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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says the Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Friday’s bloodshed was the latest in the deadliest round of fighting in the area in seven years. Israel has been carrying out nightly arrest raids
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HONG KONG (AP) — In a story published October 7, 2022, The Associated Press reported that a pink diamond sold for $49.9 million at an auction in Hong Kong. The story should have made clear that was the “hammer price” and that the actual price was $57.7 million, including a buyer’s premium charged by the
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By Andi Babineau and Sharif Paget, CNN The trial for the man accused of raping and impregnating a child in Ohio who then had to travel to Indiana for an abortion has been set for early next year, according to a court document obtained by CNN. Gerson Fuentes, 27, is facing two counts of felony
Continue ReadingCNN By Alasdair Howorth, CNN After six years of preparation, struggle and sacrifice, Felix Baumgartner found himself quite literally on the edge of the world. “I’m standing there on top of the world outside of a capsule in space and in the stratosphere. I looked around the sky above me was completely black,” Baumgartner told
Continue ReadingBy Alasdair Howorth, CNN After six years of preparation, struggle and sacrifice, Felix Baumgartner found himself quite literally on the edge of the world. “I’m standing there on top of the world outside of a capsule in space and in the stratosphere. I looked around the sky above me was completely black,” Baumgartner told CNN
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — In a story published October 11, 2022, The Associated Press published a story about Japan reopening to most tourists after pandemic restrictions were lifted. The AP erroneously credited the wrong video journalist as a contributor. The story has been corrected to show that AP video journalist Chisato Tanaka was the contributor.
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — In a story published October 11, 2022, The Associated Press published a story about Japan reopening to most tourists after pandemic restrictions were lifted. The AP erroneously credited the wrong video journalist as a contributor. The story has been corrected to show that AP video journalist Chisato Tanaka was the contributor.
Continue Reading By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, it wasn’t clear what kind of leader he would be. His low-key persona during a steady rise through the ranks of the long-ruling Communist Party gave no hint that he would evolve into one of modern China’s most dominant
Continue Reading By Sara Weisfeldt, Jason Hanna, Elizabeth Wolfe, Leyla Santiago and Christina Maxouris, CNN One of the three jurors in the Parkland school massacre case who was against the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz told CNN Friday she did not make her decision until the “very last minute.” Ultimately, she was persuaded to vote for life
Continue Reading By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda. Madeleine Diouf Sarr, who chairs the Least Developed Countries group, told The
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By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A lawyer for billionaire Elon Musk had barely begun speaking during a recent hearing when the Delaware judge presiding over Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk abruptly cut her off. “Skip the rhetoric and go to the meat,” Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick said bluntly. The judge’s tone
Continue Reading By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A lawyer for billionaire Elon Musk had barely begun speaking during a recent hearing when the Delaware judge presiding over Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk abruptly cut her off. “Skip the rhetoric and go to the meat,” Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick said bluntly. The judge’s tone
Continue Reading By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A lawyer for billionaire Elon Musk had barely begun speaking during a recent hearing when the Delaware judge presiding over Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk abruptly cut her off. “Skip the rhetoric and go to the meat,” Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick said bluntly. The judge’s tone
Continue Reading By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — At least nine students in southern Cambodia who were crossing a river have died after the boat they were on capsized. Police said four people — two students and two of the boat’s crew — were rescued following the accident Thursday night on the Mekong
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A carjacking victim was killed Thursday during a police pursuit of a homicide suspect in Los Angeles, authorities said. The victim, whose name has not been released, became tangled in the vehicle’s seatbelt and was dragged for several miles (kilometers) during the chase, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A carjacking victim was killed Thursday during a police pursuit of a homicide suspect in Los Angeles, authorities said. The victim, whose name has not been released, became tangled in the vehicle’s seatbelt and was dragged for several miles (kilometers) during the chase, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says the Israeli military shot and killed two Palestinians during a raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Friday’s bloodshed was the latest in the deadliest round of fighting in the area in seven years. Fierce clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian militants
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN New tensions are flaring between the Koreas, with the North flying warplanes near their shared border and launching the latest in a series of missiles and the South holding a live-fire artillery drill. North Korean aircraft approached the no-fly zone straddling the border between 10:30 p.m.
Continue Reading By LORI HINNANT, JUSTIN SPIKE and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — One building in the recaptured but devastated Ukrainian town of Izium is filled with those at the end of their lives. It reeks of unwashed sheets and unbathed skin and needs more heat to fend off the approaching winter. Despair weighs
Continue Reading By SABRA AYRES Associated Press KYIV, UKRAINE (AP) — Russia has promised free accommodation to residents of Ukraine’s partially occupied Kherson region who want to evacuate to Russia, a sign that Ukrainian military gains along the war’s southern front are worrying the Kremlin. The Moscow-installed leader of Kherson, one of four regions illegally annexed by
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