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While the modern National Football League has made great strides toward diversity in recent years, from celebrating gay players to promoting LGBTQ inclusion, these moves still generate a peculiar amount of harsh backlash.Most recently, the NFL’s Buffalo Bills took some heat after announcing on June 18 that it would follow several other NFL teams in sponsoring a local chapter of the National Gay Flag Football League (NGFFL).Journalist Carmine Sabia, who promotes himself as “a voice of inspiration and clarity” posted on X that the sponsorship is “what the end of the United States looks like.”This is what the end of the United States looks like.The Buffalo Bills are sponsoring The National Gay Flag Football League. pic.twitter.com/8ac1PZHyxC— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) June 18, 2024Other right-wing pundits piled on, such as Rob Schmitt of the Newsmax network.“When you thought you could escape the Pride month propaganda by watching football, apparently not,” said Schmitt on the air.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Extinction,” the Malaysian-produced animation that is playing at the Shanghai International Film Festival, has struck its first international rights sales deals. The film was recently picked up by All Rights Entertainment, the Paris, Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based sales agency. All Rights has subsequently licensed the title to Magic Film for the CIS region, to Dazzler Media for the U.K., to Red Cape Distribution for Israel and to Bir Film for Turkey.

H1-KEY, this week’s star of The Cover on NME, have shared an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch.This week (June 17), the South Korean quartet become the first-ever K-pop girl group to grace The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of H1-KEY here, written by Gladys Yeo and featuring photography by Sewon Jun.To accompany The Cover, H1-KEY have curated an exclusive playlist for NME, knowingly titled ‘Low-key Bops, High-key on Repeat’.

Popular holiday destinations in Europe are experiencing extreme temperatures for this time of year. Brits are being warned of blistering conditions in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus as a heatwave spreads across parts of Europe.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor David Nevins has stepped down as CEO of North Road Co., the media venture launched in 2022 by Peter Chernin with backing from Providence Equity and other private equity partners. Nevins formally joined North Road Co. company last July.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Mediawan Kids & Family is unveiling a raft of prestige animated feature projects at the Annecy Film Festival, including “Meow-woof” by Louis Clichy (“Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion”) and “Twisted” by Lino DiSalvo (“Playmobil”). Emmanuel Jacomet, who worked for over a decade alongside Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam on high profile IP’s such as “The Little Prince,” “Miraculous Ladybug” and “Playmobil,” took over the film division of Mediawan Kids & Family under a year ago with the ambition to develop a mix of mainstream franchise-based projects and auteur-driven 2D titles.

Marta Balaga Ricard Claus and Karsten Kiilerich’s kids and family animated feature “Panda Bear in Africa” is continuing its long journey and heading to France (Le Pacte), Switzerland (Praesens) and the Benelux territories (WW Entertainment) after a raft of sales by the film’s sales agent Cinema Management Group. In early fall, it will also release in the Middle East (Front Row Entertainment), Poland (Kino Świat), Portugal (Films4You) and Turkey (Filmarti).

Jamie Lang Paris-based Loco Films has secured global sales rights to “Rock Bottom,” an animated feature exploring the life and music of British artist Robert Wyatt that will world premiere in the main competition at next week’s Annecy Festival. “Rock Bottom” is a trippy portrayal of the romance between Bob, a famous rock musician, and Alif, a talented visual artist, delivered through lush and vibrant rotoscoped 2D animation.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Turkish director Tolga Karaçelic, who made a splash in the U.S. with absurdist comedy “Butterflies,” is getting ready to premiere his first English-language film, “The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer,” in which the offbeat serial killer in question is played by Steve Buscemi. The New York-set film, which takes Karaçelic’s comic streak in a new direction, will launch on Saturday from the Tribeca Film Festival.

Holly Jones China’s unwitting creative phenom Yang Zhigang, known as Busifan, presents an imaginative, heartwarming and gleefully chaotic animated journey in his latest feature, “The Storm,” selected to screen in main competition at this year’s Annecy Festival. The auteur previously worked in telecommunications and never formally studied filmmaking, yet emerged as a self-taught cult figure on China’s animation circuit via its Flash scene in 2004 with “The Black Bird,” a seven-act episodic that craftily followed a wary warrior and his avian aide.

If you've got an upcoming holiday this summer to the likes of Turkey, Egypt, Thailand or Mexico, then there is some important travel advice from the Foreign Office to keep in mind.

Turkey has become well-known for its selection of hair transplant clinics and, arguably, more competitive prices. Many clinics have taken steps to leverage modern technologies, cultivate a pool of experienced practitioners, and maintain an attractive cost to make hair restoration services accessible to a global clientele.

A bride-to-be claims an 'impulse' decision to get breast surgery in Turkey left her looking like her breast had been 'bitten by a shark' - when her nipple dropped off.Madison Goodwin went under the knife in Istanbul, Turkey, after seeing a delighted friend's results at the same clinic and on 'impulse' booked to get it done. The model and social media influencer spent £4,000 to have breast implants and a breast lift, which involved nipple reconstruction in order to make her 'big, saggy' breasts perkier in April.The 19-year-old was concerned when she discovered her right nipple was bright purple the day after surgery and claims to have overheard a doctor say 'it was done wrong but I corrected it'. But days later she was horrified when she took the bandages off and spotted some of the skin had turned black and her nipple was 'hanging on by a thread' before eventually dropping off.

Plastic surgeons in Turkey have completed a stunning transformation on a man's face – with some claiming he looks "30 years younger".

A family is desperately trying to get their mum home to the UK after she was found covered in blood in her Turkish hotel room and rushed to hospital.

EXCLUSIVE: Out of the Cannes market, Sony Pictures Classics has bought North American rights and a raft of international territories on Walter Salles‘ anticipated first narrative feature in more than a decade: I’m Still Here.

Ten people have died after a horror bus crash in Turkey with another 39 people injured.

Mubi has doubled down on Andrea Arnold‘s “Bird” — starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogoswki — swooping on North American and Turkish rights to the Cannes competition entry less than two weeks after it announced it had bought the film for the U.K. and Ireland. The acquisition — which Variety understands came after a fierce bidding war — marks another buzzy U.S.

BBC weather presenter Georgie Palmer has told how she was kicked off a flight from London to Turkey by a 'screaming' pilot after she told her fellow passengers about her daughter's allergy to peanuts. Georgie Palmer, 49, her husband Nick Sollom, 48, and daughters Rosie, 12, and Annie, 14, were told to disembark the flight following the incident, with Georgie taking to social media to berate the SunExpress airline.