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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A fire in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital killed at least 10 people, including four children, and injured more than 50 others, state media reported Wednesday. The fire has been extinguished and rescue operations were continuing, the official Vietnam News Agency reported. Authorities have not confirmed the exact number
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ending a global guessing game on when and where they would meet, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held talks at a rocket launch facility in the Russian Far East. The two isolated, nuclear-armed leaders were expected to discuss
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — BP CEO Bernard Looney has resigned after admitting that he had not been “fully transparent” about “historical relationships with colleagues,” according to a statement from the oil giant on Tuesday. Murray Auchincloss, the company’s CFO, will act as CEO on an interim basis. “In May 2022, the
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed support for Russia’s “sacred fight” during a summit with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that the U.S. warned could lead to a deal to supply ammunition for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. After touring launch pads
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Emergency crews are working to protect the Outback Australian town of Tennant Creek with containment lines as a huge wildfire threatens the remote community of 3,000. The fire had scorched 3,900 square miles of grass and scrubland by Wednesday in the Northern Territory east of Tennant
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Tinzert, Atlas Mountains, Morocco (CNN) — Rajaa Acherhri was known as the village math genius. At six years old, she loved solving problems way above her grade level. He sister Sanaa had big dreams too. She wanted to become a doctor, her mother Fatema told CNN. After dinner on Friday night,
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Gawon Bae, Jake Kwon, Jessie Yeung, Brad Lendon and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Kim Jong Un’s heavily armored private train has crossed into Russia and the North Korean leader has met with officials, state media reported Tuesday, ahead of an expected and closely watched summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that
Continue Reading CNN By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Libya is racing to bury its dead as bodies pile up in the streets of Derna, the northern coastal city devastated by flooding after a torrential downpour smashed through two dams, washing homes into the sea. Morgues are full in hospitals that remain out of service despite the
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — On Sunday afternoon, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stepped onto an old-fashioned green train that has by now become an enduring symbol of the hermit nation’s isolation and secrecy. Images released by North Korean state media KCNA show Kim boarding his private train as he prepared to travel
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian attack on a strategic shipyard early Wednesday in Russian-annexed Crimea wounded 24 people, damaged two ships undergoing repairs and caused a fire at the facility, Russian authorities reported. The attack in the port city of Sevastopol, which serves as the main
Continue ReadingDERNA, Libya (AP) — Rescuers have found more than 2,000 bodies as of Wednesday in the wreckage of a Libyan city where floodwaters broke dams and washed away neighborhoods. Officials fear the death toll could exceed 5,000 in the nation made vulnerable by years of turmoil and neglect. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused deadly flooding in
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo and Alex Rees, CNN New York City (CNN) — Swarming crowds and extravagant locations are par for the course at New York Fashion Week. But sometimes it’s the smallest venues that leave the biggest impression. On Monday, a packed rooftop show hosted by convicted felon Anna Delvey became one of the more
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press SEOUL (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that his country offers its “full and unconditional support” for Russia’s “sacred fight” to defend its security interests, in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine, and said Pyongyang will
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Qantas Airways has lost its challenge to a court ruling that the Australian flag carrier had illegally fired 1,700 baggage handlers, cleaners and other ground staff at the height of pandemic travel disruptions. Seven High Court judges on Wednesday unanimously rejected Qantas’ appeal against a Federal
Continue Reading By Hamdi Alkhshali, Mostafa Salem and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — More than 5,000 people are presumed dead and 10,000 missing after heavy rains in northeastern Libya caused two dams to collapse, surging more water into already inundated areas. Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation
Continue ReadingBy TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un’s train journey to Russia has a storied history. The tradition of train travel extends across the generations. That’s in evidence at the massive Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where reconstructions of Kim Jong Un’s father’s and grandfather’s train cars, and
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that his country offers its “full and unconditional support” for Russia’s “sacred fight” to defend its security interests, in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine, and said
Continue ReadingHANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A fire in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital killed about 12 people and injured more than 50, state media reported Wednesday. The fire has been extinguished and rescue operations were continuing, the official Vietnam News Agency reported. Authorities have not confirmed an exact death toll. The fire was believed
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The prospect of an auto workers strike could test Joe Biden’s treasured assertion that he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history. A work stoppage against the Big Three U.S. automakers has the potential to reshape the political landscape in the battleground state
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un began on Wednesday at the Vostochny cosmodrome, Russian state news agency Tass reported. The talks, which included their delegations, began shortly after Putin and Kim toured various facilities at
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