âKite Runnerâ Boys Are Sent to United Arab Emirates
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After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing âThe Kite Runnerâ has whisked to safety four young actors.
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MIAMI -- Rulers of the United Arab Emirates were accused in a lawsuit of enslaving tens of thousands of boys over three decades and forcing them to work as jockeys in the popular sport of camel racing.
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ATHENS - His cousin rules Dubai and his family owns some of the top racehorses in the world. Now Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum stands out on his own as the United Arab Emirates&#39;s (UAE) first Olympic champion.
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IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights in all media to the Iranian-Iraqi feature "Turtles Can Fly," which won the Golden Shell at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival and has been selected as the Iranian entry for the Academy Awards.
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Never one to do things by half, Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar made a Hollywood-like arrival yesterday at his team&#39;s first training session of their Australian tour.
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A much wider audience will be introduced to Afghan kite culture with the American release of the film âThe Kite Runnerâ on Friday.
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NEW YORK Two New York celebrities are being allowed to move back to their home at a chic Manhattan building. But the celebrities aren&#39;t people -- they&#39;re red-tailed hawks and their home is a nest perched on the Fifth Avenue building.
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Global Indian Film Awards - The organizers of the Global Indian Film Awards to be held in Dubai at the famous Al Wasal Stadium on the 27th of January have announced the names of the jury members
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By David Koenig  DALLAS - Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them.
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Irrfan Khan, Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi and Ayesha Takia in a new film, Sunday.
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Celebrities across the globe were mobilizing to help relief efforts in countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa affected by the deadly earthquake and tsunamis.
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Shining onstage at the Santa Barbara Film Festival only last Saturday, Angelina Jolie showed up a world away â in every respect â on Thursday: Baghdad.   The goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 32, is there on a...
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French companies Areva, Total and Suez are involved in plans to build two third generation nuclear plants in the United Arab Emirates, Jazeera Television said on Sunday.
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London&#39;s 600-page final bid document, which organisers hope will win them the 2012 Games, is to be formally handed over to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne tomorrow by a 14-year-old Newham schoolgirl.
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The famous Lebanese singer traveled to Syria last week to appear in a six-day run beginning Monday at the Damascus Opera House.
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Two sons of a Pakistani family who won a reprieve from deportation are scheduled to be flown home.
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"The Kite Runner" filmmakers strove for authenticity when they shot the adaptation of the best-selling novel, featuring a largely unknown cast of actors and having some dialogue in Dari (an Afghan language).