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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanians are returning to the polls for the second round of the Baltic country’s presidential election as incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda seeks to hold off Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and win another five-year term. On Sunday, voters will decide whether the banker-turned-politician, who won the first round, will hold the Baltic country’s top
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — A party invitation. A broken flipflop. A wig. Letters of complaint about road conditions, and an urgent request for more beer. It sounds like the aftermath of a successful spring break, but these items are nearly 2,000 years old. They’re just some of the finds from Hadrian’s Wall –
Continue ReadingBy BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali official says it isn’t possible to search for a British climber and his Sherpa guide who went missing after reaching the top of Mount Everest six days ago because both fell on their way down from “a very high altitude” on the Chinese side
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Palm Springs City Council officials have approved funds to help repair a mural of George Floyd. News Channel 3 previously reported on the city’s proposal to relocate the mural that’s located off of 311 North Indian Canyon Drive. The mural was vandalized earlier this year and on Thursday Palm Springs City Council approved the use
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Kolkata airport will suspend flight operations from midnight Sunday for 21 hours after a storm over the north Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm. The India Meteorological Department says the cyclonic storm will cross Bangladesh and India’s West Bengal coasts around midnight Sunday. It is expected to reach maximum
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of China and Japan arrived in Seoul to meet separately with South Korea’s president on Sunday, a day before they gather for their first trilateral meeting in more than four years. No major announcement is expected from Monday’s trilateral South Korea-China-Japan meeting. But just
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez and Aleks Klosok, CNN (CNN) — When Rafael Nadal leaves Roland Garros as a player for the last time, one of the greatest love affairs in all of sport will come to an end. Since making a winning debut at the 2005 French Open as a fresh-faced 18-year-old – beating Roger Federer
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Living in a tent in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Rudaina al-Salim and her family struggle to find enough water for drinking and other basic needs such as cooking and washing. Their encampment north of the city of Idlib hasn’t seen any aid in six
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By Manveena Suri and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — At least six newborn babies died in a fire at a children’s hospital in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Saturday, local officials said. Twelve newborns were rescued from the hospital, but six died in the fire, Atul Garg, Delhi Fire Services chief told CNN.
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Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Un ex oficial de la CIA objetivo de una operación encubierta del FBI se declaró culpable este viernes de proporcionar información de defensa nacional a la República Popular China, dijo el Departamento de Justicia. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, de 71 años, de Honolulu, que sirvió como oficial de la CIA durante
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shane Bieber marked being six weeks removed from Tommy John surgery with a pair of milestones. The Cleveland Guardians ace not only had the bulky brace from his right arm removed, he is back with his teammates for the first time since early April. Bieber
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe introduced the world’s newest currency in April with public rallies and commercial jingles. The ZiG is short for Zimbabwe Gold. It’s the African nation’s sixth national currency in 15 years. The ZiG is the latest attempt to replace the Zimbabwe dollar which had been battered
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) — En sus primeros comentarios públicos luego de un discurso controvertido en una reciente graduación universitaria, el pateador de los Kansas City Chiefs, Harrison Butker, respondió este viernes a la reacción violenta que recibió. “Si no estaba claro que muchos odian los valores católicos eternos, ahora lo está”, dijo Butker durante un
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Tommy Splaine lined a run-scoring single in the bottom of the ninth inning and Arizona rallied from a three-run deficit to beat Southern California 4-3 on Saturday night in the Pac-12 baseball tournament championship game. The championship game was the final Pac-12 game for the conference as we know it, with
Continue ReadingSTANFORD, Calif. (AP) — NiJaree Canady pitched a complete-game two-hitter and host Stanford stayed alive in the Super Regionals, defeating LSU 3-0 on Saturday night to even the series at one game apiece. Canady struck out nine and walked three batters. She is 22-5 with a 0.67 ERA. She allowed only one runner to reach
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — A fire broke out in a baby care center in India’s capital and killed seven infants. Fire officer Suresh Kumar says five newborns survived the blaze on Saturday night and are being treated for smoke inhalation in a nearby hospital in Vivek Vihar district in east Delhi. The fire on the
Continue ReadingCARSON, Calif. (AP) — Riqui Puig scored the go-ahead goal in the 59th minute, Gabriel Pec added a goal and an assist and the LA Galaxy beat the Houston Dynamo 2-1 Saturday night. Puig scored to give LA a 2-1 lead in the 59th minute. Pec tapped a cross to Puig at the top of
Continue ReadingBy BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press When Balu Natarajan became the first Indian American champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1985, a headline on an Associated Press article read, “Immigrants’ son wins National Spelling Bee,” with the first paragraph noting the champion “speaks his parents’ native Indian language at home.” Those details would hardly
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A 60-year-old woman saw her dreams of becoming the oldest Miss Universe contestant in history melt away in a haze of sequins and selfies Saturday at Argentina’s annual beauty pageant. Alejandra Marisa Rodríguez, a hopital legal adviser whose entry into the competition had been cheered
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Emergency responders are moving survivors of a massive landslide feared to have buried scores of people to safer ground as tons of unstable earth and tribal warfare, which is rife in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, threaten the rescue effort. The South Pacific island’s government meanwhile
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