By Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, CNN (CNN) — As Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) grows ever popular, the country’s once dominant Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party finds itself at a crossroads. The center-right CDU was in power for much of Germany’s post-war era and oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany. It
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Vatican has beatified a Polish family of nine including children who were all executed for having sheltered Jews during World War II. It was an unprecedented move. Pope Francis declared the Ulma family martyrs for the Catholic faith last year. That paved the way for
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — Voters in a southern Swiss region have rejected a plan to allow large solar parks on their sun-baked Alpine mountainsides as part of the federal government’s push to develop renewable energies. Sunday’s referendum in the Valais canton centered on economic and environmental interests at a time of rising concerns about climate change.
Continue ReadingBy CHARLENE PELE Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online research and keyboarding skills. The return to more traditional ways
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Una caravana procedente de Estados Unidos fue atacada por civiles armados en el Puente Roma de Miguel Alemán la madrugada de este sábado, en la que resultaron tres personas con heridas de bala y seis debieron ser atendidas por crisis nerviosa, según un comunicado de la Vocería de Seguridad del estado
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By Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN) — President Joe Biden arrived at Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s doorstep on Sunday with a deal in hand to draw yet another one of China’s neighbors closer to the United States. In just the last five months, Biden has hosted the Philippines’ president at the
Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021. The
Continue ReadingBy ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli fighter jets bombed the Zorob family’s two-story home in the Gaza Strip in 2019, leaving nothing but a pile of debris and despair. Four years later, the 10-member family lives in a 20-square-meter (215-square-foot) hut covered with nylon sheets as they wait to
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, Celina Tebor, Emma Tucker and Samantha Beech, CNN (CNN) — The convicted killer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison 11 days ago was sighted overnight more than 20 miles from the area where authorities had focused their search efforts, officials said Sunday, after he managed to slip through the police perimeter, steal
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and AHMED HATEM Associated Press MOULAY BRAHIM, Morocco (AP) — The ground shook with a force few had ever felt, thundering through the remote Moroccan village in the dark of night. When the earthquake was over late Friday, the town carved into the Atlas Mountains lay in devastation, with possibly dozens dead,
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — G20 leaders paid their respects to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi as their summit came to a close Sunday, a day after the group added a new member and reached agreement on a range of issues but softened language on Russia’s war in
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Eyad Kourdi, Mostafa Salem and Nectar Gan, CNN Moulay Brahim (CNN) — Rescuers in Morocco are battling to find survivors from Friday’s powerful earthquake, with more than 2,000 people killed and remote villages near the epicenter left in ruins. In the hard-hit central village of Moulay Brahim, south of Marrakech in the
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Majority control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives will once again come down to a special election. Republican voters face a strongly Democratic lean in a Pittsburgh district to flip power back to their caucus on Sept. 19. Democrat Lindsay Powell and Republican Erin
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press After a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine, Russia needs to replenish its supplies of ammunition for what could be a long war of attrition. Along with ramping up its domestic arms production, Moscow is turning to an old ally with a vast arsenal — North Korea. Estimates say
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian who fell ill while working at an Antarctic research station is now in a hospital in Australia after being rescued by an icebreaker. The Australian Antarctic Division said Sunday that the “unwell expeditioner” was transferred from the icebreaker to a hospital in Hobart in
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday his visit to Vietnam to showcase stronger ties with Hanoi was not about trying to start a “cold war” with China, but rather was part of a broader effort to provide global stability by building U.S. relationships throughout
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CNN By Mary Gilbert and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee remains hundreds of miles east of the Caribbean late Saturday, yet forecasters say the storm’s effects may have an impact on the US Atlantic seaboard as early as this weekend. Lee was 285 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands as of 11
Continue ReadingMARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Franklin rushed for 259 yards and his 28-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter lifted UT Martin past Missouri State 38-31. UT Martin won despite seeing a 24-7 halftime lead disappear when Missouri State scored 24 points in the second half, including 17 in the fourth quarter. After Missouri
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds lost their third straight game and dropped 2 1/2 games behind Arizona for the last NL wild card berth as Willson Contreras homered for the third straight game and drove in three runs in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 4-3 victory. Lars Nootbaar broke a 3-3 tie in the fourth
Continue ReadingCAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Paxton DeLaurent and Geno Hess each had a pair of first-half touchdowns and Southeast Missouri State rolled to a 45-7 victory over Lindenwood. DeLaurent threw a short touchdown pass to Ryan Flournoy and a 28-yarder to Damoriea Vick, and Hess had both his touchdowns runs from two yards out. A
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