By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Human Rights Watch has released an in-depth report that details the abuse and discrimination the LGBTQ community says it faces in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Gay sex is still criminalized there under colonial-era laws that are common in
Continue ReadingBy IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A provincial governor in Rwanda says 10 students have drowned after their boat sank in a river. The governor of Southern province said the students drowned on Monday while the boat was trying to cross the Nyabarongo River. The students had just returned from school for
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Many people in the German capital of Berlin woke up to some bizarre news this morning. A suspected lioness is on the loose in the southwestern part of the city, German police warned, adding people in the area should remain indoors until they capture the dangerous wild animal. Here’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Many people in the German capital of Berlin woke up to some bizarre news this morning. A suspected lioness is on the loose in the southwestern part of the city, German police warned, adding people in the area should remain indoors until they capture the dangerous wild animal.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate in another sign of commitment to a traditional path of battling inflation. But the move Thursday still fell below expectations after critics blamed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s economic policies for inflaming a cost-of-living crisis. The 2.5 percentage point
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved an antibody injection to protect newborn babies from respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV. Nirsevimab, also known by its brand name Beyfortus, is expected to be available this fall, as long as the US Centers for Disease Control and
Continue ReadingCNN, WBMA-LD, WBRC, WVTM By Alta Spells and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who earlier this month went missing for 49 hours after making a 911 call about a child on an interstate, said she was not kidnapped and did not see a baby on the side of the road,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La pregunta más importante sobre la campaña presidencial de 2024 hasta ahora es si los votantes o los jurados emitirán el primer veredicto sobre Donald Trump. Una contienda por la Casa Blanca que parece ser una de las más tensas de la historia está nuevamente en animación suspendida mientras el
Continue ReadingBy Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — When the highly anticipated movie “Oppenheimer” finally lands in theaters Friday, it will be one of the first blockbuster biopics to open since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Director Christopher Nolan’s latest creation concerns an earlier existential threat, telling the story of the atomic bomb through the lens
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Deutsche Bank has been trying to leave its troubled past behind for years. But the fines keep coming. The US Federal Reserve slapped the German lender with a $186 million penalty Wednesday for failing to fix “unsafe and unsound practices” that it pledged to address as long ago
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN McINTYRE Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — For a nation more than 7,000 miles from the United States, the Philippines boasts a women’s national soccer team with a decidedly American feel. Of the 23 names on its Women’s World Cup roster, 18 belong to U.S.-born women. The Philippines has been recruiting U.S.-born
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Investigators looking into the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum have found lumps of gold that appear to have resulted from part of the treasure being melted down, but still hold out hope of finding the rest intact, officials said Thursday. Four
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN McINTYRE Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — For a nation more than 7,000 miles from the United States, the Philippines boasts a women’s national soccer team with a decidedly American feel. Of the 23 names on its Women’s World Cup roster, 18 belong to U.S.-born women. The Philippines has been recruiting U.S.-born
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — A tentative deal was reached on Thursday between the union representing 1,500 stagehands and other backstage workers and Broadway producers, theater owners and operators to avert a strike that could have shut down shows in New York and touring shows across the country as
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Relatives and a rights defender say two prominent figures from Egypt’s human rights community have been released from prison. The releases of Patrick George Zaki, an activist and postgraduate student in Italy, and Mohamed el-Baker, a human rights lawyer, on Thursday came a day
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian forces will hold joint military exercises with Wagner fighters near its border with NATO-member Poland, Belarus’ Defence Ministry said. Wagner fighters arrived in Belarus following a short-lived mutiny by the private military group last month. On Wednesday, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was apparently seen in
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian forces will hold joint military exercises with Wagner fighters near its border with NATO-member Poland, Belarus’ Defence Ministry said. Wagner fighters arrived in Belarus following a short-lived mutiny by the private military group last month. On Wednesday, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was apparently seen in
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian health ministry says Israeli army fire killed a man near a shrine in the occupied West Bank. Thursday’s incident took place as Israeli forces escorted Israeli worshippers, including the Israeli police chief and the head of the settler council, to a site known as the biblical Joseph’s Tomb near the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una mujer de Milwaukee y su novio fueron acusados de negligencia crónica con un niño y encarcelamiento falso después de que las autoridades los encontraran supuestamente reteniendo a dos niños en su casa en contra de su voluntad. Katie Koch, de 34 años, y Joel Manke, de 38, enfrentan cuatro
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