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Month: October 2024

South Korea adoptees endure emotional, sometimes devastating searches for their birth families

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done. They boarded long flights to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their birth families. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent from South Korea to Western nations as children. Many

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Did this happen to me also? Korean adoptees question their past and ask how to find their families

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-gathering practices and fraudulent paperwork involving South Korea’s foreign adoption program, which peaked in the 1970s

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

La apuesta de Milei: se aferra a su discurso y veta la ley de financiamiento universitario pese al masivo reclamo social

Joaquin Doria (CNN Español) — La marcha federal de este miércoles en defensa del presupuesto universitario en Argentina buscó enviar otra vez el mismo mensaje al Gobierno de Javier Milei. Miles de manifestantes repitieron una fórmula ya probada para defender a la educación pública mientras desde la Casa Rosada esgrimen distintos argumentos para llevar el

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Melania Trump confirms support for abortion rights in new video, putting her at odds with husband’s position

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump said in a new video posted Thursday that she believes there is “no room for compromise” when it comes to a woman’s “individual freedom,” after The Guardian reported excerpts from her forthcoming book in which she says she supports abortion rights “free from any

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Dockworkers’ union to suspend strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract

AP Business Writer DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The temporary end to the

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‘I don’t have the energy to be displaced again’: Lebanon’s capital reels after Israeli strikes

By Tamara Qiblawi, Jomana Karadsheh, Mohammad Tawfeeq and Charbel Mallo, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — When Israel struck the center of Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, it seemed to wipe out what little sense of safety remained in the Lebanese capital. For nearly a week, Israel has been bombarding Hezbollah-dominated residential neighborhoods in

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