Por Matthew Chance y Benjamin Brown, CNN Los puestos que venden el tradicional vino caliente, adornados con luces navideñas y oropel, están vacíos y cerrados. En la calle del mercado navideño en el centro de Magdeburgo, ahora acordonada, la policía alemana hace guardia mientras, según dijo un oficial a CNN, los equipos forenses examinan cuidadosamente
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the holiday season battle of big-budget family movies, Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” sped past the Walt Disney Co.’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” to take the top spot at the box office ahead of the lucrative Christmas corridor in theaters. “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” debuted with
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences. That is according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice. The suit against the state of Louisiana follows a multiyear investigation into what federal officials say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention”
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods isn’t the only member of his family who can produce big moments. His 15-year-old son Charlie made his first ace Sunday in the PNC Championship. Woods was more excited than if he had made the hole-in-one himself. “That was the thrill of a lifetime to be able to have
Continue ReadingPor Reuters Albania anunció el sábado una prohibición de un año de TikTok, la popular aplicación de videos cortos, tras el asesinato de un adolescente el mes pasado, que suscitó temores sobre la influencia de las redes sociales en los niños. La prohibición, que forma parte de un plan más amplio para hacer más seguras
Continue ReadingRussian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Fico arrived in Russia on a “working visit” and met with Putin one-on-one on Sunday evening, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s RIA
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Civil Defense Agency says a small plane has crashed into a Brazilian town that’s popular with tourists and killed all 10 passengers and crew on board. More than a dozen people who were on the ground Sunday have been taken to hospitals with injuries including smoke inhalation, and two are said to be in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after an eight-year restoration project. The corridor, named after the Renaissance architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari, who
Continue ReadingPor Katie Hunt, CNN Hoy en día, la meseta de piedra caliza de Mendip Hills, en el Reino Unido, es famosa por su belleza natural. Pero hace unos 4.000 años, en la Edad del Bronce Temprano, allí se desarrolló un capítulo espeluznante de la prehistoria británica. Miles de huesos humanos excavados en las décadas de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Approximately 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS in the coming weeks. The money will be directly deposited into eligible people’s bank accounts or sent in the mail by a paper check. The IRS said it’s distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who failed to
Continue ReadingBOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group has announced a unilateral truce to last until Jan. 3, the first since the previous ceasefire broke down in August. In a statement posted on X, the National Liberation Army said that it will halt attacks on the military as the nation celebrates Christmas and New
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Chance and Benjamin Brown, CNN Magdeburg, Germany (CNN) — Its glühwein stalls, festooned with Christmas lights and tinsel, stand emptied and shuttered. On the cordoned off market street, in the center of Magdeburg, German police stand guard as, one officer told CNN, forensic teams carefully examine the crime scene before scrubbing the blood
Continue ReadingPor Ana María Cañizares La Fiscalía General de Ecuador abrió una investigación por el “presunto secuestro” de cuatro menores de edad en la provincia de Guayas en el que “estaría involucrado personal de las Fuerzas Armadas”, informó la institución en su cuenta de X. El caso fue trasladado a la capital ecuatoriana para que una
Continue ReadingPor Duarte Mendonca y Michael Rios, CNN Una avioneta se estrelló contra un centro urbano en la ciudad de Gramado, en el sur de Brasil, lo que causó la muerte de las 10 personas que iban a bordo y dejó heridas a más de una docena en tierra, según las autoridades brasileñas. El accidente se
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children. Families are struggling during the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. At least 35 children were killed in southwestern Oyo state on Wednesday. And on
Continue ReadingCleanup continues in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers. Russia’s state Tass news agency says that by Sunday afternoon, more than 12,000 tons of contaminated soil had been removed along 34 kilometers (21 miles) of shoreline. Russia’s
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Some American holidays are intrinsically tied to certain traditions. Fourth of July and fireworks shows. Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping. And then there’s Christmas and the movie theater. Moviegoing may not be the first thing you think of when considering the Christmas season. There are the trees, sure, then
Continue ReadingAP National Writer The average final score over the first week of the College Football Playoffs: Winners 36, Losers 17. This bold, new experiment was supposed to bring more programs from more parts of the country into the loop of a largely regional sport that had been dominated by about a half-dozen teams for the
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands streamed into a central square in Serbia’s capital on Sunday for a big rally against populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government. Their tight grip on power has been challenged by weeks of street protests led by university students. The rally Sunday at Belgrade’s Slavija
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed al Sawalihi, Ibrahim Dahman, Tim Lister and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Eleven people were killed in an Israeli air strike in central Gaza on Saturday night, including several members of one family, according to hospital authorities. Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, told CNN that others had been injured in the
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