Thousands accuse Serbia’s ruling populists of election fraud at a Belgrade rally
By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in Serbia’s capital on Saturday, chanting “Thieves!”…
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‘Really poisonous snake’ holds up Dominic Thiem’s Brisbane International qualification match
By John Sinnott, CNN (CNN) — Tennis star Dominic Thiem’s opening qualfying round at the Brisbane International tournament on Saturday was…
Continue ReadingTaiwan’s presidential candidates emphasize peace in relations with Beijing
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s presidential candidates expressed desire for peaceful relations with Beijing,…
Continue ReadingEurostar cancels trains due to flooding, stranding hundreds of travelers in Paris and London
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The holiday travel plans of hundreds of people were upended Saturday after Eurostar canceled train…
Continue ReadingClimate activists from Extinction Rebellion target bank and block part of highway around Amsterdam
By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Climate activists blocked part of the main highway around Amsterdam near the former…
Continue Reading‘Time Bomb Y2K’ ignites the media hysteria around the 20th century’s final freakout
Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Time Bomb Y2K,” an HBO documentary about the panic related to the calendar switch to 2000 and the…
Continue ReadingTaylor Swift, Beyoncé and celeb divorces: These are 2023’s defining pop culture moments
By Scottie Andrew and Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — We’re crawling to the end of 2023, and thank goodness we made it. We lived through a lot…
Continue Reading‘Perfect on the skis’: Mikaela Shiffrin caps record-breaking year with brace of dominant victories
By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For American Mikaela Shiffrin, 2023 was the year in which she sealed her place in the record books, overtaking the…
Continue ReadingFlash floods kill 21 people in South Africa’s coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, police say
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Flash floods killed over a dozen people in the small town of Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal…
Continue ReadingTexas is sending asylum seekers to major cities by bus with little notice. These mayors want to pump the brakes
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Frustrated by “rogue buses” from Texas dropping off migrants by the thousands, the mayors of New York,…
Continue ReadingA new rule requiring companies to disclose how much they pollute is coming in 2024
By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The Securities and Exchange Commission will decide by next spring on a rule to make public companies disclose…
Continue ReadingEnvía tu nombre a Europa, la luna de Júpiter, antes de que acabe el año
Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Aunque todavía no es posible que los humanos se aventuren a los intrigantes mundos oceánicos de nuestro sistema…
Continue ReadingHow long does it take to form a habit?
By Kasandra Brabaw, Anastasia Buyalskaya, Angela Duckworth and Katy Milkman, CNN (CNN) — As you’re drafting your New Year’s resolutions,…
Continue ReadingAir raids over eastern Syria near Iraqi border kill 6 Iran-backed militants
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border…
Continue ReadingUna breve historia del tradicional descenso de la bola en la víspera de Año Nuevo en Times Square
Sol Amaya (CNN) — En el último día de cada año, se ha convertido en un ritual para grandes multitudes reunirse en el caos brillantemente…
Continue ReadingNetanyahu says Gaza war on Hamas will go on for ‘many more months,’ thanks US for new weapons sales
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that…
Continue ReadingA brief history of the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop
By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Since crowds first began gathering in Times Square to commemorate New Year’s Eve over a century ago, it has…
Continue ReadingShelling kills 21 in Russian city of Belgorod following Moscow’s aerial attacks across Ukraine
By The Associated Press Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 21 people, including three children, local…
Continue ReadingSeparatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings
By RADUL RADOVANOVIC Associated Press BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader vowed to carry on weakening…
Continue ReadingHuge waves to hit California coast for third day, bringing flooding and life-threatening conditions
By Elizabeth Wolfe and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Massive waves and coastal flooding are wreaking havoc for a third day in many of…
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