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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — King Charles III was officially announced as Canada’s monarch Saturday in a ceremony in Ottawa. Charles automatically became king when Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday. But like the ceremony in the United Kingdom hours earlier, the accession ceremony in Canada is a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new monarch is named King Charles III — but that was not inevitable. Charles Philip Arthur George could have chosen another name when he took the throne after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Some observers thought the new king might prefer a different name because of
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Saturday that it was pulling back troops from two areas in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made significant advances in the past week. The news came after days of apparent advances by Ukraine south of
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Los días de usar un clip de papel para realizar una microcirugía y extraer una pequeña tarjeta SIM de la bandeja del iPhone pueden estar llegando a su fin. En su evento de prensa de esta semana, Apple reveló que abandonará las tarjetas SIM físicas y las bandejas en su nueva
Continue Reading By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — You’d have thought it was a movie premiere, with the hoopla converging outside midtown Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom. But inside, despite the celebrity presence, the real star was a handbag. Not just any handbag, but the “Baguette” — the ubiquitous Fendi bag created 25 years ago and
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By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United States has announced $40 million in aid to buy fertilizer and other key agricultural inputs in time for the next cultivation season in crisis-hit Sri Lanka. USAID Administrator Samantha Power, who is visiting Sri Lanka, made the announcement Saturday after she met farmer
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United States has announced $40 million in aid to buy fertilizer and other key agricultural inputs in time for the next cultivation season in crisis-hit Sri Lanka. USAID Administrator Samantha Power, who is visiting Sri Lanka, made the announcement Saturday after she met farmer
Continue Reading HELSINKI (AP) — Hundreds of people have marched through the Norwegian capital in an LBGT solidarity event after a deadly shooting outside a gay bar in June forced the cancellation of this year’s Pride parade. “The Rainbow Train” marchers passed the Oslo nightlife district where a man identified as Zaniar Matapour shot and killed two
Continue ReadingCNN By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The state funeral for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will take place a week from Monday at Westminster Abbey, and she will lie in state in Westminster Hall from Wednesday, Buckingham Palace has announced. Britain’s longest-serving monarch died peacefully Thursday at her Scottish country estate in Balmoral. Earlier
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN For the first time in 70 years, “God Save the King” is being sung at sports grounds across the United Kingdom as tributes to Queen Elizabeth II continue two days after her death. Ahead of the third day of the Test match between England and South Africa at the Kia Oval
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN If you like to turn a lewk, regularly pwn your friends in “Fortnite” or find the ordinary dictionary janky, you’re in luck: Merriam-Webster has added a slew of slang to its dictionary, lending new legitimacy to those informal terms and more. It typically takes years for such slang to find its
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials on Saturday claimed major gains in a counteroffensive against Russian forces in the country’s northeast, saying Ukrainian troops had cut off vital supplies to front-line hotspot. The reports followed several days of apparent advances by Ukraine south of Kharkiv, the country’s
Continue Reading By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Interior Ministry says one of its border systems has been hit by a cyberattack that came from the same Iranian source as an earlier attack that led the country to break diplomatic relations with Iran. A statement on Saturday said the previous evening a police
Continue Reading By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s government has declared flood-affected parts of the country as national disaster areas and appealed for assistance. Friday’s appeal came after torrential rains in the Upper Nile and Bahr el-Ghazal regions. Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth said the floods have displaced thousands of people
Continue Reading By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A Michigan retiree is suing a Detroit bank after she says employees refused to cash a check she received from a casino after winning a jackpot. Lizzie Pugh told CNN she won more than $12,000 on a slot machine at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, during a
Continue Reading By Topher Gauk-Roger, CNN The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is recommending residents avoid swimming and surfing at multiple ocean beaches because of sewage discharge. Closure signs have been posted at RAT (Right After Torrance/Redondo) Beach in the southernmost section of Torrance Beach, and that closure will remain in effect until bacterial levels
Continue Reading KFSN By Caroll Alvarado, CNN A former principal in California was charged with a misdemeanor Wednesday for “cruelty to child by endangering health” after he was caught on camera aggressively shoving a student with special needs to the ground, according to local authorities and court documents. Earlier this week the Fresno Unified School District released
Continue Reading By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — After Itza Pantoja’s severely disabled son died at the age of 16, she made it her mission to make sure that the wheelchairs, beds and other equipment and supplies that had helped him got to other people who needed them. After struggling to find an organization to
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Busari, CNN The death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted an outpouring of reflection and reaction online. But not all was grief — some young Africans instead are sharing images and stories of their own elders, who endured a brutal period of British colonial history during the Queen’s long reign. “I cannot mourn,”
Continue ReadingCNN|POOL|TWITTER|UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL By Stephanie Busari, CNN The death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted an outpouring of reflection and reaction online. But not all was grief — some young Africans instead are sharing images and stories of their own elders, who endured a brutal period of British colonial history during the Queen’s long reign. “I
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