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By ARTURO RODRÍGUEZ and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day. The regional government for the Canary Islands says that 4,000 more
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have evacuated eight villages near the northeastern border with Turkey due to a large summer wildfire burning out of control and whipped on by high winds. The fire service says more than 130 firefighters, assisted by 17 water-dropping aircraft, are struggling to contain the blaze. The forest fire broke
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — On a Tuesday morning in August, a memo landed on President Joe Biden’s desk warning of the possibility of a storm hitting Hawaii. The August 8 memo was part of a daily summary focused on potential extreme weather facing the US based on public data, which the president started
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News Channel 3 is continuing to follow a power outage in the East Valley. We first reported that almost 50 power poles knocked down in Thermal after a monsoonal storm on Friday night. About 2,000 people are said to be sheltering in place without power. Our First Alert Weather Alert Team emphasizing that last night’s
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By Su Chay, Benjamin Brown and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — A Swiss national and 13 Myanmar citizens were arrested by the military junta on August 8 for working on a film authorities say harms Buddhist culture and tradition, state-funded media has reported. According to the junta, all 14 people allegedly worked on the film
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city. The state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city. The state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It’s easy to understand why Gail Newsham can’t stop grinning as she prepares for England’s soccer team to play in the final of the Women’s World Cup. Newsham, 70, grew up at a time when women in England were banned from the sport — called football here
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP, JIM MORRIS and MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Firefighters battling wildfires in western Canada received help from reinforcements and milder weather Saturday, after the nation’s worst fire season on record destroyed structures, fouled the air with thick smoke and prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of residents.
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Los residentes del suroeste se preparan para fuertes lluvias e inundaciones potencialmente catastróficas, ya que se espera que el huracán Hilary azote la región como una tormenta tropical rara a partir de este domingo y hasta la próxima semana. Hilary avanza hacia la costa de la península de Baja California en
Continue Reading By Maria Kostenko, Sarah Dean and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — At least seven people died including a six-year-old girl and nearly 130 others injured after a Russian missile strike hit a central square in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, Ukrainian officials said. Saturday’s strike – in a city close to the Russian border
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Al Quie, a moderate Republican known for working across the aisle as both governor and as a congressman, has died. He was 99. His son, Joel Quie, says he died of natural causes late Friday at his home in Wayzata. Al Quie represented southern
Continue Reading By Dalal Mawad Paris (CNN) — The French army general appointed to oversee the reconstruction of Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral has died during a mountain walk. “The nation has lost one of its great soldiers,” President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday. He described General Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, as one
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Yellowknife lawyer and former forest firefighter Garth Wallbridge has a straightforward message for anyone who’s still in the city and doesn’t need to be. “If you’re just a citizen and you’re hanging around Yellowknife, my request, saying it
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — ¿Vas al aeropuerto? Asegúrate de usar zapatos cómodos. A medida que los viajes vuelven con fuerza, las personas caminan distancias más largas desde la acera hasta la puerta de embarque, pasando Hudson News, Chanel y Estée Lauder libres de impuestos, salones, Auntie Anne’s y Starbucks. Y eso es solo el partido
Continue ReadingBy Natasha O’Neill, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Fighting wildfires in Canada is not an easy job. Firefighters often work in sweltering, dry heat and strong winds can sometimes make the task of putting out fires nearly impossible. They are the kind of people who run
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — An incident involving a bird gave new meaning to the term “fish fry” after an electric company suspected an osprey of dropping its meal onto power lines – triggering an outage in a New Jersey neighborhood. A fish that fell from a bird’s grip landed on a transponder
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — En medio de un clima de inseguridad e incertidumbre política y social, Ecuador llega finalmente a sus elecciones 2023. Los comicios se llevarán a cabo este domingo 20 de agosto, y serán elecciones presidenciales y legislativas anticipadas (además de que los ciudadanos votarán en consultas populares). Se trata de elecciones anticipadas
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they’ve rescued dozens of migrants in inflatable dinghies trying to cross from Turkey to the nearby eastern Aegean Sea islands in four separate incidents. A coast guard statement says a patrol boat located 41 people early Saturday on an inflatable dinghy that was drifting off the island of
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British police say a sting operation at a London hotel helped authorities recover a 15th-century Chinese vase worth about 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) and break up the criminal ring believed to have stolen the artifact from a Swiss museum. The vase, which dates to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty,
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