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By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s election body says independent candidates have secured the biggest number of parliamentary seats following last week’s polls. That means allies of former premier Imran Khan won more seats than the political parties who ousted him from power nearly two years ago. Last Thursday’s vote to choose
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services: the situation for Catholic clergy and faithful in Nicaragua is only worsening in 2024, according to exiled priests, laypeople in the Central American country and
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Donors no longer want to contribute to their campaigns. Primary opponents are lining up to take them out. And some of them have been ex-communicated from caucuses on Capitol Hill. The eight House Republicans who took the unprecedented step of removing Kevin McCarthy from the speakership
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Jude Bellingham’s debut season at Real Madrid has exceeded all expectations so far, fueling his team’s La Liga title charge. And against Girona on Saturday, the 20-year-old scored another two goals to seal Real Madrid’s decisive 4-0 victory over its unlikely title challenger and go five points clear at
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Lengthy inspections, rejected humanitarian aid and Israeli bombs raining down. Those are some of the hurdles to relief reaching the 2.2 million Palestinians in war-torn Gaza. The United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Martin Griffiths, has described the process as “in all practical terms, impossible.” Gaza
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab has claimed an attack that killed four Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer at a military base in the Somali capital. The attack Saturday targeted the troops at the General Gordon Military Base in Mogadishu. Details about the
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says one of the assailants who opened fire at an Istanbul campaign event for upcoming municipal elections has been caught. Erdogan condemned Saturday’s attack that critically wounded one woman and praised police and prosecutors for working to apprehend the other suspects. The attack took place as a
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III cheerfully waved to well-wishers on Sunday as he left church services near his country estate in eastern England, making his first public appearance since his cancer diagnosis was announced last week. Wearing a tan overcoat against the February chill and carrying a rolled-up umbrella,
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is renowned for being one of soccer’s most unpredictable and exciting international tournaments, but few could have predicted at the end of the group stage that Ivory Coast and Nigeria would be the two teams contesting this year’s final. Both teams have endured
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah, and says fighting there could force the closure of the besieged territory’s main aid supply route, two Egyptian
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD, ALESSANDRA TARANTINO and GIANFRANCO STARA Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican. Pope Francis on Sunday canonized the country’s first female saint with Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, sitting in the front row of St. Peter’s Basilica. The two embraced at the end
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Assailants have opened fire at a campaign event for upcoming municipal elections in Istanbul, critically wounding one person. Turkish semi-official Anadolu Agency reported the attack on Saturday took place as a candidate for mayor in one of Istanbul’s districts was visiting an association. A 32-year-old woman was critically wounded and the attackers
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine Sunday in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage, officials said, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued the reshuffle of his war cabinet as the war enters its third year. In a statement, the Ukrainian air force said it had shot down 40 of the Iranian-made Shahed drones
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italy has been shaken by the alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in front of her boyfriend in a public park in the Sicilian city of Catania, the latest in a string of shocking sexual attacks in the country. The case is reminiscent of two alleged
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — King Charles III has expressed his thanks for the messages of support he has received since he revealed last week that he had been diagnosed with cancer. In a statement issued late Saturday, the monarch said that such thoughts are “the greatest comfort and encouragement.” He says it is also heartening “to
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Sofía Barruti (CNN) –Un trío de lobos grises en peligro de extinción fueron encontrados muertos en el sur de Oregón y los funcionarios federales ofrecen una recompensa de 50.000 dólares por información sobre sus muertes. Los cuerpos fueron encontrados después de que los collares de dos de los lobos emitieran una “señal de mortalidad” el
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican. Pope Francis on Sunday canonized the country’s first female saint with Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, sitting in the front row of St. Peter’s Basilica. The Mass marked the first meeting between the Argentine pope and
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — The total solar eclipse passing over a swath of North America is less than two months away. While it may be too late to get a screaming deal on a trip to your top-pick town in the path of totality, it’s certainly not too late to make plans to
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A trio of endangered gray wolves were found dead in southern Oregon and federal officials are offering a $50,000 reward for information about their deaths. The bodies were found after the collars of two of the wolves put out a “mortality signal” on December 29, prompting
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) El gobierno de Myanmar ha aplicado una ley de servicio militar obligatorio mientras la junta continúa luchando contra milicias étnicas armadas y fuerzas de resistencia en múltiples frentes en todo el país. Todos los hombres de entre 18 y 35 años y las mujeres de 18 a 27 años deben servir hasta dos
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