18+ hour, 2+ min ago   (669+ words) The Venice Film Festival awarded its top prize on Saturday to a Danish-made drama about a woman trying to hide a wartime relationship with a Nazi -- the only feature film with a female director in the competition. "Woman Unknown" had…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (951+ words) Tensions escalated late Friday when Canada walked away from negotiations after Carney concluded the United States was demanding too much in exchange for tariff relief. The U.S. imposed 50% duties Saturday on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, and Carney announced dollar-for-dollar…...

13+ hour, 15+ min ago   (129+ words) The nation's search and rescue team said it lost contact with the Virgo Transport 8 in the early hours of Sunday morning. A search and rescue operation has been launched after contact was lost with an Indonesian passenger ferry carrying 243 people,…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (33+ words) Condoleezza Rice, who served as the United States Secretary of State to President George W. Bush during the Sept. 11 attacks, speaks at the 25th anniversary memorial at the Pentagon and recounts the “......

13+ hour, 15+ min ago   (754+ words) Isolated, under-developed Laos brands itself the "Battery of Southeast Asia", powering its neighbours with dozens of hydroelectric plants, but frequent power outages leave its own people in the dark. Exports of electricity to neighbouring countries including Thailand and Vietnam are…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (376+ words) A Hong Kong court on Friday sentenced three activists who helped organize an annual vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing to several years in prison. Lee Cheuk-yan was sentenced to seven years in prison, while Chow Hang-tung received…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (210+ words) A group of men and children gathered Friday at a vantage point overlooking their village in southern Lebanon, watching from a distance as Israeli drones descended, carrying boxes laden with explosives......

12+ hour, 41+ min ago   (72+ words) Police in Wisconsin are calling on drivers to slow down and stay focused after they released dashcam footage showing a driver failing to stop for a school crossing guard that was holding up a stop sig... Police in Wisconsin are…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (848+ words) Prices have risen due to fuel shortfalls and attacks on infrastructure that have slowed production in the Middle East of the lightweight, silverish metal used in everything from kitchen foil and power lines to smartphones and cars. In working to…...

17+ hour, 1+ min ago   (169+ words) Russian strikes killed eight civilians and wounded dozens of other people in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukr......