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PARIS (AP) — Protesters have vandalized the Nice office of the president of the Republican party in an apparent threat to get his right-wing party to vote to block President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Eric Ciotti tweeted a photo of his office in the French Riviera city with shattered windows, after a paving stone was
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind and Krystal Hur, CNN Global banks just suffered their worst week since 2008. So what comes next? The fallout from this month’s banking turmoil — the surprising bank runs and collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — has been widespread. In its wake, the global banking system has been shaken.
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Officials have shut down a large funfair in western Germany after a man was stabbed to death on a carousel Saturday night. Police said the 31-year-old victim and another unknown man got into a fight while riding a carousel at the fair in Münster, a city of around 300,000. During the fight,
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN 62, 65, 67, 70. All these ages are important when it comes to Social Security and Medicare. And these ages are also targets in the contentious debate over how to shore up the shaky finances of the massive entitlement programs. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently zeroed in on raising the
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the military’s chief of staff to contain a wave of protest from within the ranks over a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary. Netanyahu’s remarks Sunday come as Israel is embroiled in a major crisis that has
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We saw plenty of sunshine yesterday but heavier cloud cover is expected today due to increased moisture. Light rainfall remains possible for our local mountains and for areas west of the valley like San Bernardino today. Rainfall is more likely to develop on the valley floor overnight Sunday through Monday evening. Rain will remain light
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar had announced the nation’s former finance minister faces charges including bribery and embezzlement from his time in the post. Ali Sharif al-Emadi had been arrested in May 2021, with little about his case being made public. In a short statement Sunday on the state-run Qatar News Agency, prosecutors
Continue Reading DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A speeding bus has fallen into a roadside ditch in central Bangladesh, leaving at least 19 people dead and more than 20 others injured. Police say 14 people died at the scene on Sunday in the district of Madaripur. News reports say another three people died later. The bus was travelling
Continue Reading By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says one of its commanders has been killed in Syria in what it described as an assassination by Israeli agents. Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad group, says that Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, 31, was killed Sunday morning in
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN As head of PAWS Atlanta, Joe Labriola can get a good sense of the region’s economic well-being from the day-to-day activity of the city’s oldest no-kill animal shelter. Through the course of the past year, it’s become increasingly clear to him that people in the area are struggling under the weight
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Alvin Bragg, a former New York state and federal prosecutor, drew national attention when he made history as the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s first Black district attorney. Now, he is back in the spotlight after a grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump following a yearslong investigation into the former president’s
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Kuwaiti court has annulled the results of a parliamentary election held last year, saying it would reinstate the previous slate of lawmakers elected in 2020. The decision Sunday by Kuwait’s Constitutional Court, reported by the state-run KUNA news agency, threw more chaos into the politics of this small,
Continue Reading SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Rights activists in the Serb-run part of Bosnia have been assaulted, hours after police banned an LGBT event planned there over the weekend, citing security concerns. The attack took place as the activists were leaving a meeting at the offices of the Bosnian branch of the global anti-corruption group Transparency International
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea as it ramps up testing activities in response to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the missile launched Sunday morning from the North’s northwestern region flew across the
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN A farmers’ protest party in the Netherlands has caused a shock after winning provincial elections this week just four years after their founding. Could their rise have wider implications? The Farmer-Citizen Movement or BoerburgerBeweging (BBB) grew out of mass demonstrations against the Dutch government’s environmental policies, protests that saw farmers using
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Brightly colored toys buried in mud. Brown murky water where cars once parked. Family photos floating through a neighborhood. This is what one Southern California community looked like last week, lifelong Ventura resident Angie Thompson said, after the state’s 11th atmospheric river this winter wrought hurricane-like winds and catastrophic flooding. “We’re
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea as it ramps up testing activities in response to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the missile launched Sunday morning from the North’s northwestern region flew across the
Continue Reading By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s rainy season brings a bonanza of wild mushrooms, which many rural families feast upon and sell to boost their incomes. But the bounty also comes with danger as each year there are reports of people dying after eating poisonous fungi. Discerning between safe and toxic
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin arrived in Mariupol late Saturday after visiting Crimea, a short distance southwest of Mariupol,
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israeli and Palestinian officials are meeting in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in a bid to ease tensions between the sides and rein in a spiral of violence ahead of a sensitive holiday period beginning this week. The meeting Sunday was the
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