WBAL, CNN By Holly Yan, Elizabeth Wolfe, Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN Baltimore (CNN) — After 55 days stuck in the Patapsco River, the Dali cargo ship was hauled away from the site of its catastrophic crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge – a crucial step toward fully reopening the busy Port of Baltimore.
Continue ReadingWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fast-moving storms with strong winds, large hail and apparent tornadoes have left a trail of damage in Oklahoma and Kansas. The storms struck Sunday. They damaged nearly 20 homes in one Oklahoma county and injured at least two people. A nursing home was damaged. More storms were forecast for the region
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street pointed toward modest gains early Monday, keeping markets around record levels after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 40,000 for the first time ever last week. Markets did appear to be shaken by news of the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other
Continue ReadingBy David McKenzie, CNN Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — South Africa’s apex court has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run for parliament in next week’s critical general election. The unanimous ruling capped months long speculation and legal wrangling on whether the former leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC),
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Pope Francis has added a stop in Luxembourg to a trip to Belgium in September. The Vatican on Monday announced the Sept. 26-29 dates of the planned trip. Francis will first stop in Luxembourg and then travel onto Brussels, Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. The Luxembourg and Belgium visit is scheduled to
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in next week’s national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to politics. The decision by the country’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, may still be appealed. Zuma has returned to
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The final report of the U.K.’s infected blood inquiry was published on Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. The scandal is
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal against extradition to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled on Monday — a decision that is likely to further drag out what has already been a long legal saga. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An inquiry has found that British authorities and the country’s public health service committed a “catalogue of failures” and knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products. An estimated 3,000 people in the U.K. are believed to have died
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has blamed Chinese fishermen for a massive loss of giant clams in a disputed shoal controlled by China’s coast guard in the South China Sea and urged an international inquiry into the amount of environmental damage in the area. The Philippine coast guard presented
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated at high tide Monday and began slowly moving back to port, guided by several tugboats. Removing the Dali from the wreckage marked a significant step in ongoing cleanup and recovery efforts.
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with their actions during the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas. Karim Khan said that he believes Netanyahu, his
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court has started the trial of a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism over a play they staged, the latest step in the unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached unprecedented levels during Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Zhenya
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writers Red Lobster, the casual dining chain that brought seafood to the masses with inventions like popcorn shrimp and “endless” seafood deals, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The 56-year-old chain made the filing late Sunday, days after shuttering dozens of restaurants. “This restructuring is the
Continue ReadingBy Mai Nishiyama, Mostafa Salem, Rob Picheta and Lucas Lilieholm, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud has a lung inflammation and is receiving treatment, Saudi news agency SPA said, prompting the country’s Crown Prince to postpone a scheduled trip to Japan. King Salman, 88, was diagnosed with the inflammation after undergoing medical tests,
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations are urging Yemen’s Houthi rebels to release five people from the country’s Baha’i religious minority who have been in detention for a year. The experts said on Monday that the five are among 17 Baha’i followers detained last May
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for Julian Assange argued Monday that the U.S. provided “blatantly inadequate” assurances the WikiLeaks founder would have free press protections if extradited to America to face espionage charges. Lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said prosecutors had failed to guarantee that Assange, who is an Australian citizen and claims
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors’ last and star witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial was back on the stand Monday for more grilling before the former president’s lawyers get their chance to put on a case. The landmark trial kicked
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s government is expected to apologize as an inquiry is expected to publish a final report into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal. Tens of thousands of people in Britain were infected with HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood and blood products from the 1970s to early 1990s. An estimated 3,000
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak populist Prime Minister Robert Fico’s condition is improving following an assassination attempt last week that shocked the European Union nation deeply polarized over his policies. The hospital treating Fico in the central city of Banská Bystrica says Fico’s “clinically improving, communicating, inflammatory parameters are slowly decreasing.” It said Fico remains
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