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A 7.0 preliminary magnitude earthquake has struck Japan off the coast of Ishinomaki, a city located just 65 miles (104 km) from Fukushima, the site of a devastating 9.0 magnitude quake 10 years ago. Latest information from USGS shows the earthquake has a depth of 54 kilometers (34 miles). CNN teams in Tokyo felt the
Continue ReadingAs the end of the pandemic tunnel gets brighter and brighter, has a season ever better aligned with where most people are in the world right now? Spring is the season of hope — that things will get better after they were worse. The river will “flow again after it was frozen,” Ernest Hemingway wrote
Continue Reading A tsunami warning has been issued following an earthquake off the east coast of Japan, the US National Tsunami Warning Center reported on Saturday. According to the National Tsunami Warning Center, the tsunami warning is for Hachinohe, Japan and Niigata, Japan. Latest information from USGS show the earthquake has been revised to a 7.0 preliminary
Continue Reading Iceland has reported a volcanic eruption on the southwest Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest of the capital Reykjavík,the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) tweeted Friday. “A volcanic eruption started this evening at 20:45 near Fagradalsfjall in Geldingadalur,” IMO said in a tweet. “The eruption is considered small at this stage and the eruptive fissure is app. 500 m
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has withdrawn his country from an international treaty to protect women through a presidential decree issued in the early hours of Saturday. The move has sent shockwaves through a country that has been reeling from high-profile domestic violence cases and femicides. Turkey was the first country to sign the Council
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Paul Stewart played for the England international team and some of English football’s leading clubs, notably Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool. It’s a career to be proud of, but Stewart’s memories are often consumed by the horrific daily cruelty he says he suffered between the ages of 11 and 15 as a youth footballer.
Continue Reading A month after winter storms blanketed the Lone Star state with snow, leaving millions of people in the dark and without water, food banks are concerned there won’t be enough produce for Texans in need. The economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant rise in hunger across the US. In Texas,
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(CNN) – Europa perdió su oportunidad de detener la tercera ola de la epidemia de coronavirus antes de que se saliera de control. Ahora debe pagar un alto precio, con la imposición de nuevos cierres en todo el continente. En la noche de este jueves, Francia anunció nuevas restricciones en 16 regiones, incluidas París y
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Vecinos y automovilistas quedaron atrapados durante horas este viernes en un barrio considerado de alta densidad delictiva, en medio de reportes de un intenso tiroteo y enfrentamientos entre cuerpos de seguridad y delincuentes. La sorpresiva situación se presentó después del mediodía en sectores de la zona de Caracas conocida como Cota 905.
Continue Reading Community college students in the Phoenix area are getting an extra week of Spring Break after a suspected cyberattack crippled their schools’ computer networks. A network outage has impacted the information technology systems of the Maricopa County Community College District, Interim Chancellor Steven Gonzales announced in a message to students Friday evening. “Out of an
Continue Reading In Lebanon, fistfights break out in supermarkets on a nearly daily basis. Long lines snake out of the few gas stations that remain open. Pharmacies have threatened to shutter. Gunfights inexplicably erupt in various parts of the capital. Angry demonstrators have blocked roads around the country, tightening an already stifling economic stranglehold. The infernal scenes
Continue Reading Surveillance video recorded by a business next to Youngs Asian Spa, where a spate of shootings started that left eight people dead this week, appears to show the suspect parking his vehicle in front of the spa. The video, provided to CNN by Gabby’s Boutique, shows a Hyundai pull into a parking spot. The vehicle,
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For millions of people across the globe, Nowruz is no small celebration. Think Christmas, New Year’s and Fourth of July combined — and add to it fire festivities, delicious meats, rice and spices, family gatherings, street dances and loud banging on pots. But it’s much more than that, too. Nowruz “promotes values of peace and
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After over a year of waiting, Week 1 of the high school football season has come and gone. The only thing left to do is to vote for the play of the week. <!–[if lte IE 10]> Sorry, you are using an unsupported browser. This page will not display correctly. Please click here to upgrade
Continue ReadingStates are pushing ahead with expanding Covid-19 vaccine access and rolling back restrictions on businesses and large gatherings as America seeks a return to normalcy. But experts say two barriers stand in the way of reaching herd immunity and getting back to life as we knew it — Covid-19 variants and vaccine hesitancy. “We’re seeing
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Police have shut down Palm Drive between Buena Vista and Cahuilla in Desert Hot Springs after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. Desert Hot Springs Police Chief Jim Henson said the pedestrian was transported to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs for treatment. There was no word on the severity of injuries. Henson
Continue Reading President John Magufuli, the Covid-denying leader of Tanzania, was said to have died from heart failure, which he apparently battled for more than a decade, according to the country’s new president. Samia Suluhu Hassan said Magufuli had been receiving treatment in a Tanzanian hospital when he died on Wednesday evening. However, opposition leaders insist Magufuli
Continue ReadingChinese officials dismissed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan as “condescending.” An unnamed US official said the Chinese were “grandstanding.” And with that, any chance the US and China might shift course after four turbulent years of the Trump administration quickly faded. The tense and unusual diplomatic clash Thursday between
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris moved to reassert control over America’s bully pulpit Friday, decrying acts of violence against Asian Americans after a year in which former President Donald Trump inflamed racist attitudes by referring countless times to the coronavirus as “Kung Flu” and the “China virus.” Condemning the permissive culture of
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Tribunal Supremo Electoral confirmó el triunfo de Nuevas Ideas, partido del presidente Nayib Bukele, y de su aliado GANA, en las elecciones legislativas y municipales del pasado 28 de febrero en El Salvador, lo que le da al mandatario amplio control para aprobar leyes, nombramientos y reformas. El escrutinio estableció que
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