KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have completed their takeover of Avdiivka by eliminating the last pocket of resistance at the eastern Ukraine city’s huge coke plant, the Russian military said Monday, after the sheer weight of its troop numbers and greater firepower drove out Kyiv’s forces. Moscow officials announced Saturday said they had taken
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret: It has opened up the files of controversial World War II-era Pope Pius XII to scholars and changed the official name to remove the word “Secret”
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A collision of two snowmobiles among a group riding on Alaska’s Denali Highway has killed a Bend man, Alaska State Troopers said.
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — China está aumentando las patrullas en aguas cercanas a un grupo de islas de primera línea controladas por Taiwán, a medida que aumentan las tensiones después de que dos pescadores chinos se ahogaran durante una persecución por parte de la guardia costera de Taiwán, que los acusó de invasión ilegal. La
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was met with jeers from the crowd after placing second in the women’s 400-meter individual medley at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday. Gorbenko, who was awarded a silver medal for the runner-up finish, could be heard facing a mix of boos and
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — At least 49 bodies were found at the site of a gun battle between tribes in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands, police told CNN Monday, in a gruesome escalation of hostilities in the country. Those killed were believed to be warring members of the Ambulin and
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and again called for his release. Maryam al-Khawaja urged Denmark, where both al-Khawajas have citizenship, to do more to free her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja. She also asked Denmark to end arms
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Mientras la financiación para Ucrania enfrenta un futuro incierto en el Congreso de Estados Unidos, el Ejército estadounidense ha tenido que pagar la factura de cientos de millones de dólares en apoyo al esfuerzo bélico de Ucrania contra Rusia durante los últimos meses, y los oficiales del Ejército están cada
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — One woman was killed and five other people were wounded when an argument escalated to gunfire at a Waffle House restaurant in Indianapolis early Monday, police said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the restaurant around 12:30 a.m., the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai prosecutors say that further investigation is needed to decide whether to bring former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to trial for defaming the monarchy, just a day after he was freed from a prison sentence on other charges he was serving in a hospital. Thaksin was released
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Palestinian foreign minister on Monday accused Israel of apartheid and urged the United Nations’ top court to declare that Israel’s occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state is illegal and must end immediately and unconditionally for any hope for a two-state future to
Continue ReadingCAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have clashed with Muslim militants in a gunbattle that has left at least six soldiers and two rebels dead in a fog-shrouded hinterland in the south. Military chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. said Monday that four other soldiers were wounded in the army offensive a day earlier
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh and Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — Russia is entering its third year of war in Ukraine with an unprecedented amount of cash in government coffers, bolstered by a record $37 billion of crude oil sales to India last year, according to new analysis, which concludes that some of the crude was refined by
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is hosting a conference for Japanese and Ukrainian officials to discuss reconstruction of Ukraine just ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion, while the U.S. and other Western countries are still focusing on military aid for the battlefield. Hundreds of senior officials and executives are
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the Mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned
Continue ReadingBy JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Trainee doctors in South Korea have begun resigning en masse in protest of a government plan to increase the number of medical students. Their action Monday reportedly caused delays in surgeries and other treatments at hospitals, but no major disruptions have occured. Health authorities say
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Hubo mucho dinamismo en la alfombra roja de los BAFTA 2024 en Londres este domingo, cuando algunos de los mejores talentos de Hollywood se reunieron para el equivalente de la industria cinematográfica británica a los Oscar. Si bien no hubo señales de Catherine, princesa de Gales este año, ya que
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday a day after Chinese markets reopened from a long Lunar New Year holiday. Wall Street trading was closed Monday in the United States for President’s Day. Investors were generally turning less optimistic because of expectations that higher interest rates would
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — There’s a significant flood threat in Los Angeles and nearly the entire population of California is under flood alerts as rain drenches the already-soaked state. Officials are urging people to stay off roads as they face the risk of flooding and landslides. • Around 37 million
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in Russia’s political opposition. Alexei Navalny, 47, was the Kremlin’s best-known critic at home and abroad. Before he died in a penal colony Friday, the anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer and politician with an arch
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