❗️US Central Command announced that an airstrike in May 2023 had killed a Syrian civilian, not an al-Qaeda leader. An investigation found that US forces misidentified the alleged al-Qaeda target and that a civilian, Lufti Hassan Masto, was wounded and killed instead.
Agatha Christie’s Arithmetic Dmitry Svetosarov, who likes showy cinema, is not a very consistent director. Now he flashes with European professionalism `a la Claude Lelouch in The Speed (1983), now he sags into dull naturalism with The Dogs (1990). In The Arithmetic of Murder Svetosarov decided to stay with the traditional detective format. The crime in the film is investigated with all rules of the genre: detailed questioning of witnesses and suspects, the appearance of some convincing alibis and so on...