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By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six countries that will join the BRICS bloc of developing economies as new members from 2024, South Africa’s president said Thursday. United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia are also set to join the bloc that is currently
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By Rhea Mogul, Manveena Suri and Vedika Sud, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Indians around the world have united with pride and excitement after the South Asian nation on Wednesday became the first country to soft land a spacecraft on the moon’s unexplored South Pole, and only the fourth country to reach the lunar surface.
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say an avalanche of rock tumbled down a hillside in Israel near the Dead Sea, injuring several people. Israel’s rescue service did not give the exact number of injured but said the casualties included a 4-year-old girl and a seriously injured man. It was not immediately clear what caused the
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Deep-sea octopuses are typically solitary creatures that inhabit frigid waters in one of Earth’s most challenging environments. The 2018 discovery of thousands of the eight-legged cephalopods about 2 miles below the ocean’s surface flummoxed and fascinated marine scientists in equal measure. The consortium of octopuses clustered around a hydrothermal vent
Continue Reading By Emiko Jozuka, Jessie Yeung and Tara Subramaniam and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — China announced Thursday it was banning all seafood from Japan in response to Tokyo’s decision to begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, dramatically escalating an already tense feud between the two neighbors. The release is part of
Continue ReadingKATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims from India crashed in southern Nepal killing at least seven occupants and injuring others. Police said the victims in Thursday’s early morning accident include six Indian nationals and and a Nepalese person. The crash occurred as the pilgrims were returning home to Janakpur in southern Nepal
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and top officers of his private military were presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged a mutiny that dented Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority. Russia’s civil aviation agency said that Prigozhin and six top lieutenants
Continue Reading KABC By Jamiel Lynch, Taylor Romine, Josh Campbell and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — A husband in the midst of divorce proceedings went to a Southern California bar where his wife was dining on Wednesday and shot her before opening fire at random, killing three people and injuring six others before he was killed by
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson, Holly Yan, Christina Maxouris and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — The apocalyptic wildfires that raced across Maui have claimed at least 115 lives – a devastating number that’s expected to grow. Many of the victims died while trying to escape the flames – including a 7-year-old boy and three members of his
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, arrived at a Moscow court Thursday for a hearing on a motion by the prosecution to extend his arrest. A 31-year-old United States citizen, Gershkovich was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip to Russia
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani won’t pitch for the rest of the season because of a torn ligament in his right elbow, Los Angeles Angels general manager Perry Minasian said Wednesday night. The Angels don’t yet know whether the major league homers leader and 10-game winner will need
Continue ReadingTRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Three people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said. The gunman was also killed by deputies. The shooting occurred after 7 p.m. at Cook’s Corner in rural Trabuco Canyon in Orange County, a popular
Continue ReadingTRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Three people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said. The gunman was also killed by deputies. The shooting occurred after 7 p.m. at Cook’s Corner in rural Trabuco Canyon in Orange County, a popular
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his primary rivals – most of them men wearing ties similar to the bright red one regularly worn by the former president – brawled for second-place status Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Voting is still underway in Zimbabwe, where hourslong delays in distributing ballot papers forced the president to extend the general election by a day at dozens of polling stations. Some frustrated voters slept at polling stations in the capital, Harare, snuggling under blankets or lighting fires
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press OKUMA, Japan (AP) — Japan’s tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant in Fukushima is releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. In a live video from a control room at the plant Thursday, the operator showed a staff member turn on a seawater pump, starting the controversial
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani won’t pitch for the rest of the season because of a ligament tear in his right elbow, Los Angeles Angels general manager Perry Minasian said Wednesday night. The Angels don’t yet know whether the major league homers leader and 10-game winner will need
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Travis Caldwell, CNN (CNN) — Lionel Messi and Inter Miami just keep finding ways to win. Days after Messi and his club won the Leagues Cup – the international tournament between clubs in Major League Soccer and Liga MX – Inter Miami defeated FC Cincinnati in a penalty kick shootout to
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press AL-QABUN, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian hamlet of al-Qabun in the central occupied West Bank was silent this week — the grazing fields for sheep deserted, the empty schoolhouse locked, the makeshift homes left as steel carcasses. The last families living there packed up two weeks ago, driven from
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Boarding pass? Check. Photo ID? Check. Weight? What? Passengers flying with Korean Air in the next few weeks may be asked to take one additional step before boarding – getting on the scale. However, the policy has nothing to do with body shaming. Korean Air is one of the
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