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PRAGUE (AP) — An ammunition explosion in a military training area in the Czech Republic has killed one service member and injured eight other people, including one civilian. The Defense Ministry says the accident took place Monday in Libava, east of Prague, as ammunition technicians were being trained. It says the injured were transported to
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German investigators say they discovered 35.5 metric tons of cocaine worth 2.6 billion euros ($2.78 billion) on different container ships and made seven arrests in connection with what they called the largest cocaine find in the country ever. Prosecutors in the western city of Duesseldorf said Monday that they were initially tipped
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE and TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press Writers PARIS (AP) — Curious onlookers gathered on bridges as dozens of boats snaked along the Seine river on Monday in a rehearsal for the Paris Olympics’ unique opening ceremony next month. A total of 55 boats made Monday’s journey from Pont d’Austerlitz to Pont d’Iéna, a
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and ANNIE MA AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Michigan failed to assess whether protests and other incidents on campus in response to the Israel-Hamas war created a hostile environment for students, staff and faculty. That’s according to the results of a U.S. Education Department investigation announced Monday. The
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Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Un creciente incendio de pasto que comenzó este sábado por la tarde en el condado de San Joaquín, California, ha consumido más de 4451 hecta´reas, lo que obligó a los residentes en su camino a evacuar el área, dicen las autoridades. El incendio Corral comenzó en la ciudad de Tracy alrededor
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Jodie Turner-Smith has ex-relationship goals. When the “Queen & Slim” star was asked about her ex-husband Joshua Jackson dating Lupita Nyong’o in a recent interview with The Cut, Turner-Smith has a positive response. “Good for them. We need happiness in order to peacefully co-parent,” Turner-Smith told the publication.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Candidate Cabinet ministers in the Netherlands’ incoming far-right-led government are undergoing questioning to establish their suitability for office, as the monthslong process of forming a new administration nears its end. Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom won elections in November and has been working
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CNN By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A fire in Los Angeles County that forced the evacuations of hundreds of people from a state park has burned over 15,000 acres since it started Saturday, authorities said. The Post Fire has burned 15,611 acres, and is 20% contained as of Monday evening, according to the California Department
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish King Frederik X has inaugurated the first element of a future 18-kilometer (11-mile) rail-and-road tunnel under the Baltic Sea that will link southern Denmark to northern Germany and contribute to the transport sector’s green transition. The Fehmarn link which is expected to open in 2029, will also cut travel from
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Erin Fox has tracked drug shortages for more than 20 years, and she sees no easy solutions for what has become a record run. Total active shortages hit an all-time high of 323 in this year’s first quarter, according to the University of Utah Drug Information Service. That’s up
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting in quiet trading Monday ahead of what could be a quiet, holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in morning trading and near its record set on Thursday, though most of the stocks within the index were falling. The Dow
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A crowd-control gate has been installed halfway up Japan’s Mount Fuji ahead of the start of this year’s climbing season. The gate is part of a new set of rules that are being introduced this year to address growing safety, environmental and overcrowding problems on the iconic
Continue ReadingBy Charlie Buckley, CTVNews.ca National Digital Producer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Your father’s diet before you were born could have played a role in your health, a new study has found. Released earlier this month in Nature, the study from German research group Helmholtz Munich looked at health
Continue ReadingBy Kathy Le, CTV National News Click here for updates on this story CALGARY (CTV Network) — As Canadians continue to struggle with the extremely high cost of buying a home in some of the country’s major urban centres, a new global report is underscoring just how expensive some of those markets are. A study
Continue ReadingBy TAIWO ADEBAYO, LUCA BRUNO and SARA LEMLEM Associated Press MARINA DI RAVENNA, Italy (AP) — A nonprofit in a northern Italy port city rescues and treats injured turtles that are sometimes hurt by trawlers in the Adriatic Sea. One of the patients at the CESTHA center, named Cenere, arrived four years ago with a
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Hot and cold extremes are expected this week in the U.S. Officials warned residents from coast to coast to take precautions as a heat wave moved east, while heavy rains and flooding could drench the Gulf states and snow threatens parts of the Rockies and Northwest. Extreme
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban leader has warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honor, at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and is isolated on the global stage. Hibatullah Akhundzada gave his warning in an Eid sermon Monday at a mosque in southern Kandahar province. He said
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian Coast Guard is searching for possible missing people off Italy’s southern coast, following the shipwreck of a sailboat on Monday with migrants on board, believed to be departing from Turkey. The search and rescue operation started following a Mayday call by a French boat, sailing about 120 miles (193.12 kilometers) from
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — For about 50 years, the scientific community has been grappling with a substantial problem: There isn’t enough visible matter in the universe. All the matter we can see — stars, planets, cosmic dust and everything in between — can’t account for why the universe behaves as it does, and
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “People, stop texting me!” pleaded Kecia Lewis, with comic exasperation. The veteran Broadway performer had just won her first Tony award in a 40-year career, for the Alicia Keys musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” and was trying to read her acceptance speech off her phone. But she
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