olivertapia (CNN) — Al menos cuatro niños murieron y 26 más resultaron heridos después de múltiples explosiones que sacudieron dos escuelas en el oeste de Kabul el martes. Un portavoz del Hospital Muhammad Ali Jinnah en Kabul le dijo a CNN que había “recibido cuatro cadáveres y 19 heridos”, luego de las explosiones en el
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered what he said is a ”wholehearted” apology for attending illegal party during lockdown. But Johnson said Tuesday that he didn’t knowingly break rules or mislead Parliament. Johnson told lawmakers in the House of Commons that it simply “did not occur”
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered what he said is a ”wholehearted” apology for attending illegal party during lockdown. But Johnson said Tuesday that he didn’t knowingly break rules or mislead Parliament. Johnson told lawmakers in the House of Commons that it simply “did not occur”
Continue ReadingCNN Sport staff The football world has been offering support and sympathy to Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo and his family following the announcement on Monday of his baby son’s death. The Manchester United and Portugal star had announced in October he and partner Georgina Rodriguez were expecting twins. In December, they announced they were
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Cuando mi padre, un hombre de 73 años, expresó su preocupación por la reducción de su suministro de alimentos a finales de la semana pasada, la catástrofe generada por el confinamiento de la ciudad de Shanghái por el covid-19 de repente llegó a casa. “Se acabará en unos días si
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. says rival Libyan officials wrapped up weeklong talks without an agreement on disputed constitutional arrangements for elections. Twelve lawmakers from Libya’s east-based parliament and 12 from the High Council of State, an advisory body in the capital of Tripoli, took part in the U.N.-brokered talks
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A man has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl at a high school in Stockton, California, Monday, police said. The girl was stabbed by an intruder at Stagg High School, Stockton Unified School District officials said. A school officer was on site
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — Este martes, la Alcaldía de Benito Juárez en Ciudad de México informó a través de su cuenta de Twitter que se presentó una explosión en una residencia en la colonia Narvarte que dejó 4 personas lesionadas. Hasta el momento las autoridades no han reportado muertos y continúan las investigaciones para encontrar
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — La Cámara de Diputados y Diputadas de Chile rechazó este lunes dos proyectos de ley que buscaban permitirle a las personas retirar, por quinta vez desde el inicio de la pandemia, hasta un 10% de sus fondos de pensiones. El primer proyecto fue impulsado por parlamentarios y no ponía restricciones a
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore and New Zealand will cooperate on green technologies in the fight against climate change. The joint efforts will be part of the new climate change and green economy pillar added to Singapore and New Zealand’s enhanced partnership. Prime Ministers Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore and Jacinda
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Nuevas fotos y un breve videoclip aparecieron el lunes por la mañana en las redes sociales y muestran al buque de misiles guiados de Rusia, el Moskva, gravemente dañado y en llamas en las horas previas a que el barco se hundiera en el mar Negro el jueves. El hundimiento del buque
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The Philippines’ ambassador to China, Jose Santiago “Chito” Sta. Romana, has died while in quarantine for COVID-19 at age 74. Sta. Romana was a longtime China resident and had been a correspondent for ABC News prior to being appointed ambassador in 2016. He was among a group of Filipinos who visited China
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s acting president has sworn in the country’s Cabinet. Sadiq Sanjrani on Tuesday administered the oath of office to the 34 ministers at Islamabad’s white marble seat of government, with senior officials in attendance. Pakistan’s newly elected prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, also was present for the ceremony. Sharif was elected premier April
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN American banking giant JPMorgan Chase has unveiled plans for its new global headquarters: a 60-story skyscraper powered entirely by renewable energy. Set to complete in 2025, the 1,388-foot-tall tower will become New York’s largest “all-electric” building, according to Foster + Partners, the architects behind the design. A series of digital renderings, released
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Soviet-era apartment blocks at the end of a tram line in this western Ukrainian city show an indifferent face to the world, blank and gray. But behind every lighted window is a story, never so much as now. Lviv on the surface
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Travis Caldwell and Amanda Jackson, CNN Scenes ranging from excitement to confusion played out Monday across America’s airports after a federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation. Some passengers learned of the Florida judge’s decision on the rule aimed at mitigating the Covid-19 threat just moments before
Continue ReadingCNN By Terry Ward, CNN Jessie Festa was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport waiting to take off for Pasco, Washington, when a flight attendant announced wearing masks during the flight was no longer required. “The reaction around me was jubilation,” Festa, a travel blogger who lives in New York City,
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are mixed in Asia after a rally on Wall Street led by technology stocks. Share benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney but fell in Shanghai. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 1.6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are mixed in Asia after a rally on Wall Street led by technology stocks. Share benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney but fell in Shanghai. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 1.6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled that a group of Georgia voters can proceed with legal efforts seeking to disqualify U.S Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection to Congress, citing her role in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. The challenge filed last month with the Georgia secretary of
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