By Hilary Whiteman, CNN On a fine day, locals arrive on boats that motor up the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales to dine on the back deck of the Paradise Café. But for the fourth time in 18 months, café owner Darren Osmotherly is rushing to move his equipment to higher ground as floodwater
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — El 4 de julio se conmemora el nacimiento de Estados Unidos, el día en que se adoptó la Declaración de Independencia en 1776. Muchos celebrarán el feriado federal con fuegos artificiales y barbacoas, y la mayoría de los lugares de trabajo estarán cerrados en todo el país. Esto es
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A weekend outage at Japan’s No. 2 mobile carrier KDDI Corp. was still preventing many of its customers from making calls Monday. The massive outage that began early Saturday affected nearly 40 million people, disrupting deliveries, weather reports and other services across the country. The company said
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A weekend outage at Japan’s No. 2 mobile carrier KDDI Corp. was still preventing many of its customers from making calls Monday. The massive outage that began early Saturday affected nearly 40 million people, disrupting deliveries, weather reports and other services across the country. The company said
Continue ReadingBy FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Torched forests and cities burned to the ground. Colleagues with severed limbs. Bombardments so relentless the only option is to lie in a trench, wait and pray. Ukrainian soldiers returning from the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region — where Russia is waging a fierce
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Indian police made fresh arrests at the weekend over the murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan — a crime that sparked tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority and a clampdown on protests and the internet to prevent them from escalating. Two Muslim men already under arrest for the murder,
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN and KARL RITTER Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A gunman who killed three people when he opened fire in a crowded shopping mall acted alone and apparently selected his victims at random, Danish police said Monday, all but ruling out that the attack was related to terrorism. Authorities filed preliminary
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran’s arming of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. While avoiding directly mentioning
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La estrella del pop británico Harry Styles canceló su presentación en Copenhague después de que se produjera un tiroteo en un centro comercial cercano a la sala de conciertos donde tenía previsto actuar. Tres personas murieron y varias más resultaron heridas en un tiroteo masivo el domingo en Field’s, un centro comercial
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo and Lauren Lau, CNN A rescue team from mainland China saved a crew member of a ship that broke in half and sank during Typhoon Chaba in the early hours of Monday morning — just hours after their counterparts in Hong Kong said a “miracle” would be needed to find any more
Continue ReadingCNN, WEWS By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Many people spent the holiday weekend outdoors, despite a sweltering heat wave and triple-digit temperatures in some cities. And the extreme weather will continue to build across the central US today, as more than 50 million people in 18 states remain under heat advisories. So, to stay on the
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — A passenger bus has slid off a mountain road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India, killing 16 people, including schoolchildren. An official with the district of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh state says about 20 passengers were traveling in the bus on Monday. Rescue workers pulled out the badly
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Fresh evacuation orders were issued for thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains flooded several suburbs in Australia’s largest city, with officials warning of more wild weather over the next 12 hours. An intense low-pressure system off Australia’s east coast is forecast to bring more heavy rain through Monday across
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer Sandy Alcantara is pitching like a contender for the Cy Young Award. If he wins, that would be a first for the Miami Marlins. The Marlins have had an MVP in Giancarlo Stanton. But never in the franchise’s three-decade history have they had a Cy Young winner. Alcantara threw
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Washington star Juan Soto is being checked out after exiting a game early because of an injured left calf. The 23-year-old outfielder flexed and pointed to his left leg after making a throw in right in the third inning against Miami on Sunday. He was taken out after being involved in
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The Federal Reserve serves up the minutes from its most recent interest rate policy meeting Wednesday. Levi Strauss & Co. reports quarterly results Thursday. The Labor Department issues its monthly tally of hiring by nonfarm employers Friday.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Bonnie se ha fortalecido y ahora es un huracán con vientos de 130 kilómetros por hora y ráfagas de viento más altas, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos (NHC, por sus siglas en inglés). Sigue la trayectoria de Bonnie en tiempo real Ubicado a unas 320 kilómetros al sur
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Rescue teams searching for missing crew members from a Chinese engineering ship that sank over the weekend saved a fourth person on Monday and recovered 12 bodies, Chinese maritime authorities said. Officials said the crew member rescued by a Chinese navy ship on Monday was in
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Artemis Moshtaghian and Benjamin Schiller, CNN R. Kelly was removed from suicide watch Tuesday morning following a clinical assessment, according to a letter filed by prosecutors in federal court. The disgraced R&B artist was placed on suicide watch after he was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison on sex
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares are mostly higher while U.S. futures fell ahead of the July 4 holiday in the U.S. Benchmarks rose in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo but fell in Hong Kong and Seoul. Last week was the fourth losing week in the last five for Wall
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