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Month: June 2024

Russian forces storm a detention facility to rescue staff taken hostage, killing hostage takers

MOSCOW (AP) — Security forces have stormed a detention center in southern Russia, killing inmates who had taken two staff members hostage, state-funded news channel RT reported. The hostages at the pretrial detention center in Rostov-on-Don were uninjured, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said in an official statement. It said that the hostage takers had been

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New Caledonia reopening its international airport and shortening curfew as unrest continues to ebb

PARIS (AP) — The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international airport that was closed to commercial flights for more than a month because of deadly violence that wracked the archipelago where pro-independence Indigenous Kanaks want to break from France. La Tontouta airport that links New Caledonia’s

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Israel’s army says it will pause daytime fighting along a route in southern Gaza to help ramp up aid

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, WAFAA SHURAFA and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military announced on Sunday that it would pause fighting throughout daytime hours along a route in southern Gaza to free up a backlog of humanitarian aid deliveries destined for desperate Palestinians enduring a humanitarian crisis sparked by the war, now in

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Americans are still paying more for shoes, luggage and hats after Biden left Trump’s tariffs in place

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — In 2018, then-President Donald Trump put new tariffs on a variety of Chinese-made goods, including baseball caps, luggage and shoes – and Americans have been paying the price ever since. For example, a suitcase that was $100 before Trump imposed the tariffs now goes for about $160, and a carry-on

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