- http://www.rawstory.com/iran-han...ecutions-intensifies-ngo/Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, an NGO said.Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran along with five men convicted ...Posted 4 hours 34 minutes ago - 05/18/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/paris-ol...ds-for-athletes-are-anti/They may be made of cardboard, but the beds at the athletes' village for this year's Paris Olympics have been chosen for their environmental credentials, not to prevent competitors having sex, organisers said.The clarification came after fresh reports that the beds, manufactured by Japanese company Airweave and already used during the Tokyo 2020 Games, were ...Posted 4 hours 34 minutes ago - 05/18/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/irish-pr...-troubles-law-2668307561/Ireland's president on Friday hit out at new UK legislation designed to draw a line under the violence during the Northern Ireland "Troubles", 50 years on from the biggest single-day loss of life in that period.Michael D. Higgins said the new law was neither morally acceptable nor politically feasible, in a speech at a wreath-laying ceremony in Dublin.The ...Posted 4 hours 44 minutes ago - 05/18/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/flash-fl...0-in-western-afghanistan/Flash flooding has killed at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said Saturday, with some reaching safety on higher ground mere minutes before the water hit.The floods on Friday also destroyed about 2,000 houses, and damaged thousands more homes and businesses, Ghor police spokesman Abdul Rahman Badri said in a statement.The fresh ...Posted 5 hours 5 minutes ago - 05/18/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/zelensky...fire-proposal-2668299879/Both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin have expressed reservations about a proposed ceasefire in Ukraine during the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. The proposal, first mentioned by French President Emmanuel Macron and later discussed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, aims to halt hostilities during the Games. ...Posted 18 hours 37 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/second-o...ia-s-prime-minister-fico/Doctors operated on Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico again on Friday, two days after the attempt on his life, government and hospital officials said. The procedure was a "standard step," according to Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak and the head of the hospital in the regional capital Bansk Bystrica, Miriam Lapunikova. Their comments were reported ...Posted 18 hours 48 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/anger-in...ality-as-mental-disorder/The Peruvian government is under fire from LGBTQ+ groups which have called a protest Friday against a new decree listing transsexualism as a "mental disorder."The government on May 10 updated its list of insurable health conditions -- which since 2021 has offered benefits for mental health treatment -- to include services for transgender people.In the ...Posted 23 hours 2 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/controve...eiled-off-french-riviera/A controversial private floating beach anchored off the French Riviera has entered service despite opposition from local politicians and environmental groups, its backers said on Friday."Canua Island", a 1,750 square-metre (18,800 square feet) motorised platform boasting a restaurant, bar lounge and freshwater swimming pool, was inaugurated Thursday night ...Posted 1 day 2 hours ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/paul-mcc...rst-billionaire-musician/Music icon Paul McCartney has become the UK's first billionaire musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List published Friday, despite the country recording its largest fall in the billionaire count in the guide's 36-year history.The 81-year-old's fortune was boosted by "strong touring, a valuable back catalogue and even a little help from Beyonc", who ...Posted 1 day 5 hours ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/coppola-...galopolis-divides-cannes/Hollywood titan Francis Ford Coppola returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday to unveil his enormously hyped, wildly experimental and deeply divisive "Megalopolis".The 85-year-old director's arrival at the world-famous movie festival -- where decades earlier he twice scooped the top prize Palme d'Or -- has been the frenzied talk on cafe terraces in ...Posted 1 day 5 hours ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/costner-...on-cannes-comeback-trail/This year's Cannes Film Festival hosts a trio of heartthrobs from the back end of the 20th century, making their comeback on the red carpet: Demi Moore, Kevin Costner and Richard Gere.From "Ghost" to "Pretty Woman" to "Dances with Wolves", they are responsible for some of Generation X's favorite movie moments.AFP looks at what they've been up to since.- ...Posted 1 day 5 hours ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/brazil-t...n-s-world-cup-2668289049/Brazil will host the 2027 women's World Cup, FIFA announced on Friday in Bangkok. For the first time in FIFA womens World Cup history, the host was decided via a vote between member associations at the FIFA Congress, rather than the FIFA Council. Brazil won the vote ahead of the only rival, a joint bid between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Only 78 ...Posted 1 day 6 hours ago - 05/17/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/aid-to-gaza/The international community's hopes of getting more aid into the Gaza Strip were boosted on Thursday by the completion of a temporary harbor and Israel allowing 365 lorries into the Palestinian territory. The West has pleaded with Israel to avoid another humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza by attacking the southern city of Rafah, which borders Egypt and has ...Posted 1 day 19 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/un-peacekeepers/The Arab League on Thursday called for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. At a summit meeting of the 22-member organization, the group also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and strongly condemned the advance of the Israeli army into the city of Rafah in the south of the coastal region, which is ...Posted 1 day 22 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/turkey-kurds/A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced Selahattin Demirta, a jailed key Kurdish politician, to 42 years in jail over his alleged role in violent protests in 2014, local media reported. Demirta, former co-chair of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has been in pre-trial detention since 2016. He was a challenger to President Recep ...Posted 1 day 22 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/brazil-s...saster-waiting-to-happen/Porto Alegre, the Brazilian metropolis left submerged after torrential rains, had been lulled into a "false sense" of security by a vast but aging system of flood defenses, an urban drainage engineer told AFP.Leomar Teichmann said a network of dikes, levees and a massive wall was meant to protect about 40 percent of the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul ...Posted 2 days 51 minutes ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/100-year...oes-on-display-in-london/A new exhibition opens this week tracing a century of British royal portrait photography, from the official coronation image of King Charles III to an intimate portrait of his late aunt Princess Margaret."Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography" is the first exhibition in the newly reopened King's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, which was previously known ...Posted 2 days 51 minutes ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/england-...tity-teaching-in-schools/Children up to the age of 18 at schools in England will not be taught gender identity under government proposals published Thursday, amid growing concern in the UK and elsewhere about transgender issues.The move follows a landmark review which last month urged "extreme caution" on prescribing hormone treatments for young people grappling with gender ...Posted 2 days 3 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/monet-pa...lion-at-new-york-auction/A Monet sold for nearly $35 million at auction Wednesday evening, Sotheby's said, marking a solid start to New York's spring art sales.Both Sotheby's and rival auction house Christie's launched their spring season Monday. Though the global art market softened last year, strong sales in London and Paris have sparked optimism for 2024.Claude Monet's "Meules a ...Posted 2 days 4 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/guitar-p...rks-criticism-in-ukraine/U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was trying to send a message of defiance and hope when he took to the stage of a Kyiv bar on Tuesday night for a guitar performance of "Rockin' in the Free World".But some Ukrainians have reacted angrily, chastising Washington's top diplomat for an ill-judged jam session in the capital while Ukrainian troops are ...Posted 2 days 5 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/coppola-...inally-arrives-at-cannes/Another masterpiece emerging from chaos, or just a chaotic mess? One of Hollywood's most mythologised directors, Francis Ford Coppola, returns Thursday to the Cannes Film Festival with the almost impossibly hyped "Megalopolis".He has been in this position before, 45 years ago, when the shoot for "Apocalypse Now" turned into now legendary mayhem and looked ...Posted 2 days 5 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/slovakia...ime-minister-robert-fico/Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was critically injured in an assassination attempt on Wednesday, has regained consciousness after an operation lasting several hours, local media reported. However, neither the television station TA3 nor the newspaper Dennik provided any further information on Fico's state of health late on Wednesday night. Earlier ...Posted 2 days 13 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/danish-m...artist-over-missing-cash/A museum in Denmark has settled its dispute with an artist after it was presented with blank canvases despite lending him over 70,000 euros ($76,000) in cash for the works, it said Wednesday.In 2021, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg in western Denmark agreed to lend a large sum of cash to Jens Haaning so that he could recreate one of his old ...Posted 2 days 22 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/meryl-st...-almost-losing-her-oscar/Meryl Streep shared intimate anecdotes from her career at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday, including falling in love when Robert Redford washed her hair and leaving her Oscar in the toilet.A long-standing critic of gender inequalities in Hollywood, she also said why she thinks there were so few good roles for women in the past...'Out of Africa'Streep ...Posted 3 days 33 minutes ago - 05/15/24
- http://www.rawstory.com/prime-minister-of-slovakia/Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has been injured in a shooting and taken to hospital, news agency TASR reported. The shooting took place after a Cabinet meeting in the town of Handlov, the agency reported, citing the deputy leader of Fico's left-wing nationalist Smer party, ubo Blaha. "Utterly shocked by today's brutal and reckless attack on Slovakias ...Posted 3 days 2 hours ago - 05/15/24
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