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Olivia Hussey was 15 and Leonard Whiting 16 when they starred in the Oscar-winning film of William Shakespeare's tragedy from Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures. The film featured a brief bedroom scene in which Whiting's buttocks and Hussey's bare breasts were visible, and the actors -- now both in their 70s -- claimed in a lawsuit filed in December that the movie amounted to sexual exploitation. But a judge Thursday granted Paramount's motion to throw out the suit, rejecting its argument that... Читать дальше...

The nation's highest court ruled in favor of a couple who were stopped by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from building a home near Priest Lake in Idaho because the property abuts federally protected wetlands. The EPA said the Sacketts needed a permit, but the couple's lawyers argued that the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA) applies only to "traditional navigable waters" and they should be allowed to proceed. The court, in a 5-4 vote, said the CWA only concerns wetlands that are connected to larger bodies of water such as oceans... Читать дальше...

Scientists studying the critters have now discovered a startling new consequence of climate change: as temperatures rise, females of the species have been gradually advancing the date they re-emerge, now a full 10 days earlier than a quarter century ago. On the other hand, males are not ending their deep sleep sooner: a fact that could soon spell trouble for "date nights," according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science. Males previously terminated hibernation a month before females... Читать дальше...

A car collided Thursday with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister's home and offices are located, setting off a rapid, intense security response at one of London's most-fortified sites. No one was injured and police said they were not treating the incident as terror-related.

Of those, five to nine could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including one to four major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA said it has 70 percent confidence in these ranges. "With a changing climate, the data and expertise NOAA provides to emergency managers and partners to support decision-making before, during and after a hurricane has never been more crucial," said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad in a statement. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30... Читать дальше...

The aggressive opener, who has just returned from a stint with Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, reportedly has an offer from their affiliated MLC franchise, the Los Angeles Knight Riders. It is understood the 32-year-old has been offered about £300,000 ($370,000) for the first two seasons of the new American Twenty20 competition, which launches in July. Roy was dropped from England's central contract list last year, downgraded to an incremental deal worth between £60,000 and £70,000. Читать дальше...

One of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions, the blast on August 4, 2020 destroyed much of Beirut port and surrounding areas, killing more than 215 people and injuring over 6,500. The explosion wreaked havoc on the Sursock Museum, located less than one kilometre (0.6 miles) from the port, shattering its delicate arched windows and damaging its walls, wooden panelling and 50 of its artworks. "Seventy percent of the Sursock Museum was wrecked," museum director Karina El Helou told AFP. "It's... Читать дальше...

Armed officers arrested the man at the scene on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, shortly after the vehicle "collided with the gates of Downing Street" at around 16:20 pm (1520 GMT), London police said. No injuries were reported. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was reported by British media to have been in the building -- which hosts both his office and residence -- when the incident occurred and left soon after. Video footage showed a silver car driving at low speed across Whitehall... Читать дальше...

The Cannes Film Festival delivered its first honours on Thursday with a historic prize for Malaysia’s “Tiger Stripes” while African movies continued to enjoy the Cannes spotlight with the screening of “Mambar Pierrette”, an intimate portrait of a free-spirited seamstress and single mother in Cameroon. Its director, Rosine Mbakam, sat for an interview with FRANCE 24.

Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian serving time for the kidnap and murder of an Israeli soldier, has cancer, the advocacy group said. "He is now on artificial ventilation and his lungs and kidneys are in great distress," it said in a statement. A spokeswoman for the Israel Prison Service told AFP that Daqqa is currently at Shamir Medical Centre in central Israel. Daqqa identifies as Palestinian although he holds citizenship from Israel, which would consider him Arab-Israeli. Palestinians gathered in... Читать дальше...

Erasmus and Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber both backed 2019 World Cup winning skipper Kolisi to recover from knee ligament surgery in time for the tournament in France in September and October. Kolisi will be given as much time as possible to recover, even if he misses the six Test matches remaining before South Africa’s first World Cup match against Scotland in Marseille on September 10. He had surgery on April 28. South Africa have three matches in the southern hemisphere Rugby Championship... Читать дальше...

Belgian actress Cécile de France is at the Cannes Film Festival to present "Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe", a film by Martin Provost in the Cannes Première selection. She plays Marthe, the companion of the famous painter Pierre Bonnard, who made her his muse. De France spoke to FRANCE 24 about what being a “muse” meant to her.

Like many other European countries, Romania has been hit by several protests -- though on a much smaller scale -- amid annual inflation recently hovering around 10 percent. Romania's teachers in particular have been struggling with a severe cost-of-living crisis as their wages are far lower than the national average. Some 10,000 people gathered in front of the government building in Bucharest before marching towards the Parliament building chanting "dignity", "thieves" and "shame on you". "We're... Читать дальше...

One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda’s genocide, a police officer suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people at a church nearly three decades ago, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a special tribunal set up by the United Nations to find the perpetrators said Thursday.

A hard-line, anti-migrant party on Wednesday threw its weight behind opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this weekend’s runoff presidential race. The backing from the far-right Victory Party came in exchange for Kilicdaroglu promising to expel millions of migrants from the country.

School bags on their backs and notebooks in hand, the children took off their shoes before entering the bus, then sat down along rows of desks fitted inside. A teacher greeted them in the mobile classroom, decorated with curtains bearing children's designs, before they broke into a song for their English class. The February 6 quake killed nearly 6,000 people in Syria, many of them in the war-torn country's rebel-held northwest, and also left tens of thousands dead in Turkey. The Syrian town of Jindayris... Читать дальше...

An AFP correspondent on Wednesday saw builders working and heavy machinery being used at the side on the outskirts of the town of Al-Ghandura, in the Jarabulus area near the Turkish border. "Syrian refugees living in Turkey will settle in the houses... as part of a dignified, voluntary safe return," Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Wednesday at the launch of the project, according to private Turkish news agency IHA. He said that "240,000 houses will be built" in the region, expressing... Читать дальше...

The Olympic body "calls on everybody to take responsibility so that the internal arguments that have affected the CNOSF these past few months cease", the spokesperson said. Henriques' resignation will not affect the organising of the Games which is handled by the Paris Olympics organising committee, headed by France's three-time canoeing gold medallist Tony Estanguet. The sporting world's quadrennial global showpiece gets underway on July 26 next year and runs until August 11. Henriques' dramatic... Читать дальше...

Sports Minister Amelie Oudea Castera on Thursday called on the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF) to rally together after their president Brigitte Henriques quit her post only 14 months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games.Henriques' dramatic resignation at the committee's general assembly comes after a year-and-a-half of internal squabbling and a very public disagreement with her predecessor Denis Masseglia.

State-sponsored Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical US infrastructure networks, the United States, its Western allies and Microsoft said Wednesday while warning that similar espionage attacks could be occurring globally.

Kaili was arrested in Brussels in December by police investigating alleged graft in the European Parliament, before being released to house arrest in April. She denies all charges. A spokesman for federal prosecutors, Eric Van Duyse, said the investigating magistrate had ruled that it was "no longer necessary" to control Kaili's movements as the probe continues. Several more European politicians and parliamentary aides were arrested and charged as part of Belgian investigation, but now all but one have been freed from house arrest. Читать дальше...

The men broke into the house in Betera, a suburb of the eastern city of Valencia, on Wednesday night and attacked the two people who were inside, a spokesman for Spain's Guardia Civil police force said. According to Spanish media reports, his partner and a female friend of hers were the ones beaten by the assailants. The two were "lightly injured" before the intruders made off with "several" valuables whose worth has yet to be determined,the police spokesman added without providing further details. Читать дальше...

The film by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, which premiered at the festival late Wednesday, stars former real-life lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel in the roles of cook and gourmand aristocrat. Their romance slowly unfolds in the background of clanging pans, sizzling veal and poaching fish as complex sauces meld together. "I really wanted to make a very French movie," said Tran at a press conference Thursday at the French Riviera film festival, which draws to a close on Saturday. Читать дальше...

Secular candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu alarmed his leftist Kurdish supporters by starting to court staunchly nationalist voters after losing to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the first round on May 14. Kilicdaroglu put together the opposition's best performance of Erdogan's two-decade era in what is widely seen as Turkey's most consequential election of its post-Ottoman era. But the 74-year-old still enters Turkey's first runoff vote Sunday trailing the conservative incumbent by nearly five points. Читать дальше...

Ron DeSantis ’ entry into the 2024 White House race against former President Donald Trump sets up a clash of the Republican Party’s two leading figures as the Florida governor attempts to topple a man who has dominated the GOP for the last seven years. Trump, who has established himself as the clear front-runner for the Republican nomination, has spent the months since he launched his own campaign working to hobble the once-ascendant DeSantis, whom he and his team have long viewed as his most serious challenger. Читать дальше...