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Month: August 2023

Russia and Ukraine trade drone attacks as Kyiv claims it took out a key S-400 missile defense system

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks early Wednesday, officials said, with Kyiv apparently targeting Moscow again and the Kremlin’s forces launching another bombardment of Ukrainian grain storage depots in what have recently become signature tactics in the almost 18-month war. Later Wednesday, the Ukrainian intelligence agency

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Authorities search BTK serial killer’s former property in connection with 1976 missing person case and other unsolved cases

By Joe Sutton, Jason Hanna and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Investigators searched a former residential property of Dennis Rader, the self-proclaimed BTK serial killer, in Kansas this week primarily in connection with a probe into the 1976 disappearance of an Oklahoma teenager, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities also are checking whether Rader, who pleaded guilty

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Un estudiante de primaria muere y otros 23 resultan heridos tras un accidente de su autobús escolar el primer día de clases en Ohio

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Un estudiante de primaria murió y otros 23 resultaron heridos, incluido uno con lesiones que ponen en peligro su vida, después de que una minivan impactara el autobús escolar en el que iban y lo volcara el primer día de clases. El accidente ocurrió en la ruta estatal 41 en German

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Top Turkish diplomat calls for Iraq to designate PKK a terrorist organization during Baghdad visit

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has denounced the separatist Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK,  which operates in northern Iraqi territory, as an enemy of both Turkey and Iraq. He urged the Iraqi government to ban the group as a terrorist organization as Ankara has done. Turkish

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New Thai leader Srettha Thavisin is a wealthy property developer who didn’t hide his political views

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Srettha Thavisin, the wealthy leader of one of Thailand’s best-known property empires, has been selected prime minister just nine months after joining a political party that champions the poor. Parliament confirmed Srettha on Tuesday, ending months of political uncertainty following May elections. The political newcomer, who exudes

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Special counsel investigating false statements made by Trump employees in classified documents case

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is continuing to investigate whether two employees of Donald Trump gave false testimony to a grand jury as part of the criminal probe into the former president’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors revealed in a court filing Tuesday. The filing provides

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Dos mujeres se disputan la candidatura por el frente opositor en México: Beatriz Paredes y Xóchitl Gálvez

Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Todo apunta a que será una mujer quien se convierta en la candidata del opositor Frente Amplio por México ―formado por los partidos PAN, PRI Y PRD, así como asociaciones civiles― rumbo a las elecciones presidenciales de 2024. La incógnita parece quedar despejada luego de que el diputado con licencia

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Special counsel investigating false statements made by Trump employees in classified documents case

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is continuing to investigate whether two employees of Donald Trump gave false testimony to a grand jury as part of the criminal probe into the former president’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors revealed in a court filing Tuesday. The filing provides the

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