Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has been “successfully towed to a safe area without any oil spill.” That’s according to a statement from a European Union naval mission on Monday. Operation Aspides issued the statement regarding the oil tanker
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Washington y Seúl podrían llegar a un acuerdo para compartir los costos de las fuerzas estadounidenses estacionadas en Corea del Sur antes de fin de año, aunque el acuerdo actual no expira hasta fines de 2025, ya que ambas partes sienten una sensación de urgencia para consolidar un nuevo acuerdo antes
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. says the Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication. Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped. The other is Pakistan. News of the suspension
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Investigators on New York’s Long Island are seeking the public’s help in identifying an Asian victim from a years-old killing, whose remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in 2011. The victim investigators are referring to as “Asian Doe” was a biological male of Asian descent, between
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maria Lettini already knew about the backlash going on in the United States against ESG investing, which takes the environment, social issues and corporate governance into account, when she took over as chief executive of US SIF last year. Lettini was returning to the United States after several
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Who really controls TikTok’s magical algorithm — the US-based company that runs the app or its Chinese parent, ByteDance? That’s the question that bedeviled a trio of federal judges on Monday charged with deciding whether to allow the implementation of a law that could ultimately result in TikTok being banned
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates after keeping them at a 23-year high for more than a year, fueling hopes that America’s sluggish housing market might soon turn a corner. Mortgage rates have doubled since 2020, contributing to one of the most unaffordable
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson is once again facing a major challenge as he navigates a government funding fight while under pressure from an extremely narrow majority in the House and former President Donald Trump. Congress is up against a shutdown deadline at the end of the month,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Exceptionally heavy rainfall pounding Central Europe has prompted deadly flooding in the region, with four new deaths reported Monday in Poland, three in the Czech Republic and one in Romania. The flooding has swamped parts of Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania as a low-pressure system crossing the
Continue ReadingAP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of marijuana and hundreds of Asian American women as legacies. Chung was contacted five years ago by a fellow journalist, Connie Wang, whose Chinese immigrant parents gave her the chance as
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (Associated Press) — Tito Jackson, uno de los hermanos que conformaron el querido grupo pop Jackson 5, falleció a los 70 años. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel Tito fue el tercero de nueve hijos de Jackson, entre los que se encuentran las superestrellas mundiales Michael y su hermana Janet, parte de una familia
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Former BBC news anchor Huw Edwards has been given a suspended prison sentence for indecent images of children on his phone. Edwards, once one of the most prominent media figures in Britain, was sentenced Monday to a six-month prison term suspended for two years. Edwards pleaded guilty in Westminster Magistrates’
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — An influential French member of the European Union’s powerful executive branch has resigned. Thierry Breton posted his resignation letter on social media on Monday. He called into question the leadership of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Breton’s resignation comes just as von der Leyen is trying to assemble
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan erupted with joy Monday as the samurai series “Shogun” won a record 18 Emmys for its first season. It took home prizes including Outstanding Drama Series, as star and co-producer Hiroyuki Sanada became the first Japanese actor to win the Emmy for best lead actor in a dramatic series.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KEHL, Germany (AP) — Germany has begun random checks at its borders with five Western European nations, expanding a system of controls already in place at its four other borders. The police controls began at the borders with France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Denmark on Monday morning and are due to continue
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United Nations official said Monday. The fighting started days ago and is continuing in the Porgera Valley, near the site of a landslide in May estimated to have killed more than 2,000
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen and CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir Becker, Minnesota (CNN) — The smokestacks on the aging Sherco coal power plant tower over gleaming solar panels that stretch across thousands of acres of farmland. The polluting coal plant is on its way out, scheduled for retirement in the next five years. It’s generated
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Si tuviste una “noche histórica” en tus predicciones para los Emmy, felicitaciones. Fue, sin duda, una noche para los libros de historia y para quienes aman los discursos de aceptación llenos de lágrimas, acompañados de comentarios sutiles y en su mayoría guionados. Desde ganadores históricos hasta menciones a gatos y perros,
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — La moda masculina suele quedar relegada a un segundo plano en las listas de los mejores vestidos de los premios de Hollywood. Pero en una alfombra roja de los Emmy repleta de vestidos recatados y sofisticados, fueron los asistentes masculinos los que brillaron en el Peacock Theater de Los Ángeles este
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian union leader freed from prison after serving time for her part in a strike against the country’s biggest casino has vowed to continue the labor action until justice is done. Chhim Sithar was sentenced in connection with the strike against the NagaWorld casino, the longest such
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