ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An official says a magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey causing some damaged buildings to collapse. Monday’s quake came three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region. A father and daughter were reported trapped beneath the rubble of one building. Turkey’s disaster management agency said that Monday’s earthquake was centered
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. and the European Union are poised to end years of wrangling and seal a deal to resolve their thorny post-Brexit trade dispute over Northern Ireland. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to England on Monday for a meeting with Sunak. A joint
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By Hande Atay Alam and Isil Sariyuce, CNN In a show of support for children impacted by the earthquake in Turkey, soccer fans threw stuffed animals onto the pitch during a match between Beşiktaş and Antalyaspor on Sunday. The game stopped at four minutes and 17 seconds to correspond with the time the earthquake struck
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By Stephanie Halasz and Rob Picheta, CNN The European Union has sanctioned a Russian national and the subsidiary of Russia’s Wagner Group in Sudan, Meroe Gold, for facilitating the exploitation of Sudan’s gold wealth, after a CNN investigation into the group’s activities last July. The EU named a Russian national — Mikhail Potepkin — and
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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is stressing the importance of legal challenges against “climate-wrecking corporations” like fossil-fuel producers. Guterres ratcheted up his call for the fight against climate change. The U.N. chief’s appeal opened the latest session of the Human Rights Council. It was part of an address
Continue Reading By MAJDI MOHAMMED and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press HAWARA, West Bank (AP) — Israel sent hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank on Monday, a day after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis and settlers rampaged through a Palestinian town, torching homes and vehicles in the worst such violence in decades. The responses
Continue Reading By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — A 37-year-old U.S.-Italian national and longtime left-wing political operative who worked on two presidential campaigns for former U.S. President Barack Obama has defied polls to become the first woman to head Italy’s opposition Democratic Party. Elly Schlein’s surprise victory over the popular governor of Emilia Romagna, Stefano
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN Millions of student loan borrowers could see up to $20,000 of their debt canceled depending on the outcome of Tuesday’s US Supreme Court hearing on President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. How and when the justices rule will also determine when payments on federal student loans will resume after a
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La edición número 29 de los Premios del Sindicato de Actores de la Pantalla —SAG Awards— se llevó a cabo el domingo en el Fairmont Century Plaza de Los Ángeles, en honor a algunas de las mejores actuaciones televisivas y cinematográficas del año por las que votaron los propios actores.
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TODAY: After storms overnight, the remnants of this system will still have windy implications for us the rest of the day. Winds will be sustained around 15-25 mph, and potentially gust as high as 50 mph at times through the afternoon. Clouds will break shortly this morning, before they fill back in from the north.
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The world marked the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Friday.
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN Betrayal has formed part of European politics since polities started forming — just ask Julius Caesar, who asked “Et tu Brute?” as his friend stabbed him for the good of the Roman Republic. Fast forward to April 2021 and the machinations behind the proposed European Super League (ESL) that would have
Continue Reading By STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate has arrived at a Romanian appeals court in Bucharest to challenge a court’s decision last week to extend for a third time his detention by 30 days. The divisive social media influencer and former professional kickboxer is detained in Romania on
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will unveil France’s economic and military strategy in Africa for the coming years. Macron is expected to call for a more balanced partnership with African nations in a speech at the Elysee presidential palace on Monday. The French president will begin an
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN For an illness that affects so many people, there are plenty of misconceptions about eating disorders, experts say. Eating disorders affect nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide, according to the nonprofit ANAD, which provides support services for people with these conditions. And yet in a culture in which fat shaming and
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home — intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home — intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home — intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Nearly all flights at Germany’s Cologne-Bonn airport and the majority at nearby Duesseldorf have been canceled or diverted as a result of strikes that also affected local transport, day-care facilities and local administration in Germany’s most populous region. Cologne-Bonn airport said that all but two of the day’s 136 planned flights wouldn’t
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams experienced possibly the biggest repercussion of his recent comments about race when distributor Andrews McMeel Universal announced Sunday it would no longer work with the cartoonist. Andrews McMeel Chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and President Andy Sareyan said in a joint statement that
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