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CANNES, France, May 20 (Reuters) - The Ukraine crisis grabbed the spotlight in Cannes on Friday as a semi-naked protester painted in blue and yellow was ejected from the red carpet. The unidentified woman ripped off her gown revealing the Ukrainian flag colours, with the words "STOP RAPING US" emblazoned...

Prosecutors say Christian Secor espoused far-right views online and once called fascism "epic" on Twitter.

Days after experiencing a "permanent ban" on TikTok, pro-choice activist group Ruth Sent Us was back on the platform advocating for demonstrations in front of Supreme Court justices' homes. "They simply restored the account with no notice or explanation, and we found out from followers who noticed and messaged the...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is now nearly into its fourth month. It is worth remembering that many people, including perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not expect it to last this long. But instead of swiftly taking the capital Kyiv, Russia faced strong resistance and last month switched focus to...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in Nicaragua began an “indefinite fast” Friday inside a church to protest increasing harassment from national police, who he said followed him throughout the entire previous day. Rolando Álvarez, the bishop of Matagalpa and a fierce critic of President...

The U.S. House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday asked Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia to appear before the committee to answer questions about a tour of the Capitol that Loudermilk gave the day before the assault. But Loudermilk and the top Republican on the House Administration […] The post Jan. 6 investigators want Georgia’s Loudermilk to explain pre-attack U.S. Capitol tour appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Dozens of anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police in Zurich on Friday ahead of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in the Alpine resort of Davos starting on Sunday. The unauthorised “Smash WEF” demonstration is a regular occurrence in Switzerland’s financial hub before the world’s business...

And you can even get the t-shirt. It is not every day that Russia's team of TV patriots and propagandists attacks something native, but Yekaterinburg has gotten under their skin. While the anti-war movement in Russia is underwhelming from a visual perspective to the Western world for which demonstrations mean...

A nude protester interrupted a red carpet premiere at the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival on Friday. During the rollout of Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton's new movie Three Thousand Years of Longing from director George Miller, a woman reportedly ran onto the red carpet in front of the cameras and took off her clothes. Her chest was painted with the blue and yellow of the Ukraine flag with the words "Stop Raping Us." She also had blood-red paint in the shape of handprints around her underwear.

If you drive eight hours north of Moscow, you'll come to a tiny little town called Russko-Vysotskoye. There is not a great deal to see here, apart from the chicken farm and the church that was reduced to rubble in World War Two. But there is one thing in this...

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot asked GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia about a tour he led of the complex a day before it was overrun by a mob of Trump supporters. On the heels of the riot, members of Congress had urged law-enforcement officials...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSL.com) — Court records show that Utah Jazz legend John Stockton sent a letter of support on behalf of a Kaysville woman who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Stockton submitted the letter to Washington, D.C.’s federal court on...

Security personnel have removed a woman from the Cannes red carpet ahead of the premiere of director George Miller’s new film Three Thousand Years of Longing.The protestor was wearing body paint that read “Stop raping us” against a backdrop of yellow and blue – the colors of the Ukrainian flag. She also had the word “Scum” written across her back. It’s reported that she crashed the red carpet of the French film festival clothed earlier today (20 May), then undressed to her underwear and began screaming, until security personnel arrived to remove her.According to a Twitter post from a French...

Real life intruded at the film festival.

A women stripped off her clothes after crashing the Cannes red carpet, but before you joke, “Well, yeah, Idris Elba was there,” she did it for a very serious cause. According to reports, the activist was seeking to support Ukraine and shine a spotlight on alleged war crimes being committed against women by Russian forces. However, she didn’t make it far, as security guards quickly removed her from the red carpet where Elba and co-star Tilda Swinton were premiering their new film, Three Thousand Years of Longing.

A 24-year-old man has been jailed for his part in a protest that turned violent outside a police station. Callum Davies, of Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire, pleaded not guilty to violent disorder but became the 20th person to be convicted. Bristol Crown Court heard he used a road barrier to threaten...