Новости за 21.02.2024

An attorney for Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s widow, who was indicted in his assassination, says he believes the accusations against her are politically motivated

U.K. lawmakers have called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war

From the earliest days of the Israel-Hamas war, the United States and much of the international community have pressed Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip

Thousands have rallied in dozens of cities and towns across Slovakia to mark the sixth anniversary of the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee amid a wave of anti-government protests

Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government

An online dump of Chinese hacking documents reveals how Beijing watches both Chinese and foreigners

The orchid show at the New York Botanical Garden this year is a whimsical mix of fashion and flower creations

An anti-fur protester crashed the Fendi runway show Wednesday during the first day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly womenswear previews for fall-winter 2024-25. A PETA activist jumped into the models’ finale holding up a sign that read “Animals are not clothing,” before being whisked away by security. The animal rights group is pressuring Fendi to join other global fashion brands that have agreed to use synthetic alternatives to real fur. Fendi was born nearly a century ago as a fur and leather shop in Rome... Читать дальше...

Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star as Jamie and Marian, best friends and total opposites who are looking to escape their surroundings for a bit in this queer road trip caper directed and co-written by Ethan Coen

One of the first women who accused a once-exalted Jesuit artist of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse has gone public

A liberal Russian politician has lost another appeal against election officials’ decision to bar him from running in next month’s vote in which President Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win another six-year term

Officials say an illegally operated open-pit gold mine has collapsed in central Venezuela while dozens of people were working there, leaving an undetermined number of people dead or trapped

Denis Villeneuve's “Dune: Part II” is almost as intoxicating as “Part One.”

European diplomats in Belarus have condemned the trial of a Catholic activist in Minsk as “unfair” and “politically motivated.”

Two people are dead and another is missing on Mexico's Pico de Orizaba, the highest mountain in the country

The financially struggling Metropolitan Opera will present 18 productions in 2024-25, matching the current season and pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortened 1980-81

Love can blossom in the strangest of places, even in a post-apocalyptic world where your life is threatened by zombies all day, every day

A new entry in the “Avatar” franchise is about to soar and James Cameron has no part in it

The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says it has found evidence of “systematic and intentional” rape and sexual abuse during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that ignited the war in Gaza

Futuristic London landmark the BT Tower is to become a hotel

Emergency services in the Netherlands say two people have died and two others are injured after part of a bridge being built over a canal collapsed

Investigators in Mexico have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies

The new book from bestselling author Alice Paul Tapper, daughter of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, was inspired by a near-fatal health emergency

Foreign ministers of the Group of 20 nations are gathering in Rio de Janeiro to discuss poverty, climate change and heightened global tensions as Brazil takes on the annual presidency of the bloc

Lithuania has decided to seal off another two of its six checkpoints with Belarus amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia