By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Medical and security officials in Yemen say a landmine has killed a 13-year-old boy in the contested city of Hodeida. His death Friday is the latest in a string of incidents in the war-torn country. It comes a day after an aid group said three children
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El gobierno de Hong Kong anunció planes para regalar 500.000 boletos de avión como parte de los esfuerzos para revivir su industria turística y atraer visitantes a la ciudad. La iniciativa “Hello Hong Kong” se dio a conocer el jueves, pero ha estado en proceso durante más de dos años. Hong Kong
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Italy’s coast guard says that the bodies of eight migrants have been recovered during an operation overnight that also rescued 42 survivors in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa. The coast guard said Friday that survivors reported that another two people died during the crossing. They were a newborn and
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s coast guard says that the bodies of eight migrants have been recovered during an operation overnight that also rescued 42 survivors in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa. The coast guard said Friday that survivors reported that another two people died during the crossing.
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN While you were sleeping this week, many sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere were up overnight trying to catch a glimpse of a rare green-hued comet passing by Earth. Take a look at some of the photos they captured of the celestial object swinging through our cosmic neighborhood. Here’s what else
Continue ReadingCNN, KULR By Alexandra Meeks, CNN While you were sleeping this week, many sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere were up overnight trying to catch a glimpse of a rare green-hued comet passing by Earth. Take a look at some of the photos they captured of the celestial object swinging through our cosmic neighborhood. Here’s
Continue ReadingMARSEILLE, France (AP) — The Olympic flame is going for a sail. Instead of arriving overland the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece. Paris organizers say it will travel across the Mediterranean aboard a three-masted tall ship and arrive in the French port of
Continue ReadingBy Olesya Dmitracova, CNN One of Gautam Adani’s biggest international partners, TotalEnergies, said Friday that his Indian conglomerate is preparing to appoint a global accounting firm to conduct a “general audit” of its business. In a statement detailing what it described as its “limited” exposure of $3 billion to Adani Group businesses, the French company
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BELARUS BORDER, Ukraine (AP) — On the Belarusian border, Ukrainian units are using drones to monitor a long expanse of marsh and woodland for a possible surprise offensive from the north. That would be a repeat of the unsuccessful Russian thrust toward Kyiv at the start of the war nearly
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China has confirmed it is offering Sri Lanka a two-year moratorium on loan repayments as the Indian Ocean island nation struggles to restructure $51 billion in foreign debt that pushed it into a financial crisis. China is one of Sri Lanka’s biggest lenders. It has been the biggest uncertainty in debt restructuring.
Continue ReadingWLWT, WYOMING POLICE DEPARTMENT, FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Sara Smart and Amanda Watts, CNN Police investigating a burglary report in Ohio fatally shot a man they allege drove a minivan toward them — an account disputed by his relatives, who say he didn’t drive at them, and that he was just there to clean out
Continue ReadingCNN Richard Quest and Julia Buckley, CNN There’s something in the air in Seattle. And while at first sniff you might assume that it’s coffee, nose a little harder and you’ll notice that Seattle doesn’t run on caffeine — it runs on innovation. It’s not for nothing that this city has spawned Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing
Continue ReadingRichard Quest and Julia Buckley, CNN There’s something in the air in Seattle. And while at first sniff you might assume that it’s coffee, nose a little harder and you’ll notice that Seattle doesn’t run on caffeine — it runs on innovation. It’s not for nothing that this city has spawned Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing and
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN Few tuning in to watch the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Monday will have been surprised to learn that former Real Madrid star Gareth Bale is good at golf. After all, the Welshman made no secret of his love for the game throughout a glittering soccer career that he called time
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Congratulations are in order for Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young, who have welcomed their first child together. The stars of the real estate reality show “The Flippin’ El Moussas” announced the birth on Thursday with a joint Instagram post of their hands resting on their newborn son’s chest. “Our
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN The US economy added an astonishing 517,000 jobs in January, showing that the labor market isn’t ready to cool down just yet. The unemployment rate fell to 3.4% from 3.5%, hitting a level not seen since May 1969 — two months before Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon — according to
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN Harrison Li and Katherine Swidan both worry they may never see their loved ones again. Kai Li — Harrison Li’s father — and Mark Swidan — Katherine Swidan’s son — are both Americans who have been imprisoned for years in China, and both have been designated by the
Continue ReadingCNN, HARRISON LI, POOL, DAN SHAKAL, WBZ, KATHERINE SWIDAN By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN Harrison Li and Katherine Swidan both worry they may never see their loved ones again. Kai Li — Harrison Li’s father — and Mark Swidan — Katherine Swidan’s son — are both Americans who have been imprisoned for years
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government is seeking to ban a far-right political party led by a jailed former lawmaker from participating in a general election later this year. The 42-year-old Ilias Kasidiaris founded the Greek National Party two years ago. He is serving a sentence of 13 years and
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government is seeking to ban a far-right political party led by a jailed former lawmaker from participating in a general election later this year. The 42-year-old Ilias Kasidiaris founded the Greek National Party two years ago. He is serving a sentence of 13 years and
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