The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival opened with a high-profile red carpet attended by international celebrities, including actors Eva Longoria and Heidi Klum, and Spanish Formula One driver Carlos Sainz Jr. The trio appeared at the opening ceremony and screening of the French film Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day), held at the Palais des Festivals. Longoria wore a piece …

Mohammad Iqbal was working the nightshift at a power plant when he got a frantic call from his family saying artillery shells were exploding around their home. “I told them all to hunker down in one room together on the ground floor and hopefully things would become okay by morning,” he told CNN. But dawn brought no relief from the …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is prepared to meet Vladimir Putin this week, shortly after US President Donald Trump urged him to “immediately” accept the Russian leader’s offer to hold peace talks in Turkey. After meeting in Kyiv on Saturday, Ukraine’s major European allies gave Russia an ultimatum: agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine by Monday or …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani military’s media wing said on Tuesday 11 members of the armed forces and 40 civilians had been killed in the latest military confrontation with India, vowing that future attacks would be met with a “swift, full-spectrum and decisive” response. India and Pakistan engaged in four days of armed conflict last week, the worst between them since 1999, …

In the latest India-Pakistan stand-off, there were no ultimatums, no red buttons. Yet the cycle of military retaliation, veiled signals and swift international mediation quietly evoked the region’s most dangerous shadow. The crisis didn’t spiral towards nuclear war, but it was a reminder of how quickly tensions here can summon that spectre. Even scientists have modelled how easily things could …