MADRID (AP) — Officials say firefighters are battling to control a new wildfire on Spain’s Tenerife island that has forced some 3,000 people to leave their homes for safety. The blaze, which started Wednesday, is centered on the towns of Santa Úrsula and La Orotava in the mountainous northeast of the island, away from the
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Continue ReadingCNN By Zahid Mahmood and Salma Abdelaziz, CNN. Video by Julie Zink (CNN) — Parasto Hakim was startled by a knock at the front gates. She scanned her classroom for a quick headcount – all the girls were already in attendance. It could only be the Taliban. Her heart pounding, she opened the door to
Continue ReadingBy Zahid Mahmood and Salma Abdelaziz, CNN. Video by Julie Zink (CNN) — Parasto Hakim was startled by a knock at the front gates. She scanned her classroom for a quick headcount – all the girls were already in attendance. It could only be the Taliban. Her heart pounding, she opened the door to find
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A plane operated by FedEx skidded off the end of a runway at an airport in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after reporting a landing gear failure, emergency officials said. Three people were aboard the Boeing 757 aircraft, which came to a stop between the runway and a nearby road late Wednesday,
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s official anti-graft watchdog has questioned Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus over suspicions of money laundering and embezzlement. Yunus, who pioneered the use of microcredit to help impoverished people in Bangladesh, said on Thursday that he did not commit any crimes. His legal troubles
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — The Minnesota Twins won their first playoff series in 21 years, sweeping the Toronto Blue Jays to advance to a first American League Division Series since 2002. The Twins won 2-0 at a sellout Target Field on Wednesday behind Sonny Gray’s gem start; he went five
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business New York (CNN Business) — Online shoppers will be offered record-setting discounts this holiday season as retailers attempt to entice inflation-weary consumers to buy, according to projections released Thursday by Adobe Analytics. And the company predicts the strategy will work, with online holiday sales climbing almost 5% above last year.
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Lawmakers and aides arrived for work on Wednesday to find a House of Representatives stuck in freeze-frame, a giant blue screen declaring them “in recess” almost the entire day. The House calendar remained officially stuck on October 3 – Tuesday – the date when House Speaker Kevin
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging interest rates are intensifying the challenges for the U.S. economy and threatening to derail the Federal Reserve’s drive to tame inflation without causing a deep recession. Since mid-summer, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note has steadily climbed, causing a spillover rise in other borrowing
Continue ReadingBy JOHN SEEWER and TOM KRISHER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — When Rhonda Naus got a job inspecting Jeep Wranglers fresh off the assembly line, her paycheck added up to roughly half of what her co-workers were making. But with that came an expectation that her temporary status eventually would become permanent with a
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El mes pasado, mientras la administración Biden se apresuraba a gestionar la última ola de migrantes que desbordaba la frontera sur de Estados Unidos, las principales autoridades de inmigración de Estados Unidos cruzaron a México para una reunión de emergencia. Sentados alrededor de una sala de conferencias de Ciudad Juárez,
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press HROZA, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian rocket blast turned a village cafe and store in eastern Ukraine into rubble Thursday, killing at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv. Rescuers searched for
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the northern West Bank. The Israeli military said Thursday that its troops carried out a raid in the Tulkarem refugee camp. It said that soldiers came under fire and that troops shot Palestinian gunmen. Palestinian officials said two militants
Continue ReadingBy Emily Halnon, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. I watched the earth shrink below me. Sprawling fields became the size of my thumbnail. Lakes evaporated into teardrops. Millions of acres of Oregon’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Mostafa Salem, Teele Rebane, Sahar Akbarzai and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Activists have accused Iran’s morality police of assaulting a teenage girl for not wearing a headscarf in a Tehran metro station, leading to her hospitalization with serious injuries. A Norway-based group focused on Kurdish rights, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights,
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Hawkins, CNN (CNN) — Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Márquez will end his 11-year association with Honda, the factory team announced Wednesday, finally ending weeks of speculation around the rider’s future. “Honda Racing Corporation and Marc Márquez have mutually elected to terminate their four-year contract prematurely at the end of the 2023 MotoGP World
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Los abogados de 301 pacientes que acusaron a un médico de la Universidad de Columbia de abuso sexual durante las revisiones afirman que el exginecólogo –cuyos señalamientos de abuso fueron ampliamente reportados por CNN– es el depredador sexual en serie más “prolífico” en la historia del estado de Nueva York. Pacientes
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — Almost 50 European leaders are using a summit in southern Spain’s Granada to stress they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy retorted on Thursday that maintaining such unity was now “the main challenge.”
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — In Africa, demand for beauty and personal care is growing fast but there’s still a gap in what’s available for consumers. Fake cosmetics and skin-whitening products can put consumers at risk, while the global brands that import to the continent are often expensive and not tailored towards Black skin.
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