Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Floods wreaked more havoc in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, raising this week’s total death toll to 30, officials and media reports said Friday. Rain stopped in many parts of Bangladesh on Friday and weather officials in Dhaka said the waters had started receding in some areas,
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)– Families can visit Healing Reins Friday from 9 AM to 11 AM to meet farm animals in a calm setting.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Berlin Zoo has announced that longtime resident giant panda Meng Meng has given birth to twins — for a second time. The cubs were born on Thursday and are doing well. They were born only 11 days after ultrasound scans showed that Meng Meng, 11, was pregnant. The zoo said Friday that
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, has unearthed a long-hidden scandal in the family of the colony’s first governor. Thomas West became Jamestown’s leader in 1610; he was joined there by three of his brothers and several other male relatives. Recently,
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Un avión en el que viajaban nueve personas se estrelló este jueves cerca de la capital tailandesa, Bangkok, lo que provocó una operación de búsqueda masiva en la que los trabajadores caminaron por el barro y excavaron entre la espesa cubierta de manglares hasta altas horas de la noche. Según las
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims has driven off a highway in Nepal, leaving 14 killed, 16 injured and several more missing. The bus veered off the highway and rolled toward a fast-flowing river before stopping on the rocky bank. The top part of the bus had been
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Searchers dug into the mud of a flooded mangrove swamp outside Bangkok for plane fragments and the remains of the five Chinese passengers and four Thai flight crew members believed killed in a crash shortly after takeoff. The local governor said around 300 officers and rescue volunteers have been searching
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — NATO says security at an air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential threat,” and all staff not essential to missions have been sent home as a precaution. The Geilenkirchen air base, near the border with the Netherlands, is where the alliance’s Airborne Warning
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Demetrious Gamble serves up three options for your weekend enjoyment on the High Desert. We have plenty more at http://events.ktvz.com.
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El líder indio, Narendra Modi, llegó a la capital ucraniana, Kyiv, donde se dispone a mantener conversaciones con el presidente ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelensky, que serán seguidas con gran interés en Rusia, mientras se recrudece el asalto a su vecino. El legislador ucraniano Oleksiy Honcharenko confirmó la llegada de Modi en un
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Continue ReadingAP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — With the Federal Reserve considered certain to start cutting its benchmark interest rate next month, Chair Jerome Powell’s highly anticipated speech Friday morning at an economic conference will be closely watched for any hints about how many additional rate cuts might be in the pipeline. Powell is
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Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A house fire in a northern Serbian city early Friday killed six people, including four children, police said. The fire erupted around 3 a.m. in Novi Sad, some 90 kilometers north of Belgrade, the capital, said the Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. Dacic said in a statement that initial findings suggest the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered “as a friend” to help bring peace to Ukraine in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a brief visit on Friday that many in the war-battered country hope will pave the way for an Indian role in peace mediation. Modi’s trip
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A tropical storm is expected to deliver strong winds and heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend, particularly to the Big Island and Maui, as it passes south of the island chain. The National Weather Service on Thursday evening issued a tropical storm watch for Hawaii County, which includes all of
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — A team with ties to the ethnic Korean community for the first time has won Japan’s famous summer high school baseball tournament, known as the “Summer Koshien.” Kyoto International High School on Friday won the coveted championship, defeating Kanto Daiichi High School 2-1 on a tie-breaking run in the
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This week, we have a number of beautiful backyard gardens to share with you. We have a huge vegetable garden, a newly installed red brick road, and a true backyard oasis. There is truly no place like home when you have such a lovely garden to enjoy. To submit your own garden, visit the Contests
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from Pakistan’s deadliest bandit attack on police has risen to 12 after one of the wounded officers died in a hospital in the eastern province of Punjab. Thursday’s attack with guns and rocket-propelled grenades also wounded eight officers. It took place in the Kacha area in
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kyiv on Friday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that will be keenly watched in Russia as its assault on its neighbor grinds on. Modi’s visit, the first by an Indian leader since Ukrainian independence, comes just weeks
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