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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek firefighters recovered the body of a man from a stream in central Greece on Thursday, bringing the country’s death toll from floods to four after severe rainstorms turned streets into raging torrents, hurled cars into the sea and washing away roads and bridges. Another six people were missing. Authorities deployed
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister is warning that Syrian refugees could become a threat to the small Mediterranean nation’s delicate demographic and sectarian balance. Over a thousand Syrian refugees each week are fleeing to Lebanon from their country’s worsening economic and financial conditions. A conflict that broke out
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Film director Agnieszka Holland is demanding an apology from Poland’s justice minister after he compared her latest film to Nazi propaganda. Holland’s feature film, “Green Border,” explores the migration crisis at the Poland-Belarus border through the intertwining lives of a Polish humanitarian activist, a young Polish
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee whirled through open waters on Thursday as forecasters warned it could become the first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season. Lee was not expected to make landfall while on a projected path that will take it near the northeast Caribbean, although forecasters said tropical storm conditions
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of a powerful Japanese talent agency resigned Thursday and made an apology punctuated by repeated, lengthy bows, nine days after an internal investigation concluded that its founder had sexually abused hundreds of young performers over decades. Julie Keiko Fujishima announced she was stepping down as
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pets provide joy and companionship, but costs can add up quickly, especially if you’re a first-time owner and don’t know what to expect. Many prospective dog or cat owners only focus on the positive aspects of bringing a furry friend into their lives. And there are
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BADENDIECK Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish and international cave rescue experts are working to save a 40-year-old American speleologist who became ill and is trapped more than 3,200 feet into a cave in southern Turkey. Mark Dickey became sick during an international expedition in Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains. The
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Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Los niños están migrando a través de América Latina y el Caribe en cifras récord, impulsados por la violencia de las pandillas, la pobreza, la inestabilidad y el cambio climático, informó este miércoles el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef). En los primeros siete meses de 2023, más
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By Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — Ani Kirakosyani found out she was pregnant a month after the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh began. In her village of Haterk, tucked in a valley between the Caucasus hills, food supplies ran out quickly and the shops started to close, Kirakosyani told CNN. The only food available was what she
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Painfully long strikes have left Hollywood at a standstill, with many in the entertainment industry wondering how long this period of uncertainty will last. More than 11,000 writers have been on strike since May 2, and about 160,000 actors joined the picket lines on July 14. Negotiations are underway,
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting a diversity of beliefs. The statement released Thursday, the
Continue Reading By Brandon Miller, Robert Shackelford, Chris Liakos, Louise McLoughlin and Hande Atay Alam, CNN (CNN) — At least 14 people have died and several remain missing across Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria as torrential rain and severe flooding batter southern Europe. Flooding has claimed at least three lives in mainland Greece, seven in Turkey and left
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — British American Tobacco has struck an agreement to sell its businesses in Russia and Belarus, the company announced Thursday, more than 18 months after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine sparked a mass exodus of Western firms from Russia. BAT (BTI) said in a statement that it had entered
Continue Reading CNN By Rob Picheta, Teele Rebane and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — A drone attack caused an explosion near Russia’s military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, as Kyiv continues a campaign of strategic aerial strikes in Russian territory. Social media videos geolocated by CNN showed the attack in the vicinity of the
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Teele Rebane and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — A drone attack caused an explosion near Russia’s military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, as Kyiv continues a campaign of strategic aerial strikes in Russian territory. Social media videos geolocated by CNN showed the attack in the vicinity of the military
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A judge in San Bernardino, California, has temporarily blocked a school district policy that requires parents to be notified when their child asks to be recognized by a different gender identity or pronoun than they were assigned at birth. Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Garza issued a temporary restraining
Continue Reading CNN, FAMILY PHOTO, KRISTI HIRST, KCAL, KCBS, KABC, CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, KCAL/KCBS By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A judge in San Bernardino, California, has temporarily blocked a school district policy that requires parents to be notified when their child asks to be recognized by a different gender identity or pronoun than they
Continue ReadingPERTH, Australia (AP) — Police in western Australia allege a man killed a work colleague at a grain siolo before fleeing and turning the gun on himself. They say the 25-year-old shot a man in his 40s at the silo in the town Kellerberrin on Thursday morning and then fled the area. Police issued an
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrat Carl Marlinga says he’ll again seek a House seat in Michigan’s 10th District after narrowly losing to Republican John James last year. National Democrats are targeting the seat in 2024 following sweeping wins in the state in 2022, except in the 10th District. Before the
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s crusade to demonize the Anti-Defamation League is showing no signs of ending. The billionaire, burning white-hot anger at the Jewish nonprofit because it had the audacity to point out how hate speech has flourished on his X/Twitter platform, continued on Wednesday smearing the ADL and unleashing a
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