July 20 is the sacred day on which Ireland's multiplexes are due to reopen, and even the likes of me, who's spent way too many mornings hunkered in half-empty cinemas sighing my way through bad films, has kind of missed them. How keen punters are going to be to file into darkened auditoria where a...
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North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border in an escalation of tensions after days of threats against the South over anti-Pyongyang leaflets being sent by defectors into its territory.
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