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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — El presidente electo de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, anunció que una vez que asuma el cargo reabrirá las fronteras con Venezuela para “restablecer el pleno ejercicio de los derechos humanos” en ese lugar. “Me he comunicado con el gobierno venezolano para abrir las fronteras y restablecer el pleno ejercicio de
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By PANAGIOTIS BALASKAS and COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece say a woman from Eritrea has given birth on an uninhabited rocky islet after traveling with other migrants from nearby Turkey. A coast guard official said 29 Eritreans were spotted during a patrol near the eastern Greek island of Lesbos.
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said the conflict in Ukraine has “sounded an alarm for humanity,” but proposed no solutions. China continues to assume a position of neutrality while backing its ally Russia by refusing to criticize its invasion of Ukraine or even to refer to it as an invasion in deference
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A strike by government workers in North Macedonia has disrupted services over a pay dispute between unions and the country’s center-left government fueled by high inflation. Police associations, health care workers, municipal employees and others joined Wednesday’s strike,. It left essential services running with emergency staffing levels. The National Federation
Continue Reading SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A strike by government workers in North Macedonia has disrupted services over a pay dispute between unions and the country’s center-left government fueled by high inflation. Police associations, health care workers, municipal employees and others joined Wednesday’s strike,. It left essential services running with emergency staffing levels. The National Federation
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court‘s landmark decision allowing states to ban abortion raises new questions about how authorities will enforce such bans and whether the anti-abortion movement will stick to its public emphasis on protecting abortion seekers themselves from prosecution. What has been the pattern abroad in countries that ban abortion, along with
Continue ReadingCNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN California lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that aims to protect abortion providers and patients seeking abortion care in the state from civil action started in another state. Assembly Bill 1666 next heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is supportive of abortion rights. It would take
Continue Reading By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has raised its key interest rate significantly as it tries to combat soaring inflation. The hike of a percentage point and a quarter brought the interest rate to 7.00%, the highest level since early 1999. It was the ninth straight increase since
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate on Thursday night passed a bipartisan bill to address gun violence that amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades. The final vote was 65 to 33 with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the measure, marking
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN Former NBA player Caleb Swanigan died aged 25 on Monday night, his college basketball team Purdue announced. The Allen County coroner’s office confirmed to CNN that he had died of natural causes. “The Purdue basketball family is deeply saddened and devastated at the loss of Caleb Swanigan,” head coach Matt Painter
Continue ReadingMegan C. Hills, CNN When Elvis Presley made broadcasting history in 1973, he was dressed in a white bell-bottomed jumpsuit, embellished with a bald eagle made from red, gold and blue studs. As the Memphis singer crooned away on a stage in Honolulu, his concert “Aloha from Hawaii” was being simultaneously broadcast in 40 different
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — El Bayern Munich fichó a Sadio Mané en un acuerdo por tres años, anunció el club alemán este miércoles. El delantero de 30 años marcó 120 goles en 259 apariciones con el Liverpool de Inglaterra desde su incorporación en 2016 y llevó a Senegal a su primer título de la Copa Africana
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old community organizer, will win the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, CNN projects, and could become the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. He bested a crowded field of candidates looking to replace Democratic Rep. Val Demings in an Orlando-based district, including state
Continue Reading By SUZAN FRASER and AYSE WIETING Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to make his first visit to Turkey following the slaying of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. The crown prince is set to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday. Erdogan said their talks
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business The Obamas are heading to Audible. Higher Ground — Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company — signed an exclusive multi-year first-look production deal with Audible, Amazon’s audiobook and podcast service. It gives Audible first dibs on Higher Ground content and includes multiple audio projects that will be distributed worldwide. Financial
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The reflections of a 12-year-old refugee from the Russian invasion of Ukraine will be published this fall. Yeva Skalietska’s book is called “You Don’t Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine.” Union Square & Co. will release her account Oct. 25. “Everyone knows what the word
Continue ReadingOpinion by Tom Stalnaker, Khalid Usman and Andrew Buchanan for CNN Business Perspectives After two years of enduring masks, social distancing and quarantines, there’s not much that can come between consumers and their summer vacations this year. Outbreaks of Covid-19 no longer seem to stop them from traveling — and based on recent demand for
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A 55-year-old California man and his 10-year-old son were identified as the victims who died in last week’s fatal rafting incident on the Nooksack River. John Coleman of Berkeley, California, and his son died when they were swept downriver after a raft overturned on the North Fork of the Nooksack River
Continue Reading By FAZEL RAHMAN FAIZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people in the country’s deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. An estimated 1,500 others were reported injured, and
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets are poised to open lower Wednesday ahead of congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who is expected to address the central bank’s response to stubborn inflation that has thrown global markets into turmoil. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials slipped 1.2%, while S&P 500 futures fell 1.3%
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