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North Korea sent its highest-level delegation to Iran in about five years as the U. S. raised concerns that arms sales from Pyongyang and Tehran have helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine. In a rare public report of the trip, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence dispatch the North Korean delegation led by External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong Ho left Pyongyang for Tehran on Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund issued a most unusual rebuttal this month. Its spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters in Washington that executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s growth forecast of 8% for India did not represent the views of the IMF, which still maintained a projection of 6.5% for the country. Subramanian’s views—expressed at an event in New Delhi a few days earlier—were in his role as India’s representative at the IMF, she said.

Hugh Grant has had somewhat of a renaissance (or Grantaissance, if you will) in recent years. After some years as a comedic talent in England, Grant reigned supreme as the go-to British heartthrob. Movies like Nine Months, Sense and Sensibility, Mickey Blue Eyes, Love Actually, About a Boy, Notting Hill, and, of course, Bridget Jones's Diary cemented Grant's status as a romantic leading man.

Set in a near future where every country on Earth has to cull its population by 20 percent, "Humane" examines the socioeconomic inequality of self-sacrifice.

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman were circling the Hasbro board-game adaptation at one point, but Sony is starting fresh.