CANNES, France, (Reuters) – “Anora,” a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch’s son, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, yesterday.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – American rapper Nicki Minaj yesterday cancelled a show in Manchester, England, after she said she was held by police at Amsterdam Schiphol airport on allegations of possession of soft drugs.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened 2.95 million airline passengers on Friday, the highest number ever on a single day.
(Reuters) – Mexico yetserday extradited to the United States Nestor Isidro Perez Salas, or “El Nini,” who headed security for the sons of ex-Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in one of the highest profile extraditions in recent years.
(Reuters) – Louisiana’s governor yesterday signed a bill making his state the first in the U.S.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel yesterday to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide.
MOSCOW/LONDON, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported yesterday.
(Reuters) – Exiled Chinese businessman Miles Guo scammed his followers out of more than $1 billion after Chinese authorities seized his property, a federal prosecutor said on Friday as Guo’s fraud trial began in New York.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel today to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Hundreds are feared dead after a massive landslide levelled dozens of homes and buried families alive in a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea early today, a resident said.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed Ken-yan President William Ruto to the White House on Thursday for a state visit, pledging new partnerships on technology, security and debt relief to the leader of one of Afri-ca’s strongest democracies.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed 35 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and battled in close combat with Hamas-led militants in areas of the southern city of Rafah, health officials and Hamas media said.
(Reuters) – Vaccination of boys and men against the human papillomavirus (HPV) reduces their risk of head and neck cancers and other malignancies, a new analysis shows, adding to the vaccine’s proven benefit in protecting women from cervical cancer.
PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on a visit to New Caledonia yesterday that inequalities had widened on the French-ruled Pacific archipelago and were a driving force in the deadly civil unrest that broke out last week.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia yesterday sued to break up Live Nation LYV.N,
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate finance and budget committees today launched an investigation into presidential candidate Donald Trump’s reported offer to roll back a slew of environmental regulations in exchange for US$1 billion in campaign contributions.
BEIJING/TAIPEI, (Reuters) – A furious China launched “punishment” drills around Taiwan today in what it said was a response to “separatist acts”, sending up heavily armed warplanes and staging mock attacks as state media denounced newly inaugurated President Lai Ching-te.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Already under global pressure over the mounting toll from the war in Gaza, Israel slipped further into international isolation yesterday after three European countries broke with their main EU partners and decided to recognise a Palestinian state.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A provocative flag was photographed flying outside conservative U.S.
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