CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Dozens of US military transport jets were expected to land at Kabul’s international airport on Monday, as about 20,000 people remained at the facility awaiting evacuation, a source close to the situation told CNN. Plans called for 33 US Air Force C-17s to head to Hamid Karzai International Airport
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Dozens of US military transport jets were expected to land at Kabul’s international airport on Monday, as about 20,000 people remained at the facility awaiting evacuation, a source close to the situation told CNN. Plans called for 33 US Air Force C-17s to head to Hamid Karzai International Airport
Continue ReadingBy John Duffy, CNN Shortly after school starts every year, I receive calls from concerned parents of teens and tweens indicating that their child simply refuses to go to school. These are not kids demanding mental health days. “School refusing” kids do not refuse for just a day or two, but for weeks, months, sometimes
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN Español) — Casi un tercio de la población mundial (32,5%) ya tiene aplicada por lo menos una dosis de la vacuna contra el covid-19, y el 24,5% está completamente vacunada, según cifras de Our World In Data. Diariamente, se aplican unas 34,88 millones de dosis de la vacuna contra el coronavirus en
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — A medida que los estadounidenses enfrentan un aumento desalentador de hospitalizaciones por covid-19, con las tasas de niños y adultos menores de 50 años alcanzando sus niveles más altos hasta ahora, los funcionarios esperan que la aprobación total de las vacunas pueda alentar a más personas a vacunarse. La aprobación total
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Decenas de aviones militares de transporte estadounidenses llegarían al aeropuerto internacional de Kabul el lunes, mientras unas 20.000 personas permanecían en las instalaciones esperando ser evacuadas, dijo a CNN una fuente cercana a la situación. De acuerdo con los planes, 33 aviones C-17 de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos deben dirigirse
Continue ReadingBy HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s largest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City, has begun a tightened lockdown to battle the coronavirus. It comes a day ahead of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to the capital, Hanoi. In Ho Chi Minh City, police and army troops have mobilized to enforce the
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — International aid groups are warning that millions of people in Syria and Iraq are losing access to water, electricity and food. The groups say the two Arab countries are suffering a rise in temperatures, low rainfall and drought, depriving many of drinking water. The drought is also
Continue ReadingBy Sheena McKenzie, Nick Paton Walsh and Sam Kiley, CNN One week after the Taliban takeover of Kabul, the situation at the capital’s airport has become increasingly desperate, with more than 20,000 people in and around the facility trying to board flights and another seven Afghan civilians killed in crushes, amid one of the largest
Continue ReadingCNN By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN Beijing was once known as one of the world’s most polluted cities, with dense smog and acrid air a daily reality for residents. Now, its skies are mostly blue — a sign the Chinese capital is entering a new era of clean air, the country’s
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN Beijing was once known as one of the world’s most polluted cities, with dense smog and acrid air a daily reality for residents. Now, its skies are mostly blue — a sign the Chinese capital is entering a new era of clean air, the country’s Minister
Continue ReadingBy Ben Westcott and Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen received her first shot of the island’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a public show of support for the new drug which is central to plans for inoculation self sufficiency amid low immunization rates and struggles to obtain vaccines from overseas. Monday’s island-wide rollout
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Officials say Egypt has closed its main border crossing point with the Gaza Strip amid tensions with the territory’s militant Hamas rulers. Monday’s closing is the first time the Rafah crossing was shuttered since early this year. Egypt had kept the crossing open during an 11-day war
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Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Socorristas de Haití encontraron 24 sobrevivientes atrapados con vida, una semana después de que un catastrófico terremoto de magnitud 7,2 azotara el país. Pacientes en la intemperie y evacuaciones de urgencia, CNN visita hospital sin recursos para tantos heridos por el terremoto en Haití Según el servicio de protección
Continue ReadingTIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police say they have arrested two people for allegedly hurling tear gas cannisters during a concert by a Bosnian Serb musician whom many in the country accuse of not condemning the war in Kosovo. A statement on Monday said a 21-year-old man was arrested after hurling a tear gas cannister
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-graft court has sentenced a former Cabinet minister to 12 years in prison for bribery related to the distribution of coronavirus aid. Juliari Peter Batubara was arrested in December a day after an anticorruption commission foiled an attempt to hand over seven suitcases and backpacks
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Al menos 21 personas murieron y otras 20 siguen desaparecidas después de las graves inundaciones que azotaron el condado de Humphreys en el centro de Tennessee, dijeron funcionarios locales. “Hemos experimentado una devastadora pérdida de vidas en los últimos días”, dijo Grant Gillespie, jefe de policía y bomberos de Waverly, Tennessee, en
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN The myth that kids can’t get seriously sick from Covid-19 keeps getting debunked as more children get hospitalized during the Delta variant surge. More than 49,000 children have been hospitalized with Covid-19 since August 2020, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This month, an average of 276
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden quiere convencer a los estadounidenses de que está a cargo y comprende la angustia causada por una semana de caos políticamente dañino en Kabul desatada por su fallido plan de retirada de Afganistán. Biden busca retomar la iniciativa y pintar un cuadro de un comandante en jefe
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