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2022 Winter Olympics are underway! The opening ceremony was held on Friday, at Beijing's National Stadium, which is also known as the «Bird's Nest,» and signaled the official start of the Games.The Parade of Nations, the part of the ceremony that highlights each competing nation in the Games, featured many standout moments including a shirtless skeleton competitor, a long-awaited moment for Jamaica, and a Ralph Lauren-clad Team USA.While the U.S. counted its second-largest Olympic delegation in history, other countries had just one athlete set to compete on their behalf. It all came to a close with an epic torch lighting that differed from years past.Keep reading for the five biggest moments from the opening ceremony.With Tonga's Pita Taufatofua sitting out the Olympics for the first time since 2014, fans worried that the cross-country skier's absence would mean they'd be deprived of a shirtless, oiled-up athlete during the Parade of Nations.

Christopher Vourlias Heretic, the Athens-based boutique production company and sales agent, has acquired world sales rights for “Convenience Store,” by director Michael Borodin, which will have its premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama strand.Borodin’s feature debut follows an Uzbek immigrant working at a convenience store on the outskirts of Moscow. As with the rest of the immigrants at the store, she’s forced to work without pay and to endure mental and physical abuse, until the day she overcomes her fear and takes her fate into her own hands.Based on real-life events and the active legal cases of immigrants in Russia, “Convenience Store” captures the horrors of modern slavery in a visceral blend of realism, documentary-style filmmaking and grand-scale cinema.

Security camera footage from a zoo in Tashkent, Uzbekistan has gone viral worldwide this week after it showed a little girl being dropped down into a bear enclosure at the animal park in the city.

Naman Ramachandran France’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas kicks off Feb. 1 with a gala screening of Iranian auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s 2001 Cannes winner “Kandahar” and will conclude on Feb.

A mum has been arrested after a tot was hurled 16ft into a brown bear's cage at a zoo.

New Celtic signings Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate are free to debut against Hibs after being removed from Japan's Kirin Cup squad.

Jessica Kiang It can take a moment to adjust to the quiet, grave rhythms of the impossibly gorgeous “2000 Songs of Farida,” where the imagemaking is so resplendent as to be disorienting, given how accustomed we are to a cinema in which the pictures primarily serve the storytelling.

Labour has called on the Tories to return cash from a major party donor after a massive leak documents exposed the secret financial dealings of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, in front of MPs today where he will come under strong criticism for leaving behind both British nationals and Afghans who helped the UK.

Human rights groups say that at least six men in Uzbekistan have been forced to undergo anal tests to prosecute them for consensual same-sex relations.

holiday - to Uzbekistan with wife Nigora. Duncan, 72, who now lives permanently in Portugal after he "repatriated" there with Nigora, 41, following the UK lockdown, decided it was time to travel and visit his wife's family in Uzbekistan.

Craig Murray watched two days of Alex Salmond's trial in March 2020 from the public gallery of Edinburgh’s High Court and wrote about it on his website.

jail a former diplomat who was found to be in contempt of court after covering the Alex Salmond trial on his blog.Craig Murray, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, attended two days of Mr Salmond's trial in March 2020, sitting in the public gallery, and wrote about it on his website.The former first minister was cleared at the High Court in Edinburgh of 13 sexual assault charges involving nine women following his trial.Following previous hearings, judges on March 25 this year found that

Jennie Punter “The Story Won’t Die” director David Henry Gerson wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for the United States welcoming refugees—specifically, his Uzbekistan-born father, the son of Holocaust survivors—after World War II.Exploring the ways people process traumas of the past is in his filmmaker DNA, he admits.“When I heard that the crisis in Syria was the largest displacement of people on the planet since World War II, something told me I had to pay attention to this,” said Gerson during

Alex Salmond trial on his blog. Craig Murray, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, attended two days of Mr Salmond's trial in March 2020, sitting in the public gallery, and wrote about it on his website.

James McClain Three multimillion-dollar Los Angeles investment properties have simultaneously popped up for sale, all of them with dazzling views of the L.A. skyline and pricetags that range between $5.995 and $6.495 million.

Alex Salmond trial.Craig Murray, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, attended two days of the case in March, and wrote about it on his website.The former first minister was later cleared at the High Court in Edinburgh of 13 sexual assault charges involving nine women.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter.We cover Holyrood, Westminster and local councils, with a current focus on how our governments are handling the

Rangers avoided the worst of the floods in Dubai to rain goals all over the champions of Uzbekistan.