By Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, CNN (CNN) — As Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) grows ever popular, the country’s once dominant Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party finds itself at a crossroads. The center-right CDU was in power for much of Germany’s post-war era and oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany. It
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Vatican has beatified a Polish family of nine including children who were all executed for having sheltered Jews during World War II. It was an unprecedented move. Pope Francis declared the Ulma family martyrs for the Catholic faith last year. That paved the way for
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — Voters in a southern Swiss region have rejected a plan to allow large solar parks on their sun-baked Alpine mountainsides as part of the federal government’s push to develop renewable energies. Sunday’s referendum in the Valais canton centered on economic and environmental interests at a time of rising concerns about climate change.
Continue ReadingBy CHARLENE PELE Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online research and keyboarding skills. The return to more traditional ways
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Una caravana procedente de Estados Unidos fue atacada por civiles armados en el Puente Roma de Miguel Alemán la madrugada de este sábado, en la que resultaron tres personas con heridas de bala y seis debieron ser atendidas por crisis nerviosa, según un comunicado de la Vocería de Seguridad del estado
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN) — President Joe Biden arrived at Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s doorstep on Sunday with a deal in hand to draw yet another one of China’s neighbors closer to the United States. In just the last five months, Biden has hosted the Philippines’ president at the
Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021. The
Continue ReadingBy ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli fighter jets bombed the Zorob family’s two-story home in the Gaza Strip in 2019, leaving nothing but a pile of debris and despair. Four years later, the 10-member family lives in a 20-square-meter (215-square-foot) hut covered with nylon sheets as they wait to
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, Celina Tebor, Emma Tucker and Samantha Beech, CNN (CNN) — The convicted killer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison 11 days ago was sighted overnight more than 20 miles from the area where authorities had focused their search efforts, officials said Sunday, after he managed to slip through the police perimeter, steal
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and AHMED HATEM Associated Press MOULAY BRAHIM, Morocco (AP) — The ground shook with a force few had ever felt, thundering through the remote Moroccan village in the dark of night. When the earthquake was over late Friday, the town carved into the Atlas Mountains lay in devastation, with possibly dozens dead,
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — G20 leaders paid their respects to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi as their summit came to a close Sunday, a day after the group added a new member and reached agreement on a range of issues but softened language on Russia’s war in
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By GARY HOROWITZ Associated Press CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Damien Martinez ran for a 64-yard touchdown on Oregon State’s first offensive play, setting the tone in the 16th-ranked Beavers’ 55-7 victory over UC Davis on Saturday. Silas Bolden had a 65-yard punt return for a touchdown, and a 22-yard scoring reception in the second quarter
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Eyad Kourdi, Mostafa Salem and Nectar Gan, CNN Moulay Brahim (CNN) — Rescuers in Morocco are battling to find survivors from Friday’s powerful earthquake, with more than 2,000 people killed and remote villages near the epicenter left in ruins. In the hard-hit central village of Moulay Brahim, south of Marrakech in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, Eyad Kourdi, Mostafa Salem and Nectar Gan, CNN Moulay Brahim (CNN) — Rescuers in Morocco are battling to find survivors from Friday’s powerful earthquake, with more than 2,000 people killed and remote villages near the epicenter left in ruins. In the hard-hit central village of Moulay Brahim, south of Marrakech in
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Majority control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives will once again come down to a special election. Republican voters face a strongly Democratic lean in a Pittsburgh district to flip power back to their caucus on Sept. 19. Democrat Lindsay Powell and Republican Erin
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press After a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine, Russia needs to replenish its supplies of ammunition for what could be a long war of attrition. Along with ramping up its domestic arms production, Moscow is turning to an old ally with a vast arsenal — North Korea. Estimates say
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian who fell ill while working at an Antarctic research station is now in a hospital in Australia after being rescued by an icebreaker. The Australian Antarctic Division said Sunday that the “unwell expeditioner” was transferred from the icebreaker to a hospital in Hobart in
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday his visit to Vietnam to showcase stronger ties with Hanoi was not about trying to start a “cold war” with China, but rather was part of a broader effort to provide global stability by building U.S. relationships throughout
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By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Tyler Shough was trying one final time against his former team to match a Bo Nix-led drive to a field goal with another of his own for Texas Tech. No. 13 Oregon’s defense had an answer. Nix threw for 359 yards and two touchdowns, Jeffrey
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Ante una decisión tomada en el Parlamento, el Sistema de Naciones Unidas en Perú expresó este jueves su preocupación, y dijo que “la separación de poderes es un principio fundamental para la democracia plena”. El documento de Naciones Unidas se refiere a una moción aprobada en el legislativo que
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