By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China is allowing foreigners in Shanghai and Beijing to move their money freely into and out of the country, in a significant move toward relaxing its strict capital controls as it tries to woo overseas investors. The news was announced just weeks after official data showed foreign
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India has called Canada a “safe haven for terrorists” following its suspension of visas for Canadian citizens, as the fallout grows over Ottawa’s accusation that New Delhi is potentially behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist activist on its soil. In a strongly worded
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Community members were invited Thursday evening to ribbon-cutting ceremonies and open house events at the bond measure-funded additions to Redmond’s Vern Patrick and Tom McCall elementary schools.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Una importante universidad del noroeste de China eliminó las pruebas de inglés como requisito para graduarse, reavivando un acalorado debate sobre el papel de la lengua franca del mundo en el sistema educativo del país después de años de creciente sentimiento nacionalista bajo el mando del líder Xi Jinping. En
Continue ReadingBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military junta is struggling to fight growing violence in the West African nation’s hard-hit northern region. That’s after a peace deal signed several years ago with rebels appeared to have collapsed and as the U.N. peacekeepers who helped fight jihadi groups begin to leave. Conflict data shows the violent attacks
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Pope Francis blasted the “fanaticism of indifference” that greets migrants seeking a better life in Europe, as he arrived Friday in the Mediterranean port of Marseille amid a new influx of would-be refugees from Africa that has sparked a backlash from some of
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Este viernes, el gobernador del departamento de Nariño, Jhon Rojas, informó a través de un comunicado que se reportaron cinco policías heridos por la detonación de un artefacto explosivo en El Ejido, en el Municipio de Policarpa. Gracias a una oportuna acción de la Policía fueron extraídos de la
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The latest data captured in the report Oregon by the Numbers 2023 reveals that while job growth is rebounding post-pandemic in nearly every county, the portion of households in financial hardship remains mired statewide at 44 percent.
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two people were arrested Thursday in connection with a shooting outside an Albuquerque baseball stadium that killed an 11-year-old boy and prompted the New Mexico governor to issue a controversial gun ban. Jose Romero, 22, and Nathen Garley, 21, were being held for the Sept. 6 shooting after an Albuquerque Isotopes
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street wheezed to more losses Friday as it limped to the finish of its worst week in six months. The S&P 500 slipped 9.94 points, or 0.2%, to 4,320.06 after a late-day swoon erased a modest gain it had held for most of the
Continue ReadingGov. Tina Kotek has pulled $2.7 million of the $18.2 million in emergency homeless response funds directed to Multnomah County and redistributed them to six other counties, including three in Central Oregon, due to the slow rollout by the state’s most populous county and its access to other funding.
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Waiting three weeks and counting to cross into Texas, Lila sat in a shelter on the Mexico border Friday feeling trapped: The cartels make it too dangerous to turn around and the U.S. government offers no guarantees if she keeps going. “They don’t ask for
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Marie Ronny and Kyan Bovee expect their futures to take off. Literally. The Black teens from Detroit are part of a free program teaching youths aged 14 to 19 how to fly. The Tuskegee Airmen Flight Academy also exposes students to careers in aviation,
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This week, Carly Keenan has some details about the Oregon Whiskey Festival, the latest in the Bend Brewing Company Fall Concert Series and R’Oktoberfest at Wild Ride Brewing in Redmond. Find plenty more to enjoy at http://events.ktvz.com.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s one of the United Nations’ more obscure bodies, with no space to call its own within the riverside headquarters. And there is scant insight into how it decides a question of far-reaching impact: Who gets let through the door? With an anodyne
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and CAROLE FELDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s education chief says he’s open to using “whatever levers” are available — including federal money — to discourage colleges from giving preference to the children of alumni and donors. In an interview with The Associated Press, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung, Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, CNN (CNN) — Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished. Capote, who died in 1984 shortly before his 60th birthday, spent much of his latter years struggling to write his planned Proustian
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Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and GABE STERN Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s push to bend state Republican parties to his will — and gain an advantage in his effort to return to the White House — is coming to a head in Nevada. The state GOP, which is led by
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