By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a rhinoceros at a zoo in Austria has attacked a married couple working as zookeepers, killing the woman and seriously injuring the man. The attack happened early Tuesday at the Hellbrunn Zoo in the western Austrian city of Salzburg. The zoo director says the 33-year-old
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s center-right opposition party has won local elections, with the conservatives of former Prime Minister Erna Solberg ahead of the governing Labor Party. The conservative Hoeyre party received 25.9% of the votes in Monday’s elections, up nearly 6 percentage points from the last balloting for local councils. That makes Hoeyre the
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By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Amid an uptick in coronavirus cases, Republican presidential candidates are taking aim at limited, local returns to masking requirements – using those moves as an opening to warn against broader restrictions. In recent days, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has lambasted front-runner Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic’s early stages.
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Conservative Rep. Ken Buck is just one of several House Republicans standing in the way of the right’s push to impeach President Joe Biden. But his high-profile seat on the key House Judiciary Committee, recent outspoken interviews railing against the House GOP’s investigative efforts, and long
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust survivor who spent the late years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe, has died. She was 97. The International Auschwitz Committee said Fahidi-Pusztai died in Budapest on Monday. A cause of death was
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The World Food Program is warning that humanitarian funding cuts by governments are forcing the U.N. agency to drastically cut food rations to the world’s hungriest people. The Rome-based U.N. agency says that each 1% cut in aid risks to push 400,000 people toward starvation. The agency says the funding shortfall of
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, hizo breves comentarios sobre los actuales procesos penales que enfrenta el expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump, calificándolos de persecución polÃtica. Hablando en Vladivostok este martes, Putin dijo: “En lo que respecta al procesamiento de Trump, esto es bueno para nosotros en las condiciones actuales. Porque muestra
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met President Vladimir Putin. at a cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. It was the two isolated leaders’ second meeting. Their governments have not confirmed an agenda, but U.S. officials say Putin may ask for artillery and other ammunition
Continue ReadingOpinion by Paul Hockenos Berlin (CNN) — My 12-year-old son is cutting school on September 15 — an act of non-violent civil disobedience that his mother and I approve of entirely. In fact, we’re skipping work to go with him and about a third of his 7th grade to the Global Climate Strike in Berlin —
Continue ReadingBy Eric Zerkel, Mary Gilbert, Robert Shackelford and Jason Hanna, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee grew even larger on Tuesday and triggered a tropical storm watch for Bermuda as the cyclone’s potential impacts begin to come into focus for the island and beyond. Lee, a Category 3 hurricane Tuesday night, was about 515 miles south-southwest
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TODAY: Clouds and showers are clearing this morning, leaving clear skies before sunrise for some. This will allow for quick radiational cooling of what is a moist surface, encouraging the development of fog early Tuesday. A dense fog advisory is already in effect through 9 AM for several counties, and may expand as clouds exit.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El domingo por la tarde, el lÃder norcoreano Kim Jong Un subió a un antiguo tren verde que ahora se ha convertido en un sÃmbolo perdurable del aislamiento y el secretismo de la nación ermitaña. Imágenes publicadas por el medio estatal norcoreano KCNA muestran a Kim abordando su tren privado
Continue ReadingOpinion by Mahnaz Afkhami (CNN) — Editor’s note: Mahnaz Afkhami was the minister of women’s affairs in Iran’s government before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She is founder and president of Women’s Learning Partnership and executive director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies. Her most recent book is “The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN CNN —Unsure what to pack from your wardrobe for a vacation to Japan? If you’re flying with Japan Airlines, the answer could be nothing at all. Japan’s flag carrier has started a year-long trial of a service that allows travelers to book a set of clothes — covering different sartorial styles and
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city. The startling death and devastation wreaked by
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been acquitted of a final tax evasion charge though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine president used to muzzle her critical reporting. Ressa and her news organization Rappler had faced five tax evasion charges but a court acquitted her of
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The Kansas City Chiefs said Monday that they had reached a one-year deal with their star defensive lineman, ending his holdout.
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A slide for technology stocks weighed on Wall Street Tuesday as the market prepped for a highly anticipated report on inflation due the next day. The S&P 500 lost 25.56 points, or 0.6%, to 4,461.90. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 17.73, or 0.1%, to
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By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Authorities in a southern Chinese city have launched an operation to recapture more than 70 crocodiles that escaped from a commercial farm after intense flooding swept through the region, multiple state media outlets have reported, with some residents warned to stay indoors. The toothy reptiles were originally
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Danelo Cavalcante, el asesino que escapó de una prisión en el este de Pensilvania hace casi dos semanas, ahora está armado y se le considera “extremadamente peligroso” después de que robara un rifle del garaje de un hombre, dijo la PolicÃa este martes. Las autoridades añadieron que el propietario le disparó varias
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