As the Cannes film festival hands out its prizes, AFP looks back at some of the highlights of a politically charged fortnight of screenings and celebrity sightings.

Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident”, an indictment of corruption and tyranny in the dissident Iranian ...

The race for the Palme d’Or wound up with a return for two-time winners the Dardenne brothers, adding a slice of Belgian ...

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, May 21 (Reuters) - Israel allowed 100 aid trucks carrying flour, baby food and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, as UN officials ...

“On the recommendation of the IDF … Israel will introduce a basic amount of food to the population in order to ensure that a hunger crisis does not develop in the Gaza Strip,” the statement sai ...

The ensuing clerico-secular hybrid—over-determined by general traits of any frontier-cum-melting-pot society, always liable to generate a philistine machismo and ... that a state consisting of the ...

When asked about Gaza on Friday, Trump offered mixed signals. He told reporters that there are “a lot of bad things going on” inside the Strip but promised it would change soon. “We’re ...

President Trump said Thursday that the US should be allowed to take control of the Gaza Strip and transform the war-torn enclave into a “freedom zone.” Trump said his administration would get ...

Mahmoud Basal, a Civil Defense spokesman, said: “We are currently reporting more than 100 martyrs in areas of the Gaza Strip (on Thursday), from central Khan Younis to northern Gaza.” ...

Simply pulling out the Israeli military from the Gaza Strip without any viable alternative to hold those zones will automatically mean the return of what remains of Hamas to controlling the lives ...

Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 52,908 ... Hollywood icon Robert De Niro lambasted 'philistine' US President Donald Trump and his proposed movie tariff at ...