By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say they have arrested at least 27 suspected militants believed to have links to banned extremist groups, in a nationwide crackdown as the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country gears up for elections in 2024. The police’s elite counterterrorism squad, known as Densus 88, made
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD The Pakistani military say two soldiers and one militant have been killed in a roadside bomb explosion and in a separate shootout during an overnight military operation in the northwest along the border with Afghanistan. Two militants were arrested. A statement said an operation was conducted in the Tirah valley of Khyber district triggered
Continue ReadingCNN By Martynas Ruseckas and Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — For most people, jumping off a platform which hangs 66-feet in the air from a cliff with just deep open water below is a terrifying prospect, but for high diver and influencer Molly Carlson it is a chance to be free. It is her time
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our latest roundup of travel news: great cities for world-class cocktails, Japanese street food and Michelin-starred fine dining, plus father-son and grandmother-granddaughter aviation teams taking to the skies. And with Halloween on the horizon, find out why “tombstone tourists” find cemeteries so fascinating. Bars, street food and fine
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A coal mine fire in central Kazakhstan has killed at least 21 workers while another 25 remained unaccounted for, the operating company ArcelorMittal Temirtau said in a statement. Some 252 people were working at the Kostenko coal mine Saturday at the time of the blaze, believed to have been caused by a
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Until she left for college, film historian Karie Bible spent almost her entire childhood living next to a cemetery. It’s where the Texas native rode her bike, played with her brother and passed by nearly every day. Other kids may have traded creepy stories about cemeteries or swore they’re
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Snell, CNN (CNN) — South Africa and New Zealand will meet on Saturday in a Rugby World Cup final for the first time since 1995. On that occasion, it was tournament host South Africa which won a close-fought contest 15-12 to lift the Webb Ellis Cup for the first time. After the end
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE, JULIA FRANKEL and SAM MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Saturday it is expanding its ground operation in Gaza with infantry and armored vehicles backed by “massive” strikes from the air and sea, including the bombing of Hamas tunnels — a key target in its campaign to crush the territory’s
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Last year, customers did their Halloween shopping early. But this year, they’re taking their time. That means that this weekend, Hershey — which makes Reese’s, Kit Kat (in the US), Twizzlers and more — is counting on shoppers to load up on candy so it can meet its
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military released grainy images Saturday of tank columns moving slowly in open areas of Gaza and said warplanes bombed dozens of Hamas tunnels and underground bunkers, signaling a further escalation in its campaign to crush the territory’s ruling militant group after its
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Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police have arrested six people and seized automatic weapons after a shooting between migrants near the country’s tense border with Hungary killed three people and injured one. Police said late Friday they detained four Afghan and two Turkish nationals suspected of unlawful possession of guns and explosives. It was not
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By John Miller, Evan Perez, Josh Campbell, Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A US Army reservist accused of killing 18 people and injuring 13 others in a shooting rampage in Maine this week was found dead Friday evening – apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot – after a two-day manhunt, a state official
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday. The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — En Irán murió una adolescente que entró en coma tras ser supuestamente agredida por la policía de la moral del país, informaron medios estatales. “Desgraciadamente, los daños cerebrales llevaron a la víctima a pasar un tiempo en coma y falleció hace unos minutos”, señala el comunicado de la agencia IRNA.
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least four people. Seven others were critically wounded in the attack Thursday evening, according to Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief. The Islamic State affiliates claimed responsibility for
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley R. Williams, Sara Smart, John Miller, Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose Ashley Williams, Sara Smart, John Miller, Aya Elamroussi, Andy Rose and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — A sense of relief washed over a grieving Maine community that endured two days of fear after authorities announced the man accused of killing 18
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, Gabrielle Smith and Brian Fung, CNN New York (CNN) — You’d be forgiven for failing to remember every twist and turn — every controversial post, weird office update, legal threat and policy rollout (and, sometimes, rollback) — that took place during Elon Musk’s first year owning Twitter. Since Musk closed his $44
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, Iranian state media reported Saturday. The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and
Continue Reading By Kevin Flower, Christian Edwards, Tara John, Kareem Khadder and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Israeli airstrikes rocked Gaza during a night of heavy bombardment after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday it is “expanding ground operations” in the besieged enclave, where communications links have reportedly been severed. In a statement Saturday, the IDF said
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