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Police detained nearly 200 people at the U.S. universities over the weekend as they cleared pro-Palestinian encampments, in the latest campus clashes triggered by protests over Israel's war against Hamas.

Security was tight Saturday as the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner kicked off, with President Joe Biden to make what is a traditionally lighthearted address amid protests and boycott calls over the conflict in Gaza.

The iconic Rex Theater on Panepistimiou Street in central Athens is inextricably linked to the development of the capital's metropolitan identity as few buildings of the interwar era are. It will close for a while this year for restoration. It was inaugurated on January 23, 1937 with a musical film. The owners worked with Spyros Skouras, later president of 20th Century Fox, to introduce films.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be attending a special meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in Sofia on May 18, 2024. Hosted by Kiril Domuschiev, co-founder of the Domuschiev Impact initiative, the gathering aims to convene global leaders from both the public and private sectors to devise strategies for advancing women's empowerment on a global scale.

The leader of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has used a visit to New York to express his solidarity with students at Columbia University protesting in opposition to Israel's war in Gaza.

Dimitris Koutsoubas, who is leading a KKE delegation on a ten day-long tour of Canada and the US the visit to the US and Canada until Saturday, visited the university on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian MP Milovan Drecun said on Friday it seemed the creators of a UN General Assembly draft resolution on Srebrenica did not quite have a certain majority that would guarantee its adoption and needed more time to clarify it to countries that could vote for it but were "in a dilemma for some reason."

New York's highest court has made a pivotal decision in the legal saga surrounding former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The Court of Appeals has overturned Weinstein's 2020 sex crime conviction, a case that became synonymous with the #MeToo movement, Reuters reported.

Columbia University backed off late Thursday from an overnight deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon an encampment there as more college campuses in the United States sought to prevent occupations from taking hold.

New York's highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a shock reversal in one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement.

The Defense Ministry has announced that Türkiye's indigenous frigate TCG Istanbul will be ready for duty in a month, while also unveiling the country's largest aircraft carrier project.