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Business Standard
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Children of Radium: 'Digging for Trauma' in Nazi Germany's History
In the course of his research, Dunthorne makes multiple visits to Germany and tries to retrace and recreate his great-grandfather's life Listen to This Article Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne Published by Hamish Hamilton 220 pages ₹1,199 When Joe Dunthorne's mother gave him a ring for his wedding, she told him that the ring had 'escaped the Nazis in 1935'. With a history like that, it isn't surprising that Dunthorne, whose debut novel Submarine was adapted into a film, decided to dig deeper into his family's history and write about the life of his grandmother, who had fled Germany with her parents and siblings in 1935. The only problem? His grandmother's unwillingness to talk to him because she felt he wasn't ready. When Dunthorne
Mint
23-07-2025
- Business
- Mint
Italy and Algeria agree to tackle terrorism and migration at summit
ROME, July 23 (Reuters) - Italy and Algeria agreed to work together to fight terrorism and control migration during an intergovernmental meeting in Rome on Wednesday, documents showed, while companies signed off on deals on sectors including energy and telecommunications. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune at the 17th-century Villa Doria Pamphili, after a trip to Algiers by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in March. Algeria is Rome's leading trading partner in Africa, with trade worth almost 14 billion euros ($16.4 billion) while Rome's investments there amount to 8.5 billion, Italy said. According to a document seen by Reuters, a memorandum will be signed between Italy and Algeria on fighting terrorism and its financing. The document did not say which threats the countries were focused on. The two nations will also agree on a plan to coordinate the search and rescue operations for migrants who attempt the dangerous sea crossing from North Africa to Europe. Meloni's right-wing government was elected in 2022 on a mandate to curb migrant arrivals. On the business side, Italian energy group Eni this month signed a production sharing contract with oil and gas company Sonatrach worth $1.3 billion to explore and develop hydrocarbons in Algeria. A document said the two companies will sign an additional agreement on the sidelines of the summit to strengthen their cooperation. Eni buys gas from Sonatrach under a long-term contract that has made the north African country one of the key fuel suppliers for Italy after Rome severed ties with Russia's Gazprom following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. A separate deal will involve Submarine cable company Sparkle, a unit of Telecom Italia (TIM), which is set to be sold to a consortium led by Italy's Treasury later this year. Sparkle will sign a preliminary agreement with Algerie Telecom for a new subsea cable connecting the two countries. "Algeria is a strategic partner, and we are working hard to make this partnership ever broader, stronger and more diversified," Foreign Minister Tajani said during a speech at a business forum with over 400 companies from the two nations. ($1 = 0.8521 euros) (Reporting by Angelo Amante; Editing by Toby Chopra)
Straits Times
23-07-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
Italy and Algeria agree to tackle terrorism and migration at summit
Find out what's new on ST website and app. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni shakes hands with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune during the Italy-Algeria summit at Villa Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy, July 23, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli ROME - Italy and Algeria agreed to work together to fight terrorism and control migration during an intergovernmental meeting in Rome on Wednesday, documents showed, while companies signed off on deals on sectors including energy and telecommunications. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune at the 17th-century Villa Doria Pamphili, after a trip to Algiers by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in March. Algeria is Rome's leading trading partner in Africa, with trade worth almost 14 billion euros ($16.4 billion) while Rome's investments there amount to 8.5 billion, Italy said. According to a document seen by Reuters, a memorandum will be signed between Italy and Algeria on fighting terrorism and its financing. The document did not say which threats the countries were focused on. The two nations will also agree on a plan to coordinate the search and rescue operations for migrants who attempt the dangerous sea crossing from North Africa to Europe. Meloni's right-wing government was elected in 2022 on a mandate to curb migrant arrivals. On the business side, Italian energy group Eni this month signed a production sharing contract with oil and gas company Sonatrach worth $1.3 billion to explore and develop hydrocarbons in Algeria. A document said the two companies will sign an additional agreement on the sidelines of the summit to strengthen their cooperation. Eni buys gas from Sonatrach under a long-term contract that has made the north African country one of the key fuel suppliers for Italy after Rome severed ties with Russia's Gazprom following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. A separate deal will involve Submarine cable company Sparkle, a unit of Telecom Italia (TIM), which is set to be sold to a consortium led by Italy's Treasury later this year. Sparkle will sign a preliminary agreement with Algerie Telecom for a new subsea cable connecting the two countries. "Algeria is a strategic partner, and we are working hard to make this partnership ever broader, stronger and more diversified," Foreign Minister Tajani said during a speech at a business forum with over 400 companies from the two nations. REUTERS
NZ Herald
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Book of the day: Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Irony and deadpan humour have defined Jewish storytelling for millennia. And it is with dry alacrity that Joe Dunthorne, the Welsh novelist and poet renowned for his hilarious yet anguished coming-of-age novel Submarine, tells the astonishing saga of his quest to discover the buried war history of his family, specifically
The Guardian
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Still brings me hope': why Submarine is my feelgood movie
I remember the day anxiety took over my life. I was 12 years old and felt continually, grindingly nervous about everything and nothing. I had spent the morning in the student support office, coming down from a panic attack that had left me pinned to a classroom floor, heart pounding and tears streaming down my face. Over a post-recovery cup of tea and Jaffa Cakes, a pastoral adviser told me that if this was to become a regular occurrence, I would hit burnout by the end of term. The idea stuck. Within my first few weeks at high school, I was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder – a condition characterised by excessive and persistent worry, according to the NHS. A perfectionist streak had spiralled into an acute sense of responsibility. I was an overly conscientious student; I felt I had to be better than everyone else and excel at my studies in order to prove my worth. I tried to do as much work as I could, as perfectly as possible, as a way to shore up low self-esteem. It was during this state of unrest that Richard Ayoade's Submarine waltzed into my world. It might be a curious choice to name a film that traverses a troubled home life, too-much-too-young sexual experiences, and bullying as my 'feelgood' movie, but within its equally dark and peppy 97 minutes is a story about writing your own rules. Adapted from the Joe Dunthorne novel, Submarine is touching, sweet and, crucially, very funny. Like its deep-thinking protagonist Oliver Tate, I was not very good at being a teenager. I worried I'd ruined my life when it had barely begun. The film follows Oliver's romance with classmate Jordana Bevan, a pyromaniac with a fearless sense of rebellion. He enjoys reading the dictionary; she likes to singe her partner's leg hairs with a lighted match. Cooped up at home for days at a time, often too anxious to attend school, I first came across Submarine via Tumblr. I would spend hours in bed scrolling through the blogging website, which was awash with gifs of Oliver and Jordana. Their relationship, a true balancing of yin and yang energies, felt aspirational to young fans whose identities were still taking shape. Early on in the film, Oliver becomes overwhelmed by a foreboding sense that he will not achieve anything in life. He indulges in gallows humour, narrating the visualisation of his own funeral – a candlelit vigil that will be filmed by a local news crew. While his misfit character sometimes leans into cliche (he reads Catcher in the Rye, of course) the film's expressive portrayal of anxiety felt validating. It illuminated many tensions that I instantly recognised, such as how mental illness can isolate an individual, leaving friends unsure how to help. The way Oliver responds to situations can be extreme, but not illogical. A first kiss results in breathlessness. He hides in corridors, peeping at things he doesn't yet understand – gaining vignettes of grownup existence. Stepping outside of his bedroom is to trigger a mysterious, almost occult change in his confidence. At 15, my life was a swirl of counselling sessions, insomnia, and weight loss. I was forced to drop half of my GCSEs, of which the remaining few were completed under separate invigilation. I was terrified, and beneath the fear, burning with shame. But as the months spooled on, I kept returning to Submarine whenever I needed to be reminded that there was a whole realm of possibility out there not reflected in the day-to-day that I knew. As Oliver offers at one point, what happens during one's adolescence becomes imprinted in the memory and we can spend years later 'revisiting the same handful of images'. I vowed to take another route. It was Alex Turner's heart-rending soundtrack that instead offered me a way forward, with songs that speak to maintaining a sense of selfhood in difficult circumstances. 'Tomorrow, I'll be stronger/Running colourful, no longer just in black and white,' he sings on Hiding Tonight. That's when it clicked: resentment could turn into resolve. A calmer, more emotionally stable future didn't have to feel impenetrable. Dozens upon dozens of viewings have since followed; the film still brings me hope and unfettered joy as an adult. A few years into my career, I interviewed Turner at an east London pub. I was 21, still taking gentle steps towards getting better while making a living out of a love of music that essentially started with him. On the tube home, beaming and overjoyed, I pressed play on the Submarine soundtrack. In it I heard not nostalgia but the sound of my transformation, from a timorous, unwell girl to the journalist I became, to what I am still becoming now. Submarine is available to watch on Amazon Prime in the US and UK and to rent digitally in Australia
