By LEFTERIS PITARAKIS and PETROS GIANNAKOURIS Associated Press VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Bad weather has eased in central Greece, leaving widespread flooding and infrastructure damage across the farming region that has been battered by two powerful storms in less than a month. On Friday, municipal workers were handing out bottled water in the storm-hit city
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TODAY: We will be warm today, with highs reaching near 90 under mostly sunny skies. Winds are turning more southerly this morning and will be sustained in the 5-10 mph range which will help drive our warmup. TONIGHT: Temperatures remain warm overnight, keeping us in the mid-60s overnight. Skies will remain clear through sunrise. EXTENDED:
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By Asim Khan and Sophia Saifi, CNN Quetta, Pakistan (CNN) — At least 60 people are dead following suicide blasts in the southwestern Pakistan city of Mastung on Friday, the Media Coordinator of the Health Department of Pakistan’s Balochistan province confirmed on Saturday night local time. A further 50 were wounded by the explosion at
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By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A small island juts out of the Caribbean Sea, its sheer cliffs descending into turquoise waters. Remote and uninhabited, it could be the setting of an untouched paradise. But centuries ago, it was touched. This is Redonda, the little-known third island belonging to Antigua and Barbuda. First documented by
Continue ReadingBy AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian officials say more than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s original population have fled the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan for neighboring Armenia. It comes as the separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will dissolve itself by the end of the year. Armenian officials say that by Friday
Continue ReadingBy ZANA CIMILI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO is reinforcing its troop presence in Kosovo in response to a weekend shootout that left four people dead. The U.S. is also concerned about a buildup of Serbian forces on the northern border of its former territory. Kosovo’s prime minister welcomed NATO’s decision Friday. He
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president says his country does not want a confrontation but will staunchly defend its waters after its coast guard dismantled a floating barrier placed by China at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spoke publicly for the first
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The teen gunman who killed four students at Oxford High School, is eligible for life imprisonment without parole – the harshest possible punishment in Michigan, a judge ruled Friday. Ethan Crumbley, now 17, was 15 when he opened fire at the school on November 30,
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House Republicans began their impeachment inquiry focusing on President Joe Biden with a hearing Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN) — A man was shot Thursday during a protest against plans to reinstall a statue of a controversial Spanish conquistador in northern New Mexico, police say. Demonstrators were gathered in the city of Española, where officials had planned to reinstall a statue of Juan de Oñate but
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is underway along the border between California and Oregon. Federal regulators approved a plan last year to remove four dams on the Klamath River. The dams were first built decades ago to generate electricity. But they also disrupted
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country’s deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months. An
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program. The U.S. military has not responded to repeated
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus and Mengchen Zhang, CNN (CNN) — China’s rail ambitions just keep growing. The latest addition to the country’s portfolio is a 277-kilometer (172-mile) high-speed train line along the southeastern coast, connecting the cities of Zhangzhou, Xiamen and Fuzhou, all three of which are in Fujian province. The maximum speed of the trains
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out its worst month of the year with more losses. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% Friday after an earlier gain withered, and the majority of stocks within the index sank. The Dow fell 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite edged higher by 0.1%.
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarizes disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their competing claims in the strategically important and resource-rich waterway. Bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations, parts
Continue Reading By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Helen Regan, Kathleen Magramo and Yasmin Coles, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — China is behaving like a schoolyard bully toward smaller countries, the Philippine defense secretary told CNN Friday during an exclusive interview in which he warned his nation, and the wider world, had to stand up to Beijing’s territorial
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Visiting South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed in a meeting with Russia’s president to expand their relationship in energy, trade and other areas, notably oil. Kiir and President Vladimir Putin also discussed political and security matters in South Sudan, which is preparing for its
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephanie Fillion United Nations (CNN) — Asked last week if she will run to become the United Nations’ next Secretary General, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados gave a thumbs up, smiled, and walked away. Unofficially, however, UN insiders say she’s a likely front-runner. The 2026 selection process is still far off, but
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Many millions of Chinese tourists are expected to travel within their country, splurging on hotels, tours, attractions and meals in a boost to the economy during the 8-day autumn holiday period that began Friday. This year’s holiday began with the Mid-Autumn Festival on Friday and also
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