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Egypt's top prosecutor has said that security lapses are to blame for the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum.
Prosecutor general Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud said on Sunday that none of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras at the Mahmoud Khalil Museum were functioning when the painting was stolen.
Academy-Award-winning Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami has been appointed to lead the Asian Film Academy at this year's Pusan International Film Festival.
The 70-year-old filmmaker will be joined by Japanese director Ogiganami Naoko and Korean cinematographer Kim Hyung-gu.
The only cinema in the Palestinian city of Jenin has reopened after 23 years with a film festival that will show documentaries on the region's resistance against Israel.
The three-day festival is a collaborated effort by German filmmaker Marcus Vetter and Palestinian Ismael Khatib.
Iranian photographer Kamran Adl says he is sending his works to Harvard University because Iranian organizations have been negligent in preserving them.
"Many of my photographs have been damaged or destroyed while being kept at different foundations and organizations," Adl told Mehr News Agency.
Iran's Mohammad-Ali Khalaji has won the first prize of the 2nd International Comic Artist Conference (ICC) awards on the theme of 'The Rapprochement of Cultures.'
Khalaji was granted the top award of the event's cartoon and illustration section, while the Excellence awards went to Cristobal Reinoso from Argentina and Angel Boligan from Mexico.
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Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must... 
Here Israeli soldiers kidnap a young girl. You'd piss your pants too if you had any idea what was about to happen to this little... 
There is a certain absurdity for a group only remotely related to Christianity calling for a “revival of the Christian faith”... 
