Julia Hernández (CNN) — Miles de partidarios del ex primer ministro de Pakistán encarcelado Imran Khan, rompieron este martes las barricadas en torno a la capital y marcharon hacia Islamabad, enfrentándose a las fuerzas de seguridad y exigiendo su liberación. Las autoridades impusieron un bloqueo de seguridad en el país, apagones de internet y barricadas
Continue ReadingGeorgia’s parliament set a date for national and local lawmakers to pick a new president, paving the way for the ruling Georgian Dream party to choose an ally following its victory in a controversial election. A 300-seat electoral college consisting of members of parliament, municipal councils and regional legislatures will elect a new president for
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For weeks, David Burke couldn’t shake the haunting images of small mountain communities in western North Carolina unexpectedly pummeled by a historic storm. He felt their suffering as if it were his own. Even though he was 300 miles away, he couldn’t bear the thought of watching his home
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Rusia lanzó un “récord” de 188 aviones no tripulados en Ucrania durante la noche, según la Fuerza Aérea de Ucrania este martes. Además, la Fuerza Aérea rusa lanzó otros cuatro misiles balísticos Iskander-M contra Ucrania. El ataque dañó “infraestructuras críticas” en Ternopil, provocando cortes de electricidad, informó la administración militar local.
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — In 2018, Bobby Djavaheri feared his family’s appliance business faced an existential threat from the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese air fryers. Djavaheri, president of Yedi Houseware Appliances, consulted with a customs attorney and applied for a tariff exclusion with the United States Trade Representative to avoid
Continue ReadingA ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants began early Wednesday morning, after Beirut residents endured the most intense day of Israeli strikes since the war began. Many wondered if the agreement to stop fighting would hold. Israel has said it will attack if Hezbollah breaks the ceasefire agreement, which was announced Tuesday. At least
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has deployed military aircraft and ships to track and monitor a U.S. Navy plane transiting the sensitive Taiwan Strait, Beijing said, as the two nations continue to spar over self-ruled Taiwan. The U.S. Navy’s 7th fleet said Tuesday a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flew through the strait’s international space
Continue ReadingBy Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — “Demure,” a word that went viral over the summer, has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year — beating out other contenders like “brainrot,” “brat,” and “weird.” In an announcement Monday, the site said that the word experienced a “meteoric rise in usage” in 2024 — up 1,200%
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning. The costly proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services immediately sets the stage for a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali said they’ve arrested a Filipino fugitive accused of helping scam over $67 million out of clients in the Philippines. Hector Aldwin Pantollana, 35, widely known in the Philippines as a casino junket operator, was arrested on Nov. 9 when an automatic gate
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched 188 drones against most regions of Ukraine in a nighttime blitz, the Ukrainian air force said Tuesday, describing it as a record number of drones deployed in a single attack. Most of the drones were intercepted, according to the air force, but apartment buildings and critical infrastructure
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, Ashley Killough and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Texas is quickly becoming the blueprint for how incoming Trump officials expect to work with states on border security – a stark pivot from recent years when it was the epicenter of a bitter feud between state and federal officials. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A major political storm set off by a bitter feud between the Philippine president and the vice president is testing an Asian democracy that has long been troubled by rowdy politics, poor law enforcement and bareface impunity. Just over two years ago, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Witnesses say a powerful rebel group has seized a key trading town in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese border, taking control of a lucrative rare earth mining hub in another setback for the military-led government. The apparent loss of Kanpaiti to the Kachin Independence Army leaves Myanmar’s military in control
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FIUGGI, Italy (AP) — Foreign ministers from leading industrialized countries have thrown their strong support behind an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. But the group sidestepped the question of whether to enforce an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Israel’s leader over the war in Gaza.. The G7
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In German folklore, doppelgängers are considered to be a bad omen whose presence brings about misfortune. It feels all the more fitting then, that amid today’s geopolitical conflicts, increasing climate catastrophes and economic uncertainties, we’re seemingly hooked on celebrity lookalike contests. It began with actor Timothée Chalamet. In October,
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un hombre surcoreano, que comió hasta engordar en un intento de evadir al Ejército, evitó ir a prisión después de comprometerse a realizar el servicio militar obligatorio. El hombre, que no fue identificado públicamente, fue sentenciado a un año de prisión, suspendido por dos años, por un tribunal de Seúl por
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Ernest Cole was dying. Lying in a hospital bed in Manhattan, New York, thousands of miles from his homeland of South Africa, the photographer and documenter of apartheid was faced with a bitter irony: he was leaving the world just as his nation was being reborn. The date was
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El músico Drake afirma que Universal Music Group (UMG) “conspiró” para impulsar artificialmente la mordaz canción de Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” en Spotify, según una petición previa a la acción presentada ante un tribunal de Nueva York este lunes. Según una copia de la petición, obtenida por CNN, el rapero
Continue ReadingBy Juliana Liu and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Huawei has unveiled a new flagship phone boasting entirely homegrown software that aims to give users an alternative to Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS, in another effort by the Chinese tech giant to defend against possible further sanctions by Washington. The new Mate 70
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