BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s border and coast guard agency says that the number of attempts by migrants to enter Europe without authorization reached around 330,000 last year. Frontex says that’s the highest number since 2016. The agency’s estimates released Friday say that almost half of the attempts were made over land through the
Continue ReadingCNN By Nic Robertson, CNN Surviving President Vladimir Putin’s poisoners was just a warm-up, not a warning, for Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. But his defiance, according to his political team, has put him in a race against time with the Russian autocrat. The question, according to Navalny’s chief investigator, Maria Pevchikh, is whether he
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s big financial fraud and corruption trial is hearing from a public relations specialist who has long harbored a grudge against one of the prime defendants. Francesca Chaouqui was called to answer questions after text messages entered into the court record indicated that she helped
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities say an ammonia leak in a town outside Serbia’s capital has sickened around a dozen people and forced the evacuation of nearby homes. It’s the second such incident in less than a month. The leak happened late on Thursday in a factory complex in Pacevo, an industrial town northeast of
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Este viernes 13 podría terminar siendo el día de suerte de alguien. El premio mayor de Mega Millions alcanzó un estimado de US$1.350 millones, el segundo más grande en la historia de la lotería, para el sorteo de este día. El premio mayor se disparó de US$ 1.100 millones después del sorteo
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — Los partidos Acción Nacional (PAN), de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) y Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) anunciaron este jueves que irán juntos a los comicios de este año en el Estado de México y en Coahuila, así como en las elecciones presidenciales y de la Jefatura de Gobierno en la Ciudad de México
Continue ReadingMartin Bailey Art will always inspire and provoke, but it also continues to baffle and confound. To kick off the New Year, we look at some of the lighter examples of a world turned upside-down, with even some of the most experienced curators not quite getting the hang of it. Here are some of the
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has now collected 510 reports of unidentified flying objects, many of which are flying in sensitive military airspace. While there’s no evidence of extraterrestrials, they still pose a threat, the government said in a declassified report summary released Thursday. Last year the Pentagon opened an
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN A well-known riddle compares an egg to treasure, asking: A box without hinges, key or a lid, yet inside golden treasure is hid. What am I? And for archaeologists in Israel, eight prehistoric ostrich eggs — thought to be between 4,000 and 7,500 years old — proved as valuable as treasure
Continue ReadingBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A police officer has died in Hungary’s capital after he and two other officers were stabbed while responding to a call. Police received a call late Thursday that a man had broken down the door of a neighboring apartment in Budapest and was attempting to enter. The city’s police department said
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The U.K. economy grew unexpectedly in November as the tight job market increased demand for employment services and soccer’s World Cup boosted hospitality. The Office for National Statistics says gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, increased 0.1% from the previous month. That beat the expectations of economists, who had
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The U.K. economy grew unexpectedly in November as the tight job market increased demand for employment services and soccer’s World Cup boosted hospitality. The Office for National Statistics says gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, increased 0.1% from the previous month. That beat the expectations of economists, who had
Continue ReadingBy Aliza Kassim and Iqbal Athas, CNN Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Thursday found the country’s former President Maithripala Sirisena and four other senior government officials responsible for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter bombings that killed at least 290 people and injured hundreds. A seven-judge bench ruled Sirisena was negligent because he failed to
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN China reported a record trade surplus for 2022, as its key export sector delivered robust growth for most of last year, providing much-needed support for the world’s second largest economy that’s hammered by its zero-Covid policy. But plunging shipments in December suggest exports are likely to struggle in early 2023 as
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN As Jo Wang, an event planner in Beijing, watched her family members fall ill with Covid-19 one by one late last month she had a single goal: find antiviral pills to protect her elderly grandfather when his turn came. After three days of trying and failing to purchase a box of
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined colleagues Thursday in urging the Biden administration to advance a national paid family and medical leave program in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget. “We thank President Biden for his commitment to expanding paid leave and urge that the administration’s FY24 budget request meaningfully reflect
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press As Russian troops wage a ferocious house-to-house fight for control of strongholds in eastern Ukraine, a parallel battle is unfolding in the top echelons of military power in Moscow, with President Vladimir Putin reshuffling his top generals while rival camps try to win his favor. The fighting for the salt mining
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Sara Smart, Rashard Rose and Amanda Watts, CNN Nearly a decade before Ana Walshe went missing, the mother of three told police the man who would later become her husband, Brian Walshe, threatened to kill her and a friend, according to a police report. Ana Walshe — who has not been seen
Continue ReadingBy Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka, Aliza Kassim Khalidi and Heather Chen, CNN Japanese prosecutors on Friday said they have indicted a man suspected of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year in a fatal shooting. Nara prosecutors’ office said in a statement it had indicted Tetsuya Yamagami on murder and firearms charges after Abe
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Yousef Mesheh was sleeping in his bunk bed when Israeli forces stormed into his home at 3 a.m. Within moments, the 15-year-old Palestinian said he was lying on the floor as troops punched him, shouting insults. A soldier struck his mother’s chest with
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