By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press COLCHANE, Chile (AP) — In northern Chile, Teófila Challapa learned to weave surrounded by the hills and sandy roads of the Atacama Desert. “Spin the threads, girl,” her grandmother told her a half a century ago. Aymara women like Challapa, now 59, become acquainted with wool threads under blue
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By Christian Edwards and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — The self-declared republic of Nagorno-Karabakh will cease to exist from next year after its president signed a decree dissolving state institutions following its defeat by Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani victory last week triggered a a huge exodus of ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh and marked the end
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street turned lower early Thursday as concerns over interest rates, rising oil prices and a possible government shutdown hung over markets. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials inched back about 0.1% before the bell, while the S&P 500 lost 0.2%. After more than a decade
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Documents released Wednesday by House Republicans shed new light on how two IRS agents who investigated Hunter Biden felt like they hit roadblocks whenever President Joe Biden’s name came up in the criminal probe. However, some of the documents also show that senior
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, H.E.R., Chris Stapleton, St. Vincent and New Edition will perform at this fall’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which will be broadcast live for the first time. The ceremony will be live on Disney+ on Nov.
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 82. A statement by his family, issued by his publicist, said he died following “a bout of pneumonia.” “We
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish government says it has withdrawn its support for the country’s oldest film festival after organizers reversed a decision to exclude a politically sensitive documentary. The Culture and Tourism Ministry says it’s backing out of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival following the reinstatement of “Kanun Hukmu,” or
Continue ReadingJack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Pokémon is partnering with the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam as part of a new collaboration to teach youngsters about the work of one of the Netherlands’ most famous artists. A number of Pokémon-themed exhibits will run at the Van Gogh Museum from Thursday as part of the museum’s
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Police had been searching for the man arrested in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur since last week as a suspect in a separate rape and arson, officials said Thursday. Jason Billingsley, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s Supreme Court has started hearing petitions against a new law making it harder to declare a prime minister unfit for office. Eleven of the 15 Supreme Court judges were hearing Thursday’s arguments. Within two months, the court would have heard arguments on three cases that challenge laws
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced federal disaster assistance for Louisiana, which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state. Biden’s emergency declaration will allow for more
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack while performing in Romania’s capital. The musician was seen to clutch his chest and then to walk off stage, and the was canceled shortly after. The hospital in Bucharest says he is in a stable condition. In a statement,
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The BBC and French authorities say that six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the women made a distress call to a journalist. The women, four Vietnamese and two Iraqis, hid for hours in
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — A 24-time tennis grand slam champion driving the green at the flagship event in men’s golf, toasting it with a footballer’s signature celebration and watched on by a Formula One driver – the 2023 Ryder Cup celebrity All-Star match was a dizzying medley of sporting excellence. Fresh off a
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Eslovaquia se está preparando para elegir a su quinto primer ministro en sólo cuatro años, y con el partido de oposición del simpatizante del Kremlin, Robert Fico, liderando las encuestas, el país está siendo observado con alarma en Occidente. Desde que Rusia invadió Ucrania en febrero pasado, Eslovaquia ha sido
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Taiwán presentó este jueves su primer submarino construido en el país, un logro que la líder de la democracia insular aclamó como un hito importante mientras Taipei trabaja para impulsar su disuasión militar ante una creciente amenaza de Beijing. La presidenta Tsai Ing-wen presidió una ceremonia en el astillero del
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack in Romania’s capital and is now receiving treatment in hospital. A spokesperson for the hospital in Bucharest says he is in a stable condition. In a statement, the hospital says Di Meola, who’s 69 years old, was admitted on
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand said Thursday they made one of the country’s biggest ever seizures of illicit drugs, a haul including methamphetamine, crystal meth and heroin, with a total estimated street value of about 300 million baht ($8.2 million). The police said the drugs were seized during a
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– El regreso de Lionel Messi a la cancha duró muy poco: el astro argentino fue sustituido en el minuto 37 del partido del Inter Miami contra Toronto FC este miércoles en el DRV PNK Stadium en Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Apenas unos minutos después de que a su compañero Jordi Alba lo sacaran
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The Chinese defense ministry has given its first public statement on the disappearance of the minister from public view about a month ago. A ministry spokesman has told a monthly news conference he’s “not aware of the situation”. Senior Col. Wu Qian gave only that one-sentence response when asked whether Li Shangfu
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