Slovakia PM Fico stable after further surgery
Officials say it is unlikely the 59-year-old can be moved back to Bratislava in the next few days.
Officials say it is unlikely the 59-year-old can be moved back to Bratislava in the next few days.
Paul Schrader had a special job on the set of his latest film, “Oh, Canada”: drawing on the jockstrap that Jacob Elordi wears in one of the Vietnam War drama’s pivotal scenes. There’s a choice at the heart of “Oh, Canada,” when the fictional filmmaker Leonard Fife (played as a
April 2024 was a historic milestone in beef exports for Brazil having shipped 236,842 tons, generating revenues totaling US$ 1.043 billion, points out Agrilink. Leading the list was China, trailed closely by the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, which experienced a
In a letter signed by Sen. Warren and Rep. Omar, six proposals were laid out to ensure equitable banking access for Muslim Americans and minority groups.
Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, an NGO said. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up
MC Lyte has announced that she'll be returning to the booth to commit some new music to wax — the first time she'll be doing that in a decade.
Speed is relative. Some people think taking 6 seconds to hit 60 mph is fast , and others will scoff at anything that takes more than half that time to reach the 60-mph mark. Learning about the quickest cars on the market is an easy task, with tons lists published online
Just over a decade before hitting this year’s Cannes Film Festival with the musical crime comedy Emilia Perez, Zoe Saldaña supported a different crime film on the Croisette. Guillaume Canet’s star-studded Blood Ties focused on Chris Pierzynski (Clive Owen) getting out of
Celebrity endorsements are the auto industry’s bread and butter . Almost every car brand, or at least the ones with a marketing team , have employed Hollywood’s legion of fame for a commercial or three. Read more...
The Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, confirmed one of its leaders was killed during an Israeli raid on Friday night.
BBC is reporting that declassified documents, --to be kept secret until 2065--, have cleared an army regiment of any blame in the biggest loss of British life during the Falklands War. Forty-eight crew were killed when the Sir Galahad, an unarmed and undefended supply ship
The social media platform formerly known as Twitter has officially changed its URL address to x.com, months after shedding the iconic blue bird logo.
A new security incident was recorded Friday at Santiago de Chile's Nuevo Pudahuel - Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport when an Ecuadorean stowaway was caught trying to board a cargo plane bound for Argentina.
Professor Lloyd Peck, Science Leader and marine biologist at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), joins over 90 exceptional researchers from across the world in being elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
Noomi Rapace is set to play Mother Teresa in a new film from Teona Strugar Mitevska, director of 2019’s God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya. Rapace will play the legendary Catholic saint in the biopic Mother, which will follow seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in Mother
With Maite Alberdi, twice Oscar nominated for her last two docus, “The Eternal Memory” and “The Mole Agent,” and Tana Gilbert whose feature debut “Malqueridas” won the Grand Prize at Venice’s Critics’ Week, Chilean documentaries are having a banner year. Five documentaries
Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 killed in flash floods At least 50 people were killed in a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, according to an official. Dozens others remain missing, said Abdul Wahid
Chinese authorities have authorized additional Uruguayan slaughterhouses to ship beef and horsemeat from plants in Florida and Canelones to that country, Agriculture and Livestock Minister Fernando Mattos confirmed Friday.
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Our family dog used to have a rather noticeable extra eyelid that became especially apparent when he dozed off, usually upturned on the rug. This is the fleshy curtain seen at the corner of each eye, closest to the nose. It's also commonly called the nictitating (literally
According to a study released Friday in Buenos Airers by the Research and Training Center of the Argentine Republic (Cifra), formal wages took a slump of nearly 15% in the last semester, particularly after the Dec. 13 118.3% devaluation of the local currency once Javier Milei
Presidents of prominent US universities are facing retribution for weeks-long student encampments protesting Israel's war in Gaza.
Labor MK Naama Lazimi has been a prominent presence on the front lines of anti-government protests in recent months, fighting alongside hostage families for the return of their loved ones from Gaza. "I'm a parliamentary opposition member, it's my duty to do whatever I can to
At this point, any actor signing on for a Yorgos Lanthimos film knows they wont be resting on their laurels. Literally. One of his trademarks is a kind of heightened physicality — whether its Rachel Weisz and Joe Alwyn twerking in “The Favourite,” Emma Stone “furious jumping”
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Local health director says cryptosporidium in Brixham ‘more or less dealt with’ but new cases likely because of delayed symptoms Health officials are expecting more cases of a waterborne disease in Devon, as an MP said “heads are going to roll” over the outbreak and that the
An AIPAC-affiliated political action committee has put $2 million into defeating progressive US House member Jamaal Bowman, a vocal critic of Israel.
Just eight months after filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone unveiled Poor Things at Venice, the duo are back on the festival circuit with Kinds of Kindness. The frequent collaborators faced the press at Cannes, where they tried to define the alchemy between their
The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring the respect of human rights, the rule of law and democracy legal standards in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
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Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to Crestview, Fla., to go to school every day. “I can
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with
The tens of thousands of primary votes cast in favor of Nikki Haley over the last several months are underscoring the apparent discontent many Republicans feel with former President Trump as their presumptive nominee, raising alarm for his campaign and fueling questions over
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is launching mobile billboards Saturday in Dallas targeting former President Trump for his rhetoric on gun violence and reform. The billboards, which accuse Trump of putting the gun lobby ahead of Texas families, were placed in the area
The Cannes Film Festival not only means much choice in terms of films, but also in terms of where to go, what to do and what not to do on and around the famed Croisette. Alice Vail, director of acquisitions and development at Protagonist Pictures, has experience and insight
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