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By Frederik Pleitgen and Anna Cooban, CNN Berlin/London (CNN) — Rheinmetall will open an armored vehicle plant in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks, shrugging off concerns other Western defense companies reportedly have about building a presence in the country while it is at war with Russia. Germany’s biggest arms maker will also train Ukrainians
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Monday he would step down as leader of the country’s ruling party and leave politics, after his government collapsed over immigration policy, Dutch national broadcaster and CNN affiliate NOS reported. The inveterate survivor of Dutch politics, nicknamed “Teflon Mark” because
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By Catherine Nicholls and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Monday he would step down as leader of the country’s ruling party and leave politics, after his government collapsed over immigration policy, Dutch national broadcaster and CNN affiliate NOS reported. The inveterate survivor of Dutch politics, nicknamed “Teflon Mark” because
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Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Un infante de marina de los Estados Unidos fue detenido para ser interrogado después de que una niña de 14 años, que había sido reportada como desaparecida, fuera encontrada en la base del cuerpo de marines Camp Pendleton en el condado de San Diego, California, el mes pasado, dijeron las autoridades.
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he plans to leave politics after a general election sparked by his government’s resignation. Rutte announced his decision at a hastily arranged parliamentary debate on Monday. He says he will “not be available again” as leader of the conservative
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian tennis player Victoria Azarenka said “it wasn’t fair” that the Wimbledon crowd booed at the end of her fourth-round match against Ukrainian Elina Svitolina. As she has done after facing other Russian and Belarusian players, Svitolina – who won the tight contest 2-6 6-4 7-6 (11-9) – declined
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps and Eru Ishikawa, CNN (CNN) — A 17-year-old Canadian was brought in for questioning for allegedly carving a name into a wooden pillar at a UNESCO-listed temple in the historic city of Nara, Japan, according to local police. The alleged incident took place at the centuries-old Toshodaiji Kondo temple complex on the
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden dijo antes de un viaje crítico a Europa que Ucrania aún no está lista para ingresar a la OTAN. Más concretamente, la alianza aún no está lista para que Ucrania se una en un paso histórico que podría disuadir a Moscú pero que también podría aumentar el
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chris Paul worked out with new teammate Stephen Curry on Sunday morning in Las Vegas. His assessment of the session: They didn’t miss too many shots. Evidently, Paul’s time with the Golden State Warriors is off to a flying start. The veteran point guard revealed
Continue Reading By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s newly named Roman Catholic cardinal says he hopes for reconciliation and wants the city to give young people more hope following the economic downturn and a campaign to crush a pro-democracy movement. Chow said on Monday that it’s a new mission that God assigned
Continue Reading By MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the match wasn’t going to be a nail-biter: the Association Sportive des Forces Armees Royales, a powerhouse in women’s soccer here, ended up crushing its Moroccan national women’s professional league opponent 7-0. One young fan in the
Continue Reading The Associated Press Russia’s Defense Ministry has released a video of the country’s military chief. The video made public on Monday is the first time Gen. Valery Gerasimov has been shown since the leader of a mercenary army sought his dismissal during a brief rebellion last month. In the video, Gerasimov is shown hearing a
Continue Reading By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead. Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has sentenced a popular rapper to six years and three months in prison over his participation in protests that rocked the country last year. A social media account run by supporters of Toomaj Salehi announced the sentence Monday. There was no immediate word from Iranian authorities. Salehi was
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s industry minister has visited the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to see equipment that would be used in the planned release of treated radioactive water into the sea to ensure the safety of the controversial plan. Opponents of the plan, including many from South Korea, rallied
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — When MosaicML, a generative AI platform company, decided to upgrade its office space, its CEO and co-founder, Naveen Rao, was set on San Francisco, even though he lives in Southern California. “Everyone is talking about doom and gloom, this and that, but it’s still literally the best place in
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Investors in Thames Water have agreed to put an extra £750 million ($962 million) of equity funding into the troubled utility to hold off a temporary takeover by the government. The amount is less than the company was hoping to raise. Britain’s biggest water company said Monday that
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Six people have been killed and one injured in an early morning knife attack outside a kindergarten in southern China, according to Lianjiang city police and Chinese state-run media. The incident took place around 7:40 a.m. on Monday in Hengshan town within Lianjiang, in Guangdong province,
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia publicó un video del alto general del ejército Valery Gerasimov supuestamente hablando este domingo, su primera aparición pública desde la fallida insurrección del grupo Wagner el 24 de junio. En una publicación junto al video en Telegram, el ministerio dijo que Gerasimov, que rara vez
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Six people have been killed and one injured in an early morning knife attack outside a kindergarten in southern China, according to Lianjiang city police and Chinese state-run media. The incident took place around 7:40 a.m. on Monday in Hengshan town within Lianjiang, in Guangdong province,
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