📸Photocalls, Cinéma de la Plage, Fortnight… 🎞️Beyond the official competition and the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival revolves around many other events. Here are five things you might not know yet about the Festival! Source link
The world’s richest man Elon Musk lost his blockbuster lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI on Monday, with a federal jury finding that the tycoon had waited too long to bring his case forward. The trial saw some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley go head-to-head with their competing ambitions for the rapidly … Read more
Belarus announced on Monday the start of training exercises involving Russian nuclear weapons, drawing widespread condemnation from neighboring Ukraine. In 2023, a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko agreed to host Russian tactical nuclear missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized Moscow’s control over the use of missiles. In 2024, … Read more
A US federal jury ruled on Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its co-founders, handing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a decisive victory. Musk claimed that Altman betrayed the company’s founding mission of serving the public good. In the civil lawsuit ongoing in a federal court in Oakland, California, Musk accuses … Read more
The US Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of President Donald Trump who believe they were politically persecuted by the department under his predecessor Joe Biden’s term in office. The fund is part of a deal to bring an end to Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against … Read more
Two police officers were killed in Pakistan’s northwestern Bajaur tribal district on Monday while protecting health workers administering polio vaccine to children, a security official said. Two separate attacks took place in Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The killings came on the first day of Pakistan’s nationwide campaign to combat rising cases … Read more
Moscow and Minsk held joint military drills to practice using Russian nuclear weapons, the Belarus defense ministry said on Monday. Russia deployed nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles to its western neighbors last year, and in 2024 released revised doctrine placing Belarus under its nuclear umbrella. Source link
France’s wide-reaching redevelopment of the Louvre will be carried out by a team of international architects including STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects, the culture ministry announced Monday. The overhaul will include a new entrance for the Paris museum and a dedicated space for the Mona Lisa. Source link
Russia may celebrate its “no borders” partnership with China – the phrase was coined when Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met just before the Ukraine war – yet these relations are becoming increasingly one-sided. Although low oil prices resulted in a softening of bilateral trade last year, Russia’s goods exports to China have nearly … Read more
On May 16, a senior IS group figure was killed in a strike led by Nigerian and US forces as part of a joint operation to target jihadists of the group in the northeast of Nigeria. But although Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was a prominent figure of the IS group, he wasn’t the second-in-command of IS group … Read more