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MADRID (AP) — Officials say 22 people have been hospitalized after a regional passenger train and a locomotive collided head-on in northeastern Spain. The regional government of northeast Catalonia said five of the 22 are in serious condition. The collision occurred late Sunday near the town of Vila-seca, south of Barcelona. There were 75 passengers
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature “Lightyear” from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss between two lesbian characters. The UAE — which is home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai — announced on Monday through its
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature “Lightyear” from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss between two lesbian characters. The UAE — which is home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai — announced on Monday through its
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The mutinous soldiers who ousted Burkina Faso’s democratically elected president early this year vowed they would do a better job at stopping the jihadi violence rocking the country. Five months later, however, attacks are increasing and patience with the junta appears to be waning. Many
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urielblanco (CNN) — Cuando en 2019 se avistó una pequeña tortuga hembra en la inaccesible isla volcánica de Fernandina, en las Galápagos, los investigadores quedaron sorprendidos. Anteriormente, solo se había encontrado allí otra tortuga, un gran macho solitario, en 1906 por el explorador Rollo Beck. Los científicos habían pensado que este animal era el último
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By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer The Los Angeles Angels finally ended their 14-game losing streak. If Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and Co. can rebound from that and make the playoffs, it would be unprecedented. No team has reached the postseason after a losing streak of more than 11 games, according to Sportradar. The Angels
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Of all the surprising developments to ponder during this one-week break in a highly entertaining NASCAR Cup Series season, the emergence of Trackhouse Racing might be the most unlikely of all. That’s right, the 2-year-old team co-owned by Pitbull and piloted by two drivers who
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu has faced rape and other criminal charges at a closed trial as China was in uproar over a video showing a group of men physically assaulting four women in another city. Wu’s trial was reported late Friday night, and many
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish arms watchdog says the world’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons are expected to increase in coming years after declining since the end of the Cold War. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, says the decrease in recent decades seems about to be reversed, as all nine nuclear-armed countries are
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital has put school back online in one of its major districts amid a new COVID-19 outbreak linked to a nightclub, while life has yet to return to normal in Shanghai despite the lifting of a more than two-month-long lockdown. China has stuck to its “zero-COVID” policy requiring mass testing, quarantines
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital has put school online in one of its major districts amid a new COVID-19 outbreak linked to a nightclub, while life has yet to return to normal in Shanghai despite the lifting of a more than two-month-long lockdown. China has stuck to its “zero-COVID” policy requiring mass testing, quarantines and
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA Finals are tied at 2-2. If that sounds familiar to fans of the Boston Celtics, it should. For whatever reason, when the Celtics make the NBA Finals, 2-2 ties seem normal. And that’s exactly where they are now, knotted up going into Game 5 of this year’s
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor is proposing new powers for the country’s antitrust agency to clamp down on oil companies amid disappointment over the limited effect of a cut in fuel taxes. A three-month cut took effect on June 1 as part of a wider package of measures aimed at blunting the financial fallout
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor is proposing new powers for the country’s antitrust agency to clamp down on oil companies amid disappointment over the limited effect of a cut in fuel taxes. A three-month cut took effect on June 1 as part of a wider package of measures aimed at blunting the financial fallout
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An official with the U.N. refugee agency and a tribal elder say clashes over the past week in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur have killed around 100 people. Toby Harward, a coordinator with the UNHCR, said on Monday that the fighting grew out of a land dispute between Arab
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN An Australian newspaper columnist has apologized for a story that appeared to accuse actor Rebel Wilson of spoiling his attempts to out her as gay. In a new column published Monday, Sydney Morning Herald journalist Andrew Hornery says he did not seek to “out” the star, but understands why his email
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Joe Sutton, Ella Nilsen and Brandon Miller, CNN A wildfire burning just six miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona, has prompted evacuations for hundreds of people, and thousands more have been told by authorities to prepare for future evacuation, authorities said Sunday night. The Pipeline Fire was first reported by a fire lookout
Continue ReadingCNN By Joe Sutton and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Mandatory evacuations are in place after a wildfire expanded steadily in Southern California’s Angeles National Forest on Sunday. The Sheep Fire grew from 35 acres Sunday morning to 775 acres that afternoon, according to InciWeb. As of Monday, the fire has scorched 990 acres with around 27%
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division have died as “martyrs” in Iran in separate incidents over the weekend. That’s according to Iranian media reports on Monday. The term “martyr” is typically a designation given to those on important assignments. The deaths
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor. With the conflict now in its fourth month, it’s a high-stakes campaign that could dictate the course of the entire war.
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