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Pro-euthanasia film wins top prize in Venice

Spain's Pedro Almodovar won Venice's Golden Lion award Saturday for his pro-euthanasia film "The Room Next Door", with the acting prizes going to Nicole Kidman and Frenchman Vincent Lindon. The female friendship end-of-life film starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore was Almodovar's first English-language feature-length film. In the film -- which like many of Almodovar's hinges on strong female characters -- Swinton plays a war correspondent suffering from terminal cancer. She...

In Papua New Guinea, Pope holds mass ‘at the edge of the world’

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Pro-euthanasia film wins top prize in Venice

Spain's Pedro Almodovar won Venice's Golden Lion award Saturday for his pro-euthanasia film "The Room Next Door", with the acting prizes going to Nicole Kidman and Frenchman Vincent Lindon. The female friendship end-of-life film starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore was Almodovar's first English-language feature-length film. In the film -- which like many of Almodovar's hinges on strong female characters -- Swinton plays a war correspondent suffering from terminal cancer. She...

In Papua New Guinea, Pope holds mass ‘at the edge of the world’

Pope Francis held an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Papua...

Brazil’s right rallies against ‘censorship’ amid X suspension

Urged on by beleaguered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, tens of thousands of demonstrators...

Trump sentence delayed

Sentencing for Donald Trump in his New York hush money trial was...

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