By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lodged an appeal against a civil court ruling that blamed him for the unlawful killings of four Afghans. Ben Roberts-Smith retired from Australia’s elite Special Air Service Regiment a decade ago. He lost a landmark defamation suit on June
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, Amir Tal, Richard Allen Greene and Rob Picheta, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Israel on Tuesday in the biggest weekday protest in months against the government’s renewed moves to overhaul the country’s judicial system. They snarled traffic in Tel Aviv and caused chaos
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, Amir Tal, Richard Allen Greene and Rob Picheta, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Israel on Tuesday in the biggest weekday protest in months against the government’s renewed moves to overhaul the country’s judicial system. They snarled traffic in Tel Aviv and caused chaos
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — With the “Barbie” movie release date fast approaching, the latest teaser features Ryan Gosling’s Ken bemoaning life in his female companion’s shadow. “I just don’t know who I am without you,” Ken tells Margot Robbie’s Barbie in the trailer, released Monday. We then see Ken singing about the dynamic
Continue ReadingCNN By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — With the “Barbie” movie release date fast approaching, the latest teaser features Ryan Gosling’s Ken bemoaning life in his female companion’s shadow. “I just don’t know who I am without you,” Ken tells Margot Robbie’s Barbie in the trailer, released Monday. We then see Ken singing about the
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court. She has benefited, too — from schools’ purchases of hundreds,
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El asesor de seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos, Jake Sullivan, dijo este martes que el presidente Joe Biden ha sido “claro e inequívoco” en su apoyo a la transferencia de aviones F-16 a Turquía, y agregó que el presidente “no ha puesto salvedades ni condiciones al respecto en sus comentarios públicos
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Maxime Tamsett, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The Georgia grand jury that is expected to consider charges against former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies for trying to overturn the 2020 election was sworn in Tuesday after a three-hour selection process in Atlanta. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has introduced a new plan to combat overdose deaths from xylazine, a powerful veterinary sedative that has increasingly shown up in such deaths across the country, exacerbating the opioid overdose epidemic in the United States. “I’m announcing that the White House is releasing our national response
Continue ReadingBy Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — In a corner of northeast France, the ground rumbles with industry. After multiple false starts and much political back and forth, work is underway on the Seine-Nord Europe Canal (SNEC), a €5.1 billion ($5.5 billion) project designed to break up one of the continent’s major transport bottlenecks. The ambitious
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — World No. 6 Holger Rune has credited his run to this year’s Wimbledon quarterfinals to the love and support shown by his mom. The 20-year-old beat Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov on Monday to set up an enticing match against world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz for a place in the semifinals,
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and field that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels to compete in major competitions. But the
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — There were no jackpot winners after Monday’s Powerball drawing and the grand prize jumped to an estimated $725 million – the seventh largest Powerball jackpot, according to lottery officials. The next drawing will be on Wednesday for the massive prize, which has an estimated $366.2 million
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Norway’s capital briefly stopped four Americans who rode through an Oslo tunnel on electric scooters, and a Norwegian newspaper says one of them was rapper Lil Nas X. Authorities briefly closed the Festning tunnel, but none of the scooter riders were detained or charged. Police said the tourists had
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Foxconn says it is exiting an ambitious project to help build one of India’s first chip factories. The world’s largest contract electronics maker will “no longer move forward” with its $19.4 billion joint venture with Vedanta (VEDL), an Indian metals and energy conglomerate, in Asia’s third largest
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Foxconn says it is exiting an ambitious project to help build one of India’s first chip factories. The world’s largest contract electronics maker will “no longer move forward” with its $19.4 billion joint venture with Vedanta (VEDL), an Indian metals and energy conglomerate, in Asia’s third largest
Continue ReadingBy Nick Valencia, Amy Simonson and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A Louisiana judge has quashed counts against two of the law enforcement officers charged in connection with the May 2019 arrest and death of Black motorist Ronald Greene. Former state troopers John Peters and Dakota DeMoss no longer will face obstruction of justice charges
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top diplomat is warning of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, saying that Southeast Asia is “one miscalculation away from apocalypse” and pressing for world powers to sign a treaty to keep the region free from such arms. Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say they have found the dismembered body of a missing German businessman inside a freezer inside a house in southern Thailand. The police chief in the town of Nong Prue said the body of 62-year-old Hans-Peter Mack was discovered on Monday night.
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The Solomon Islands has signed an agreement to boost cooperation with China on law enforcement and security matters in a move likely to raise concerns among the South Pacific island’s traditional partners. Details of the agreement were not released. It followed a meeting Monday in Beijing between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and
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