Tierra Adentro by Mauro Colombo won early this week the Yellow Robin award at the 8th edition of Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam (CIFFR), while the Caribbean Shorts award went to The Girl with Two Heads by Betzabé García.
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After a lengthy debate on Tuesday, Egypt's parliament — the House of Representatives — voted 531 to 22, with one abstention in favour of proposed amendments to Egypt's 2014 constitution.
A public referendum is expected next week. If the amendments (...)
After a lengthy debate on Tuesday, Egypt's parliament — the House of Representatives — voted 531 to 22, with one abstention in favour of proposed amendments to Egypt's 2014 constitution.
A public referendum is expected next week. If the amendments (...)
The world and its ideas are changing faster than anyone could ever have imagined. From the Cold War we plunged straight into the age of globalisation.
As much as the latter disseminated, it did not prevent the tides of this decade: the reassertion (...)
Washington DC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, Gita Gopinath, said, “One year ago, economic activity was accelerating in almost all regions of the world and the global economy was (...)
An international scientific team on Wednesday announced a milestone in astrophysics - the first-ever photo of a black hole - using a global network of telescopes to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no matter or (...)
قال عصام زكريا رئيس مهرجان الإسماعيلية للأفلام التسجيلية والقصيرة إن مسابقة الأفلام الروائية القصيرة تضم عدد من الأفلام المميزة ومنها:
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مكالمة هاتفية بين قوقازي هرم وحبيبته الفيليبينية (...)
Victoria Azarenka used her superior serving and punishing groundstrokes to upset top seed Angelique Kerber 6-4 4-6 6-1 and advance to Sunday's final of the Monterrey Open against Garbine Muguruza.
In a battle of former world number ones the momentum (...)
President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to put tariffs on cars coming from Mexico into the United States if Mexico does not continue to help Washington deal with the immigration and drug situation along the southern U.S. border.
Trump told (...)
The world and its ideas are changing faster than anyone could ever have imagined. From the Cold War we plunged straight into the age of globalisation. As much as the latter disseminated, it did not prevent the tides of this decade: the reassertion (...)
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) estimated in a report that the portfolio inflows to emerging markets (EM) reached $25.1bn in March.
The report explained that EMs' stocks and bonds attracted positive but relatively modest, non-resident (...)
The Trump administration will speed up the deployment of hundreds of officers on the southern border of the United States and will dramatically expand a policy of returning migrants seeking asylum to Mexico, Department of Homeland Security Secretary (...)
The U.S. House of Representatives failed on Tuesday to override President Donald Trump's first veto, leaving in place the national emergency he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded.
Democrats who (...)
A joint bid by Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile is favourite to win the right to host the 2030 World Cup, the president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Wednesday.
The original 2030 bid was by Argentina and (...)
Former Spain midfielder Xavi Hernandez says FIFA should abandon a proposal to increase the number of teams at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to 48 from 32.
The World Cup will feature 48 teams for the 2026 edition, to be co-hosted by the United States, (...)
دعا الرئيس الأمريكى دونالد ترامب كبرى شركات السيارات إلى العمل بقوة داخل الولايات المتحدة والابتعاد عن الأسواق الأجنبية من أجل توفير المزيد من فرص العمل فى الداخل.
وفى سلسلة من التغريدات له قبل قليل على موقع التواصل الاجتماعى تويتر، قال الرئيس (...)
President Donald Trump played down any threat posed by racist white nationalism after the gunman accused of the New Zealand mosque massacre called the president "a symbol of renewed white identity.''
Trump, whose own previous responses to the (...)
Substitute striker Javier Hernandez scored a late brace including a stoppage-time winner to help West Ham United beat Huddersfield Town 4-3 in a roller-coaster Premier League clash on Saturday.
The Mexico international, whose diving header had made (...)
President Donald Trump on Friday will veto a congressional measure to end his emergency declaration to get funds to build a wall at the U.S. border with Mexico, a White House spokesman said.
Trump will be flanked by border officials and people who (...)
The Republican-run Senate rejected President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border on Thursday, setting up a veto fight and dealing him a conspicuous rebuke as he tested how boldly he could ignore Congress in (...)
As Special Counsellor Robert Mueller is reportedly close to concluding his report on possible collusion between US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and Russia to give him an edge over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, White House (...)
The United States is expanding its program to send asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait out their U.S. court proceedings and so far has returned 240 people since starting the program in January, U.S. officials told reporters on Tuesday.
The (...)
A growing number of airlines around the world have grounded their Boeing 737 Max 8 jets following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people on Sunday, five months after a similar Indonesian Lion Air jet plunged into the ocean, (...)
شارك الالاف من المتظاهرين في مسيرات احتجاجية ضد حكومة الرئيس المكسيكى أندريس مانويل لوبيز أوبرادور خلال الأيام ال 100 الأولى من رئاسته على طول الشوارع في مكسيكو سيتي.
وبحسب ما نشرته وكالة رويترز للانباء يظهر المتظاهرون فى مسيرات تجوب شوارع العاصمة (...)
US President Donald Trump on Monday asked Congress in his fiscal 2020 budget to slash spending for foreign aid while increasing spending on the military and for the wall he wants to build on the U.S.-Mexico border, a senior administration official (...)
