ROME (AP) — The World Food Program is warning that humanitarian funding cuts by governments are forcing the U.N. agency to drastically cut food rations to the world’s hungriest people. The Rome-based U.N. agency says that each 1% cut in aid risks to push 400,000 people toward starvation. The agency says the funding shortfall of
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, hizo breves comentarios sobre los actuales procesos penales que enfrenta el expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump, calificándolos de persecución política. Hablando en Vladivostok este martes, Putin dijo: “En lo que respecta al procesamiento de Trump, esto es bueno para nosotros en las condiciones actuales. Porque muestra
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met President Vladimir Putin. at a cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. It was the two isolated leaders’ second meeting. Their governments have not confirmed an agenda, but U.S. officials say Putin may ask for artillery and other ammunition
Continue ReadingBy Eric Zerkel, Mary Gilbert, Robert Shackelford and Jason Hanna, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee grew even larger on Tuesday and triggered a tropical storm watch for Bermuda as the cyclone’s potential impacts begin to come into focus for the island and beyond. Lee, a Category 3 hurricane Tuesday night, was about 515 miles south-southwest
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El domingo por la tarde, el líder norcoreano Kim Jong Un subió a un antiguo tren verde que ahora se ha convertido en un símbolo perdurable del aislamiento y el secretismo de la nación ermitaña. Imágenes publicadas por el medio estatal norcoreano KCNA muestran a Kim abordando su tren privado
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN CNN —Unsure what to pack from your wardrobe for a vacation to Japan? If you’re flying with Japan Airlines, the answer could be nothing at all. Japan’s flag carrier has started a year-long trial of a service that allows travelers to book a set of clothes — covering different sartorial styles and
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city. The startling death and devastation wreaked by
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been acquitted of a final tax evasion charge though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine president used to muzzle her critical reporting. Ressa and her news organization Rappler had faced five tax evasion charges but a court acquitted her of
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks fell Wednesday in Asia after a slide for technology stocks dragged Wall Street lower ahead of a key report on U.S. inflation. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 0.3% to 17,970.01 and the Shanghai Composite index sank 0.9% to 3,109.88. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index shed 0.4% to 32,656.85, while
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Authorities in a southern Chinese city have launched an operation to recapture more than 70 crocodiles that escaped from a commercial farm after intense flooding swept through the region, multiple state media outlets have reported, with some residents warned to stay indoors. The toothy reptiles were originally
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Danilo Cavalcante, el asesino que escapó de una prisión en el este de Pensilvania hace casi dos semanas, ahora está armado y se le considera “extremadamente peligroso” después de que robara un rifle del garaje de un hombre, dijo la Policía este martes. Las autoridades añadieron que el propietario le disparó varias
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says China is continuously bolstering its military bases along the coastline facing Taiwan as Beijing steps up military activities around the territory it claims as its own. Taiwan says it will continue to monitor the Chinese activities around the island and bolster its defenses in
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Several Japanese companies have decided to stop using stars who are represented by Johnny & Associates, an entertainment company at the center of a sexual assault scandal. Beverage maker Asahi Group Holdings will no longer air its ads featuring Junichi Okada, Toma Ikuta and Sho Sakurai. Japan
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has heard the first challenge to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul. The plan has deepened a showdown with the far-right government, bitterly divided the nation, and put the country on the brink of a constitutional crisis. Netanyahu’s coalition is a collection of
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — One of China’s most popular livestreamers has offered a teary apology after getting into a viral online spat in which he questioned whether a viewer had been working “hard enough” to make enough money to afford a product he was selling. The backlash highlighted the ongoing economic
Continue ReadingBy NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Snap checkpoints. Internet disruptions. University purges. Iran’s theocracy is trying hard to both ignore the upcoming anniversary of nationwide protests over the country’s mandatory headscarf law and tamp down on any possibility of more unrest. Yet the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A junior lawyer testifying at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial says he kept Paxton informed as he launched a criminal investigation into law enforcement officials at the behest of a wealthy donor to Paxton. Brandon Cammack also testified Tuesday that
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Celina Tebor, Kristina Sgueglia and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The convicted killer who escaped from an eastern Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago is considered “armed and extremely dangerous” after he stole a rifle from the garage of a local homeowner, who fired several shots at the fugitive as he fled,
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — On Sunday afternoon, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stepped onto an old-fashioned green train that has by now become an enduring symbol of the hermit nation’s isolation and secrecy. Images released by North Korean state media KCNA show Kim boarding his private train as he prepared to travel
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The American Red Cross is experiencing a national blood shortage. Fewer donors than needed gave this summer, drawing down the national blood supply and reducing distributions of some of the most needed blood types to hospitals. Hurricane Idalia further strained the blood supply, with blood drive cancellations and reduced blood and platelet donations
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