On a set outside Tokyo, Momoko Nishiyama sits with the drama's director and watches as a man undresses a woman, guiding the love scene as one of just two "intimacy coordinators" in Japan.. The directors back the use of intimacy coordinators, though Nishikawa cautions that won't be enough to end abuse off-set.
A darker-than-usual parade dedicated to an infamous outlaw-hero from Brazil's impoverished northeast, bastion of newly inaugurated President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won the championship of Rio de Janeiro's colorful, cutthroat carnival parade competition Wednesday.. First Lady Rosangela "Janja" da Silva served as the school's "godmother," supporting its social projects in the city's impoverished favelas.
Vladimir Zyablitsky travelled to Moscow from his home in a distant Siberian region just to attend a state-organised patriotic concert, two days before the first anniversary of Russia's offensive in Ukraine.. Ukraine has accused Russia of kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian children from the territories it controls, something Moscow has denied, insisting it organised legal adoptions.
Watching an emergency crew recover his parents' bodies from the landslide-obliterated spot in southeastern Brazil where their house used to be, Marcio managed to get just a few words out before breaking down in sobs.. Sniffer dogs were looking for bodies atop a bare spot where residents said about 10 houses used to stand.
Ukraine’s first lady called Wednesday for justice for her country, as the UN General Assembly prepared to meet to weigh a resolution calling for a "just and lasting peace" that Kyiv hopes will show the global community in its support.. The UN General Assembly meets Wednesday afternoon in New York to debate a draft resolution, sponsored by some 60 countries, calling for a just peace in Ukraine.
Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska urged the United Nations Wednesday to establish a special tribunal to try Russia for crimes of aggression to ensure Moscow's invasion "never will be repeated" anywhere.. "That's why we call on the United Nations to establish a special tribunal for the crimes of Russian aggression," she said.
Animal lovers in a Turkish city ravaged by a deadly earthquake protested Wednesday after officials sought to demolish a damaged building thought to contain several animals, AFP correspondents saw.. The authorities will attempt to lure out the remaining animals overnight, but the demolition operation will resume on Thursday, a police source told AFP. More than 100 people who had lived in the building died following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that shook swathes of southern Turkey and northern Syria.
At least 48 people were killed in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in southeastern Brazil, authorities said Wednesday, updating the death toll as the search for dozens of missing entered the fourth day.. The number of missing stands at 38, which may change," said Sao Paulo state Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, updating the previous death toll of 46.
Georgia's jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday accused state-appointed doctors of refusing to treat him and being part of an alleged conspiracy to "kill" him.. In a statement posted on Facebook, Saakashvili said that state-appointed doctors had "refused to treat my underlying conditions" including "the poisoning by heavy metals" and anorexia.
The head of the Wagner mercenary outfit on Wednesday urged Russians to pressure the country's regular army into sharing ammunition with his fighters in Ukraine in a major challenge to the Kremlin.. Before the start of the Ukraine assault, Prigozhin and the regular army already butted heads in Syria where the Kremlin supports the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
