Posts by Amelia Frost
Cannes Closes With Iranian, Ukrainian Films Tipped For Glory
[ad_1] The Cannes Festival draws to a close on Saturday, with a wry Iranian film about political prisoners and a Ukrainian-directed drama about despotism among the frontrunners to pick up the Palme d’Or top prize. After almost a fortnight of glamorous red carpets and some politics, French actor Juliette Binoche and her jury will announce…
Read MoreGrowing Arctic Military Presence Worries Finland’s Reindeer Herders
[ad_1] A fighter jet roaring through the grey sky breaks the tranquillity of a boreal forest in northern Finland, one more sign of a growing military presence that is challenging the ability of reindeer herders to exercise their livelihood. “Military activity has increased massively here since Finland joined NATO,” reindeer herder Kyosti Uutela said on…
Read MoreThousands Remain Isolated As Floods Ease In Eastern Australia
[ad_1] Tens of thousands of Australians remained isolated and thousands were without power on Saturday, authorities said as conditions in New South Wales eased after days of heavy rain that caused widespread flooding. Floodwaters were slowly subsiding but more than 20 emergency warnings remained in place, with the focus shifting to assessing properties and delivering…
Read MoreUN Chief Says Gaza War In ‘Cruelest Phase’ As Aid Trucks Looted
[ad_1] The United Nations chief said Friday that Palestinians were enduring “the cruelest phase” of the war in Gaza, where more than a dozen food trucks were looted following the partial easing of a lengthy Israeli blockade. Aid was just beginning to trickle back into the war-torn territory after Israel announced it would allow limited…
Read MoreVenezuela Opposition Leader Arrested Ahead Of Tense Election
[ad_1] Leading Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa was arrested Friday on charges of conspiring to sabotage upcoming parliamentary and regional elections that the opposition has vowed to boycott. The arrest of Guanipa, a 60-year-old former MP and close ally of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, comes amid rising tensions ahead of Sunday’s election. Machado…
Read MoreUS, Boeing Reach Deal To Resolve MAX Criminal Case
[ad_1] The Justice Department said Friday it reached a preliminary agreement with Boeing to settle a long-running criminal probe into deadly 737 MAX crashes, drawing condemnation from some crash victim families. Under an “agreement in principle,” Boeing will pay $1.1 billion and the Department of Justice (DOJ) would dismiss a criminal charge against Boeing over…
Read MoreAnthropic’s Claude AI Gets Smarter — And Mischievious
[ad_1] Anthropic launched its latest Claude generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models on Thursday, claiming to set new standards for reasoning but also building in safeguards against rogue behavior. “Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the best coding model in the world,” Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said at the San Francisco-based…
Read MoreTrump Greenlights Nippon Steel ‘Partnership’ With US Steel
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump on Friday threw his support behind a new “partnership” between US Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel, sending the American firm’s share price skyrocketing on hopes of an end to the long-running saga over foreign ownership of a key national asset. While the details of the deal remained unclear, the Pennsylvania-headquartered…
Read MoreGerman Woman Arrested After 17 Stabbed At Hamburg Station
[ad_1] German police on Friday said they had arrested a woman after at least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at the main station in the northern city of Hamburg. Some of the victims sustained life-threatening injuries in the stabbing, which took place in the middle of the city’s evening rush hour, emergency…
Read MoreTrump Official Insists ‘There Is No Pain’ From Tariffs. His Audience Immediately Calls Him Out
[ad_1] U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed at a recent event that President Donald Trump’s tariffs have not impacted consumers, but audience members quickly challenged him for spreading the administration’s false narrative. “Seriously, for the month of May, every product in the world got 10% on it—right now with no exceptions, no exclusions,” the billionaire-turned-politician…
Read MoreTrump Insists Apple Can Move Production to the US Because of ‘Computerized’ Factories After Threatening Tariffs
[ad_1] President Donald Trump stated that Apple could create computerized production plants in the US to produce iPhones at the same price they are being produced at now after threatening to levy tariffs against the company. Trump answered questions about a variety of executive orders he signed at the White House on Friday. When speaking…
Read MoreSouth Africa Rescues All 260 Miners Stuck Underground Alive
[ad_1] Rescuers on Friday pulled out all 260 mine workers who had been stuck for more than 24 hours in an underground shaft in South Africa, the mine’s operator said. The miners were trapped underground on Thursday at the Kloof gold mine, 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of Johannesburg, after a hoist used to access…
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