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One of the next major steps on Sinner's Oscars juggernaut will be here, London's Royal Festival Hall, where the BAFTA Film Awards will take place in just a few weeks' time.

Sinner's has secured 13 BAFTA nominations to go along with its Record Academy Award nomination hall.

And for a film that was seen as something of a risk by its studio Warner Brothers, it's rapidly becoming a major awards contender.

With multiple award nominations and a worldwide box office of almost $370 million, it's a risk that looks to have largely paid off for the studio.

But while the film has been a big success in America, only 24% of its box office came from outside the US.

That's a significant disconnect and by far the lowest proportion of any of the top 50 American films at the worldwide box office last year.

But Nigerian-British actress Wumi Musaku believes the film has the potential to reach a global audience.

She sees the film's originality, as well as difference and diversity on display, as something that Hollywood should embrace more of going forward.

With its record number of Academy Award nominations, Sinners is the movie with the most momentum heading into the awards campaign season.

And if Coogler does win an Academy Award for Best Directing, he will make history as the first black filmmaker to do so.

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The European Union takes on TikTok and what regulators call its addictive design.

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Cuba has for a long time been dependent on imported oil and it's now suffering from a critical shortage of fuel because shipments from Venezuela, once its biggest supplier, have been stopped by the US.

And Mexico, Cuba's top supplier after Venezuela, is under intense pressure from Washington following new US tariffs on countries that ship oil to the island.

The Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, says transport hospitals and the economy are all affected, but that Cuba is ready for dialogue with the US, provided it's on an equal footing.

In response, the White House says diplomacy is already taking place, but that the Cuban government is on what it called its last legs.

Meanwhile, the people are feeling desperate.

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