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Actress Margot Kidder, starred as Lois Lane in the “Superman” film franchise of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Photo: Adrian Wyld / Associated Press

Margot Kidder, Lois Lane in ‘Superman,’ 69

LOS ANGELES — Margot Kidder, the Canadian actress who starred as a salty and cynical Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the "Superman" film franchise of the 1970s and 1980s, has died. She was 69.
Israelis hold American and Israeli flags with the new U.S. embassy Monday in the background in Jerusalem. Photo: Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press

55 Dead in Gaza Protests as Israel Fetes US Embassy Move

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In a jarring contrast, Israeli forces shot and killed at least 55 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,200 during mass protests Monday along the Gaza border, while just a few miles away Israel and the U.S. held a festive inauguration ceremony for the new American Embassy in contested Jerusalem.
Actress Behnaz Jafari, from left, editor Mastaneh Mohajer, director of photography Amin Jafari, actress Marziyeh Rezaei and actress Solmaz Panahiat the 71st international film festival in Cannes. Photo: Vianney Le Caer / Associated Press

Cannes Speaks Out for Directors Barred From Travelling

CANNES — Twice the Cannes Film Festival has risen to given standing ovations to empty seats.
Israeli youths wave national flags in May outside the Old City's Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem. Photo: Ariel Schalit / Associated Press

Israel Kicks off US Embassy Celebration, Boosts Border Force

JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday kicked off festivities to celebrate the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, even as it bolstered its forces along the Gaza border and in the West Bank in anticipation of mass Palestinian protests of the move.
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Netta Barzilai Wins 2018 Eurovision for Israel

LISBON, Portugal — Netta Barzilai is sassy, she's fun and she can sing — and now the Israeli has won the Eurovision Song Contest with a catchy techno dance tune about women's empowerment.
People queue up to give their votes at a polling station in May in Dili, East Timor. Photo: Kandhi Barnez / Associated Press

East Timorese Vote in Second Election in Less Than a Year

DILI, East Timor — East Timorese voted Saturday in their second election for parliament in less than a year after the collapse of a...
President Donald Trump listens in January during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Photo: Evan Vucci / Associated Press

Growing Debate Over Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Chances

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama won it. So did Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Date Set for Historic Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore

WASHINGTON — Envisioning "a very special moment for world peace," President Donald Trump announced Thursday he will meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un for highly anticipated summit talks in Singapore on June 12.
This photo provided early Thursday by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media shows missiles rise into the sky as Israeli missiles hit air defense position and other military bases, in Damascus, Syria. Photo: Syrian Central Military Media

Israel Counterattacks Iranian Targets in Syria

BEIRUT — The Israeli military on Thursday said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date.
Fatima Boudchar and her son Abderrahim Belhaj, 14, arrive at the Houses of Parliament in London on Thursday. Photo: Stefan Rousseau / PA

UK Apologizes to Libyans Kidnapped by CIA in Bangkok

LONDON — Britain acknowledged Thursday that its intelligence agents played a role in the kidnapping and torture in Bangkok of an opponent of late...

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