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Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Iranian-born Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat pushed back on the idea of a standalone Oscar category for exiled filmmakers, speaking at the Tokyo International Film Festival as Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund gave its first five short films their Japan premiere. The question followed the Academy’s recent rule c

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has returned ‌to the country nearly a year after her daring escape.

<p>Nobel peace prize winner’s return after almost a year in exile is unlikely to please interim president Delcy Rodríguez</p><p>The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has announced she has returned to Venezuela almost a year after she left the country to receive the Nobel peace prize.</p><p>“I’m here. With you,” she wrote on X on Sunday lunc