Palestinian honour guards carry the coffin of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah
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The Cannes Film Festival has a strong stomach.
STORY: Leader of the opposition United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at a ceremony at the president's house on Thursday (May 12). He replaces the president's brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who resigned amid street protests in the main city Colombo and beyond which became more deadly this week.“People say he can do something,” said a newspaper vendor Malik Thushara. “However, in my political opinion, Ranil Wickremesinghe is not a likeable person.”"He is promising that we will have all three meals daily. He is a big liar, we have already been fooled before. We will not get fooled again”. said businessman Priyasami Samsundaram. Wickremesinghe now also faces the challenge of uniting a fractured parliament to tackle soaring inflation and dwindling foreign reserves that have left fuel and some medicines in short supply.
There are serious veterans and huge household names at this year's Cannes Film Festival, from Tom Cruise to Baz Luhrmann to David Cronenberg.
STORY: Most residents were more calm on Friday after rushing to supermarkets to stock up on food and other supplies the previous evening."I did stock up food a while ago, but I didn't yesterday. I think in Beijing there is no need to worry too much. It's a first-tier city, there shouldn’t be a shortage of supplies,” said a 48-year-old Beijing resident and media professional, Zhang.
STORY: Hundreds have been forced to evacuate from their homes in California due to rapid-moving wildfires that have engulfed an enclave of multi-million-dollar mansions in southern Los Angeles.Residents of around 900 houses were under evacuation on the state’s coast on Wednesday when the fires swept through Orange County officials have said one firefighter was injured when flames torched around 200 acres in Laguna Niguel on Wednesday. On Thursday, resident Sassan Darian described a fast and devastating fire:“The heat started getting on us and it was really… the wind got worse and the fire sparks started jumping, and you can see it got really, really close, really, really quick. And when we got out here, the fire trucks were already here and everything and they had already called the evacuation order from the helicopter.” Fire Captain Joseph Amador’s teams says it was an overnight struggle to contain the blaze:“We arrived this morning to relieve very tired crews that were battling all these structures here behind me that were heavily damaged. We're here today to protect the ones that are still standing and also to put out the remaining fires of the ones that are still either salvageable or to make sure that they're no longer a threat. So, we have a heavy, busy day in front of us also, but we're going to do our very best to protect the rest of the community.” Another resident of Laguna Niguel – Darlene Disebrucker – was forced to evacuate her home and spend the night in a shelter: "So, this is devastating to people who do live here. (People are) shocked that it's a more affluent neighborhood, but people have lost their homes. It doesn't matter where you live then, it's your home. And the thought of losing your home is a very scary thing. " Officials have said California is enduring an historic drought… experts also say a lack of winter moisture - combined with warmer temperatures, is causing vegetation to dry out earlier each spring… making it more susceptible to fire. U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered federal aid for fire recovery efforts.
STORY: Congressional leaders held a moment of silence outside the Capitol building on Thursday, commemorating one million COVID-19 deaths in the United States.The event was led by House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was joined by Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde.On Wednesday, the United States reached more than one million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday life.The loss represents about one death for every 327 Americans, or more than the entire population of San Francisco or Seattle.Most of those deaths, some 600,000, happened after President Joe Biden took office in January 2021 at the peak of a major wave of the disease.The precise toll of the pandemic may never be truly known. Some people who died while infected were never tested and are not represented in the data.Others, while having COVID-19, may have died for another reason such as a cancer, but were still counted.
STORY: Rescue workers - identified on their uniforms as from the Emergencies Ministry of the Russia-backed self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic - could be seen using a hydraulic platform to check a severely-damaged apartment block.Mariupol has seen some of the worst fighting in what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine, with much of the city in ruins after weeks of shelling.Explosions were still audible on Thursday at the nearby Azovstal steelworks.Relatives and supporters of Ukrainian fighters in the steel plant on Thursday called for fresh efforts to save them as Kyiv said new talks were underway with Moscow on a plan to rescue badly wounded servicemen.Russian forces have been bombarding Azovstal, the last bastion of Ukrainian defenders in a city almost completely controlled by Russia after more than two months of a siege.Civilians had been trapped at the plant and Kyiv says they have all been evacuated. But there is no deal on allowing out hundreds of fighters, some of whom are wounded.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses the European Union of ambitions beyond the European continent, arguing it has become aggressive and that it has become "NATO's appendage".
Musk cited a metric that spam accounts represent less than 5% of Twitter users in announcing a pause, then said he still hopes to complete the deal.
Sri Lanka's new prime minister was struggling Friday to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse after a senior opposition figure refused to helm the finance ministry.
Vehicles are damaged and security officials stand on the scene in the Pakistani city of Karachi, after one person was killed and 12 injured in a bomb blast.
Thousands of pilgrims gather in the Portuguese city of Fatima to celebrate the apparition of the Virgin Mary and to ask for peace in the world, marking the first pilgrimage without Covid-19 restrictions in the city.
The roads and pavements in Queensland are flooded from torrential rain as the eastern Australian state experiences its sixth major flood since December.
STORY: Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy and four other lawmakers are being summoned to cooperate in an investigation of the deadly January 2021 attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters. The Republicans were subpoenaed on Thursday by the House Select committee conducting the probe. It marks an escalation between the two sides, after the five men had rejected voluntary cooperation with the investigation. Along with McCarthy, the others are Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs. All five on Thursday said they believed the committee's probe is partisan and illegitimate, but did not directly answer questions about whether they would comply with the subpoenas. The attack on Jan. 6, 2021 saw Trump supporters storm the Capitol building to protest Democrat Joe Biden's victory over him in the November 2020 election. The committee is trying to establish what then-President Trump did while thousands of his supporters attacked police, vandalized the Capitol and sent members of Congress and then-Vice President Mike Pence running for their lives. It believes the five subpoenaed Republicans have information about events leading up to the attack. That’s according to a press release by Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat and the Select Committee chairman. McCarthy has publicly zigzagged on Trump's responsibility in the attack and faced criticism even from some fellow conservatives. He had said in a statement in January that he would not cooperate with the committee’s probe.
Southeast Asian teams continue to be the only region with all their teams in the top four, while Evil Geniuses might be the team that get eliminated before the playoffs.
MUMBAI (Reuters) -India's Life Insurance Corp (LIC) has priced its initial public offering at the top of the indicated range, at 949 rupees ($12.28), a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The state-owned insurance behemoth is likely to be listed on stock exchanges on May 17. LIC did not immediately respond to an email request seeking comment.
Singapore will likely see a Cabinet reshuffle in early June, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Abortion rights activist rally at the Washington Monument before a march to the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on May 14, 2022
Oleksandr Smagliuk, left, helps to bury his relative Mykhailo Romaniuk, who was shot dead while riding a bicycle in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha in March