‘President Lula da Silva has revived Brazilian cinema’

Brazil’s latest Oscar-nominated thriller “The Secret Agent” has resonated with audiences around the world as a universal tale of authoritarian regimes using their power “to crush people,” director Kleber Mendonca Filho told AFP in an interview. Following on “I’m Still Here,” winner of last year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the new film about […]

Spanish prosecutors dismiss sex abuse case against Julio Iglesias

Spanish prosecutors on Friday shelved a sex abuse and human trafficking complaint against veteran singer Julio Iglesias, saying Spain’s courts had no jurisdiction in the case. Two women — a domestic worker and a physiotherapist — alleged they had suffered sexual and other forms of abuse while working at Iglesias’s properties in the Dominican Republic and the […]