Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen has put women in many of the top roles on her new team for her next five-year tenure at the head of the bloc. This comes after many EU member states had been reluctant to give in to her demand for gender parity.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north to allow residents to return to their homes is now an official war goal, as it considers a wider military operation in Lebanon that could ignite an all-out conflict. Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to take heavier military action
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Army troops have subdued Islamic militants who attacked a military training camp and the airport in Mali’s capital, but some soldiers were killed. The army chief of staff said the militants tried to infiltrate the Faladie gendarme school in Bamako and also targeted the airport in Tuesday’s attack. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The new hard-right Dutch government has pledged clamp down on migration with stricter policies to hold back or kick out migrants who don’t qualify for asylum. The vow came Tuesday as the mostly ceremonial king laid out the administration’s plans for the coming year in a speech to
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — En lo que respecta a la promoción de la mujer en las empresas estadounidenses, se han producido avances desde 2015, según el décimo análisis anual del grupo de defensa de la mujer en el trabajo LeanIn.org y la consultora McKinsey & Company. Pero su informe, publicado este martes, señala que las
Continue ReadingBy Emili Vesilind, CNN (CNN) — Radiant diamonds, sapphires, and rubies have been among the most coveted gemstones on the planet for nearly a century. But long before their reign, a far less dazzling gem captured the hearts of jewelry lovers — and now it’s making a comeback. Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AVIGNON, France (AP) — A 71-year-old French man admitted in court Tuesday that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious in their bed. His wife of 50 years, who has divorced him since his arrest, also got to
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, Eva McKend and David Wright, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Marcia Ruberg is old enough to remember what the country was like for women before the Supreme Court established a federal right to abortion in 1973, and the nearly 50 years that followed. On Sunday, the 69-year-old retired psychologist, whose shirt read “Vote
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El hombre sospechoso del aparente intento de magnicidio contra el expresidente Donald Trump se describió el domingo en las redes sociales como un luchador trotamundos por la libertad: tuiteaba a los líderes mundiales, viajaba a Ucrania para apoyar su esfuerzo bélico y profesaba su voluntad de morir por las causas en
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested six people on drug charges on the tourist island of Bali since July. Four could face execution under the country’s strict drug laws. Two Thai nationals were arrested upon arrival at Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport on Sept. 8 carrying ecstasy and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — Independent U.N. human rights experts say Venezuela’s government has intensified the “harshest and most violent mechanisms of its repressive apparatus” in the wake of the disputed July presidential election. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, which is closely aligned with President Nicolás Maduro’s administration, has declared that he won the July 28
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump respondió a un aparente segundo intento de magnicidio que él atribuye a una retórica política incendiaria que exacerba aún más la situación. Cuando una bala le rozó la oreja en un horrible tiroteo que acabó con la vida de un asistente a un mitin en julio, Trump
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes remained stuck in place on Tuesday as Wall Street made few big moves ahead of what’s expected to be the first cut to interest rates in more than four years. The S&P 500 edged up by 1.49, or less than 0.1%, to 5,634.58. It remains
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (AP) — Una mujer de Nueva York está desafiando las antiguas reglas de Miss América y Miss Mundo que descalifican a las madres de sus concursos de belleza. Danielle Hazel dijo este lunes que siempre había soñado con participar en las competencias, pero que estaba devastada al saber que ya no era elegible
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — More than 7,700 firefighters are still working on the 20 large fires still burning across Oregon, but Oregon Department of Forestry authorities said Monday they are “optimistic” the cooler weather means we’ve turnedg the corner on a fire season in which nearly 2 million acres have burned. ODF Incident Management Teams
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A police official says days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous interior have left more than 35 people dead. Police Assistant Commissioner Joseph Tondon in Enga province on Tuesday said the death toll from the violence blamed on illegal miners is still being assessed. But he said
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – More than 50 Oregonians have joined forces to launch the Oregon Cultural Trust’s new Cultural Ambassador Network, inspired to promote cultural giving in Oregon. Inaugural members include Norm Smith, president emeritus of The Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen and former state representative Margaret Doherty, as well as many
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Tuesday, Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade is celebrating National Voter Registration Day by encouraging eligible Oregonians to register to vote or update their voter registration at OregonVotes.gov/register. National Voter Registration Day is a nonpartisan civic holiday started in 2012 that is dedicated to celebrating our democracy. The deadline to register to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if a federal safety agency had investigated his complaint. David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former operations director, said he felt let down by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s decision
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US military aid packages for Ukraine have been smaller in recent months, as the stockpiles of weapons and equipment that the Pentagon is willing to send Kyiv from its own inventory have dwindled. The shift comes amid concerns about US military readiness being impacted as US arms manufacturers play
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