By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded another defiant note on his return to his nation’s capital following his wartime visit to the United States. He said Friday that Ukrainian forces are “working toward victory” even as Russia launched new strikes across the country. Zelenskyy posted on
Continue ReadingSALERNO, Italy (AP) — Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa is going back to Europe after signing a contract with Serie A club Salernitana following a solid performance at his fifth World Cup. The southern team says Ochoa has signed a deal through the end of the season with an option for an extension. The 37-year-old Ochoa
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Cameroon goalkeeper André Onana has ended his career with the national team. The decision comes one month after the 26-year-old player was sent home from the World Cup in a dispute with coach Rigobert Song. The Inter Milan player posted a statement on Twitter saying “my story with the Cameroonian national team
Continue ReadingBy David J. Lopez, CNN Fifty years after the “Immaculate Reception” and just hours before his death, Franco Harris said it “blows my mind” how he pulled off arguably the most memorable play in NFL history. In a live interview Tuesday on “Mad Dog Unleashed” on SiriusXM radio, Harris recalled December 23, 1972, when he
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a man of attempted murder and bodily harm and sentenced him to 14 years in prison over a knife attack on a train last year that left four people wounded. Judges found that he had an Islamic extremist motive. The Palestinian man was convicted at the Munich
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House voted Friday to pass a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill that would fund critical government operations across federal agencies and provide emergency aid for Ukraine and natural disaster relief. The bill will next go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. Government funding is
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, SENATE TV, NATO TV, JOHN HARRINGTON By Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House voted Friday to pass a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill that would fund critical government operations across federal agencies and provide emergency aid for Ukraine and natural disaster relief. The bill will next go to President Joe Biden
Continue ReadingBy VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar “cemetery,” one that recalls some of the worst damage done since the Russian invasion: the debris of rockets used against this town and its people. This graveyard has more than a thousand missiles, or parts of them.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Corea del Norte disparó al menos dos misiles balísticos de corto alcance el viernes, según funcionarios de Corea del Sur, el último lanzamiento en un año sin precedentes de pruebas de armas. Los misiles fueron disparados desde el área Sunan de Pyongyang alrededor de las 4:32 pm hora local, dijo el viernes
Continue ReadingCNN By Radina Gigova and Rhea Mogul, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday used the word “war” to refer to the conflict in Ukraine, the first known time he has publicly deviated from his carefully crafted description of Moscow’s invasion as a “special military operation” 10 months after it began. “Our goal is not
Continue ReadingBy OMAR FARUK Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Journalists in Somalia say the government is further restricting their work amid a significant military offensive against the al-Shabab extremist group, with a new directive to submit content for approval before publication. In the latest incident, media groups say police in the central Hirshabelle state detained
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Air travelers are facing possible delays at U.K. airports as government employees who check passports go on strike. The walkout Friday is the latest in a spate of walkouts over pay amid a cost-of-living crisis. France braced for similar Christmas travel disruption, with a weekend rail strike starting to bite on Friday.
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Air travelers are facing possible delays at U.K. airports as government employees who check passports go on strike. The walkout Friday is the latest in a spate of walkouts over pay amid a cost-of-living crisis. France braced for similar Christmas travel disruption, with a weekend rail strike starting to bite on Friday.
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN For Catalina Bernal Andrade, Christmas 2009 was unusual — in more ways than one. That year, Catalina’s father had been diagnosed with colon cancer. Catalina, then 31, had moved back into her parents’ home in Bogotá, Colombia, to support them through his treatment. Christmas rolled around, and Catalina and her family celebrated
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved record defense spending next year in preparation for the country deploying U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles as part of a more offensive security strategy. The budget Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet approved Friday will surge to a record $55 billion, a
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved record defense spending next year in preparation for the country deploying U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles as part of a more offensive security strategy. The budget Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet approved Friday will surge to a record $55 billion, a
Continue ReadingBy Yoonjung Seo, Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, according to South Korean officials, the latest in an unprecedented year of weapons testing. The missiles were fired from Pyongyang’s Sunan area at around 4:32 p.m. local time, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in
Continue ReadingBy MAHMOUD ILEAN Associated Press KFAR QASSEM, Israel (AP) — Israeli police have killed an Arab assailant who rammed into them with his car after attempting to shoot an officer in central Israel on Friday, leaving three policemen wounded. The incident took place Friday in the Arab Israeli town of Kfar Qassem, an unusual site
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN As freezing temperatures from a coast-to-coast winter storm arrive in El Paso, Texas, some migrants who haven’t turned themselves in to border agents or officials after crossing the US-Mexico border are having a difficult time finding shelter. El Paso is in the midst of a declared state of
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN In a flat, arid stretch of southern Australia, the Koonalda Cave is home to art that dates back 22,000 years — a sacred site for the indigenous Mirning People and a discovery that transformed scientists’ understanding of history. That protected cave and its art have now been vandalized with graffiti, devastating
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