Louis Vuitton valiantly battled pounding rain on an Italian island paradise while presenting its cruise collection Wednesday night, the weather sending celebrity guests underneath umbrellas and dampening a hairdo or two.. On Wednesday celebrities and influencers from around the world -- including US actress Jennifer Connelly and Felix from K-Pop's Stray Kids -- descended on the island.
Negotiations on a global treaty to combat plastic pollution will resume Monday, with nations under pressure to stem the tide of trash amid calls from campaigners to limit industry influence on the talks.. The treaty is a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to solve the plastics crisis", said Louise Edge, Global Plastics Campaigner for Greenpeace UK, in an open letter this week raising concerns about industry influence in the negotiations.
When Turks head to the polls on Sunday to decide a historic presidential election, the Kremlin will be hoping they give long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan a convincing victory, observers say.. "There are many contradictions in their interests," Fyodor Lukyanov, a foreign policy expert close to the Kremlin, told AFP. "But the personal, long-standing relationship between the two leaders helps a lot," he said.
From the scorching summer heat to war profiteers and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Sudanese fleeing battles at home have encountered many obstacles -- but also help from strangers -- on the long road to safety in Egypt.. Many of the Sudanese refugees AFP spoke to believe it would take a long time, perhaps decades, before they can return home.
Brazil's congress could strip the ministries of environment and Indigenous peoples of key functions, their heads warned Wednesday.. The initiative to create a Ministry of Indigenous Peoples was welcomed by environmentalists, who consider Indigenous reserves an important tool against deforestation and climate change.
State-sponsored Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical US infrastructure networks, the United States, its Western allies and Microsoft said Wednesday while warning that similar espionage attacks could be occurring globally.. They said a "state-sponsored cyber actor" from China was behind Volt Typhoon and that the hacking was likely occurring globally.
One cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the village mosque just hours after she was born.. In rebel-held Idlib province, social workers at the main centre for abandoned children tended to tiny babies wrapped tightly in blankets in basic cradles, some spruced up with purple paint or ribbons.
Citing safety concerns, El Salvador's football authorities announced Wednesday they were canceling the country's Clausura national tournament following a stampede at a game over the weekend that killed 12.. In addition to the 12 killed, about 500 people were treated for various injuries at the scene, while 88 were hospitalized.
Ratings agency Fitch put the United States on notice Wednesday that its perfect credit rating could be jeopardized if the White House and Republican opposition fail to overcome their impasse on raising the nation's borrowing limit, a week before a key deadline.. Fitch placed the country's AAA-ranked credit on "rating watch negative" -- a move it said "reflects increased political partisanship that is hindering reaching a resolution to raise or suspend the debt limit" before June 1.
Shortly after news of Tina Turner's death on Wednesday, candles and flowers began piling up outside the estate in Switzerland the rock legend had called home for decades. . "With Tina Turner's death, the world has lost an icon," Switzerland's President Alain Berset tweeted.
