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By Rob Picheta, CNN Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine — Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties — have won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022, along with the jailed Belarusian advocate Ales Bialiatski. The new laureates were honored for “an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has held a joint drone drill with the United Kingdom in the Persian Gulf. The drill Friday tested the same unmanned surveillance ships that Iran twice has seized in recent months in the Middle East. The exercise comes as the U.S.
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has held a joint drone drill with the United Kingdom in the Persian Gulf. The drill Friday tested the same unmanned surveillance ships that Iran twice has seized in recent months in the Middle East. The exercise comes as the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN At just 18 years old, Victor Wembanyama already looks like a future superstar of the NBA. The seven-foot-four French teenager has wowed the US this week after showcasing his skills in two exhibition games against development team G League Ignite. Wembanyama, who boasts a reported eight-foot wingspan, inspired his Metropolitans 92
Continue Reading By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and HERBERT MOYO Associated Press MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Thousands of voters in Lesotho are casting their ballots in the country’s general elections. The elections are a tight race between the top three parties out of a field of more than 60 registered parties. Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu of the
Continue ReadingCNN By 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
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Tensions are running high in the Korean Peninsula, as the United States and its allies respond to North Korea’s flurry of recent missile tests — including one that flew over neighboring Japan without warning. North Korea has tested ballistic missiles seven times since September 25 —
Continue Reading By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a missile attack on apartment buildings in a southern Ukrainian city rose to 11 as more Russian missiles and — for the first time — explosive packed drones targeted Ukrainian-held Zaporizhzhia on Friday. As the war sparked by Russia’s February invasion of
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Financial Services Agency has ordered brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities to suspend its block trading operations for three months as part of penalties in a market manipulation case. That follows the arrest of its vice president and several other employees for allegedly putting in massive buy orders to prop up stock prices
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Financial Services Agency has ordered brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities to suspend its block trading operations for three months as part of penalties in a market manipulation case. That follows the arrest of its vice president and several other employees for allegedly putting in massive buy orders to prop up stock prices
Continue ReadingCNN By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific is facing “unprecedented” staff shortages and may not be ready to handle a surge in demand, as the city winds up its strict Covid policy and reopens for international travel. A top local union warned Thursday of “a record number of resignations from
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific is facing “unprecedented” staff shortages and may not be ready to handle a surge in demand, as the city winds up its strict Covid policy and reopens for international travel. A top local union warned Thursday of “a record number of resignations from the
Continue ReadingCNN, TWITTER, CHESHM_ABI, TELEGRAM, NAZAR TELEGRAM CHANNEL, AFP, IRANWIRE, @SEPEHRAZADI, @AFSHONE By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Nationwide protests have gripped Iran for weeks following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was taken into custody by the government’s morality police for apparently not wearing her hijab properly. Her death has sparked violent clashes between
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Officials in Denmark are puzzled by four small tremors that were recorded this week off a northeastern Danish island in the Kattegat sea. Denmark’s seismological agency detected the tremors in international waters Tuesday and Wednesday. They were approximately 30 seconds apart and were all measured at less than 1 on the
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s health minister has said the authorities are inspecting new suspected cases of cholera, less than a day after confirming its first case of the illness in the country since 1993. Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad said at a news conference on Friday that the country documented
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olivertapia (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, emitió el jueves una severa advertencia sobre los peligros detrás de las amenazas nucleares del presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, mientras Moscú continúa enfrentando reveses militares en Ucrania. “Por primera vez desde la crisis de los misiles en Cuba, tenemos una amenaza directa del uso de
Continue ReadingCNN By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The United States Women’s National Team play England in a friendly at Wembley on Friday. But as the world champion takes on the European champion, back in the US, women’s professional soccer is reeling from an independent investigation that found systemic abuse and misconduct within the sport. Players have been
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN The United States Women’s National Team play England in a friendly at Wembley on Friday. But as the world champion takes on the European champion, back in the US, women’s professional soccer is reeling from an independent investigation that found systemic abuse and misconduct within the sport. Players have been described
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn, Anna Coren and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Smears of dried blood still stained the wooden floor of a classroom in northeastern Thailand on Friday, a day after one of the country’s worst massacres unfolded in perhaps one of the most unlikely places. At the Child Development Center Uthai Sawan, school bags sat uncollected
Continue Reading BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say that two migrants died when they were struck by a train in the eastern part of the country bordering Bulgaria. Police say the accident happened around 8 p.m. on Thursday when the train hit the men who were walking on the line. Migrants trying to reach Western Europe
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