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Year: 2024

12 hurt after a fire breaks out at a water park under construction in Sweden’s second-largest city

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Black smoke rose over Sweden’s second-largest city on Monday after a fire broke out at a water park under construction at one of the country’s biggest amusement centers. The blaze at the Oceana water park in the popular Liseberg amusement complex in downtown Goteborg spread across several water slides and a

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Rock, paper or scissors? US striker wins pre-penalty contest before scoring in English league game

COVENTRY, England (AP) — United States striker Haji Wright tricked his own teammate before outwitting the goalkeeper in an English league game. Wright plays for Coventry City in England’s second-tier Championship. He took part in an impromptu on-field game of rock, paper, scissors with teammate Callum O’Hare to determine who took a penalty in the

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Se avecinan fuertes nevadas y problemas de viajes en el noreste de EE.UU. mientras el sur está inundado por tormentas severas

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un extenso sistema de tormentas se está abriendo camino a través del este de Estados Unidos, preparándose para obstaculizar los viajes en el noreste con un manto de nieve justo cuando termine de barrer el sureste con rondas de tormentas severas y amenazas de inundaciones. El mismo sistema que empapó

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Israel dice que dos rehenes fueron rescatados de Gaza en una operación especial, 128 días después de su captura

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El ejército de Israel dijo este lunes que rescató a dos rehenes durante una operación especial realizada durante la madrugada en Rafah, una ciudad en el sur de Gaza que fue objeto de ataques aéreos israelíes sostenidos durante toda la madrugada. Los rehenes son Fernando Simon Marman, de 60 años,

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UK plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda incompatible with human rights, parliamentary watchdog says

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A group of British lawmakers says a plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is “fundamentally incompatible” with the U.K.’s human rights obligations. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights criticized a bill designed to overcome the U.K. Supreme Court’s ruling that the Rwanda

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Turkey hails its first astronaut who returned from a 3-week mission to International Space Station

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s first astronaut has returned home to a hero’s welcome as a symbol of the country’s advances in technology and aerospace. Alper Gezeravci was greeted Monday by bouquet-laden children at Ankara’s Esenboga Airport on his returns from a private three-week mission to the International Space Station. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan closely

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Ataques aéreos de Israel matan a más de 100 personas en Rafah mientras aumenta la alarma internacional por la ofensiva terrestre

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Decenas de personas, incluidos niños, murieron como resultado de ataques aéreos y bombardeos israelíes “extremadamente intensos” que golpearon múltiples lugares en Rafah durante la noche de este lunes, según la Sociedad de la Media Luna Roja Palestina, mientras aumenta la alarma internacional sobre la ofensiva terrestre planeada por Israel en

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Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, UN report says

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, according to a new United Nations report released Monday. Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing,

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