By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray CANNES (Reuters) -The provocatively titled film “How to Have Sex,” about three British teen girls who go on holiday with the aim of drinking, clubbing and hooking up, won the top prize in the “Un Certain Regard” competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. However, there was a …
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By Hanna Rantala CANNES (Reuters) – Ken Loach said on Friday he does not know if “The Old Oak,” the 86-year-old British director’s attempt to win the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize for a third time, would be his last. “Oh, I don’t know, I live day by day,” said Loach, who turns 87 in …
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(Reuters) – Canadian pop singer Celine Dion announced on Friday that she was canceling the European stretch of her world tour, scheduled to resume this summer, due to a medical condition that makes it difficult for her to perform. The announcement comes four months after the 55-year-old Quebecoise singer said she was diagnosed with a …
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By Marine Strauss and Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS/DUBAI (Reuters) -A Belgian aid worker arrived back in Belgium on Friday night from Iran, where he had been accused of spying and jailed until being freed in a prisoner swap with an Iranian diplomat who had been imprisoned in Belgium in connection with a failed bomb plot. …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Twitter cannot run away from its obligations even after quitting a voluntary EU code of practice to tackle disinformation, EU industry chief Thierry Breton warned the company late on Friday. Companies which signed up to the code are required to provide regular progress reports with data on how …
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ROME (Reuters) -Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, a spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said on Friday, two days after charity groups lost contact with the boat carrying them. “Libya is an unsafe port where migrants should never be brought back,” Flavio Di Giacomo, …
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LIMA (Reuters) – – Dozens of packages of cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas as well as the name “Hitler” were seized at a port in northern Peru, from where would have been shipped to Belgium, police said on Friday. Police said it was investigating whether there were links to Nazi groups, saying there were no …
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By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) – The European Union will send a special human rights envoy to Cuba this year to discuss the aftermath of anti-government protests in July 2021, but the EU’s top diplomat said it will not “impose” demands on the Communist-run Caribbean nation. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, on a visit …
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By Rachael Levy, Marisa Taylor and Akriti Sharma (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s Neuralink received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone for the brain-implant startup as it faces U.S. probes over its handling of animal experiments. The FDA approval “represents an important first step that will one day …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A former public relations firm for Twitter sued the social media company on Friday, saying it has not paid its bills since Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout. Joele Frank said Twitter owes $830,498, comprising six unpaid invoices, plus costs for a subpoena in Twitter’s lawsuit to force Musk to complete …
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