PARIS -- French director Justine Triet was awarded with the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival for her "Anatomy of a Fall" on Saturday in Cannes, France, becoming the third female director winning this top prize.

After "Sibyl" in 2019, "Anatomy of a Fall" is Triet's second feature film chosen by the festival to compete for Palme d'Or. (Cannes-2023-Prizes)

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TEHRAN -- Two Iranian border guards and one Taliban fighter were killed during armed clashes near a border police station between Iran and Afghanistan, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency and Taliban's Interior Ministry on Saturday.

The two sides accused each other of opening fire first on Saturday morning near the police station on the border of Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province and the Afghan province of Nimroz. (Iran-Afghanistan-Clash)

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BELGRADE -- Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic has been elected as the new president of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) on Saturday in the city of Kragujevac.

Vucevic, former mayor of Novi Sad, Serbia's second-biggest city, was proposed as the next party leader by President Aleksandar Vucic, who previously resigned from that position in order to promote political and social unity. (Serbia-Ruling Party)

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ISLAMABAD -- Ten people were killed and ten others injured when an avalanche hit a convoy of nomads in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region on Saturday, an official confirmed.

Scores of people were feared to be trapped under the debris and the rescue teams were trying to recover them despite challenges posed by bad weather and poor road infrastructure in the far-flung area of Astore district where the incident happened, Chief Secretary of GB Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani said. (Pakistan-Avalanche) Enditem

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