Wim Wenders receives special award at Sarajevo film festival
The veteran director received the Heart of Sarajevo award at the festival’s launch ceremony, marking its reopening to the public after being organised online last year
Banksy shows off his British seaside ‘spraycation’
An Instagram video clip, just over three minutes long and entitled ‘A Great British Spraycation’, shows the elusive artist taking a summer road trip in a beat-up camper van with … Read More
Musicians at Serbian trumpet festival play on despite pandemic
Launched in 1961 when just four bands competed for the Golden Trumpet trophy and only 2,500 visitors attended, the festival is now Serbia’s liveliest traditional music event but, like many … Read More
Lebanon reels from latest deadly explosion
Lebanon reeled Monday from a deadly explosion that burned alive people desperate to fill plastic containers with fuel in a country sinking ever deeper into darkness and chaos.
Aoun sees new government ‘in next few days’
Aoun says he hopes new government will be formed ‘in next few days’
Aoun upbeat on new govt after US envoy plea
President Michel Aoun said Monday he hoped a new Lebanese government would be formed “in the next few days”, shortly after US ambassador urged a swift formation to save the … Read More
Iran says US ‘defeat’ in Afghanistan a chance for lasting peace
Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday said that the “defeat” of the United States in Afghanistan must usher in a durable peace in the neighbouring war-wracked country.
Body found at site of fuel blast in north Lebanon, death toll up to 29
A charred body was found Monday at the site of a fuel tank blast in north Lebanon a day earlier, state-run news agency reported, bringing the death toll up to … Read More
Iran’s Raisi says US ‘defeat’ in Afghanistan a chance for lasting peace
Iran’s new ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday said that the “defeat” of the United States in Afghanistan must usher in a durable peace in the neighbouring war-wracked country.
Haiti hospitals overwhelmed by quake victims as death toll hits 1,297
Haiti’s hospitals were swamped on Sunday by thousands of injured residents after a devastating earthquake the day before killed at least 1,297 people as authorities raced to bring doctors to … Read More