“SHOPLIFTERS” CAPTURES PALME D’OR IN CANNES

» A tumultuous CANNES, FRANCE Cannes Film Festival concluded Saturday with the Palme d’or awarded to Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s “Shoplifters,” a tender portrait of a poor, impoverished family, while Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento vowed justice will come to all sexual predators.

At the closing ceremony for the 71st edition of the French Riviera extravaganza, the Cate Blanchett-led jury selected one of the festival’s most acclaimed entries, one hailed as a modest masterpiece from a veteran filmmaker renowned for his delicate touch.

Spike Lee’s “Blackkklansman,” the highestprofile American film in competition, was awarded the grand prize. The film ignited the festival with its true tale of a black police detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. Lee connected the film to modern day with real footage from last year’s violent white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va.

Official says nationalist mob beat mayor of major city.

» A city official says the mayor of Greece’s second-largest city has been hospitalized with head, back and leg injuries after being set upon by nationalist extremists.

City Council President Calypso Goula said Mayor Yiannis Boutaris was attending a flag-lowering ceremony Saturday in commemoration of the so-called “Pontic Genocide,” the killing of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I and the subsequent Greekturkish war.

Goula, who also was there, says about a dozen people approached the 75-year-old Boutaris and told him to leave the event. Then they attacked him with bottles. The mayor is known for his strong anti-nationalist stance.

Macedonian PM says Greece agrees to discuss proposed name.

» Macedonian SKOPJE, MACEDONIA Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Saturday he is ready to go ahead with a new name for his country in order to solve a decades-long name dispute with Greece and pave the way for full integration of the small Balkan country into the European Union and NATO.

But Greek political leaders briefed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rejected the Macedonian proposal outright. And the Greek government itself, in a response to Zaev’s remarks, was evasive about the particular name proposal.

Zaev said that “Republic of Ilindenska Macedonia” is the compromise name acceptable to both sides.

Congo says three new Ebola cases confirmed in large city.

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» Three new cases

CONGO of the often-lethal Ebola virus have been confirmed in a city of more than 1 million people, Congo’s health minister announced, as the spread of the hemorrhagic fever in an urban area raised alarm.

The statement late Friday said the confirmed cases are in Mbandaka. — Denver Post wire services