By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani appeals court has suspended the corruption conviction and three-year prison term of Imran Khan in a legal victory for the hugely popular but embattled former prime minister. That’s according to lawyers and court officials. Hours after the announcement, the Islamabad High Court in a written
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top military officer has visited Egypt on his first trip abroad since the country plunged into a large-scale conflict this year. The Egyptian presidency says President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi held talks with Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the chairman of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council, on the conflict in
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The Rugby World Cup will take place against the backdrop of a concussion lawsuit that has similarities to one settled by the NFL in 2013 at a likely cost of more than $1 billion. A growing number of rugby players in their 30s and 40s contend the sport’s governing
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rolled the dice on Monday with his opening move in the sprawling Fulton County election subversion trial: he took the stand himself. For roughly three-and-a-half hours Monday, Meadows testified about his job at the White House
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stargazers are in for a double treat this week: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of the month, the reason it’s considered blue. It’s dubbed a supermoon because it’s closer
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The top Chinese official in charge of economic relations with Washington has told Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo he’s ready to “make new positive efforts” to improve cooperation following an agreement to reduce trade tension. The agreement on Monday is the most substantial result to date out
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By Eleni Giokos, Xiaofei Xu and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Greek authorities have arrested dozens of people on arson-related charges as deadly wildfires – the largest ever recorded in the European Union – rage across the country. Wildfires in Mount Parnitha, north of the Greek capital Athens, are still out of control Friday, with
Continue ReadingBy Pau Mosquera, Claudia Rebaza and Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — The presidents of Spain’s regional soccer federations are calling for the resignation of Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the National Football Association, in a statement published Monday following an emergency meeting. Rubiales was suspended by FIFA, the world’s governing soccer body, on Saturday
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka and Saki Toi, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A wave of online harassment and vitriol directed at Japanese people following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from Fukushima has sent tensions between Japan and China soaring, prompting Tokyo to summon the Chinese ambassador. China’s heavily censored internet exploded in
Continue Reading CNN By Alex Stambaugh, Jennifer Hansler, Louise McLoughlin and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Rare new video has emerged showing detained American Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russia for more than four years, inside his prison camp. The video, released by Russian state-controlled news agency Russia Today (RT), shows Whelan wearing a Russian
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says a Pakistani appeals court has suspended the corruption conviction and three-year prison term of Imran Khan in a legal victory for the embattled former prime minister. The Islamabad High court on Tuesday also granted bail for Khan. However, it’s not immediately clear if he will be released since
Continue Reading Exclusive by Tamara Qiblawi, Allegra Goodwin, Nima Elbagir and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti and streets strewn with corpses. The state governor had just
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat James Cleverly is set to visit China on Wednesday in the first trip by a U.K. foreign secretary to the country in more than five years. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed the long-awaited trip on Tuesday. He said the two diplomats will have in-depth communication on Sino-British
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have detained two men on suspicion of violating the city’s national security law through links with a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested in the pro-democracy protests in 2019. Police say the two men are suspected of conspiring to collude with
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Novak Djokovic, el tenista No. 2 del mundo, se estrenó en el Abierto de Estados Unidos en Flushing Meadows, Nueva York, este lunes por la noche con una victoria contundente sobre el francés Alexandre Muller por 6-0, 6-2 y 6-3, en su intento por conquistar su 24º título de Grand
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — Un movimiento telúrico sorprendió a Panamá durante la medianoche de este martes con una magnitud de 5,4 y una profundidad de 10 kilómetros. Su epicentro fue localizado a 61 kilómetros de El Porvenir, cabecera de la comarca Guna Yala, según el Instituto Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for his military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart plots to invade his country, as the U.S., South Korea and Japan held a trilateral naval exercise to deal with North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats.
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps. “I’ve only come across worms using my not-so-good gardening skills … I find them
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The British government says a cyberattack was not the cause of a breakdown at the nationwide air traffic control system that saw hundreds of flights delayed and canceled. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the problem was caused by a “technical fault” at the flight control operator, National Air Traffic Services. The company
Continue ReadingCNN By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton and Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Idalia has strengthened into a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph and stronger gusts and is expected to intensify considerably into a powerful Category 3 hurricane before making landfall in Florida on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm
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