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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.K. has pledged an additional $620 million in new military supplies for Ukraine, including long-range missiles and four millions rounds of ammunition. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday morning. Sunak’s office said he assured Zelenskyy of “the U.K.’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s defense
Continue ReadingBy Chris Stern, Stephanie Halasz and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — German authorities have arrested an aide to a high-ranking, far-right member of the European Parliament on suspicion of spying for China, the latest in a number of arrests in Europe linked to alleged Chinese espionage. German national Jian G, who worked for AfD MEP
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate returned to Washington on Tuesday to vote on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, the final congressional steps to send the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk after months of delays and contentious internal debate over how involved the United
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip as the Israeli military signals that it plans an offensive on the city of Rafah. Khan Younis has been targeted by repeated Israeli military operations over
Continue ReadingBy EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s navy says two military helicopters collided midair and crashed during a training session, killing all 10 people on board. The navy said in a brief statement that the helicopters were rehearsing Tuesday at a naval base in northern Perak state for the navy’s 90th
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Veteran tabloid publisher David Pecker returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday. Testimony in the case resumed just before midday following a morning hearing on the former president’s alleged gag order violations. Pecker, the National Enquirer’s former publisher and a longtime friend of Trump’s, was
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish customs official has told local media the group made one of the country’s biggest-ever cocaine seizures after confiscating around 1.4 tons of the drug last week in a port near Stockholm. The drug was discovered in a container in the Nynashamn port, south of Stockholm, on April 18, Stefan
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Faced with falling global sales and a diving stock price, Tesla has slashed prices again on some of its electric vehicles and its “Full Self Driving” system in an apparent effort to boost the company’s earnings growth. But Wall Street was unimpressed and will be looking for other answers
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Faced with falling global sales and a diving stock price, Tesla has slashed prices again on some of its electric vehicles and its “Full Self Driving” system in an apparent effort to boost the company’s earnings growth. But Wall Street was unimpressed and will be looking for other answers
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate on Tuesday passed a long-delayed $95 billion package with wide bipartisan support after both sides of Capitol Hill have struggled for months to send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The final vote was 79-18. Fifteen Republicans voted with three Democrats against the bill. Forty-eight Democrats and
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for killing 76 cats in one of the country’s most gruesome cases of animal cruelty in recent years. The man, who is in his 20s, was convicted of violating South Korea’s animal protection
Continue ReadingBy JADE LE DELEY and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the River Seine on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing” ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn on an unusually
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a man who works for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. The detention came less than 24 hours after three people were arrested for spying for China in a separate German case.
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Reports of deposed former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s move to house arrest are “questionable,” her son said Tuesday, adding he believed the ruling military junta wants to keep her location secret to deter resistance attacks on the capital as a civil war rages. In an interview with CNN, Kim
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Global markets were mostly higher Tuesday after U.S. stocks clawed back a chunk of their losses from the week before, with roughly 150 companies in the S&P 500 set to report earnings this week. The futures for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organizations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this year. Both the United Nations’ refugee agency and the Council of Europe on Tuesday called for the U.K. to rethink
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN Tampa, Florida (CNN) — President Joe Biden visited his rival’s home turf in Florida on Tuesday, where his team is seeking to leverage a restrictive abortion law to visit put the state in play for Democrats, seeing reproductive rights as a galvanizing issue for voters one week before
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — When Mount Ruang in Indonesia underwent multiple explosive eruptions last week, volcanic gases were flung so high they reached the atmosphere’s second layer, tens of thousands of feet above ground. Ruang’s eruptions ejected a massive ash plume and sent some volcanic gases more than 65,000 feet into the
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan will consider whether to fine Donald Trump for repeatedly violating the gag order barring the former president from publicly discussing witnesses or jurors in the criminal hush money case. Merchan is holding a hearing at 9:30 a.m. ET Tuesday after the Manhattan
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