The escalating fight over Haiti ahead of Ruto’s visit For months, Michael McCaul and Jim Risch have been a pain for the Biden administration on Haiti, blocking funds the White House says are necessary to bolster Kenyan forces. 05/21/2024 - 9:19 am | View Link
When Helicopters Crash: Wigwe, Kobe, Iran Nigeria was thrown into shock in February this year when the tragic news was reported that Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director and CEO of Access Holdings had died in a helicopter crash in the ... 05/20/2024 - 1:40 pm | View Link
Premier League roundtable: Assessing a season full of goals, asterisks and VAR rage The 2023-24 Premier League season concludes this afternoon. Most people expect to see Manchester City crowned as English champions for the fourth year in a row, but Arsenal fans are hoping that two ... 05/18/2024 - 5:10 pm | View Link
Frederikke Hellemann (Red-Green Alliance, Denmark): ‘What we have tried to do is to go back to our roots’ Frederikke Hellemann is second on the list for the European election for the Red-Green Alliance in Denmark and works as a Policy Advisor for The Left in the European Parliament. 05/16/2024 - 11:36 am | View Link
Dallas’ Starck Club’s 40th anniversary reunion: ‘A Temple of Future People’ visit the past Dallas’ decadent ‘80s club was a Studio 54 for Dallas, a moment that defined the era. For one night only, the moment was back. 05/16/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” is the first Indian film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 30 years. A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Kapadia’s “Afternoon Clouds” was a 2017 Cannes Cinefondation selection and she won the festival’s Golden Eye award in 2021 for her documentary “A […]
Danish-Spanish co-production “Only On Earth,” by award-winning Danish filmmaker Robin Petré (“Pulse,” “From the Wild Sea”), has picked up the top IEFTA Docs-in-Progress Award at Cannes Docs, the Cannes Film Market sidebar dedicated to documentary film. The film forms part of the Five Nordics Showcase, one of eight showcases presenting a total of 34 docs-in-progress […]
Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof will be attending the Cannes world premiere of his latest work, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” having traveled to Europe clandestinely after receiving an eight-year prison sentence from the country’s authorities for making the film. Rasoulof decided to leave Iran illegally and arrived in Europe a few days ago, […]
XYZ Films has acquired U. S. rights to the classic Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title “The World is Yours” directed by Romain Gavras from StudioCanal and to the TIFF hit film “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins. The hyper-stylized films are the first titles in a new XYZ initiative to introduce audiences […]
Marianne Metivier’s debut feature “The Splendour of Life” (“Une splendeur de vivre”) is set to start principal photography at locations across Canada and the Philippines, the producers revealed at the Cannes Film Festival. The ensemble cast includes Camille Rutherford (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Garance Marillier (“Raw”), Sue Prado (“Your Mother’s Son”), Kyrie Samodio (“Hito”) and […]
Super Bowl LVIII on CBS and “Toy Story Funday Football” on Disney+ and ESPN+ led this year’s tally of Sports Emmys winners, with three each, as announced Tuesday evening by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Hosted by The Kid Mero, the 45th annual Sports Emmy Awards featured the presentation of […]