By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police and palace guards worked Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations. Guards from the National Palace accompanied by an armored truck tried to set up a security perimeter around one of the three
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Hawkins and Becky Anderson, CNN (CNN) — He worked for the NBA, so he knows plenty about sporting audiences in the US. Now, MotoGP chief commercial officer Daniel Rossomondo is trying to work out how to capture the eyeballs of a nation with a population of over 330 million. He knows it won’t
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KEALY and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat Saturday as two constitutional amendments he supported that would have broadened the definition of family and removed language about a woman’s role in the home were headed toward rejection. Varadkar, who pushed the vote to enshrine gender
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity. Nearly half of the grotto-shaped gift shops are sealed behind metal shutters. The narrow streets that run toward Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, are eerily empty.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Senior US officials, Americans who had returned from detention abroad and loved ones of those who have yet to come home gathered in front of the US State Department as a new flag was raised ahead of the nation’s first-ever Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day. “This is
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — A finales de 2022, Estados Unidos comenzó a “prepararse rigurosamente” para un potencial ataque con armas nucleares de Rusia en Ucrania, en lo que habría sido el primer ataque nuclear en guerra desde que Estados Unidos lanzó bombas atómicas sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki casi ochenta años antes, dijeron dos altos funcionarios
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — When government officials lifted an evacuation order for people who lived near the site of a train derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, many homes held on to an odd odor. It was a sickly-sweet smell, and it evoked comparisons to paint thinner, but fruitier,
Continue ReadingCNN By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — When government officials lifted an evacuation order for people who lived near the site of a train derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, many homes held on to an odd odor. It was a sickly-sweet smell, and it evoked comparisons to paint thinner, but
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — I know I’m supposed to gradually go to bed and get up earlier over the course of a week or two before Daylight Saving Time hits. (I’m the one who assigns those kinds of stories strongly suggesting you do it.) Did I do it? No, I did not. Here
Continue ReadingCNN By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — I know I’m supposed to gradually go to bed and get up earlier over the course of a week or two before Daylight Saving Time hits. (I’m the one who assigns those kinds of stories strongly suggesting you do it.) Did I do it? No, I did not.
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Arqueólogos en Turquía aseguran que descubrieron el pan más antiguo del mundo conocido hasta ahora, que data del 6600 antes de Cristo. Una estructura de horno, destruida en su mayor parte, fue hallada en un área llamada “Mekan 66”, donde hay casas contiguas de adobe, dentro del sitio arqueológico de Çatalhöyük en
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Arquímedes, a menudo llamado el padre de las matemáticas, fue uno de los inventores más famosos de la antigua Grecia, y algunas de sus ideas y principios siguen utilizándose hoy en día. Pero hay un invento que dejó a los científicos especulando sobre su existencia durante cientos de años: el
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press ABOARD THE FRENCH FRIGATE NORMANDIE (AP) — Large NATO drills in the frigid fjords of northern Norway may be just war games meant to hone the skills of the newly expanded 32-nation military alliance in the event of conflict. But they are very real for troops taking part in them.
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Kent, Amy Cassidy and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The Irish government conceded on Saturday that it had lost two referenda to change what it called “sexist” language in the constitution in an embarrassing defeat. Ireland went to the polls on Friday in votes deliberately timed to coincide with International Women’s Day to
Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s lawmakers have chosen Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s new president. It’s his second time in the job. Zardari is the widower of assassinated former Premier Benazir Bhutto and the father of former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Zadari secured 411 votes from national and provincial lawmakers.
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say two people including a teenage boy have been killed in Russian artillery attacks. Russia meanwhilesaid Saturday it shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet and destroyed a wave of drones over several regions. Ukraine’s allies in the West are delicately raising the prospect of sending troops. Polish Foreign Minister
Continue ReadingBy Maureen Ohare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Vacation love stories that began and ended in Paris or London, aviation misadventures in Thailand and China, plus a look at why prices are rising as tourist numbers increase. See more, pay more More and more tourist hot spots are introducing visitor caps and
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Jackson and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — For more than 35 years, two families in Virginia have been left without knowing who brutally killed a beloved member of each of their families. Now, a major investigative break finally has arrived for one family – and perhaps soon could for the other – thanks
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Lou Gehrig’s disease took away Grace Armant’s ability to speak, but the 84-year-old still has plenty to say about her insurance. UnitedHealthcare has rejected several requests from her doctors for coverage of a machine Armant needs to breathe as she deals with the fatal illness. “They are no good,”
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom’s Cincinnati home when a hail of gunfire sprayed out from a passing car. Nearly two dozen rounds hurtled through the night at a group of children in the blink of an eye. Four other children and a woman
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