CNN, AFPTV, WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, TWITTER , @SHAKEELA3, TARANOM SEYEDI By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Beauty salons in Afghanistan have been given one month to close as the country’s Taliban leaders extend their repressive rule over women, who are already largely confined to their homes with bans on most work and study. Mohammad Sidik
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and LARRY FENN Associated Press The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts. “Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and LARRY FENN Associated Press The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts. “Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of
Continue ReadingWPVI By Lauren Mascarenhas, Danny Freeman, David Williams, Sharif Paget, Kristina Sgueglia and John Miller, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of fatally shooting five people in Philadelphia on Monday night told police in sum and substance that he carried out the attack to clean up the neighborhood, two law enforcement sources told CNN. Authorities
Continue ReadingBy MALAK HARB Associated Press JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian residents of the Jenin refugee camp encountered scenes of widespread destruction as they emerged from their homes and returned from nearby shelters following the most intense Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades. The two-day offensive destroyed
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has moved responsibility for youth prisons to the county level, the final step toward local control in a yearslong reform effort aimed at keeping young offenders closer to home and prioritizing rehabilitation over punishment. The realignment that took effect July 1 officially shut down the
Continue ReadingBy Colin McCullough and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Nine people were injured – including a 9-year-old and a 17-year-old – in a shooting early Wednesday that happened as the victims were celebrating the Fourth of July in the nation’s capital, police said. All nine had non-life-threatening injuries after the shooting near Meade Street in
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Governments must prepare for more extreme weather events and record temperatures in the coming months, the World Meteorological Organization warned Tuesday, as it declared the onset of the warming phenomenon El Niño. El Niño is a natural climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean that brings warmer-than-average sea-surface temperatures
Continue ReadingPAU, France (AP) — Former Paris-Nice champion Luis Leon Sanchez has withdrawn from the Tour de France after a crash that left him with a broken left collarbone. The Spanish rider was involved in one of the many crashes that marred the finale of Tuesday’s fourth stage of the race. Sanchez’s Astana-Qazaqstan team says he’ll
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Authorities say floods have killed 15 people in southwestern China as seasonal torrents hit mountain areas. As of Wednesday, another four people were reported missing in Chongqing, a vast mountainous region of 31 million, almost all of which has now been designated as having flood risk, according to the local government. The
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Japón pronto comenzará a liberar agua radiactiva tratada en el océano tras la aprobación del organismo de control nuclear de las Naciones Unidas para un plan controvertido que llega 12 años después de la fusión nuclear de Fukushima. El plan para liberar las aguas residuales lleva años gestándose, y el ministro
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s latest large-scale military raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank had undeniable similarities with the second Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s. But the current fighting also has key differences from those intense years of violence. It’s more limited in
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The providers of Bend’s Pilot Butte Fourth of July fireworks show promised a bigger than ever display, and it definitely offered plenty to enjoy.
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Wayne Chang and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Torrential downpours and flooding have killed at least 15 people and four others remain missing in Chongqing, southwest China, state-run news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday, citing local authorities. The deaths have been recorded since Monday as heavy rains have battered southwest China, prompting four
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Wayne Chang and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Torrential downpours and flooding have killed at least 15 people and four others remain missing in Chongqing, southwest China, state-run news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday, citing local authorities. The deaths have been recorded since Monday as heavy rains have battered southwest China, prompting four
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Some call it a tradition, and there’s plenty of work done by Bend Fire & Rescue and the fireworks providers to pre-position and prep the slopes of Pilot Butte for any spot fires from the Fourth fireworks show.
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane, CNN (CNN) — Sixteen children allegedly abused in the Philippines have been rescued after Australian police found sexually explicit material on the phone of a man arrested in Sydney. The children, ages 10 to 18, were found last month when the Philippine National Police (PNP) executed multiple warrants at four locations in
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry is accusing the United States of turning of Taiwan into a powder keg with its latest sales of military equipment to the self-governing island democracy. Defense Ministry spokesperson Col. Tan Kefei responded Wednesday to the State Department’s approval of the sale of 30 mm ammunition and related equipment, along
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It was Scotland on parade. Bagpipes, kilts, drums and a Shetland pony named Corporal Cruachan IV marched down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on Wednesday to honor King Charles III. Two months after his lavish coronation at Westminster Abbey in London, Scotland hosted its own event to mark the
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. citizenship test is changing, with rollout expected late next year. Under the proposed changes, the test would have a new English-speaking section and a new written multiple-choice format in the civics section. Some immigrants and advocates worry the changes will hurt
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