By RADUL RADOVANOVIC and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo have clashed with police at a municipal building as they tried to take over one of the local communes where ethnic Albanian mayors entered last week with the help of authorities. The violence was the latest incident as
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By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer The Detroit Tigers are 25-26 and haven’t spent a day above .500 all season. They’re also one game out of first place. The Chicago Cubs have the worst record in the National League but are only 4 1/2 games out of a playoff spot. As Memorial Day arrives, some
Continue Reading By CIARÁN GILES and JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early general election for July 23 in a surprise move after his Socialist party took a serious battering in local and regional elections. Sánchez had previously insisted that he would ride out his four-year term with
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By David McKenzie and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, the speaker of parliament said, defying international pressure, including from the United States which said it was “deeply troubled.” The bill includes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality’ which includes sex
Continue Reading By Al Goodman, CNN Madrid (CNN) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced snap parliamentary elections in July, hours after his ruling Socialists suffered major setbacks in regional and local elections. In a nationally televised statement, Sanchez said he had informed Spain’s King Felipe VI, the head of state, to hold parliamentary elections on
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Tras los resultados electores de este domingo, donde el Partido Popular fue la fuerza más votada en los comicios regionales y municipales, el presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, anunció este lunes que disuelve el Parlamento y convoca a elecciones generales para el 23 de julio, cinco meses antes de
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El presidente de Belarús, Alexander Lukashenko, afirmó que los países que estén dispuestos a “unirse al Estado de la Unión de Rusia y Belarús” recibirán armas nucleares. Las declaraciones llegan días después de confirmar que la transferencia de algunas armas nucleares tácticas desde Moscú a Minsk comenzó. Lukashenko, un aliado
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer World shares were mostly higher Monday after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a final agreement on a deal to raise the U.S. national debt ceiling, though the measure requires approval by Congress. Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney and Shanghai advanced while Hong Kong fell. Markets in
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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials began evacuating thousands of villagers, shut down schools and offices and imposed a no-sail ban Monday as Typhoon Mawar approached the country’s northern provinces a week after battering the U.S. territory of Guam. The typhoon is packing maximum sustained winds of 155 kpm (96
Continue Reading KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s maritime agency says it has detained a Chinese-registered vessel on suspicion of looting two British warship wrecks in the South China Sea. It says it found a World War II-era cannon shell aboard the barge carrier. Malaysian media reported that illegal salvage operators were believed to have targeted the
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he will sign a bill that creates a commission to investigate Russian influence in Poland. It is a move that critics view as a tool to target political opponents of the ruling party especially opposition leader Donald Tusk. The law proposed by the
Continue Reading By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency team has arrived in Tokyo for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a plan that has been strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries.
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Two U.N. agencies are warning of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods. The four countries join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen at the highest alert levels, with communities
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Wuhan, the largest city in central China, has publicly demanded that hundreds of local companies repay their debts, in an extremely rare move that highlights the dire financial situation facing many of the country’s municipal governments amid economic uncertainty. The city’s finance bureau said in a Friday
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The attacks come at night, when most in Kyiv are sound asleep. The sirens wail across the Ukrainian capital, rousing bleary-eyed residents, who, after 15 months of war, have customized individual routines to cope with Russia’s latest air campaign. In the recent escalation of Russian attacks,
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Edward James Olmos se ha sincerado sobre su reciente problema de salud y lo calificó como “una experiencia que le cambió”. “Es la primera vez que lo digo públicamente, pero tuve cáncer de garganta”, dijo Olmos, de 76 años, en el podcast “Mando & Friends” el viernes. “Acabo de terminar de
Continue Reading By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a mandate to rule until 2028, securing five more years as leader of a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia that plays a key role in NATO. He must now confront skyrocketing inflation that has
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a while since Emiliano Grillo has been able to lift a trophy in celebration on the PGA Tour. After 71 holes of the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, it looked like the Argentine might finally be ending that streak with a two-shot lead with one
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez Nota del editor: La siguiente reseña contiene spoilers importantes sobre el final de la serie “Succession”. (CNN) — Los hijos de Logan Roy se dieron un agradable baño juntos en el final de “Succession”, que resultó ser un preludio perfecto para la demostración de despedida de la serie de los peligros de nadar
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