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View More NewsIn brief OFAC has issued a sectoral determination covering digital assets, letting it sanction any person worldwide who operates in that part of Iran’s economy. It is one of five determinations issued at once, and builds on earlier ones covering Iran’s financial and petroleum sectors. Among nearly 60 designations, one shadow fleet broker is accused of processing more than $100 million in crypto payments for the IRGC’s Qods Force. The U.S. Treasury has given itself the power to sanction anyone in the world operating in Iran’s digital asset sector, part of a campaign announced Monday that Secretary Scott Bessent has…
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Descendant: Lars von Trier and Nordic Art edited by Anne Gregersen and Pernille Gøtze Johansson and translated by René Lauritsen; 240 pages; Strandberg Publishing (August 2026)Catalogue of the exhibition Descendant: Curated by Lars von Trier. Willumsen’s Museum, Frederikssund 6 June to 20 September 2026; Thiel Gallery, Stockholm 10 October 2026 to 24 January 2027. In May 2009, the Arts Diary of the Guardian website held a poll asking its readers if Danish film director Lars von Trier was a genius or a fraud. Just over sixty per cent of respondents thought him a genius, while the rest dismissed him as a…
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