By Elliott Gotkine, Mia Alberti and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military has said its investigation into the deadly humanitarian aid incident in Gaza last month found Israeli troops did not fire at the aid convoy, but at “a number of suspects” who approached and posed a threat to nearby forces, a conclusion swiftly
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. The report covers the one-year period from Nov. 1, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2023, when it says roughly 24,300 housing units
Continue ReadingBy ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, a powerful message of support for women’s rights on International Women’s Day. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti used a 19th-century printing press to seal the amendment in France’s constitution at a special public ceremony. Applause filled the
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — At least 287 school children, some as young as eight years old, are being held by gunmen who raided their school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State early Thursday, a police spokesperson told CNN Friday. More than 300 students were taken early Thursday by the armed bandits
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist who was married to the younger brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at age 92. She died in Atlanta on Thursday, according to family members who issued a statement through the A.D. King Foundation. Naomi King established the organization in May
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, Gregory Wallace and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a United Airlines flight that lost a tire while taking off from San Francisco International Airport, damaging several cars in a parking lot before the plane safely landed at Los Angeles International Airport, the agency said. The plane
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A ship will head to Gaza on Friday carrying humanitarian aid, the European Commission president said, as international donors launch a sea corridor to supply the territory, which faces widespread hunger and shortages of other essential supplies after nearly five months of war. A ship belonging
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators on Thursday shared updates on their probe into the cause of the catastrophic 2021 condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, providing key insights into the factors that may have led to the deaths of 98 people under a mountain of rubble. Investigators have identified hundreds of possible points
Continue ReadingBy THEODORA TONGAS and MICHAEL VARAKLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek novelist and his partner are the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens’ city hall following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The mayor of the Greek capital officiated at the wedding on Thursday of Petros Hadjopoulos,
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The clock is ticking for Donald Trump to pony up roughly half a billion dollars to satisfy two recent courtroom losses. The cash crunch challenges Trump’s long-projected image of a successful businessman with deep pockets and a maverick’s ability to outmaneuver legal and financial troubles. He rode that reputation to the
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week. As a Chinese envoy crisscrossed Europe for talks on ending the war, the Chinese foreign minister trumpeted the export of Chinese cars to Russia and Russian natural gas to China. The
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News Channel 3 is spotlighting the challenges and solutions surrounding the fentanyl crisis in Coachella Valley. You can watch a Town Hall meeting moderated by anchor Karen Devine on Saturday, March 30 at 9 a.m. on KESQ News Channel 3. The Women Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valley held a town hall meeting earlier this
Continue ReadingKYIV (AP) — Ukraine’s former military chief has been appointed the country’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom. It comes a month after he was sacked as head of the armed forces by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy announced that he has approved the appointment of Valerii Zaluzhnyi to one of Ukraine’s most important diplomatic positions.
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A new trial opened Friday for two American men in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation after Italy’s highest court threw out their convictions. Italy’s highest Cassation Court ordered a new trial last year, saying it hadn’t been proven beyond
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A new trial opened Friday for two American men in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation after Italy’s highest court threw out their convictions. Italy’s highest Cassation Court ordered a new trial last year, saying it hadn’t been proven beyond
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has reported large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year, as leaders showcase the ruling Communist Party’s determination to safeguard national security and public order. Top judicial officials presented reports from China’s Supreme People’s Court and from its top prosecutors on
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — European shares mostly declined early Friday, but Asian benchmarks rose after U.S. stocks climbed to records. France’s CAC 40 edged up less than 0.1% in early trading to 8,019.83, while Germany’s DAX dipped 0.1% to 17,823.36. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed nearly 0.2% to 7,680.05. U.S. shares
Continue ReadingBy NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency. In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in which external genitalia
Continue ReadingBy MOHAMED JAHJOUH, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege, children are starting to die. Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by Israeli forces and has suffered long
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A top European Union official is in Cyprus on Friday to inspect preparations to send desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza by sea, just hours after President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. military will set up a temporary port off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to support
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