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Month: November 2024

Modi’s party heads for victory in Maharashtra state election while opposition wins Jharkhand

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) โ€” Prime Minister Narendra Modiโ€™s Hindu nationalist party is headed for a victory in state elections in politically significant Maharashtra while the opposition won mineral-rich Jharkhand state. Polling in the two states are seen as a test of Modiโ€™s popularity after his party returned to power in June national elections

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The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) โ€” Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the โ€œactive threatโ€

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Jussie Smollettโ€™s conviction overturned in alleged hate-crime hoax: How we got here and whatโ€™s next

By Ashley R. Williams, Megan Thomas, Sandra Gonzalez and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Nearly six years after actor Jussie Smollett was accused of staging a hate-crime hoax in downtown Chicago and lying to police, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned his conviction over prosecutorial issues. The court ruled that after Cook County Stateโ€™s

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Se inaugura un centro cultural Indรญgena localizado en la ciudad de Coachella

Hoy la organizaciรณn sin รกnimo de lucro โ€œDanza Azteca Citlatonacโ€ llevรณ a cabo su gran inauguraciรณn del primer centro cultural Indรญgena, ubicado en la ciudad de Coachella. La bendiciรณn, es la bendiciรณn de los cuatros vientos es donde nosotros le pedimos a la comunidad y los que estรกn presente que se unan a nosotros para

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Fighting between armed sectarian groups in restive northwestern Pakistan kills at least 37 people

Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) โ€” Fighting between armed Sunni and Shiite groups in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 37 people and injured 25 others, a senior police officer from the region said Saturday. The overnight violence was the latest to rock Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and comes days after a deadly

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South Korea will not attend Sado mines memorial event in Japan amid lingering historical tensions

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) โ€” South Koreaโ€™s government says it has decided not to attend a memorial service near Japanโ€™s Sado Island Gold Mines due to disagreements with Japan over the event, which stirred longstanding tensions over the abuse of Korean forced laborers at the site before the end of World War II.

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Key UN committee adopts resolution paving the way for a first-ever treaty on crimes against humanity

Associated Pres UNITED NATIONS (AP) โ€” A key U.N. General Assembly committee has adopted a resolution paving the way for negotiations on a first-ever treaty on preventing and punishing crimes against humanity after Russia dropped amendments that would have derailed the effort. The resolution was approved by consensus late Friday by the assemblyโ€™s legal committee,

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Will a winter storm hit the US over Thanksgiving week? Here’s what forecasts show so far

Associated Press WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) โ€” Forecasters warned over the weekend that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to Thanksgiving in parts of the U.S. In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while still grappling with flooding

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Will a winter storm hit the US over Thanksgiving week? Here’s what forecasts show so far

Associated Press WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) โ€” Forecasters warned over the weekend that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to Thanksgiving in parts of the U.S. In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while still grappling with flooding

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