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Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say two Australian and three Indonesian nationals have survived after a tourist helicopter crashed in Bali, due to being entangled in a kite string. Indonesia’s Transportation Minister said Friday that the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter, owned by PT. Whitesky Aviation, came down in Pecatu village in
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Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The last time Republicans gathered for a full convention, they were plagued by internal division and fear. Morale was near rock bottom. And the party’s presidential nominee showed little desire, or capacity, to add new voters to his political coalition. What a difference eight years make. The Republican officials, strategists
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese and Taiwanese coast guards have conducted what is believed to be their first joint drill off Japan’s eastern coast, officials said Friday, a move seen as an effort to expand maritime cooperation amid concern about China’s increasingly assertive activity in regional seas. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi Friday
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks slumped Friday in another washout, as businesses around the world scrambled to contain the effects of a disruptive technology outage. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% to close its first losing week in the last three and its worst since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Public sector workers in Nigeria on the minimum wage will see their salaries double after the government reached an agreement on Thursday with labor unions that have been threatening further strikes as the cost of living spirals. The unions were threatening further strikes because of a cost-of-living crisis that
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By Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a month since anyone reported seeing Taylor Casey. She was last spotted near Paradise Island in the Bahamas on June 19. Still, her loved ones are making sure she is being seen – by publicly campaigning for her safe return. Chicagoan Casey is described by friends and
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s ruling Communist Party has set ambitious long-term policy goals at its most important political meeting on reform, but offered little detail on how to pull the world’s second-largest economy out of a worsening downturn. In a behind-closed doors meeting known as the third plenum, more than
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Britain’s new government to help Kyiv’s forces attack deeper inside Russia to stop deadly missile strikes. He made the appeal during a rare address by a foreign leader to a U.K. Cabinet meeting. Zelenskyy said “long-range capability” to destroy sites where Russian weapons are
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Cheng Pei-pei, a Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died, her family announced Friday. She was 78. Cheng, who had been diagnosed with a rare illness with symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease, passed away Wednesday at home surrounded by her
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s billionaire king, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, was officially installed six months after he was sworn in for a five-year term under a unique rotating monarchy system. The coronation at the national palace on Saturday formalized the sultan’s role as Malaysia’s 17th king in a ceremony steeped in Malay culture and
Continue ReadingYEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian authorities say that a military aircraft has crashed, killing its crew of two. Officials on Friday say the Soviet-made An-2 aircraft crashed 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) north of the country’s largest city and capital, Yerevan. They said the plane was on a training flight. The cause of the crash
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised a tentative deal between the European Union and Serbia that paves the way for the disputed excavation of lithium. It’s a mega project that could reduce Europe’s dependency on China but one that has been fiercely criticized by environmentalists and opposition groups. Scholz on Friday
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Julia Hernández (CNN) — Enormes protestas en todo Bangladesh escalaron en violencia mortal esta semana, con enfrentamientos entre estudiantes, partidarios del Gobierno y policías armados que avivaron la ira generalizada por las cuotas de empleo en la función pública, que los opositores consideran discriminatorias. Según los informes, decenas de personas murieron y cientos resultaron heridas
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it has restarted anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in response to North Korea’s resumption of trash-carrying balloon launches. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says its front-line loudspeaker broadcasts were conducted between Thursday evening and Friday morning in areas where North Korea floated the
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — What was your most thrilling first date? In 2016, two young Russians known for their extreme “rooftopping” adventures — where they attempt to illegally climb vertiginous landmarks like La Sagrada Familia and the Eiffel Tower — skipped the perfunctory happy hour cocktail and instead ascended China’s tallest incomplete skyscraper,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MUDZI, Zimbabwe (AP) — In Zimbabwe, an El Nino-induced drought is affecting millions of people, and children are most at risk. The U.N. says the drought has threatened the education of close to 2 million children in the southern African nation because of hunger and parents’ inability to pay school fees as their
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The bodies of four Pakistanis killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Oman this week have been repatriated and handed to their families. Relatives of the victims were present when the Pakistan International Airlines flights landed at the Islamabad and Lahore airports. The bodies were later given to the
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Almost everyone knows the opening sequence, film buff or not: the windswept beach, the foaming waves, the soaring, triumphant music against the sound of runners’ feet patting on wet sand. So begins the 1981 Oscar-winning film “Chariots of Fire,” introducing a group of British athletes as they train for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials in the northern English city of Leeds say order has been restored after a night of unrest that began when police and local government workers intervened in a “family incident” and residents poured into the streets in protest. Rioters set a bus on fire and tipped over a police
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Trump rally shooter searched online for information on the arrest of a Michigan mass shooter and his parents, who were prosecuted in a 2021 high school shooting. He visited websites for how to build explosives. And in the minutes before he fired shots
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