SAMOS, Greece (AP) — Eight people, including six children, have died when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of the Greek island of Samos. The coast guard said Monday that 36 survivors were found on a rocky shoreline, while three others were rescued earlier. It was not immediately clear whether others were still
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli cabinet looks set to approve a ceasefire deal in Lebanon later Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson said, a move that could potentially end the war that has killed thousands. Netanyahu had approved the plan “in principle,” a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Monday delayed until January his decision on whether to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion 35 years ago, squashing their family’s hope the brothers would be released and home for the holidays. Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic said
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Bishop T.D. Jakes had a “slight health incident” while delivering a lengthy sermon on Sunday, according to The Potter’s House, the Dallas-based megachurch where he serves as pastor. Jakes was stable as of Sunday night, according to the statement. The 67-year-old pastor and author was seen in footage shared
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain remains on high alert after the second major storm of the season battered the country over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and disrupting road and rail travel. Hundreds of homes in England and Wales battled the floodwaters on Monday and several rail operators canceled services after
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford has died. She was 91. She became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the tenacious saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than dozen other novels that sold more than 80 million copies worldwide. Starting with “A Woman of Substance,” published
Continue ReadingBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister says the country’s population has grown to 45.4 million, according to preliminary results from a national census, the first in nearly 40 years. The nationwide population census carried out earlier this month is a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning in a country long impacted by conflict
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Swiss watchmaker Swatch has won a suit against the Malaysian government after a court ordered the return of 172 Swatch watches seized last year due to designs that authorities said bore LGBT elements. Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution said Monday the government will wait for the court’s full judgment before deciding
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Diplomats and other officials say there have been several sticking points in ceasefire talks to end the war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, even as conditions for an agreement appear to be ripe. Israel’s military has killed nearly all of the militant group’s top leaders, but it
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Susan Lorincz, the White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor Ajike “AJ” Owens through the door of her central Florida apartment during a dispute over children playing near her home, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. Owens’ family and prosecutors asked Lorincz receive the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press I have a confession. I like the Thanksgiving leftovers better than the holiday feast. The Thanksgiving meal is a family favorite, and I love all of the foods. But what makes me even happier is opening the fridge the next morning and foraging for a slice of apple pie or some leftover roasted
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A former Kentucky sheriff accused of killing a county judge in his chambers two months ago has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder of a public official. Monday’s arraignment was the first time defendant Shawn “Mickey” Stines, 43, was at the Letcher County Courthouse since state District
Continue ReadingBy Saskya Vandoorne and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Avignon, France (CNN) — Dominique Pelicot, the man who organized for more than 50 men to rape his unconscious wife, is “fully responsible” for his actions, a French public prosecutor told court after requesting the maximum prison sentence of 20 years. Public prosecutor Laure Chabaud told the packed
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Justice Department and Google have made their closing arguments in a trial alleging Google’s online advertising technology constitutes an illegal monopoly. The arguments in federal court Monday in northern Virginia came as Google already faces a possible breakup of the company over its ubiquitous search engine. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The newly elected Georgian parliament has opened its inaugural session as opposition lawmakers and the country’s president stayed away and thousands of protesters rallied outside under a heavy police presence. They accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of rigging the vote under Russian influence. The Oct. 26 election that
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — A British man has been taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian state media has reported. Russian state media outlet TASS said the man was 22-year-old James Scott Rhys Anderson, a former British soldier, citing a military source. The British Foreign Office confirmed it
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AVIGNON, France (AP) — A high-profile rape trial in France is moving into a new phase with prosecutors setting out the verdicts and punishments they want for 51 men men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot, 71, while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband of nearly 50 years. Dominique Pelicot has
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Despite his campaign promises to leave the issue to the states, President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will shape the national landscape around abortion and reproductive health. Trump leaned into the abortion issue in the 2016 campaign and made good on his promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn
Continue ReadingBy Nic Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Where the high hills of the occupied West Bank tumble into the Jordan valley, half a dozen heavy Israeli diggers pound the ancient rocks around the Palestinian village of Bardala. Low-scudding, rain-laden clouds threaten to soak a group of Palestinian farmers huddling around their ramshackle sheep sheds as the
Continue ReadingCNN Helen Regan, Edward Szekeres, Sandi Sidhu, Manveena Suri and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — One crew member was killed after a cargo plane crashed early Monday on the outskirts of Vilnius Airport in Lithuania, skidded into a house and burst into flames. Remarkably, three others on board the flight, including the pilot, survived the
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