By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Chinese Australian writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun has told his family he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment. Yang has been detained in China since 2019,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los estadounidenses están a punto de conocer nuevos detalles importantes sobre el momento y el fondo de los juicios a Donald Trump, incluso cuando el expresidente y favorito republicano intensifica sus esfuerzos por alquimizar su peligro legal sin precedentes para impulsar su candidatura a la Casa Blanca. Dos audiencias clave
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Today: The afternoon high rises into the lower 80s with partly cloudy sky conditions. Winds remain out of the northeast at 5-10 mph. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the lower 60s as winds begin to switch out of the northwest at 5 mph. Skies remain partly cloudy. Extended: A warming trend begins after Thursday as
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Clare Sebastian and Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — “We have no funding restrictions,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told a gathering of military top brass in December. “The country, the government will provide whatever the army asks for.” Eighteen months into his war in Ukraine, Putin seems to be keeping that promise. But
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press By some measures, Jacksonville was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism still fester in the Florida city. What happened Saturday in Jacksonville, said 79-year-old
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers says he has suspended his foreign minister after Israel revealed that its chief diplomat met with her last week. The news of the meeting prompted scattered street protests in the chaos-stricken North African nation. Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who heads the government
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test result for incoming travelers, a milestone in its reopening to the rest of the world after an isolation that began with the country’s borders closing in 2020. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced the change on Monday. China
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five people, including four children, have died and dozens have been rescued in two separate incidents involving migrant boats heading to Greek islands from nearby Turkish shores. Greek authorities say four children died and 18 people were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank off
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CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Americans are about to learn significant new details on the timing and the substance of the trials of Donald Trump, even as the former president and Republican front-runner steps up his effort to alchemize his unprecedented legal peril to boost his White House bid. Two key hearings
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Americans are about to learn significant new details on the timing and the substance of the trials of Donald Trump, even as the former president and Republican front-runner steps up his effort to alchemize his unprecedented legal peril to boost his White House bid. Two key hearings
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top domestic security agency says a detained former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok is accused of collecting information about Russian action in Ukraine and related issues on U.S. diplomats’ orders. Russia’s Federal Security Service, the country’s main domestic security agency, said Robert Shonov is suspected of “gathering information about
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By Angus Watson and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A Chinese-Australian writer who has been detained in China for more than four years said he fears he could die in jail, after a large cyst was found on his kidney. Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen and democracy activist, was detained in 2019 during a visit
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Con una tormenta tropical intensificándose en el golfo de México y la ciudad más grande de Florida tambaleándose por un ataque por motivos raciales que dejó tres personas negras muertas, el gobernador Ron DeSantis abandonó la campaña electoral este domingo y regresó a su estado para sortear la crisis. DeSantis habló
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The United States has already supplied tens of billions of dollars of equipment to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion.
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A typhoon has dumped heavy rain in the northern Philippines but didn’t make landfall as it moves toward southern Taiwan and is aiming at China’s southern coast. Flooding in low-lying villages displaced more than 2,300 people, most of whom sought shelter in government evacuation centers in the Philippines. Weather authorities warned
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, Robert Shackelford, Nouran Salahieh and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to strengthen into a powerful Category 3 hurricane Monday and could bring potentially catastrophic winds, heavy rain and flooding to Florida’s Gulf Coast later this week, prompting evacuations and school closures in parts of the state. By
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday as markets shift their attention from the U.S. Federal Reserve to earnings and economic reports. Regional markets also got a perk from signs China-U.S. relations may be improving, as the nations agreed to work together to smooth out economic relations, including
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — The thunder of mortar fire echoes in the distance as 5-year old David approaches his mother with an innocent request: Can he play with the baseball bat a relative gave him as a gift? Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Sara Smart and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A federal hate crime investigation is underway after a White gunman with a swastika-emblazoned assault-style rifle killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, authorities said. The shooting claimed the lives of Angela Michelle Carr, 52, Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — An Israeli airstrike has hit the international airport in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria, damaging a runway and putting it out of service. State news agency SANA, citing a military official, says Israeli planes coming from the Mediterranean Sea carried out the attack at around
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