WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 14,000 people have been evacuated in the eastern Polish town of Lublin to allow military experts to remove a massive unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II. City authorities said later Friday that the bomb had been successfully removed. Town hall spokesperson Katarzyna Duma said the police, Territorial
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Usar un reloj Swatch con temática arcoíris en Malasia ahora podría llevarte a tres años de cárcel, luego de que el gobierno prohibiera lo que describió como productos “relacionados con la comunidad LGBTQ” de la marca, alegando que son “perjudiciales para la moralidad”. Cualquiera que use, venda, importe o distribuya
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — US District Judge Tanya Chutkan set the tone for how she would preside over the election subversion against Donald Trump in a hearing Friday focused on what limits would be placed on how the former president can handle the evidence prosecutors will be turning
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood, Lauren Fox and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Ukraine backers on Capitol Hill are itching for President Joe Biden to step up his case for why the US should send more money to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, as warning bells sound about the American public’s support for Kyiv. White
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration will announce on Friday its first major investment to kickstart the US carbon removal industry – something energy experts say is key to getting the country’s planet-warming emissions under control. Direct air capture removal projects are akin to huge vacuum cleaners sucking carbon dioxide out of
Continue ReadingISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press The Department of Energy announced Friday it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects that promise to remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials said was the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history. Project Cypress will be built in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. The other will
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities were on standby to evacuate more people in southeastern Norway Friday, where huge amounts of water, littered with broken trees, debris and trash, were thundering down the usually serene rivers after days of torrential rain. The level of water in swollen rivers and lakes
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — When Makkabi Berlin takes the field this weekend, the soccer club founded by Holocaust survivors will become the first Jewish team to play in the German Cup. Wolfsburg, which competes in the top tier of German soccer, will be the clear favorite against the office workers
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Tensions are escalating between Niger’s new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered the deployment of troops to restore Niger’s flailing democracy. The ECOWAS bloc said on Thursday it had decided to deploy a “standby force” aimed at restoring constitutional order in
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei says its revenue rose 3% over a year earlier and its profit margin widened in the first half of 2023 despite sanctions that limit its access to U.S. processor chips. China’s first global tech brand has responded to U.S. curbs that devastated its smartphone brand by increasing emphasis
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — More than 50 years since it was listed as endangered, Arizona’s state fish is looking in much better shape. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday announced a proposal to no longer classify the Apache trout as in need of federal protections under the Endangered Species Act. Federal officials say the
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nearly two months after a dilapidated fishing trawler crammed with people heading from Libya to Italy sank in the central Mediterranean, killing hundreds, relatives are still frantically searching for their loved ones among the missing and the dead. Many questions remain about Greek
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Aya Elamroussi and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — At least 80 people have been killed in Maui’s wildfires, officials said late Friday, as search efforts for survivors are ongoing and many remain missing. The death toll rose from an announced 67 earlier Friday, making the fires the largest natural disaster in the
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was taken back to prison after his parole was ruled invalid, only to be released again within two hours under a new program to reduce overcrowding in jails. The move immediately raised more questions over whether the 81-year-old
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say gunmen have ambushed a bus carrying Syrian soldiers in the country’s east, killing at least 20 and wounding others. The Thursday night attack was believed to have been carried out by members of the Islamic State group. The group’s sleeper cells in parts
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British economy unexpectedly grew in the second quarter of the year, largely as a result of a strong rebound in June when many businesses particularly in the leisure sector benefited from the warm and settled weather. The Office for National Statistics said Friday that the economy
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Los ecuatorianos han quedado inmersos en una sangrienta guerra territorial en la que organizaciones delictivas rivales realizan brutales y a menudo públicas muestras de violencia, en su lucha por controlar las rutas del narcotráfico que atraviesan la nación andina. Los informes sobre descuartizamientos, los motines en las cárceles, los atentados
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s domestic intelligence agency says that China, Iran and Russia are engaged in foreign interference in New Zealand. The agency made its threat assessment public for the first time on Friday. Director-General of Security Andrew Hampton said in the report that the Security Intelligence
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is recording a higher number of casualties and infections from dengue as more than 360 people have died this year and infections of the mosquito-borne illness rise. Experts say August could be deadlier, due to intermittent rains when mosquitoes grow in stagnant waters near where people
Continue ReadingBy Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — The UK economy grew slightly in the three months to June 30, driven by strong rises in manufacturing and consumer and government spending. Gross domestic product increased 0.2% compared with the previous quarter, the Office for National Statistics said Friday, beating economists’ forecasts for zero growth. In the
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