By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have detained two men on suspicion of violating the city’s national security law through links with a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested in the pro-democracy protests in 2019. Police say the two men are suspected of conspiring to collude with
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Novak Djokovic, el tenista No. 2 del mundo, se estrenó en el Abierto de Estados Unidos en Flushing Meadows, Nueva York, este lunes por la noche con una victoria contundente sobre el francés Alexandre Muller por 6-0, 6-2 y 6-3, en su intento por conquistar su 24º título de Grand
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — Un movimiento telúrico sorprendió a Panamá durante la medianoche de este martes con una magnitud de 5,4 y una profundidad de 10 kilómetros. Su epicentro fue localizado a 61 kilómetros de El Porvenir, cabecera de la comarca Guna Yala, según el Instituto Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps. “I’ve only come across worms using my not-so-good gardening skills … I find them
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The British government says a cyberattack was not the cause of a breakdown at the nationwide air traffic control system that saw hundreds of flights delayed and canceled. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the problem was caused by a “technical fault” at the flight control operator, National Air Traffic Services. The company
Continue ReadingCNN By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton and Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Idalia has strengthened into a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph and stronger gusts and is expected to intensify considerably into a powerful Category 3 hurricane before making landfall in Florida on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s traffic cameras are under attack. Police say hundreds of license plate-reading cameras have been damaged, disconnected or stolen by opponents of an anti-pollution charge on older vehicles that came into force across the metropolis on Tuesday. The vandalism by vigilantes calling themselves the Blade Runners shows
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top military officer has made a one-day visit to Egypt on his first trip abroad since his country plunged into large-scale conflict this year. The Egyptian presidency says President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi held talks Tuesday with Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the chairman of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hundreds of workers are slated to strike at two major liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Australia belonging to Chevron starting next week, after unions voted for work stoppages in an ongoing labor dispute. Offshore Alliance, which represents the Australian Workers’ Union and the Maritime Union of
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh, Jennifer Hansler, Louise McLoughlin and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Rare new video has emerged showing detained American Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russia for more than four years, inside his prison camp. The video, released by Russian state-controlled news agency Russia Today (RT), shows Whelan wearing a Russian prison
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Toyota dijo que suspenderá las operaciones en todas sus plantas en Japón a partir de este martes porque no puede procesar pedidos de repuestos debido a una falla en su sistema de producción. “Actualmente estamos investigando la causa del problema, y en este momento no creemos que el fallo del sistema
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rolled the dice on Monday with his opening move in the sprawling Fulton County election subversion trial: he took the stand himself. For roughly three-and-a-half hours Monday, Meadows testified about his job at the White House
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Wednesday, boosted by a Wall Street rally that came on positive reports on consumer confidence and job openings. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 0.9% in morning trading to 32,529.72. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.6% to 2,567.44. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.4% to
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the 71,000-acre Smith River Complex at the California-Oregon border to allow the Oregon State Fire Marshal to mobilize structural firefighting resources to protect life and property.
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El huracán Franklin tiene vientos de 241 km/h, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC). El huracán se encuentra a un0s 675 kilómetros al oeste-suroeste de las Bermudas y se mueve hacia el norte a 14 km/h. Sigue vigente una alerta de tormenta tropical para las Bermudas. Estas condiciones son posibles
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Anti-government protests in southern Syria have stretched into a second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners of President Bashar Assad’s government and at one point raiding several offices of his ruling party. The protests were initially driven by surging
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — En medio de la polémica desatada por los nuevos libros de texto gratuitos federales, más de 24 millones de estudiantes de educación básica en México iniciaron este lunes el ciclo escolar 2023-2024, informó en un comunicado la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP). La dependencia detalló que la distribución fue suspendida
Continue ReadingBy HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Jeanette Kiokun, the tribal clerk for the Qutekcak Native Tribe in Alaska, doesn’t immediately recognize the shriveled, brown plant she finds on the shore of the Salish Sea or others that were sunburned during the long, hot summer. But a fellow student at a weeklong
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, GARY D. ROBERTSON and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A University of North Carolina graduate student walked into a classroom building, shot his faculty adviser and quickly left, authorities said a day after the attack paralyzed campus as police searched for the gunman. Tailei Qi, 34, was charged
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