Gabon coup, Prigozhin's legacy, Spanish football scandal, Venice Film Festival

Guess who paid a call on coup leaders who have left their border open with Niger? Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov was in Burkina Faso on Thursday to offer his services to junta leader Ibrahim Traoré. It's the same Yevkurov who was in Libya simultaneously with Yevgeny Prigozhin's final tour of Africa. On that score, the Grey Zone Telegram channel Thursday published images of the late Wagner Group leader.

Last Friday, everyone gathered for his resignation speech. Instead, Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales stunned the world by defying the outrage over his forced kiss of World Cup winning striker Jenni Hermoso, refusing to quit. One week on, he is still hanging on, despite the shame expressed by the likes of men's national team coach Luis de la Fuentes.

What does a strike by Hollywood actors and writers say about how much the world binges on movies made in Tinseltown? The stars have not come out for the annual Deauville Film Festival on France's Normandy coast. No Natalie Portman, no Jude Law, no Joseph Gordon-Levitt and no Peter Dinklage. Instead, there's independent fare. Over in Venice, Adam Driver did walk the red carpet, but only because the star of "Ferrari" has the backing of a film with independent distribution that's all-in for negotiations. Driver, as reported by The Daily Beast, blasted big boys Amazon and Netflix and expressed solidarity with the strike.

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain, Louise Guibert and Samy-Vincente Lacerda.

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