CANNES, France, May 23 (Reuters) – “Fjord,” the new drama by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or top prize on Saturday. It is the second time Mungiu has won the prize, after 2007’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” The drama starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve is centred …
Here are the guests for Sunday, March 24, on CBS News’ “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” moderated this week by chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes: White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland Former White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx A panel with …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in Orange County on Saturday as officials desperately search for a safe resolution to a leaking toxic chemical tank at an aerospace facility. “The safety of Orange County residents is the top priority,” Newsom said. “We are mobilizing every state resource available to support local responders and …
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African activists who were detained when their boats were intercepted while trying to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza alleged Saturday they were beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers in a detention facility. The Global Sumud Flotilla of 50 vessels was intercepted Monday in international waters some 250 miles (400 kilometers) off …
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Clashes erupted between groups of protesters and riot police after a huge anti-government rally on Saturday in the Serbian capital Belgrade attended by tens of thousands of opponents of the country’s autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic. While the rally at a central square in Belgrade passed largely peacefully, groups of young demonstrators …
Investigators were combing through a New York City shipyard on Saturday trying to find the cause of a fire and an explosion that killed one person and injured more than 30 firefighters and other first responders. Authorities provided no major updates to the incidents that occurred Friday afternoon in the Mariners Harbor neighborhood on the …
PHOENIX (AP) — Iran’s soccer team says it has moved its base camp for the World Cup to Mexico from the United States after getting approval from FIFA, the president of the Iran Football Federation said Saturday in a statement. FIFA has not confirmed the move. Team IR Iran was originally scheduled to train in …
Clashes erupted between groups of protesters and riot police after a huge anti-government rally on Saturday in the Serbian capital Belgrade attended by tens of thousands of opponents of the country’s autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic. While the rally at a central square in Belgrade passed largely peacefully, groups of young demonstrators later split and clashed …
GENEVA, May 23 (Reuters) – The Red Cross on Saturday paid tribute to three volunteers who are believed to have died after contracting Ebola while handling bodies and are among the first known victims of the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no approved …
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — It looked like progressive Chris Rabb had a mountain to climb to win the Democratic nomination for a congressional district in Philadelphia. The mayor and the city’s Democratic Party had endorsed another candidate in this week’s primary. So had members of Pennsylvania’s delegation in the U.S. House. One Rabb rival was …