Mariana Toro (CNN) — El día en que Naciones Unidas advirtió que los afganos se enfrentaban a la hambruna en un país al borde del colapso total, los rivales políticos en Washington estaban obsesionados con sacar provecho político del caótico final de la guerra más larga de Estados Unidos. El secretario de Estado de EE.UU.,
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Los rostros más famosos de la cultura pop acudieron al Museo Metropolitano de Arte el lunes por la noche en Nueva York para celebrar la fiesta del año de la industria de la moda: la Met Gala. Pospuesto la última vez debido a la pandemia de covid-19, el evento de recaudación de
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By HUIZHONG WU and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court has ruled against a Chinese woman in a #MeToo case that wound through the courts for three years, in a blow to the tamped-down movement whose legacy remains uncertain. The Haidian People’s Court said Zhou Xiaoxuan, who had become the face
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is forecast to reap record revenue from farming this year despite pandemic challenges, a mouse plague and a trade dispute with China. A report released Tuesday says Australian farmers are expected to sell 73 billion Australian dollars ($54 billion) in produce in the fiscal year
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is forecast to reap record revenue from farming this year despite pandemic challenges, a mouse plague and a trade dispute with China. A report released Tuesday says Australian farmers are expected to sell 73 billion Australian dollars ($54 billion) in produce in the fiscal year
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Norway’s Labor Party will start talks in an attempt to build a coalition after the center-left bloc beat the incumbent Conservatives and won Norway’s general election. The Labor Party and its two left-leaning allies the Socialist Left and the euroskeptic Center Party
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN A “megapod” of more than 100 humpback whales has been filmed surrounding a boat off the coast of Australia — an incredibly rare event an expert says has only ever been captured once before in the country’s waters. The whales skirted the boat near Bermagui, about 236 miles (380 kilometers) from
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — El activista nicaragüense Joao Maldonado se recupera en una unidad de cuidados intensivos de un hospital de San José, Costa Rica, luego de recibir varios impactos de bala en el brazo y abdomen este sábado. Así lo aseguró a CNN su hermano, Marlon Maldonado, quien dijo que Joao tuvo que
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TUESDAY: We’ll get to a similar spot this afternoon before some more active weather moves in. Highs will top out in the upper 80’s with a southerly breeze sticking around. Showers and storms will break out late this afternoon into this evening. There’s a chance one or two is on the strong side, with gusty
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Apple has updated its software for iPhones to address a critical vulnerability that independent researchers say has been exploited by notorious surveillance software to spy on a Saudi activist. Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said the software exploit has been in use since February and has been
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By The Associated Press Houston Astros right-hander Zack Greinke makes his first start Tuesday night since testing positive for COVID-19 last month. The 37-year-old Greinke is scheduled to pitch at Texas, the same team he lost to last time out in late August. Elsewhere, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the power-packed Blue Jays are averaging 13
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Rain has helped to bring under control a major wildfire that ravaged 7,800 hectares (19,200 acres) of southern Spain despite more than five days of intense firefighting work by land and air. But officials say that the blaze in Sierra Bermeja is not over and that work to completely extinguish the flames
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis is urging Slovakia’s Roma to integrate better into the mainstream as he meets with the country’s most socially excluded minority group, who have long suffered discrimination, marginalization and poverty. But Francis’ visit Tuesday to the Lunik IX settlement in Kosice brought
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — A medida que los niños regresan para un nuevo año escolar y los casos de covid-19 aumentan entre los grupos de edad más jóvenes, los mandatos de vacunación en las escuelas pueden convertirse en la única forma de avanzar, dijo un experto en vacunas. “Hasta ahora, no hemos visto muchos mandatos
Continue Reading By BOUBACAR DIALLO and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s opposition leaders say the country’s ousted president is to blame for the military coup in the West African nation a little over a week ago. They have asked the international community to support the political transition led by the ruling junta as
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By Helen Regan, CNN More than $1 billion in aid has been pledged for Afghanistan to help ease one of the world’s “worst humanitarian crises,” as millions of people in the country could soon run out of food and the economy is on the verge of collapse, the United Nations said on Monday. Speaking at
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By Helen Regan, CNN More than $1 billion in aid has been pledged for Afghanistan to help ease one of the world’s “worst humanitarian crises,” as millions of people in the country could soon run out of food and the economy is on the verge of collapse, the United Nations said on Monday. Speaking at
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have compensated nearly 250 people who were prosecuted or investigated under a Nazi-era law criminalizing homosexuality that continued to be enforced enthusiastically after World War II. The Federal Office of Justice said Monday that, up to the end of August, 317 people had applied for compensation and it had been
Continue Reading By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There were enough tennis stars inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Monday’s Met Gala, it seemed, to play a tournament. But then, the museum was filled with screen and TV stars, too. And musicians, and luminaries of business and politics. In fact, an evening that
Continue Reading By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s leaders are anxiously watching the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, fearing that it will benefit their bitter rival Pakistan and feed a long-simmering insurgency in the disputed region of Kashmir, where militants already have a foothold. Lt. Gen. Deependra Singh Hooda, former military commander for northern
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