come and See, Russian director Elem Klimov’s career ended in frustration It was to be called Kill Hitler, but Soviet censors ...