US director Martin Scorsese will collect a lifetime achievement award at next year's Berlinale film festival for his contributions to global cinema, organisers said Thursday."For anyone who considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both completely personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unmatched role model," festival chiefs Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian said in a statement.
Thousands of farmers descended on central Berlin with their tractors on Monday to protest against planned cuts to agricultural subsidies.The protesters blocked one of the main roads through central Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate, dumping manure on the road.
In Baqa al-Gharbiya, an hour's drive from Haifa, city folk have temporarily traded pens for boots to aid farmers in Israel facing a labour shortage exacerbated by the Gaza war.The war in Gaza began on October 7 when Hamas militants from Gaza stormed across the militarised border into Israel, killing around 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage, according to Israeli figures.
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The Supreme Court will review a lower court decision that would make the abortion pill mifepristone less accessible. Putin holds his first year-end press conference since Russia invaded Ukraine.