By Rollo Ross and Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -Forget the Cannes Film Festival’s strict dress code: Guests at the popular Palm Dog awards on Friday used their time in the spotlight to roll around on stage and bark at the competition. Dozens of people gathered at the Plage du Festival tent along the crowded …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany may consider reintroducing military conscription from as soon as next year if it does not attract enough volunteers for its armed forces, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on Saturday. Part of the NATO alliance, Germany is looking to enhance its military strength following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 307 of his country’s service personnel returned home on Saturday in a prisoner exchange agreed with Russia. Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry said the same number of Russian prisoners of war had been handed over by Ukraine. (Reporting by Christian Lowe; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
By Yurii Kovalenko and Herbert Villarraga KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight in one of the biggest combined aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital of the three-year war, damaging several apartment buildings and injuring 15 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a social media post it …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar walked across the border to Romania on Saturday after a week-long journey, in a attempt to win support of the ethnic Hungarians in Romania and appeal to conservative voters in the run-up to the 2026 elections. Magyar’s centre-right Tisza party emerged last year to mount the most serious …
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By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -After nearly two weeks of exciting premieres, star-studded press conferences and beachside parties that go into the early hours, the Cannes Film Festival is ready to roll up the red carpet after one last task: crowning this year’s Palme d’Or winner. The nine-strong jury headed by French actor Juliette …
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By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -Chilean director Diego Cespedes’ first feature, “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” won the Cannes Film Festival’s second-tier Un Certain Regard category on Friday evening. The film set in the early 1980s centres around a queer family in Chile and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Eighteen people were injured in a knife attack in Hamburg station on Friday evening, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported, and local police confirmed they had arrested the suspected assailant. Four victims are in critical condition and six others are seriously injured, Bild reported, saying the motive for the attack was unclear. Police said the …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -A French court on Friday convicted the jewel thieves who in 2016 tied up U.S. reality TV star Kim Kardashian at gun point before making off with her $4 million engagement ring and other booty. Ten people were in the dock, accused of involvement in the Paris heist. Robbers wearing …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia will be ready to hand Ukraine a draft document outlining conditions for a long-term peace accord once a prisoner exchange now under way is completed, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. Lavrov, in statements on his ministry’s website, said Russia was committed to working out a peaceful settlement in the more …
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