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Workers at the Cannes Film Festival called for a strike over pay and conditions on Monday, just a week before the event was due to start.  Watch ARY News live on  live.arynews.tv Members of a collective called Sous les Ecrans la Deche (‘Poverty Behind the Screens’) said they did not intend to cause significant disruption but wanted to draw attention to long-running demands. “The strike will not put the opening of the festival at risk but there could be disruptions as it goes on,” a spokesperson told AFP. The group said it represented around 100 workers, including projectionists, programmers, press agents and ticket sellers. They work on short-term contracts but do not fall under France’s unemployment insurance scheme for freelance artists and technicians in the cultural sector, which tops up salaries to a minimum wage. “Most of us will have to give up working, which will jeopardise the events,” the group said in a statement. “The forthcoming opening of the Cann...

More than a million people thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert on Saturday, braving the heat to see the end of her  ‘Celebration’  world tour. Watch ARY News live on  live.arynews.tv The sand and oceanfront boulevard around Rio de Janeiro’s famed beach were filled for several blocks by a crowd the city estimated at 1.6 million. Many had been there for hours or even days to get a good spot, while richer fans anchored in dozens of boats near the beach and onlookers crowded beachfront apartments. Firefighters sprayed water before the concert, when temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), to cool fans gathered near the pop queen’s stage, and drinking water was distributed for free. Temperatures were around 27 C (81 F) during the late-night show. Madonna, 65, performed songs such as ‘Like a Prayer’ , ‘Vogue’ and ‘Express Yourself’ for over two hours from 10:45 p.m. as she wound up the greatest hits tour that started la...

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MONTREAL: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday acknowledged fear in Canada’s Sikh community but underscored the “rule of law” after three arrests in connection with last year’s killing of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver. Police arrested three men on Friday for the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, which triggered a diplomatic rift between Canada and India last fall after Trudeau suggested Indian government involvement in the homicide. Speaking Saturday at a gala in Toronto to celebrate Sikh heritage and culture, Trudeau acknowledged that many in Canada’s Sikh community are “feeling uneasy, and perhaps even frightened right now,” but urged faith in the justice system. “Let us remain calm and us remain steadfast in our commitment to our democratic principles and our system of justice,” he said. Trudeau said the arrests were “important because Canada is a rule of law country with a strong and independent justice system, as well as a fundamental commitment to protecting all its citi...

KASHMORE: Bandit gangs kidnapped a doctor and two others in two separate incidents in Kashmore and Guddu police remits, ARY News reported on Saturday. Bandits operating unhindered in upper Sindh districts despite a police operation against rampant incidents of lawlessness in the region. The gangs of dacoits in two separate incidents in a night abducted a doctor and two dumper drivers in the area. Bandits attacked a private clinic in Kashmore police station jurisdiction near Dakhan Banglow and kidnapped Dr. Ghulam Sarwar Dashti from the clinic. The gang has said to take the hostage doctor to katcha area. In another incident in Guddu police jurisdiction, bandits kidnapped dumper drivers Mohammad Sadiq and Farooq Malik from the link road. Police chasing kidnappers after getting reports of crime incidents, officials said. Last month, police and rangers in a joint operation in Kashmore’s katcha area killed a suppect, and arrested an accomplice. An accused Saeen Bux was killed, and ...

Supermodel Bella Hadid has decided to take a step back from her successful modelling career, to start afresh in Texas with her beau Adan Banuelo. Watch ARY News live on  live.arynews.tv American supermodel turned businesswoman Bella Hadid, who bravely battled Lyme disease earlier, recently communicated her decision regarding a career switch during a magazine interview, in order to focus on her mental and physical health. In the conversation, she said, “After 10 years of modelling, I realized I was putting so much energy and love and effort into something that, in the long run, wasn’t necessarily giving it back to me.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Bella (@bellahadid) Notably, Hadid recently moved to Texas and started a new chapter of life with her ‘partner’ Banuelos, the era she described as the ‘best time’ with her close circle, and the one where she didn’t feel like she needed to do ‘too much’ simply to g...

Bollywood’s veteran filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali recently admitted he wanted to cast Pakistani A-listers Mahira Khan, Fawad Khan and Imran Abbas in his passion project ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ . Watch ARY News live on  live.arynews.tv In a new interview with Indian-Canadian YouTuber, Lilly Singh, at the Los Angeles premiere of his hotly-anticipated web series ‘Heeramandi’ , SLB disclosed that Pakistani stars Mahira Khan, Fawad Khan and Imran Abbas, who have proven their mettle in Bollywood in the past, were among his initial choices for the cast. As known to everyone, the veteran first envisioned the project in the feature film format almost 18 years ago and has had multiple castings in mind since then. When asked about the casting process, he said, “I had multiple castings in my mind, the idea has been there for 18 years. I thought about Rekha ji and then Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukerji.” Bhansali added, “It was a film back then. I then also thought about Mahira Kh...