By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in Serbia’s capital on Saturday, chanting “Thieves!” and accusing the populist authorities of President Aleksandar Vucic of orchestrating a fraud during a recent general election. The big rally in central Belgrade capped nearly two weeks of street protests against reported widespread irregularities
Continue ReadingBy John Sinnott, CNN (CNN) — Tennis star Dominic Thiem’s opening qualfying round at the Brisbane International tournament on Saturday was anything but routine – the 30-year-old Austrian came close to losing his match against Australian James McCabe, which was interrupted by a snake slithering onto the court. “I really love animals, especially exotic ones,”
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s presidential candidates expressed desire for peaceful relations with Beijing, which has described Jan. 13 elections on the self-ruled island as a choice between war and peace and stepped up harassment of the territory that China claims as its own. William Lai, the front-runner and currently
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The holiday travel plans of hundreds of people were upended Saturday after Eurostar canceled train services to and from London because a tunnel under the River Thames became flooded. Large crowds of travelers trying to get across the English Channel were stranded at London’s St. Pancras International
Continue ReadingBy ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Climate activists blocked part of the main highway around Amsterdam near the former headquarters of ING bank for hours on Saturday to protest its financing of fossil fuels. Dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters were detained by police late in the afternoon after ignoring orders to end their
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Time Bomb Y2K,” an HBO documentary about the panic related to the calendar switch to 2000 and the pandemonium “experts” warned would ensue, possesses an “Everything old is new again” quality, a semi-comical reminder that conspiracies and media hysteria don’t end but merely recycle. The only negative aspect
Continue ReadingBy 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 this year — too much, even! From Beyoncé and Taylor Swift monopolizing our lives to debates over NFL safety, labor strikes, celebrity divorces and endless court appearances (who
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For American Mikaela Shiffrin, 2023 was the year in which she sealed her place in the record books, overtaking the legendary Ingemar Stenmark to tally the most World Cup wins of any skier in history. It seems fitting, then, that Shiffrin capped the year with two consecutive victories at
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Flash floods killed over a dozen people in the small town of Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal province, South African officials said Saturday. “As of Friday, 29 December 2023, a total of 21 bodies have been recovered,” said police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda. The floods hit the town on
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Frustrated by “rogue buses” from Texas dropping off migrants by the thousands, the mayors of New York, Chicago and Denver are trying to slow the surge by requiring the bus operators to coordinate arrivals under the threat of impound, fines and even jail time. Last week, 14 busloads of
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The Securities and Exchange Commission will decide by next spring on a rule to make public companies disclose how much they generate in greenhouse gases and how climate change could hurt their businesses. The rule, which comes amid the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle climate change, has been met
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Aunque todavía no es posible que los humanos se aventuren a los intrigantes mundos oceánicos de nuestro sistema solar, la NASA enviará un mensaje cósmico en una botella a la luna Europa de Júpiter que llevará más de dos millones de nombres. Y tu nombre puede ser uno de ellos
Continue ReadingBy Kasandra Brabaw, Anastasia Buyalskaya, Angela Duckworth and Katy Milkman, CNN (CNN) — As you’re drafting your New Year’s resolutions, you may think that it takes 21 days of repeating an action for that action to become a habit. So, you set out to go to the gym for 21 days, thinking that by day
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants Saturday, two members of Iraqi militia groups told The Associated Press. The strikes on the border region of Boukamal came hours after an umbrella group of Iran-backed
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — En el último día de cada año, se ha convertido en un ritual para grandes multitudes reunirse en el caos brillantemente iluminado de Times Square de Nueva York para dar la bienvenida a nuevos comienzos. A las 11:59 p.m., una bola deslumbrante desciende por un poste, mientras que los asistentes, y
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza will continue for “many more months,” pushing back against persistent international cease-fire calls after mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass displacement in the besieged enclave. Netanyahu
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Since crowds first began gathering in Times Square to commemorate New Year’s Eve over a century ago, it has been a ritual to flock to midtown’s brightly lit chaos to ring in new beginnings. At 11:59 p.m. a dazzling ball descends down a pole, while attendees — and millions
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 21 people, including three children, local officials reported. A further 110 people were wounded in the strike, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, making it one of the deadliest attacks on Russian soil since the start of Moscow’s invasion
Continue ReadingBy RADUL RADOVANOVIC Associated Press BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader vowed to carry on weakening his war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite a pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome. “I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Massive waves and coastal flooding are wreaking havoc for a third day in many of California’s coastal communities, where extreme conditions have forced water rescues, washed away cars and injured a handful of enthralled onlookers. The unusually large surf – often towering over 20 feet –
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