CNNEE (CNN) — El Ministerio de Defensa de Taiwán dijo que 47 aviones chinos cruzaron la línea media en el Estrecho de Taiwán hacia su zona de identificación de defensa aérea (ADIZ) este domingo, mientras Beijing anunciaba nuevos ejercicios militares alrededor de Taiwán. Las incursiones fueron realizadas por 42 aviones de combate J-10, J-11, J-16
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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s newly appointed prime minister has taken his oath as the leader of a fragile coalition that includes his former opponent and other smaller political parties. Maoist Communist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal was sworn in Monday by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari at the President House
Continue Reading PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo say they are investigating a shooting incident in a tense northern region. They urged calm after Serbia sent its army chief to the border area in response. The incident on Sunday evening took place in a town in northern Kosovo where local ethnic Serbs have been manning
Continue Reading By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police say two people have been shot dead by al-Shabab militants and several houses have been torched in a rural area of coastal Kenya, police have confirmed. The Christmas night attack happened in the Pandaguo area in Lamu county that neighbors Boni forest, where security agencies
Continue ReadingCNN Lisa Morrow, CNN With sloping banks studded with elegant private mansions, palace parks and centuries-old groves, the Bosphorus is the embodiment of Istanbul. This 19-mile (30-kilometer) strait runs from the Black Sea in the north to the Sea of Marmara in the south. The urban sprawl covers Europe in the west and Asia to
Continue ReadingLisa Morrow, CNN With sloping banks studded with elegant private mansions, palace parks and centuries-old groves, the Bosphorus is the embodiment of Istanbul. This 19-mile (30-kilometer) strait runs from the Black Sea in the north to the Sea of Marmara in the south. The urban sprawl covers Europe in the west and Asia to the
Continue Reading KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations says its top official in Kabul has met the Taliban government’s economy minister in the Afghan capital. The meeting on Monday followed a decision by the country’s Taliban rulers to bar women from working for non-governmental organizations, allegedly because some female NGO employees were not wearing the Islamic
Continue ReadingBy BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s newly appointed prime minister has taken his oath as the leader of a fragile coalition that includes his former opponent and other smaller political parties. Maoist Communist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal was sworn in Monday by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari at the President House
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Almasy, Nouran Salahieh and Dakin Andone, CNN Dozens of Americans have died have died as a winter storm brought frigid temperatures and paralyzing snowfall totals across the US, and officials in the Buffalo area believe the staggering toll will continue to grow there as teams carry on with search-and-rescue missions. The nationwide
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities announced Monday the recovery of the body of a seventh victim after a bus plunged 30 meters (100 feet) from a bridge into a river on Christmas Eve. Reports of how many people were in the vehicle at the time of the accident were contradictory, and the search was resumed
Continue Reading By NICOLAS GARRIGA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Members of France’s Kurdish community and others are holding a silent march Monday to honor three people killed at a Kurdish cultural center in Paris. A 69-year-old Frenchman is facing preliminary charges of racially motivated murder over Friday’s shooting. Prosecutors say he told investigators
Continue ReadingCNN By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Investors saw a lot of red in 2022. But a company known for its magenta logo was a stock market darling this year. Shares of T-Mobile rose about 20% in 2022, even as rivals AT&T and Verizon tumbled. Ma Bell was down about 2% while Verizon plunged more
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Investors saw a lot of red in 2022. But a company known for its magenta logo was a stock market darling this year. Shares of T-Mobile rose about 20% in 2022, even as rivals AT&T and Verizon tumbled. Ma Bell was down about 2% while Verizon plunged more than
Continue Reading BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A key international highway in Serbia remains closed, along with schools and public institutions in an eastern town, following an ammonia leak that sickened dozens of people in the area. An emergency situation was declared in the eastern town of Pirot, near the border with Bulgaria, after a freight train carrying
Continue ReadingBy Jake Kwon, Sophie Jeong, Ivana Kottasová and Jessie Yeung, CNN South Korea’s military scrambled fighter jets and attack helicopters on Monday after five North Korean drones crossed into its airspace, with one aircraft crashing, according to the country’s defense ministry. The ministry said South Korea’s military fired shots at the drones, which measured under
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has formally ended a ban on the import of full-body sex dolls, ending years of debate over how much the government can interfere in private life. Although there are no laws or regulations banning the import of sex dolls, hundreds and perhaps thousands
Continue Reading By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian military reported Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an airbase deep inside Russia, the second time the facility has been targeted this month — again revealing weaknesses in Russia’s air defenses. Russia’s Defense Ministry said debris killed
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military fired warning shots, scrambled fighter jets and flew surveillance assets across the heavily fortified border with North Korea on Monday, after North Korean drones violated its airspace for the first time in five years in a fresh escalation of tensions. South Korea’s
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Tres militares rusos murieron este lunes después de que un dron ucraniano fuera derribado por las defensas aéreas cuando se acercaba a un aeródromo militar en el Óblast de Saratov, en lo profundo del territorio ruso, según las agencias de noticias estatales rusas, que citaron al Ministerio de Defensa. El
Continue Reading FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police say they believe no one is missing after a Christmas Day avalanche that swept across a ski trail near the town of Zuers in western Austria. First responders initially assumed as many as 10 people could be buried based on cell phone video, police in the Vorarlberg region said in
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