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Month: January 2024

Orthodox mark Christmas, but the celebration is overshadowed for many by conflict

By The Associated Press Orthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict. Traditions vary, but typically the main worship service for Orthodox Christians takes place the night before Christmas, which is Jan. 7. Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the world’s largest Orthodox

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Taylor Swift’s associates dismayed by New York Times piece speculating on her sexuality: ‘Invasive, untrue and inappropriate’

CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — A controversial New York Times opinion piece that openly speculated this week whether Taylor Swift is a closeted queer person has drawn the ire of the pop superstar’s associates, CNN has learned. “Because of her massive success, in this moment there is a Taylor-shaped hole in people’s ethics,”

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Nearly 3,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents released, but some questions remain unanswered

NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents, lawyers and amateur sleuths have pried into the depraved world of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet even after the release of thousands of pages of court records in recent days, some questions about the millionaire pedophile remain unanswered. The documents have gotten a lot

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Cumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say

By LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — At Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, lines of hundreds of trucks carrying aid wait for weeks to enter Gaza, and a warehouse is full of goods rejected by Israeli inspectors, everything from water testing equipment to medical kits for delivering babies, two U.S. senators said Saturday after a

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Once muertos, entre ellos cinco niños, en ataques rusos en una ciudad del este de Ucrania

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Once personas, entre ellas cinco niños, murieron en ataques con misiles rusos S-300 este sábado en la región ucraniana de Donetsk, según la administración militar local. “Once muertos, entre ellos cinco niños: estos son los resultados preliminares de los ataques en el distrito de Pokrovsk. Los rusos atacaron la zona con misiles

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Autoridades del estado mexicano de Guerrero investigan presunto ataque con drones en la comunidad de Buenavista de los Hurtado

Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía del Estado de Guerrero confirmó este sábado que investiga el homicidio de cinco personas en el municipio de Heliodoro Castillo, ocurrido durante un enfrentamiento entre dos grupos del crimen organizado en la comunidad de Buenavista de los Hurtado, ataque que había sido denunciado previamente por una organización defensora

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Polish farmers suspend their blockade at the Ukrainian border after a deal with the government

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s state news agency is reporting that Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine have ended their protest after reaching an agreement with the government. The farmers’ frustration was one of the challenges facing the new Polish government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, which seeks to support Ukraine

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¿Aviones propulsados con excremento? Esta empresa genera combustible con aguas residuales

Paulina Nares (CNN) — En la carrera por conseguir combustibles alternativos y sostenibles para los aviones, algunas empresas se están poniendo creativas. Hemos oído hablar de aviones propulsados con aceite de cocina, pero ¿qué hay del combustible para aviones fabricado íntegramente con excremento humano? Firefly Green Fuels, una empresa de aviación con sede en Gloucestershire

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Boeing faces new questions about the 737 Max after a plane suffers a gaping hole in its side

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing faces new scrutiny about the safety of its best-selling plane after federal officials announced the temporary grounding of some Boeing 737 Max planes on Saturday, following a harrowing flight in which an Alaska Airlines jetliner was left with a gaping hole in its side. The Federal Aviation Administration

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