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Month: July 2022

La cosecha de Ucrania se convierte en el nuevo campo de batalla, mientras los incendios ennegrecen sus tierras de cultivo

Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — En toda Ucrania, en medio de un calor intenso, hay una imagen que se está volviendo familiar este verano: las cosechadoras barriendo los campos de grano en una carrera contra los incendios que se propagan rápidamente. Las líneas del frente del conflicto se extienden por algunas de las tierras agrícolas

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Putin expands fast-track Russian citizenship to all Ukraine

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian missiles struck a key Ukrainian city, Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded a fast-track procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians on Monday, another effort to strengthen Moscow’s influence over war-torn Ukraine. Until recently, only residents of Ukraine’s separatist eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions,

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They moved to Highland Park for the schools, the space and the safety. What now?

CNN, ROBERTS FAMILY PHOTOS, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE COMER CHILDREN’S, NETWORK VIDEO PRODUCTIONS, LYNN SWEET, WLS By Eric Levenson, CNN Photographs by Taylor Glascock and Kristan Lieb for CNN A stroll through Central Avenue’s tree-lined, cobblestone sidewalks shows the appeal of suburban Highland Park. The boutique stores that dot the street and the banana pancakes

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A Texas death row inmate is seeking a 30-day reprieve to donate a kidney. An appeals court has issued an execution stay for a different reason

By Dakin Andone, CNN A Texas death row inmate who’d asked for his execution to be delayed so he can donate a kidney was granted a stay of execution Monday on an unrelated appeal over allegedly false testimony during the penalty phase of his trial. Ramiro Gonzales, 39, who was to be executed Wednesday, had

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Thousands in Bosnia commemorate 1995 Srebrenica massacre

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Fifty newly identified victims were honored and reburied Monday in Bosnia as thousands gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust. Twenty-seven years after they were brutally murdered, the remains of 47 men and three teenage boys

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Ukraine’s harvest becomes the new battlefield, as fires blacken its arable heartlands

By Tim Lister and Petro Zadorozhnyy, CNN Across Ukraine, in the shimmering heat, one sight is becoming familiar this summer: Combine harvesters sweeping across fields of grain in a race against fast-spreading fires. The conflict’s front lines straddle some of Ukraine’s richest farmland. Whether caused by accident or intention, the fires darkening the summer sky

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