By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Deadly Hurricane Ian — downgraded Thursday to a tropical storm as it crawls across Florida — smashed into the state’s southwestern coast on Wednesday, destroying homes and cutting power to millions. As emergency crews scramble to aid those still trapped in their homes, more than 2.5 million residences and businesses were
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By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians will go to the polls for the fourth time in less than two years in a general election overshadowed this time by the war in Ukraine, rising energy costs and galloping inflation. Pollsters expect that voters’ fatigue and disillusionment with the political system will result
Continue Reading ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian authorities say a man has died flooding in a northern Adriatic Sea port after the town was hit by a storm and torrential rainfall. Huge amounts of water drenched Rijeka on Wednesday evening, bursting into houses and submerging the town’s squares and streets. Officials said as much rain fell in
Continue Reading PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police in Montenegro are raiding multiple locations in the county in search of suspected spies, officials said Thursday. Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic told members of his cabinet the raids, “aimed at protecting (Montenegro’s) national security” were prepared “in cooperation with our international partners.” Officials refused to provide more details of the
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The global bond market is having a historically awful year. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond, a proxy for borrowing costs, briefly moved above 4% on Wednesday for the first time in 12 years. That’s a bad omen for Wall Street and Main Street. What’s happening: This hasn’t
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of royal fans have lined up outside Windsor Castle for the chance to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II as the chapel where the late monarch is buried opened to the public for the first time since her death. The queen’s death certificate says
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Funcionarios de seguridad europeos observaron este lunes y martes buques de apoyo de la Armada rusa en las proximidades de las fugas en los gasoductos Nord Stream, probablemente causadas por explosiones submarinas, según dos funcionarios de inteligencia occidentales y otra fuente familiarizada con el asunto. No está claro si los
Continue Reading UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police in Uvalde, Texas, say two people were killed and 10 others injured after a pickup truck crashed into two other vehicles. Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez says U.S. Border Patrol agents saw the truck speeding Wednesday night on a highway outside of Uvalde and began pursuing it. The police chief
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business We have all heard of Band-Aid, Tylenol, Benadryl and Johnson’s baby powder. We have never heard of the new made-up word Kenvue. But Kenvue will be the new corporate parent of these familiar consumer health brands next year. Johnson & Johnson, the owner of these labels, is in the process
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has passed a motion calling for the dismissal of the foreign minister over a series of alleged diplomatic missteps, including controversial remarks by President Yoon Suk Yeol caught on a hot mic in the United States. The motion isn’t legally
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan’s capital has acquitted the daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case. Thursday’s acquittal of Maryam Nawaz in Islamabad comes four years after another anti-graft tribunal sentenced her to seven years in prison connected to the purchase of luxury apartments in London. Nawaz, who is
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD, GANTRY MEILANA and HELENA ALVES Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Nobel Peace Prize-winning Catholic bishop has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and Bishop Carlos
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — El huracán Ian tocó tierra como un ciclón tropical categoría 4 con vientos de 241 km/h en la costa oeste de Florida. Mientras cerca de 1,75 millones de personas enfrentaban órdenes de evacuación, las lluvias torrenciales, inundaciones y marejadas ciclónicas récord en Naples y Fort Myers dejaron a más de 2,5 millones
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN Hurricane victims returning to damaged houses face a torrent of challenges — if they’re lucky enough to have a home standing at all. Flooding. Mold damage. Insurance headaches. Deadly hidden hazards. The onslaught of mental anguish and post-hurricane dangers can seem overwhelming. Here’s how victims can stay safe, get help and
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A motorcycle crash Wednesday night in Morgan County left a Gravois Mills man with serious injuries. The crash happened just after 7:05 p.m. on Georgia Road near Ginger Road, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Troopers said 78-year-old Robert C. Martin was thrown from the motorcycle after he drove off
Continue Reading HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — The Finnish government says it will significantly limit passenger traffic on Finland’s border with Russia, banning Russian citizens traveling with tourist visas from entering the Nordic country effective Friday. Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told a news conference that the decision “aims to completely prevent Russian tourism to Finland and the related
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LONDON (AP) — Arsenal midfielder Emile Smith Rowe has undergone surgery to repair a damaged tendon in his groin and will not play again before December. Discomfort in his groin has limited Smith Rowe’s game time for Arsenal this season to just four substitute appearances. Arsenal says he had a “significant setback” after coming on
Continue Reading BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has summoned the Iranian ambassador to deliver a diplomatic complaint over a series of deadly drone strikes. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that the country condemns Iran’s attacks on Iranian-Kurdish bases that killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others. The strikes targeted a banned
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Three Russian cosmonauts returned safely from a mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov touched down softly on time at a designated site in the steppes of Kazakhstan about 150 kilometers (about 90 miles) southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan. The
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona may be without a healthy right-back for Sunday’s visit to Mallorca after a spate of injuries decimated its squad during the international break. Defenders Jules Koundé, Ronald Araújo and Héctor Bellerín are all out for an undetermined period of time with injuries. That leaves Barcelona
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