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Month: June 2023

Guinea-Bissau votes to elect legislature more than a year after president dissolved parliament

By SAMBU ASSANA and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Bissau-Guineans are voting in a highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau’s national legislature. The voting on Sunday comes more than a year after the West African nation’s president dissolved parliament. African human rights group the Center for Democracy and Development said that nearly

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4 construction workers remain hospitalized after building collapse in New Haven, Connecticut

By Celina Tebor and Jeremy Ryan, CNN (CNN) — Four construction workers remain hospitalized, including one in serious condition, after a building collapse in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday, according to a hospital official. Eight people – all construction workers – were injured in the collapse, with two initially in critical condition. Four have been

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Crushed rail cars. Bodies tangled in metal. Passengers and first responders recount the horror of deadly India train crash

CNN By Kunal Sehgal, Ivan Watson, Ajay Bedi and Deepak Rao, CNN Bahanaga, India (CNN) — Authorities investigating one of the deadliest train crashes in India’s history were examining whether a signal failure led to the disaster, as rescue workers finished their search for survivors and overturned train cars were cleared from the tracks on

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