All posts tagged "Italie"

Venice (AFP) - Transgender issues have taken centre stage at the Venice Film Festival this year, with Italian director Emanuele Crialese even using the platform to reveal he was born a woman as he presented his new film starring Penelope Cruz.  The revelation by Crialese came at a press conference for his new film, "L'Immensita", which is inspired by his difficult adolescence.  "I am never going to be like any other man... I was born biologically a woman," Crialese said.  He added that, despite his transition, there was still a "huge part of my character that is female".  In the film, Cruz's c......

ON BOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (AFP) - A deafening stream of fighter jets land and take off from a US aircraft carrier, part of a long-planned NATO exercise in the Mediterranean to show military might while Russia wages war in Ukraine. "I want us to be as ready as we can possibly be," US Rear Admiral Curt Renshaw, commander of the Carrier Strike Group Eight, told reporters this week on a visit on board USS Harry S. Truman.  "We look at the Russian capability and we look at our own capabilities and then we train to counter what they might do and to defend ourselves and to defend partners and ......