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Month: June 2024

New Caledonia reopening its international airport and shortening curfew as unrest continues to ebb

PARIS (AP) — The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international airport that was closed to commercial flights for more than a month because of deadly violence that wracked the archipelago where pro-independence Indigenous Kanaks want to break from France. La Tontouta airport that links New Caledonia’s

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The country where it’s still 2016

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — On September 11, Ethiopians will celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another. However, when the East African country rings in its New Year in a few months, it will technically be 2017, according to the Ethiopian calendar. So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous

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Russian forces storm a detention facility to rescue staff taken hostage, killing hostage-takers

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state-funded news channel RT has reported that security forces have stormed a detention center in the southern part of the country and killed inmates who had taken two staff members hostage. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said in a statement Sunday that the hostages at the pretrial detention center in Rostov-on-Don were

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Al menos nueve personas recibieron disparos, incluidos dos niños, en un centro recreativo de Michigan antes de que el sospechoso sea encontrado muerto, dice la Policía

Paulina Nares (CNN) —   Un sospechoso del tiroteo que hirió al menos a nueve personas en un área recreativa en Rochester Hills, Michigan, este sábado fue encontrado muerto en una casa cercana, dijo el sheriff del condado de Oakland, Michael Bouchard. El sospechoso, un hombre de 42 años cuyo nombre aún no ha sido revelado,

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17-year-old arrested in mass shooting at Texas Juneteenth celebration that left 2 dead and 14 injured

By Paradise Afshar, Melissa Alonso, Jamiel Lynch and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A 17-year-old was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Thursday morning in this weekend’s mass shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Round Rock, Texas, which left two people dead and 14 others injured, according to police. The teenager,

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Americans are still paying more for shoes, luggage and hats after Biden left Trump’s tariffs in place

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — In 2018, then-President Donald Trump put new tariffs on a variety of Chinese-made goods, including baseball caps, luggage and shoes – and Americans have been paying the price ever since. For example, a suitcase that was $100 before Trump imposed the tariffs now goes for about $160, and a carry-on

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In South Africa, traditional healers join the fight against HIV. Stigma remains high in rural areas

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press BUSHBUCKRIDGE, South Africa (AP) — The walls of Shadrack Mashabane’s hut in the rural South African town of Bushbuckridge are covered with traditional fabrics, with a small window the only source of light. What stands out among the herbs and medicines in glass bottles is a white box containing an

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Record class of more than 7,600 students graduates from Oregon State University

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A record 7,648 students graduated from Oregon State University during its university-wide commencement ceremony Saturday at Reser Stadium. An estimated 4,100 students participated in the ceremony that honored the university’s 155th class. The 7,648 graduates were to receive 7,880 degrees. (That includes 232 students receiving two degrees.) They will add to the ranks of OSU

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