Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El líder de Corea del Norte, Kim Jong Un, llamó a expandir la producción de materiales nucleares para aumentar el arsenal nuclear del país, informó este martes el medio estatal KCNA. Kim había hecho un pedido similar el año pasado. Según KCNA, Kim supervisó el montaje de ojivas nucleares en
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Getting diagnosed with an eating disorder happened by accident to Emily Boring. She went to her university’s mental health office to talk about anxiety she was feeling, and through conversations learned that her behaviors with food were classified as an eating disorder, she said. Now 27 and a graduate student at
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By Pauline Lockwood, Hannah Ritchie, Pierre Bairin, Oliver Briscoe and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Protesters on the tracks at a Paris rail station. Smoke bombs let off at Biarritz airport. Anger at French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms showed no sign of letting up on Tuesday as the nation saw its 10th day of nationwide
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By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s rival political factions have agreed to begin negotiations after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused a controversial judicial overhaul plan that had triggered unprecedented street protests and a spiraling domestic crisis. The sides were scheduled to meet late Tuesday. But compromise appears elusive as the
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Police officers in Belgium have arrested eight people during counterterrorism raids across the country as part of operations aimed at thwarting possible terror attacks. The federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that Antwerp police carried out five searches in Merksem, Borgerhout, Deurne, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek and Eupen on Monday night.
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Un sistema de bajas presiones amenaza con lluvia, nieve y viento en California a partir de este martes. Un ligero riesgo de lluvias excesivas, nivel 2 de 4, se ha emitido para gran parte de la costa central de California y el Área de la Bahía. Los totales de precipitación podrían
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called a general election on May 21 in the aftermath of a train disaster that has reduced his party’s long-standing majority in opinion polls. The Feb. 28 train crash in northern Greece left 57 people dead. The disaster stirred public anger to cut a
Continue Reading By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says an Afghan rights activist who has campaigned for girls’ education has been arrested in Kabul. Activist Matiullah Wesa is the founder and president of Pen Path, a local nongovernmental group that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library. There was no
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By Don Riddell and George Ramsay, CNN For the past four years, Craig Pollock has been secretly laying the groundwork for a new Formula One team unlike any other already on the paddock. Now he’s ready share his plans with the world. Pollock knows how to build an F1 outfit from scratch having served as
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN For the past decade, China has lent massive sums to governments across Asia, Africa and Europe, growing its global influence through infrastructure megaprojects and becoming one of the world’s biggest creditors. Now, a new study says Beijing has also become a major emergency rescue lender to those same countries, many of
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By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy-busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe faces an important hurdle on Tuesday with lawmakers set to vote on it. The bill would legalize the temporary use
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy-busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe faces an important hurdle on Tuesday with lawmakers set to vote on it. The bill would legalize the temporary use
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — La Flota rusa del Pacífico disparó este martes por la mañana un par de misiles supersónicos contra un objetivo simulado en aguas próximas a la costa de Japón, informó el Ministerio de Defensa ruso. “Un equipo de dos lanchas misileras llevó a cabo un ataque conjunto con misiles contra un escudo
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. The move appears to be another attempt by Putin to raise the stakes in the conflict in Ukraine. It follows statements by the Russian leader and his top lieutenants that Moscow is
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We’re entering the prime time of year for severe weather in this part of the country.
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By Laura He, CNN China’s new premier, Li Qiang, has offered a hearty welcome to foreign companies in an effort to arrest a slump in business confidence that has exacerbated the country’s economic woes. Li, who was formally appointed earlier this month, met a group of global CEOs on the sidelines of the China Development
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN China’s new premier, Li Qiang, has offered a hearty welcome to foreign companies in an effort to arrest a slump in business confidence that has exacerbated the country’s economic woes. Li, who was formally appointed earlier this month, met a group of global CEOs on the sidelines of the China Development
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy (AP) — The findings of an initial expert report were astonishing: One of the 20th century’s revered Catholic leaders, who built an international movement of community care for people with intellectual disabilities, perverted Catholic doctrine about Jesus and Mary to justify his own sexual compulsions and
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By Chris Lau, CNN Wearing numbered lanyards, a small group of 80 demonstrators took part in Hong Kong‘s first authorized protest in three years on Sunday — a carefully choreographed event that campaigners say offers a chilling insight into the future of protest in the city. Numbers were capped at 100, and during the hour-long
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By Tara Subramaniam and Manveena Suri, CNN A Namibian cheetah relocated to India last year as part of plans to reintroduce the species on the subcontinent died on Monday from a kidney infection, according to Namibia’s Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF). The deceased cheetah, named Sasha, was one of eight brought from Namibia to India’s Kuno
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