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The Cannes Film Festival away from the carpet, in photos

CANNES, France (AP) — The Palais des Festival is the center hub of the Cannes Film Festival but is far from the festival’s only stage.

Every day, while stars stream down the red carpet, countless others are living out their own Cannes Film Festival dreams, posing for photographers on the Croisette, the famous seaside boulevard, or striving for a glimpse of stars.

Over the course of the 12-day French Riviera spectacular, Associated Press photographers have been turning their lenses on not just the nonstop parade of world premieres, but on the wide radius of Cannes’ colorful surrounding activity, away from the red carpet.

This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Beijing bans 4 New Zealand lawmakers from entering China because they visited Taiwan

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Beijing banned four New Zealand lawmakers from traveling to China for a year and demanded they apologize because they visited Taiwan on a parliamentary trip, according to a message from the Chinese embassy conveyed via parliamentary officials and shown to The Associated Press on Thursday. China has hit lawmakers from other countries with sanctions related to contact with Taiwan before, but it's the first time for New Zealand parliamentarians, the government in Wellington said. Beijing has been increasing pressure in recent years on the democratically governed island that it claims as its own territory. Two lawmakers reached by the AP on Thursday rejected the demand for an apology, while the other two could not be immediately reached. New Zealand's government said it would express concern about the travel bans to Beijing. The elected officials visited Taipei in May, as New Zealand parliamentarians have done “for decades,” a spokesperson for Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in a statement.
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