Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea warns it could consider supplying weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea allegedly dispatching troops to Russia. NATO’s secretary general says that would mark a “significant escalation.” South Korea’s statement Tuesday is apparently meant to pressure Russia not to bring in North Korean troops for
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government is working on a new law to punish those spreading the menace of hoax bomb threat calls, which disrupt the flight schedules of airlines and cause massive inconvenience to thousands of passengers. On Tuesday, IndiGo, a private Indian airline, said nine of its flights destined for Jeddah and
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN (CNN) — India and China have reached an agreement on military disengagement along their disputed border, New Delhi said, a step toward reducing frictions between the nuclear-armed neighbors that comes ahead of an expected meeting between the countries’ leaders on the sidelines of a summit in Russia.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have filed an indictment against a man who allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and planned to carry out an attack in Germany on its behalf. The Iraqi national was arrested in June. The federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday he has now been formally charged with
Continue ReadingAP Basketball Writer The Boston Celtics begin this season as the NBA champions. And sometime this season, the Celtics might take over the top spot on another league list. In the NBA’s all-time won-lost standings, among active franchises, the San Antonio Spurs enter this season with the best record. But the Celtics have a path
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Kent and Kosta Gak, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — In the city of Kherson, southern Ukraine, civilians have started to hope for heavy rain – the only weather conditions that prevent Russian drones from flying overhead, they say. Drone attacks on ordinary people living here have sharply increased since the beginning of fall,
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French authorities are hunting for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital. His parents were identified as the chief suspects. Police on Tuesda issued an alert with appeals for information broadcast on radio, television and online. It said the boy, called Santiago,
Continue ReadingKAZAN, Russia (AP) — China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other global leaders have arrived in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies. The Kremlin hopes to turn into it a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years. The 2018 agreement had been extended twice previously. It was an attempt under Pope Francis to bridge long-standing differences over control of the church in China. The Vatican’s relations
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — An Italian surfer has died after being impaled in the chest by a sharp-billed fish while surfing off Indonesia’s West Sumatra coast. Giulia Manfrini, 36, had been surfing in the Mentawai Islands, a remote island chain when she suffered a “freak accident,” said her business partner James Colston. “Unfortunately,
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German police have busted a pizzeria in the western city of Düsseldorf that also delivered a side order of cocaine when customers asked for item number 40 on the menu. Police said it was one of the best-selling pizzas. The restaurant manager was arrested but upon release he began selling the pizza
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — With two weeks to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris’ top advisers are staring down numbers that show a wide majority of Americans saying the country is on the wrong track. They’re also confident that the next two weeks will include Donald Trump dropping more references to the “enemy within” or January 6 as a “day of love” and going off on rambling
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The Palm Springs Police are ramping up efforts to improve safety downtown, and part of that plan includes helping to solve the homeless problem along Palm Canyon Drive. “We kicked off a surge of officers and increased the number of officers, actually doubling the amount of officers downtown,” said Police Chief Andy Mills. “We have
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military says one of its airstrikes in early October killed a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to become the group’s next leader. Earlier on Tuesday the Israeli military leveled a building in a suburb of Beirut that it said housed Hezbollah “facilities,” sending smoke and
Continue ReadingAP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Had she wanted to, Michelle Chumley could have afforded a pricey new SUV loaded with options. But when it came time to replace her Chevrolet Blazer SUV, for which she’d paid about $40,000 three years ago, Chumley chose something smaller. And less costly. With her purchase of a Chevrolet
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say two men armed with daggers killed two transgender women at their home in conservative northwest Pakistan overnight before fleeing the scene, a sign of increasing violence against trans people in the country. Local police in Mardan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, say the motive behind the murders remains
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Chance, Katharina Krebs and Ivana Kottasová, CNN | Video by Luis Graham Yool, CNN Tel Mond, Israel (CNN) — Meir Golan sank his face in the dense, dark orange soil. He seemed desperate to stay close to his daughter for as long as possible, holding tight onto Shirel’s shroud as she was being buried. More
Continue ReadingCNN By Matthew Chance, Katharina Krebs and Ivana Kottasová, CNN | Video by Luis Graham Yool, CNN Tel Mond, Israel (CNN) — Meir Golan sank his face in the dense, dark orange soil. He seemed desperate to stay close to his daughter for as long as possible, holding tight onto Shirel’s shroud as she was being buried.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has rejected South Africa’s demand that it move its representative office in the country from the capital, Pretoria, to the commercial center of Johannesburg. Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jeff Liu said at a news conference on Tuesday that the demand to move or shut the office violated a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SIUMU, Samoa (AP) — People who live in villages along the Samoan coastline where a New Zealand navy ship ran aground, caught fire and sank this month are worried about their livelihoods and the future of tourism and fishing in the area as they prepare for the arrival of Britain’s King Charles III
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