A Cannes (sans kisses) to reawaken our romance with movies
On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival, delayed from May to July, will finally open its doors for its 74th and maybe most critical edition. Its famed red carpet will again … Read More
Avignon masks up for return of feted French theatre festival
Theatregoers and troupes have expressed excitement at being reunited for the 75th edition of the Avignon theatre festival, which rivals Edinburgh for the title of the world’s biggest showcase of … Read More
Lipstick and COVID-19
Is my lipstick protecting me against COVID-19? ranks as one of the more intriguing email queries we have received from a member of the public since we began coordinating the … Read More
Luxembourg PM hospitalized after positive COVID-19 test
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel remained hospitalized and under observation for a second day Monday because he has been unable to shake a bout of COVID-19 that developed over a … Read More
Aix-en-Provence Festival stages musical version of Etel Adnan’s ‘Arab apocalypse’
The poem ruminates upon a specific event – Christian gunmen’s massacre of Palestinians in the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp. More broadly, it uses the allegory of the sun, a force … Read More
Facebook, Google, Twitter say could quit Hong Kong over proposed data laws
U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter Inc have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could stop offering their services in the city if authorities … Read More
Hundreds of Afghan security personnel flee into Tajikistan as Taliban advance
More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday after Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said, while dozens of others … Read More
Hackers demand $70 mn after Kaseya ransomware attack
Hackers were on Monday demanding $70 million in bitcoin in exchange for data stolen during an attack on a US IT company that has shuttered hundreds of Swedish supermarkets.
Israel’s Bennett, Russia’s Putin speak, agree to meet
Israel’s new prime minister spoke for the first time with his Russian counterpart on Monday and the two have agreed to meet soon, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office tweeted.
Israel data ‘preliminary signal’ Delta variant can bypass vaccine: expert
Rising coronavirus cases in Israel, where most residents are inoculated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, offer “a preliminary signal” the vaccine may be less effective preventing mild illness from the Delta … Read More