By Crispian Balmer VENICE (Reuters) -“Poor Things”, a gothic, sex-charged comedy directed by Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, the British-made film wowed festival-goers with its zany story of a woman reanimated after suicide by a mad …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek rescue teams recovered the bodies of four more people in central Greece on Sunday, raising the death toll to 15 from the country’s most intense rain storm since records began in 1930. Two other people are still missing, according to authorities. Storm Daniel pummelled Greece for three days from Tuesday at the …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine reported on Monday its troops had regained more territory on the eastern and southern fronts in its military counteroffensive against Russian forces. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Kyiv’s forces had retaken close to 2 square km (0.77 square mile) of land in the past week around the shattered eastern city of …
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By Parisa Hafezi and Andrew Mills DUBAI/DOHA (Reuters) -When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see as many as five detained U.S. dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the …
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By Graham Keeley BARCELONA (Reuters) -Spanish football federation chief Luis Rubiales quit his post on Sunday after three weeks of scandal over allegations he gave an unsolicited kiss to a player on the women’s national team as they celebrated their World Cup victory last month. Rubiales announced his resignation in a statement in which he …
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The presidents of Chile and Mexico called for the strengthening of democracy in Latin America during a joint address on Sunday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a 1973 coup in Chile, hours after a peaceful march culminated in violent clashes with police. Monday will mark half a century since the overthrow …
(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Ukrainian troops pressing a counter offensive against Russian occupying forces had advanced on the southern front in the past week while there had also been movement near Bakhmut in the east. Zelenskiy’s latest comments on the state of the three-month-old counter offensive appeared to confirm assessments by …
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By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -France said on Sunday it is ready to help Morocco after a powerful earthquake killed over 2,000 people, and is awaiting a formal request for assistance. “France is ready to offer its aid to Morocco if Morocco decides it is useful,” President Emmanuel Macron said during a news conference at …
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MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish aid worker was killed when a missile hit the vehicle she was travelling in in Ukraine, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Sunday. “Unfortunately, I can confirm a missile hit a vehicle in which this Spanish worker was travelling who was working for a humanitarian NGO in Ukraine. …
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By Katya Golubkova NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the G20 summit in India a success and said that due to the consolidated position of the countries of the global south, Russia managed to ensure the G20 agenda was not overshadowed by the Ukraine conflict. The Group of 20 adopted a …
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