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...The movie unfolds on the Shinkansen to Kyoto, adapted from the novel Maria Beetle by Japanese crime writer Kōtarō Isaka, in which a grab-bag of assassins do battle for a briefcase of ransom money....
...I do not think a small minority can hold a nation to ransom.”...
...(Pavel Lerner was released after a $1m bitcoin ransom was paid.) “Those types of things are not so fun,” says Ver, who says he has often been threatened....
...For more creeping dread The Lore podcast, courtesy of Aaron Mahnke, tells real-life stories from New England about the dark side of human nature. You won’t believe your ears....
...Mr Erdogan denied that Turkey had paid a ransom. “If we’re talking in terms of a material exchange, that is totally out of the question,” he said. “This is a diplomatic and political victory.”...
...“They’re probably the richest jihadi organisation ever seen,” says Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute, and an expert on extremism....
...Titus then cuts off his own hand in a vain attempt to ransom back his sons, and after the interval will bake the rapists and murderers in a pie which he serves to their mother and Roman emperor stepfather...
...“That’s the Algerian government’s modus operandi going back to the 1990s,” said Aaron Zelin, an expert on Islamic militants at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy....
...The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, with its individuality, boldness and bizarre blend of mythic yarn-spinning, is an extraordinary debut feature....
...Militant Islam holds to ransom its security. And Britain has a controlling share in its popular culture, or at least its big-money movie fare (Rowling, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Pullman, Fleming)....
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