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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was released on bail Friday, two days after going on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment last summer, his supporters said. Panahi was arrested last July and later ordered to serve six years on charges of propagandizing against the government, a sentence dating back to 2011 that had never been enforced. He is among a number of Iranian artists, sports figures and other celebrities who have been detained after speaking out against the theocracy. Such arrests have become more frequent since nationwide protests broke out in September over the death of a young woman in police custody. Panahi, 62, had continued making award-winning films for over a decade despite being legally barred from travel and filmmaking. His latest film, “No Bears,” was released to widespread praise in September while he was behind bars, a week before the protests erupted. Yusef Moulai, Panahi’s lawyer, confirmed he had been … [Read more...] about Iranian director freed on bail after going on hunger strike

close Video NY Gov Kathy Hochul on rehiring unvaccinated healthcare workers: COVID-19 'has not gone away' New York Governor Kathy Hochul shared with a reporter that rehiring unvaccinated healthcare workers was not the right answer, despite the vaccination mandates being overturned. Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed affordable housing plan requiring municipalities to build more affordable housing would have a devastating impact on suburban communities throughout the Empire State, especially on Long Island, New York, House Republicans told Fox News Digital. "Not only does this proposal seek to supersede local authority to regulate zoning, but its impact would have disastrous consequence for quality of life on Long Island ," Republican Rep. Andrew Garbarino, who represents New York’s 2nd Congressional District along the south shore of Long Island, told Fox News Digital this week. "Our community simply cannot handle a monumental increase in … [Read more...] about NY Republicans blast Democrat governor’s housing plan as ‘radical’ power grab: ‘Dangerous precedent’

The low-pressure system that brought dark clouds and northwest winds to the coast Thursday night is now hovering over Northern California. It’s set to raise winds and rounds of rain in the Bay Area Friday before departing for Oregon. Dry conditions will then briefly return for the first half of the weekend, but the break from the rain will eventually be stomped out by a second low-pressure system. This system will follow the path left behind by Friday’s rainmaker, hoisting rain and snow showers across Northern California by Saturday night and into Sunday. All in all, this weekend is shaping up to be a mixed bag of weather conditions for residents across the Golden State. When will today’s rains let up? For residents waking up after 9 a.m. Friday morning, the good news is that the bulk of moderate rain showers will already be halfway to the Sierra Nevada. That’s because the cold front out ahead of the low-pressure system is forecast to roll into the Bay Area between 2 and … [Read more...] about Bay Area will get hit with rain twice this weekend. Here’s what to expect

Bill Chan had never set foot anywhere in Mexico, let alone the lonely stretch of desert in the north of the country where he abruptly decided to build a $300 million factory. But that seemed a trifling detail amid the pressure to adapt to a swiftly changing global economy. It was January 2022, and Mr. Chan’s company, Man Wah Furniture Manufacturing, was confronting grave challenges in moving sofas from its factories in China to customers in the United States. Shipping prices were skyrocketing. Washington and Beijing were locked in a fierce trade war. Man Wah, one of China’s largest furniture companies, was eager to make its products on the North American side of the Pacific. “Our main market is the United States,” said Mr. Chan, chief executive of Man Wah’s Mexico subsidiary. “We don’t want to lose that market.” That same objective explains why scores of major Chinese companies are investing aggressively in Mexico, taking advantage of an expansive North American trade … [Read more...] about Why Chinese Companies Are Investing Billions in Mexico

MANILA, Philippines — The United States and the Philippines announced plans on Thursday to expand America’s military presence in the Southeast Asian nation, with access to four more bases as they seek to deter China ’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea . The agreement was reached as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in the country for talks about deploying U.S. forces and weapons in more Philippine military camps. In a joint announcement by the Philippines and the U.S., the two said they had decided to accelerate the full implementation of their so-called Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, which aims to support combined training, exercises and interoperability. As part of the agreement, the U.S. has allocated $82 million toward infrastructure improvements at five current EDCA sites, and expand its military presence to four new sites in “strategic areas of the country,” according to the statement. Austin … [Read more...] about U.S. expands military presence in the Philippines as China looms in region

See the article in its original context from July 17, 1988 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. WEAPONS are being sharpened these days on the arcane battlefields of literary criticism where recent disclosures that one of the leaders of the field entertained Nazi beliefs have raised a troubling question: How should we treat the reputations of intellectuals who at one time or another have been snared in the trap of objectionable politics? The debate, which began last year, concerns … [Read more...] about IDEAS & TRENDS: The de Man Affair; Critics Attempt to Reinterpret A Colleague’s Disturbing Past