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Month: October 2023

World Food Program appeals for $19 million to provide emergency food in quake-hit Afghanistan

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations’ World Food Program is appealing for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan. Ana Maria Salhuana, deputy country director of the World Food Program in

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Las fuerzas especiales de Ucrania utilizan audaces incursiones y tácticas de distracción en un intento por liberar Crimea

Gonzalo Jimenez Kyiv (CNN) — Un enjambre de motos acuáticas ucranianas cruza el océano bajo un cielo negro como boca de lobo, visible sólo desde la cámara infrarroja de un dron que observa desde arriba. Reducen la velocidad a medida que se acercan a la orilla para evitar ser detectados y se apresuran hacia tierra

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Clear skies and above average highs

Happy Hump Day, friends! Today will bring mostly dry conditions with light winds, a mild morning and an a warm afternoon bringing the slight possibility of record temperatures to the High Desert. The main weather feature in play in the Pacific Northwest continues to be the ridge of high pressure that sits just southwest of

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Former Virginia House Speaker Filler-Corn will forego run for governor and seek congressional seat

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn has decided against a bid for governor in 2025 and will instead run next year to represent the competitive northern Virginia congressional seat being vacated by a fellow Democratic lawmaker. Filler-Corn spoke with The Associated Press about her decision Tuesday

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Putin promociona su solidaridad con China en el discurso de Xi sobre un nuevo orden mundial mientras la crisis se apodera de Oriente Medio

Gonzalo Jimenez Beijing (CNN) — El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, destacó este miércoles el profundo alineamiento de su país con China cuando apareció en el escenario como invitado de honor en una reunión mundial en Beijing, donde el líder chino Xi Jinping presentó su visión de un orden mundial remodelado. En un discurso no

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Joran van der Sloot says he killed Natalee Holloway with a cinder block and left her in the ocean. Now Aruba considers possible next steps

By Holly Yan, Devon M. Sayers and Aaron Cooper, CNN Birmingham, Alabama (CNN) — Almost two decades after Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba, the man long suspected in her death has confessed to killing the Alabama teen in grisly detail, court documents reveal. But it remains unclear whether Joran van der Sloot, 36, will ever

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