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Month: September 2022

Sharp rise in demand for flights — and in fares — out of Moscow after Putin announces ‘partial mobilization’

By Uliana Pavlova and Tim Lister, CNN The number of Russians attempting to leave the country via air or land has risen sharply following President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens to bolster his depleted forces in Ukraine. Travel agency websites in Russia showed a dramatic increase on Wednesday in the

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IMF criticizes Lebanese government over slow reforms

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says the Lebanese government’s slowness to implement desperately-needed reforms was exacerbating the country’s economic meltdown. The IMF statement Wednesday followed a meeting in Beirut between the fund’s representatives and Lebanese officials to discuss an urgent and long-delayed bailout. The Lebanese government has implemented

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South Africa in electricity crisis, nationwide blackouts

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has an urgent meeting scheduled with his Cabinet to discuss an electricity crisis which has led to unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. The troubled state-owned power utility Eskom is implementing scheduled, rolling blackouts in an attempt to save electricity while struggling

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

La ciudad de Washington creará una nueva agencia para atender inmigrantes que llegan de otros estados

macamilarincon Un grupo de inmigrantes, en su mayoría venezolanos, que fue enviado en autobús desde Texas hasta la ciudad de Washington, llega a las afueras del Observatorio Naval, la residencia oficial de la vicepresidenta de EE.UU., Kamala Harris, el 17 de septiembre. (CNN) — El concejo municipal de la ciudad de Washington votó el martes

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DOJ can resume criminal probe of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, appeals court says

CNN By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort. The emergency intervention upends a trial judge’s order over those documents that had blocked federal investigators’ work on

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