By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have given final approval to a major and long-awaited plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc. The Nature Restoration Plan survived a razor-thin vote by lawmakers last summer but faced opposition from several member states. Relentless farmers’ protests left the bill deadlocked.
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo, CNN Archer’s Post, Kenya (CNN) — Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized. “They call me ‘mzungu maskini,’ or a
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is spending $50 million through the end of June, a blitz that includes its first television ad trumpeting Donald Trump’s felony conviction and signals that the Democratic incumbent is seeking to make his Republican opponent’s legal woes a bigger issue heading into
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The Biden campaign is rolling out a new ad in battleground states framing the election as a choice between a “convicted criminal” and a president “fighting for your family” in its latest effort to seize on Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal hush money trial in
Continue ReadingBy Julen Chavin and Emma Leyo, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — France has scored a belated surprise Olympic victory against Great Britain – 124 years later than expected – after a 1900 Paris Olympics cycling silver medal was taken away from Team GB and awarded to its neighbor across the channel by the International Olympic
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El pastor Robert Morris, líder de una megaiglesia del área de Dallas, admitió haber tenido “un comportamiento sexual inapropiado con una joven” cuando tenía poco más de 20 años, según una declaración obtenida por WFAA, afiliada de CNN. La admisión se produce después de que la acusadora, Cindy Clemishire, dijera
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s four-day visit to Australia this week was set to be focused on repairing long-strained relations between the two countries. But apparent efforts by Chinese officials to stand in front of an Australian reporter during a press briefing have shone a spotlight back
Continue ReadingGELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Police say eight people were temporarily detained following a brawl between Serbia and England fans in Gelsenkirchen ahead of the two countries’ opening European Championship match. Authorities said the incident on Sunday was over quickly and that they were satisfied overall with the security operation surrounding the match, which was classified
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, Xiaofei Xu, Hassan Tayir, Irene Nasser and Fred He, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of people have been evacuated in southeast China after heavy rains hammered the region over the weekend, triggering floods and deadly landslides, authorities and state media said Monday. According to state-run broadcaster CCTV, over 35,000 people were evacuated as of
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El periodista estadounidense Evan Gershkovich será juzgado a puerta cerrada en la ciudad rusa de Ekaterimburgo a partir del 26 de junio, informó este lunes la agencia de noticias estatal TASS, citando al servicio de prensa del tribunal. Gershkovich, de 32 años, está encarcelado desde que en marzo del año pasado
Continue ReadingBy ELLA JOYNER, LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETRQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have broken off talks without reaching final agreement on the nominees for the bloc’s top jobs. Several praised the record of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a dinner summit in Brussels, and she appears on track
Continue ReadingBy Sergey Gudkov and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — American journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial behind closed doors in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg starting on June 26, state-run news agency TASS reported Monday, citing the court’s press service. Gershkovich, 32, has been imprisoned since he was arrested while on a reporting trip in
Continue ReadingBy CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s fire service says a passenger plane landed safely after a fire shut down one engine shortly after takeoff from Queenstown on the South Island. The Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 jet bound for Melbourne, Australia, with 67 passengers and six crew members on board
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Tuesday after U.S. stocks rallied to more records, with gains for technology companies pushing the benchmarks higher. U.S. futures were flat and oil prices declined. This week has few top-tier economic reports apart from an update Tuesday on how
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court says the espionage trial in Russia of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will begin on June 26 and will be held behind closed doors. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, has been behind bars since his March 2023 arrest and faces 20 years in prison if convicted. The trial is
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Nota del editor: Este artículo contiene imágenes sensibles. La madre de la niña dio permiso para utilizarlas y mostrar al mundo lo que su hija estaba pasando. (CNN) — Hanan Aqel y su hermana tenían un shekel cada una en la mano, un regalo de su abuelo para ir a comprar dulces.
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Stockholm-based watchdog says the world’s nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on nuclear deterrence in 2023. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimated Monday that some 2,100 of the deployed warheads were kept in a
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN Español) — Los diputados de la Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador declararon el estado de emergencia por las lluvias que azotan al pais centroamericano. Esta decisión le permitirá al Gobierno del presidente Nayib Bukele destinar todos los recursos necesarios para atender las emergencias a fin de salvaguardar la vida de los salvadoreños.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) –June is Great Outdoors Month, which also underscores the importance of outdoor recreation in Oregon. As temperatures warm up, people are enjoying nature. Five years ago, Congress designated June Great Outdoors Month to highlight the trove of outside opportunities across the nation. With a half dozen national park sites also state parks, Oregon
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters have increased containment of a large wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles after a weekend of explosive growth along Interstate 5. The Post Fire is 8% surrounded Monday after scorching more than 24 square miles and forcing the evacuation of at least 1,200 peoples from a recreation area on
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