Amsterdam came alive with music, colour and celebration on Saturday, as thousands of people flocked to the canals to watch the city’s annual Pride boat parade. The Dutch capital is hosting this years’ WorldPride event, drawing visitors from across the world. Costumed participants danced and waved from a colourful flotilla of 80 decorated vessels as
Jensen Huang arrived in Tokyo with gifts: a series of artificial intelligence and robotics partnerships for Japan’s tech industry, and red bean buns for the crowd. On Wednesday, the Nvidia CEO visited a red-lanterned izakaya, a traditional Japanese bar, in Tokyo’s Kanda district, where a crowd gathered outside hoping to catch a glimpse of “kawa-jan”
Huge crowds lined the streets of the holy city of Mashhad for the burial of Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei was buried at the shrine of Imam Reza, the holiest Shiite Muslim site in Iran, marking the end of six days of public mourning ceremonies in five cities in Iran and neighboring
The funeral ceremonies come less than three weeks after Iran and the United States signed a preliminary agreement to end the war and reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz waterway, through which 20% of the world’s oil and gas shipments pass. The two countries also gave themselves two months to reach a final deal covering