Cannes 2024: 'Anora' by American Sean Baker wins Palme d'Or

It's the fifth straight Palme d'Or won by specialty distributor Neon, following 'Parasite,' 'Titane,' 'Triangle of Sadness' and 'Anatomy of a Fall.' The jury awarded a special prize to Mohammad Rasoulof's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig,' a drama made secretly in Iran.

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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in Vilnius, on May 23, 2024.

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Russia challenges the US' dominance in space

The war in Ukraine has rekindled competition between the two space powers, with Moscow's hostile actions multiplying in recent months.

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Donald Trump gets booed repeatedly during Libertarian convention speech

Though the audience was divided, Saturday, it was a rare moment of Trump coming face-to-face with detractors, which is highly unusual for someone accustomed to staging rallies in front of ever-adoring crowds.

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Paris: Champs-Elysées hosts giant picnic on 'world's largest tablecloth'

Around 4,000 people were selected out of 273,000 applicants to have lunch on a 216-meter-long red-and-white chequered rug.

The former villa of Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, with its 17-hectare wooded park and 70 rooms, now sits empty.

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Having failed to find a buyer, Berlin's city council is now offering to give away the former Nazi leader's mansion on the outskirts of the German capital. The cost of maintaining the 1,600-square-meter building, unused for years, has become too high for the municipality.

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Russian strike on Kharkiv home improvement store: Death toll rises to 11

Tunisia replaces interior, social affairs ministers

Luciano Benetton speaks to guests after the Benetton women's Fall-Winter 2019-2020 collection, in Milan, Italy, on February 19, 2019.

Feeling betrayed, Luciano Benetton steps down as chairman of family-run brand

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'Mary Poppins' and 'It's a Small World' composer Richard Sherman dies at 95

Burkina Faso military rule extended for five years

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Ukraine and Russia's complicated search for the missing

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