Toni Servillo, one of Italy’s most prolific and respected performers, won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for his role as a morally upright Italian president struggling to overcome his indecision and take a stance. A Venice regular, Servillo has enjoyed a rich, decades-long collaboration with director Paolo Sorrentino, who […]
Read MoreA gentle study of dysfunctional families by veteran American director Jim Jarmusch clinched top prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday, while a harrowing docu-drama about the Gaza war took second. Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits, drew mostly positive reviews for its humourous portrayal of awkwardness and […]
Read MoreA gentle study of dysfunctional families by veteran American director Jim Jarmusch clinched top prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday, while a harrowing docu-drama about the Gaza war took second. Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits, drew mostly positive reviews for its humourous portrayal of awkwardness and […]
Read MoreChina’s Xin Zhilei won the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for her role in “The Sun Rises on Us All” directed by Cai Shangjun. In the film, the 39-year-old actress plays a woman trying to make amends with her former lover, who served time in prison for a crime she had […]
Read MoreChina’s Xin Zhilei won the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for her role in “The Sun Rises on Us All” directed by Cai Shangjun. In the film, the 39-year-old actress plays a woman trying to make amends with her former lover, who served time in prison for a crime she had […]
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More than 300 South Koreans were among 475 people arrested by US immigration officials in a raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern US state of Georgia, the foreign minister in Seoul said on Saturday. Thursday’s operation in the town of Ellabell was the largest single site raid carried out so […]
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In a first for the Vatican, more than a thousand LGBTQ Catholics and their supporters are this weekend holding a pilgrimage, in what they are promoting as an important sign of diversity in the Church. The gathering of some 1,400 people from around 20 countries was part of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee holy year. It […]
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Postal traffic to the United States plunged more than 80 percent following Washington’s imposition of new tariffs, with 88 operators worldwide fully or partially suspending services, the Universal Postal Union said Saturday. The UPU, the United Nations’ postal cooperation agency, is working on “the rapid development of a new technical solution that will help get […]
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Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez has insisted that his country is “absolutely committed” to combatting drug trafficking, as the United States mulls whether to blacklist the country for failing to curb cocaine exports. US President Donald Trump’s administration is to decide by September 15 whether to decertify Colombia as an ally in the battle against […]
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