By JO KEARNEY and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The last week has been a frantic mix of fear and frustration for people in west London with family members trying to get out of Afghanistan. Many are seeking information from an organization established to support Afghan and Central Asian refugees the same year
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN Country music singer-songwriter Tom T. Hall died Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, at the age of 85, according to his son. “Our family asks for privacy during this difficult time,” Dean Hall said in a tweet, Hall, who was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky, was inducted into the Country
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — After the success that Democrats in Georgia had in 2020, the Deep South battleground is working with other Southern states to help expand Democrats’ national footprint. It’s the latest example of the ripple effect that voting rights activist Stacey Abrams has had on Democrats as she decides
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A weakening Henri is now a tropical depression and is churning eastward over New England and back toward the Atlantic Ocean. Its center came ashore in Rhode Island on Sunday. People there and in other parts of the Northeast are mopping up even as rain potential
Continue Readingjasserakle (CNN Español) — Angelina Jolie usó sus redes sociales para pronunciarse sobre la situación política de Afganistán. “En este momento, el pueblo de Afganistán está perdiendo la capacidad de comunicarse en las redes sociales y de expresarse libremente. Así que vine a Instagram para compartir sus historias y las voces de quienes en todo
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden trató de poner una cara optimista frente a las evacuaciones caóticas que están teniendo lugar en el aeropuerto de Kabul, donde las fuerzas estadounidenses se apresuran a sacar del país a los ciudadanos estadounidenses y a afganos vulnerables. En declaraciones que hizo desde la Casa Blanca, Biden
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is visiting Ukraine to attend the festivities marking the 30th anniversary of its declaration of independence. Patriarch Batholomew I and the leader of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius I, together conducted a lithurgy in Kyiv’s St. Michael’s Cathedral
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — Clarissa Ward, corresponsal internacional en jefe de CNN, ha reportado durante más de 15 años desde las primeras líneas de batalla en todo el mundo, desde Siria, Iraq y Afganistán a Myanmar e Irán. Aquí, un repaso a su trayectoria. Este viernes, Ward abordó un vuelo en Kabul para salir
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Actress Melissa Joan Hart has revealed she’s quite sick with Covid, despite being fully vaccinated and wants to encourage others to “stay safe.” The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star took to Instagram (from bed) to tell followers “it’s bad” and that she thinks she may have caught it from one of
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain forward Mauro Icardi is due for a scan after injuring his right shoulder in a French league game against Brest. The Argentina international was substituted late in PSG’s 4-2 victory on Friday night after landing on his shoulder. He was grimacing as he left the field for the locker room.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A superstar-laden Central Park concert meant to celebrate New York City’s recovery from the coronavirus was cut short because of severe weather as Hurricane Henri approached. New York City police on Saturday night told concertgoers via Twitter to “calmly move to the nearest exits and proceed to areas outside of the
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, Ashley Strickland and Sarah Molano, CNN This weekend is your next chance to catch the rare full blue moon before it again becomes “just a memory” until 2024. A blue moon is the third full moon in a season containing four full moons, rather than the usual three, according to Sky &
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Gard and Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologists At the halfway point of August, fall is quickly approaching as schools are back in session. But warm temperatures and prolonged drought could hinder the traditional fall feeling of cool, crisp mornings with beautiful foliage on the trees. The Climate Prediction Center’s (CPC) extended three-month outlook for
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Authorities in Australia say more than 250 people have been arrested while protesting coronavirus lockdowns in the country. Many faced fines for defying health orders. Saturday’s protests took place in several cities nationwide, with the largest and most violent protest in Melbourne. At least seven police officers were treated for injuries after
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Henri is now a hurricane. The National Hurricane Center issued an advisory late Saturday morning upgrading the tropical storm to a hurricane. Storm surge, hurricane conditions and rainfall that could cause flooding began threatening the Northeast region Saturday. Henri is expected to make landfall on Long Island or in southern
Continue ReadingBy John Sinnott, CNN It’s par for the course for a golfer’s shot to occasionally land in a water hazard or the rough, but Hideki Matsuyama’s drive ended up in a spectator’s shirt at The Northern Trust tournament on Friday. “It went between my legs, hit my knee, and somehow rolled up into my shirt,”
Continue ReadingBy KARL RITTER and MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press HANGEDIGI, Turkey (AP) — European Union leaders haunted by a 2015 migration crisis fueled by the Syrian war desperately want to avoid a large-scale influx of refugees and migrants from Afghanistan. Their message to any Afghans except for those who helped Western forces in the two-decade war
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s would-be successor is pledging to “fight with everything that I can” for victory in Germany’s Sept. 26 election. Merkel’s center-right bloc kicked off its official campaign on Saturday amid a worrying sag in its poll ratings. The German leader spoke at a campaign rally
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN In the same week that Tropical Storm Fred caused catastrophic flooding in North Carolina, and Hurricane Grace made its second landfall in Mexico, Hurricane Henri is barreling toward New England, where it’s expected to be the first to make landfall there in 30 years. Hurricanes — also called tropical cyclones or
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN While our passports haven’t been getting many stamps since March 2020, at least our vocabularies are expanding. Variants, mandates, quarantines and requirements — who knew 2021 would be so polysyllabic? CNN Travel has, as always, been keeping an eye on the week’s developments and here’s our roundup of what we learned
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