By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A rare 7.3-foot hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on the Oregon coast earlier this week, the Seaside Aquarium said. The massive aquatic species was found north of Seaside in northwestern Oregon along Gearhart Beach on June 3. A buzz on social media led to curious people “flocking to the beach
Continue ReadingBy Svitlana Vlasova, Daria Markina Tarasova and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has stabilized the northern Kharkiv front after Moscow launched an offensive a month ago, thanks to more weapons and permission to use them to target positions within Russia. But its forces are being stretched elsewhere along the 1,000km (620 miles) long front line and are defenseless against Russia’s deadly aerial glide bombs.
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police say gunmen have fatally shot four construction workers at a hospital site near a refugee camp and the border with Somalia where a militant group is active. Garissa county has in the past been attacked by al-Shabab militants who cross through the porous border.
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — A new Biden administration policy that aims to address illegal southern US border crossings would have been in effect for at least the last three years because of a surge in migrant encounters, a CNN data analysis shows. The executive action, announced on Tuesday, bars migrants crossing the
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAM MEDNICK and JACK JEFFREY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Saturday carried out its largest hostage rescue operation since the latest war with Hamas began, taking four to safety out of central Gaza amid the military’s heavy air and ground assault. At least 94 dead Palestinians, including
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — An aid group says it recovered the bodies of 11 migrants off the Libyan coast and transferred them to an Italian coast guard ship off Lampedusa island, where thousands are trying to reach from North Africa. The aid group, Doctors Without Borders, said its Geo Barents rescue ship had recovered the bodies
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN and ELISE MORTON KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia-installed officials in the partially-occupied Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Luhansk said Ukrainian attacks left at least 28 people dead as Russia and Ukraine continued to exchange drone attacks overnight into Saturday. A Ukrainian attack Friday on the small town of Sadove in the Kherson
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has resumed flying balloons in a likely attempt to drop trash on South Korea again. North Korea’s balloon activities on Saturday came two days after Seoul activists floated their own balloons to scatter propaganda leaflets in the North. South Korea’s
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president has called for peace and harmony in the Balkans even as he and the Bosnian Serb separatist leader organized a large nationalist gathering that featured calls for “unity” of all Serbs in the region. Such messages have raised eyebrows in neighboring states. The
Continue ReadingBy Jillian Sykes, Gloria Pazmino and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed on Friday to testify before Congress as Republicans attempt to discredit former President Donald Trump’s conviction, but indicated that could happen only after Trump is sentenced next month. Bragg’s office has resisted calls to testify before Congress citing
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — The daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin rarely make public appearances, but this week they took part in panels at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, believed to be in their mid to late 30s, are Putin’s daughters from his marriage to former wife
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek has won her third consecutive French Open championship and fourth in five years by defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1. The top-seeded Swiatek trailed 2-1 early in Court Philippe Chatrier on Saturday before taking the next 10 games. She stretched her winning streak at Roland
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — President Joe Biden said France was America’s “first friend” at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A rising political newcomer hoping to deal a blow to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has mobilized tens of thousands of supporters in the country’s capital in a final show of strength on the eve of a European Parliament election. Péter Magyar, a 43-year-old lawyer who
Continue ReadingSAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a freighter in Lake Superior has hit something underwater and started taking on water. The Coast Guard Great Lakes district received reports about 6:53 a.m. that a 689-foot-long ship called the Michipicoten had collided with something. The collision occurred in the northwest section of
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — A joint operation of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Netherlands Navy recovered 4,800 pounds of cocaine worth more than $63 million this week from a vessel at a Florida port. That is according to the Coast Guard. The seizure Thursday was the second time the joint operation engaged a vessel
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO, KAREL JANICEK and RAF CASERT Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni joined voters in Italy and a half dozen European Union nations in casting a ballot during the penultimate day of European Union parliamentary elections on Saturday. The bloc’s premier hard-right politician threw down the gauntlet to the traditional
Continue ReadingBy AnneClaire Stapleton and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, the US Department of Defense and the Department of National Defense of the Republic of Niger
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The four captives rescued by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip were abducted from a desert rave near the border during Hamas’ wide-ranging assault into Israel on Oct. 7. One had emerged as an icon of the agonizing hostage crisis that is still far from over. Noa Argamani, 26, appeared
Continue ReadingNorway’s sovereign wealth fund operated by Norges Bank Investment Management said Saturday it will vote against Elon Musk’s hefty CEO compensation package during Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday. It’s the latest pushback over the size of the pay package, which was recently valued by the company at $44.9 billion, but in January had a value
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