By HASSAN BARISE Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Police said a vehicle laden with explosives rammed into cars and trucks at a checkpoint leading to the entrance of the Presidential Palace, killing at least eight people. The checkpoint is the one used by Somalia’s president and prime minister on their way to and from
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By Stephanie Busari and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Tucked away down a quiet, leafy street in Peckham, southeast London, is the registered address of a movement seeking to break Nigeria apart. This suburban spot is the unlikely location for Radio Biafra, a network of internet-based amateur radio stations broadcasting a separatist agenda back to listeners in
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN Five residents of a nursing home in Colville, Washington, have died of Covid-19 after an outbreak last month that infected 74 people, officials said. The Northeast Tri-County Health District attributed the infections to the more transmissible Delta variant, which has been blamed for the surge in cases and hospitalizations across the
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Carma Hassan, CNN A veterans medical facility in Montana is planning to accept non-eligible patients in an effort to alleviate nearby hospitals, as the latest Covid-19 surge overwhelms resources in the state and forces some locations to start considering rationing care. “With more hospital beds available, hospitals now have another tool
Continue Reading KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have hanged a dead body from a crane in a main city square in Afghanistan. The gruesome display in the western city of Herat on Saturday signals a return to some of the hard-line movement’s brutal methods of the past. Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi runs a pharmacy on the side
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Flights to and from the Spanish island of La Palma have been canceled because of an ash cloud spewing out of a volcano that has been erupting for a week. Scientists also said another volcanic vent opened up on Saturday. La Palma Airport operator Aena said plane traffic was suspended Saturday “due
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MADRID (AP) — Flights to and from the Spanish island of La Palma have been canceled because of an ash cloud spewing out of a volcano that has been erupting for a week. Scientists also said another volcanic vent opened up on Saturday. La Palma Airport operator Aena said plane traffic was suspended Saturday “due
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Después de varios días de vivir en condiciones miserables bajo el puente internacional de Del Rio, en Texas, los últimos migrantes que quedaban abandonaron su campamento improvisado justo antes del mediodía (hora local) de este viernes. Un equipo de CNN captó imágenes bajo el puente de los dos últimos autobuses mientras
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN A multi-agency law enforcement operation in New Jersey resulted in the arrest of more than 190 fugitives, according to the US Marshals Service. Operation “Clean Sweep” focused on capturing some of the state’s “most violent offenders,” including gang members, sex offenders, and violent criminals, US Marshals said in a news release
Continue Reading By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Icelanders are voting in a general election dominated by climate change, with an unprecedented number of political parties likely to win parliamentary seats. Polls suggest there won’t be an outright winner on Saturday, triggering complex negotiations to build a coalition government. A record nine parties could
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In a U-turn, Britain says it will issue thousands of emergency visas to foreign truck drivers to help fix supply-chain problems that have caused empty supermarket shelves, long lines at gas stations and shuttered petrol pumps. The Conservative government had resisted easing immigration rules, despite warnings from
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In a U-turn, Britain says it will issue thousands of emergency visas to foreign truck drivers to help fix supply-chain problems that have caused empty supermarket shelves, long lines at gas stations and shuttered petrol pumps. The Conservative government had resisted easing immigration rules, despite warnings from
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Las erupciones se intensificaron este viernes en el volcán Cumbre Vieja en la isla española de La Palma, lo que llevó a las autoridades a ordenar evacuaciones adicionales, mientras que varios vuelos fueron cancelados debido al aumento de cenizas volcánicas. EN VIVO Los servicios de emergencia de Canarias enviaron una actualización
Continue Reading HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong group that had organized annual vigils in remembrance of victims of the Chinese military’s crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has voted to disband amid a crackdown on independent political activism in the semi-autonomous city. Police had notified the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — La agencia de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) informó que entre este jueves y viernes puso bajo su custodia a 92 migrantes provenientes de Haití, que presume fueron abandonados por contrabandistas en la isla de Mona, situada en la franja marítima
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La Plataforma Unitaria que integra a las fuerzas de oposición de Venezuela en el diálogo con el gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro informó que los representantes oficialistas no llegaron a la cita que tenían prevista este viernes en la Ciudad de México para comenzar una nueva etapa del proceso. “Ante la
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — French official Luc Tardif has been elected president of the International Ice Hockey Federation ahead of the return of NHL players to the Olympics in February. Tardif has beaten German candidate Franz Reindl by 67 votes to 39 in the fourth round of the election. Tardif has been president of
Continue Reading By SEBABATSO MOSAMO Associated Press SWARTKOPS, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has sent a train carrying COVID-19 vaccines into one of its poorest provinces to get doses to areas where healthcare facilities are stretched. The vaccine train, named Transvaco, will go on a three-month tour through the Eastern Cape province and stop at seven
Continue Reading QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The military says Pakistani security forces have killed six militants of a separatist group in a raid at their hideout in the mountains of southwestern Baluchistan province. Counterterrorism police arrested three others from the same group, the Baluchistan Liberation Army, in a separate overnight operation. A military statement said Saturday the
Continue Reading ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Authorities in Croatia’s capital say a 56-year-old man is suspected of killing three young children. Local media identified the man as the children’s father. The state prosecutor in Zagreb said the suspect, an Austrian citizen, was suspected of “grave murder… at the harm of three underage children.” Police said earlier that
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