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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Morgan Winsor |Dragana Jovanovic
NowDissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's thriller It Was Just An Accident has won the Palme D'Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Panahi received a standing ovation as the annual French event drew to a close on Saturday after the jury, led by the French actress Juliette Binoche, announced he had …
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Matt Rivers |Dragana Jovanovic |David Brennan |Nasser Atta
(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- Three weeks ago, Hamdan Ballal stood on the stage at the Oscars, golden statue in hand, winner of the award for best documentary as the co-director of "No Other Land." It was an inspiring moment of unity and coexistence. On Tuesday, bloodied and bruised, he spoke to ABC News on the phone from a hospital bed in Hebron in the West Bank. "I'm afraid," Ballal said. "Really, I'm afraid.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | David Brennan |Nasser Atta |Matt Rivers |Dragana Jovanovic
(LONDON and JERUSALEM) -- Palestinian Academy Award-winning filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was released from Israeli custody on Tuesday, friend and fellow filmmaker Yuval Abraham said, after Ballal was detained by Israeli security forces on Monday. The co-director of "No Other Land" was detained by the Israel Police following a confrontation with Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | David Brennan |Dragana Jovanovic |Bill Hutchinson |Somayeh Malekian
LONDON and BELGRADE -- Dozens of people were killed in a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia's southern city of Kocani, local authorities said Sunday. At least 59 people -- all aged 18 to 23 -- were killed, Pance Toshkovski, North Macedonian minister of interior, said during a news conference on Sunday. Among the victims was a police officer, who was in the nightclub on duty, Toshkovski said.
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | David Brennan |Somayeh Malekian |Dragana Jovanovic
LONDON -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "prolonging the war" and "ignoring" U.S.-led efforts to agree to a ceasefire, as a first step toward ending Moscow's three-year-old invasion of its neighbor. Recent weeks have seen Kyiv and Moscow frame each other as the main impediment to peace, maneuvering to win backing from President Donald Trump as the White House presses for an end to the conflict.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Fritz Farrow |Kelsey Walsh |Morgan Winsor |Dragana Jovanovic
(WASHINGTON) -- In a stunning proposal, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. will "take over" the Gaza Strip, "level the site" and rebuild it, after earlier saying Palestinians living there should leave. "They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety, and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony" in other areas or countries, he said at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Morgan Winsor |Dragana Jovanovic |Fritz Farrow
(LONDON and BELGRADE) -- A mass shooting at an adult educational facility in Sweden on Tuesday was the deadliest such incident in the country's history, with 11 people killed, including the alleged shooter, law enforcement said on Wednesday. "It is a very painful day for all of Sweden," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in a statement posted on social media.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
abcnews.go.com | Morgan Winsor |Dragana Jovanovic
The alleged shooter was among the dead, Swedish police said late Tuesday. ByMorgan Winsor, Dragana Jovanovic, and Kevin ShalveyFebruary 5, 2025, 5:12 AMPolice officers stand guard near the scene of a shooting at an adult education center on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Jon Haworth |Dragana Jovanovic |Megan Forrester |Ruwaida Amer
(ALLAHABAD, INDIA) -- At least seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world's biggest gatherings that occurs every 12 years, authorities said. The Maha Kumbh Mela takes place every dozen years in the Indian city of Prayagraj, about 90 miles west of the holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, when an estimated 100 million people gather to bathe in holy river waters at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Saraswati rivers.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Dragana Jovanovic |Megan Forrester |Ruwaida Amer |Zoe Magee
(WASHINGTON) -- As President Donald Trump makes a very public effort to acquire Greenland, one former Danish official said Trump's attempts are nothing new -- but he shouldn't expect it to be easy. Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's minister to Greenland from 1982 to 1987, told ABC News in an interview.
