‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ arrives: thirteen years later, Cameron bets cinema can still stop the world
LOS ANGELES — Thirteen years after the original became the highest-grossing film ever made, “Avatar: The Way of Water” opened in cinemas…
Łódź Ministerial: Lavrov speaks to walkouts, Estonia’s chairmanship bid is vetoed, the OSCE endures
Łódź — The OSCE’s twenty-ninth Ministerial Council ended in Łódź on 2 December with Sergey Lavrov addressing a half-emptied hall, no consensus…
Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: France’s great autobiographer is honoured at 82
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 has been awarded to Annie Ernaux, the French writer who has spent five decades…
‘Political theatre’: OSCE condemns 13-year sentences for its own staff in occupied Luhansk
Vienna — The OSCE has condemned the sentencing of two of its former Ukrainian staff members to thirteen years in prison by…
Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York: the author of ‘The Satanic Verses’ attacked after 33 years of threats
CHAUTAUQUA — Salman Rushdie, the novelist who has lived under threat of death for more than three decades over his novel “The…
In Birmingham, OSCE parliamentarians call for a special tribunal for the crime of aggression
Birmingham — The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly closed its annual session in Birmingham this week with a declaration supporting the creation of a…
‘Tomb of Sand’ wins the International Booker: a Hindi novel takes the translated prize for the first time
LONDON — For the first time, a book written in an Indian language has won the International Booker Prize. “Tomb of Sand”,…
Kalush Orchestra win Eurovision for Ukraine: a huge public vote turns Turin into a show of solidarity
TURIN — The result was expected, and no less moving for it. Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine on…
OSCE experts find ‘clear patterns’ of war crimes in Ukraine in first Moscow Mechanism report
Vienna — A panel of independent experts established under the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism has found clear patterns of violations of international humanitarian…
Russia vetoes its own observers: OSCE’s Ukraine monitoring mission closes after eight years
Vienna — The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine formally ended on 31 March after Russia refused to join consensus on extending…