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Cannes Critics’ Week Winners: ‘La Gradiva’ Scoops Grand Prize

20 May 2026 at 18:00
French director Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has scooped the top Ami Paris Grand Prize in the competition of Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week. The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. Emotions and […]

United States designates two Brazilian criminal gangs as terrorist organizations

29 May 2026 at 10:37

The United States will add two of Brazil’s most powerful organized crime gangs, Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations effective June 5, the State Department announced. In addition, Washington has designated both groups as Specially Designated Global Terrorists as of this Thursday, adding them to a list that includes Al Qaeda, Islamic State, and Hezbollah.

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Police operation against Comando Vermelho in Rio de Janeiro, October 2025.

The Global South takes center stage in the art world: Could its cultural hegemony reshape geopolitics?

24 May 2026 at 04:00

A line circles the globe at roughly 30 degrees north of Mexico: it dips, rises and wavers, dividing the world along economic lines. In Asia, it climbs and then drops to exclude Japan, Australia, and New Zealand from the “South.” This world map, split by what became known as the Brandt Line, appeared in the 1980 UNESCO report North–South: A Programme for Survival, coordinated by then–German chancellor Willy Brandt. The line blurred the familiar Cold War geography — even softening the contours of the Non‑Aligned Movement, born at the 1961 Belgrade summit and led by Yugoslavia, India, Egypt, Indonesia, and Ghana as a way to distance themselves from both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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'Sirena simbi', by Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu, at the 61st Venice Biennale, on May 7.
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