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Brazilian politician Flavio Bolsonaro left his country on Tuesday for the United States, US media reported, after he refused to accept defeat in the presidential runoff election held over the weekend. Bolsonaro, who faces multiple legal challenges, had his passports cancelled but had not surrendered the documents as of Tuesday afternoon. The New York Times,

EXCLUSIVE: The Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski has boarded writer-director Molly Ratermann’s murder-bachelorette comedy Making A Bridesmaid as executive producer, with her production company, Anarchists United, also joining the completed feature. Wachowski’s involvement brings her genre expertise to a film that is said to playfully subvert horror and comed

EXCLUSIVE: In its further commitment to original franchise IP, Disney Live Action has acquired the rights to Rebecca Ross’ fantasy romance, Divine Rivals. Paramount previously won rights to the novel back in June 2025 after a bidding war with To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before scribe Sofia Alvarez adapting. The project was in development […]

EXCLUSIVE: A24’s fantasy video game adaptation Elden Ring is heading to the American Film Market where it’ll be the biggest-budget standalone project ever on sale at a film or TV market. We hear from sources the budget is being pegged between $175M-$200M, but closer to the latter, which takes the project beyond previous tentpoles that […]

The Iran war and Trump's criticisms of allies have led Asia-Pacific countries to recalibrate their calculations.

President Trump is campaigning for Texas gubernatorial candidate Ken Paxton. CBS News' Ed O'Keefe has more analysis.

King Charles heads to the Caribbean this week on a tour which comes against the backdrop of increasingly vocal demands from the region that Britain pays reparations for its role in the slave trade.

Netanyahu seeks to extend rule at helm of far right alliance facing off against predominantly right-wing bloc.

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said his ministry had yet to confirm if the Chinese defense chief would even attend the summit.

Polls have opened across Israel on Tuesday in one of the most momentous elections in its history as voters deliver their verdict on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's wartime leadership. Mr Netanyahu is seeking re-election after a four-year term defined by the catastrophic security failure of the attacks on October 7, 2023, Israel's destructive war on Gaza

Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be meeting the leaders of Singapore, Japan and South Korea as Germany seeks to adjust its foreign policy to rising uncertainty and threats to global supply chains.

Minister to reiterate Ireland’s ‘commitment to ensuring accountability and justice’ over killing of peacekeeper in country almost four years ago

Bulgarians will now choose between President Iliana Yotova and former caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov next week.

In a surprisingly strong performance, the candidate of the pro-Western reformist opposition, Andrey Gyurov, will face the incumbent leftist president, Iliana Yotova, setting clear lines of division regarding the country's future relationships with other nations.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers, heavy at times, in Bengaluru over the next 24 hours

“Forza,” Marco Balsamo’s soccer drama shot between Bali and Milan, has been picked up for international sales by EST N8, which will take the film to the Tokyo International Film Festival’s TIFFCOM market (Oct. 28–30). Before that, it gets its first public screening on Oct. 25 at Jakarta Film Week. Balsamo’s first feature as director […]

<p>Super typhoon weakening but large parts of Taiwan, including Taipei, still mostly closed and flights cancelled</p><p>Typhoon Champi swept past Taiwan on Saturday killing one person, injuring more than 500, and uprooting trees and severing power as it weakened and ⁠headed north toward ⁠the ​Chinese coast.</p><p>Earlier classified as a super typhoon and one

A Malta-flagged tanker carrying 40,000 metric tonnes of Russian ⁠diesel is heading towards New York following an agreement with US President Donald Trump , LSEG data showed on Friday. Mr Trump has made several moves to try to ⁠bring down diesel prices ahead of the November 3 midterm elections ​, including waiving ⁠parts of a new ‌sanctions law against Russia

EXCLUSIVE: Bleiberg Entertainment has acquired international rights to historical crime thriller The Hit on Hitler: Mobsters vs. Nazis, starring Michael Douglas’ son Dylan Douglas in his feature debut. Currently in post-production, the film will be presented to international distributors at the upcoming American Film Market in Lost Angeles in November. Based

A tanker loaded with diesel fuel set sail Friday from Russia for the United States, the first shipment since President Donald Trump agreed to a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to release more fuel into the global market.

Jensen Huang's first Kazakhstan visit highlights the country's growing AI ambitions and global business appeal.

A leaderless movement of student-backed candidates is the biggest threat former President Aleksandar Vucic has faced ahead of elections this weekend.

Russia launched deadly overnight strikes on Ukraine Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of using missiles with cluster warheads in the attack. CBS News' Aidan Stretch has more.

Russia launched the strikes on Ukraine less than a day after negotiations to end the war, which also involved the United States, ended in St. Petersburg.

AGC International, the sales and distribution arm of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, is adding Gods Don’t Give Gifts to its distribution slate and will introduce the feature length AI-generated sci-fi epic to buyers at the American Film Market. The feature debut from creator and YouTuber Zack London (aka Gossip Goblin) has been lined up as […]

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby campaigns in Vancouver and Richmond Thursday after wrapping his swing through the vote-rich city of Surrey with a rally.

Russian missiles bombard Kyiv hours after Witkoff-Putin talks in St Petersburg

The race between the sister of late Senator Lindsey Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews has tightened in deep-red state.

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is travelling to Turkey on Wednesday for a three-day trip that experts say should show how his approach to international diplomacy differs from that of the previous Liberal government.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says there will be high wind speeds of up to 216 kilometers per hour, as the super typhoon tracks toward Japan.

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