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Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Indian director Payal Kapadia will be part of this year’s Cannes Film Festival jury that will select the winner of the Palme d’Or. Festival organisers have announced the names of the eight jury members who…

Spain and Portugal, including their capitals, suffered major power outages on Monday, disrupting metro services, telephone lines, traffic lights and ATMs. Spanish energy company Red Electrica said the incident affected the entire Iberian Peninsula and the situation was currently being…

Catholic cardinals have set May 7 as the start date for a conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor, postponing the secret ballot for two days to get to know each other better and reach agreement on candidates before they are…

Spain and Portugal suffered massive power outages on Monday that caused major disruptions to public transport, traffic jams and flight delays as utilities struggled to restore power. Following the power outage, which also briefly affected parts of northeastern France, the…

Iran’s president has visited the wounded after a powerful explosion rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s key ports at a facility believed to be linked to a previous shipment of a chemical used to make rocket fuel. President Masoud Pezeshkian’s…

Russia launched a massive drone strike across Ukraine on Sunday night, targeting several regions, after US President Donald Trump expressed doubts about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions to end the conflict. Airstrikes in Konstantinovka in Donetsk region killed three people…

Russian authorities say a man suspected of killing a Russian general with a car bomb has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges and said he was paid to do so by Ukraine’s Security Service. The Investigative Committee noted that Ignat Kuzin…

At least 25 people have been killed and 800 injured in a powerful explosion and fire at a port in southern Iran. Saturday’s explosion was reportedly linked to shipments of a chemical component used to make rocket fuel. Helicopters were…

The Trump administration’s peace proposal, which includes recognition of Russian rule over Crimea, has come as a surprise to Ukrainian officials, who say they will not accept any formal capitulation of the peninsula, although they are willing to temporarily cede…

Neither the president nor the comedian attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, but the journalists and the First Amendment remained in place. The low-key celebrations reflected the somber mood in Washington at the start of President Donald Trump’s…