BEIJING (AP) — China is downplaying President Xi Jinping’s decision not to attend this week’s Group of 20 summit in New Delhi. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday said that relations between the two nuclear-armed Asian giants remain “generally stable.” China announced on Monday that Premier Li Qiang, who took office just this spring, would
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Una de las mujeres representadas en los dibujos realizados por el autoproclamado asesino en serie BTK, Dennis Rader, posiblemente haya sido identificada, según un sheriff de Oklahoma. El sheriff del condado de Osage, Eddie Virden, no reveló más detalles sobre la posible identificación de la mujer, que aparecía en un dibujo
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By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Brazil forward Antony was dropped from the national team on Monday following allegations of abuse by a former girlfriend, according to the Brazilian football confederation (CBF). The Manchester United player is being investigated by the Sao Paulo Police and the Greater Manchester Police for domestic violence against
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Asylum applications in the European Union continued to rise in the first half of 2023 following a major hike last year, pressuring limited hosting capacities and moving the issue up the political agenda in many nations. The European Union Agency for Asylum says applications in the 27-nation
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El delantero brasileño Antony fue retirado de la selección nacional este lunes tras acusaciones de abuso por parte de una exnovia, según la Confederación Brasileña de Fútbol (CBF). El jugador del Manchester United está siendo investigado por la Policía de Sao Paulo y la Policía del Gran Manchester por violencia doméstica
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for it after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia. Advocacy groups in the Cluster Munitions
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CNN By Mengchen Zhang and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Two people have been detained in northern China after allegedly damaging a section of the Great Wall with an excavator, according to local authorities. A 38-year-old man and 55-year-old women in Shanxi province were accused of digging through the Great Wall to create a shortcut
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Some employees in government offices in Nigeria walked off their jobs in protest of the growing cost of living due to the removal of gas subsidies, threatening to “shut down” Africa’s largest economy if their demands for improved welfare are not met. Made up of hundreds
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press AIN SHEEB, Syria (AP) — More than 300 people were killed by cluster munitions in Ukraine in 2022, surpassing Syria as the country with the highest number of deaths from the controversial weapons for the first time in a decade. That’s according to the Cluster Munition Coalition’s
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By Chris Lau and Jerome Taylor, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s top court has ordered the city’s government to set up a new framework to legally recognize the rights of same-sex couples in a partial victory for LGBTQ activists that stopped short of their demands for full marriage equality. Five judges from Hong
Continue ReadingCNN, WANF, WSB Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — There are two Republican primaries as an election season that defies conventional metrics and campaign trail traditions crashes into its fall stretch. There’s the one-man race involving Donald Trump, a former president polling higher than all his rivals put together but whose onrushing train of
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court has ruled the government should provide a framework for recognizing same-sex partnerships in a landmark decision for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The ruling did not grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples but is a partial victory for prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says that 14 migrants and the body of a man have been found on the shore of a tiny island in the eastern Aegean Sea. The coast guard says the five men, six women and three children were found on Tuesday on the remote island of Farmakonisi, along
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press ZONNEBEKE, Belgium (AP) — With war ravaging Europe’s heartland again, the countless headstones, cemeteries and memorials from World War I are a timeless testimony to its cruelty. Belgium and France want them recognized as UNESCO World Heritage sites to make sure people stop and think. They bring pause and introspection
Continue ReadingBy AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A first of its kind “climate-friendly” soccer tournament is underway in India’s remote desert region of Ladakh, an ecologically fragile territory where oxygen is thin and breathing is hard. The organizers say the matches are first in Asia to be held at an altitude of 11,000
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say that Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian militant during an army raid in the West Bank while elsewhere in the occupied territory an alleged Palestinian assailant wounded an Israeli soldier in a shooting attack. The events marked the latest violence to roil the territory during one of the
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo will welcome fellow Asian and world leaders with a captivating jungle scene of a two-story waterfall, wild orchids and even an orangutan perched up a tree. The make-believe wilderness set up in elaborate detail in the huge lobby of
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By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Country Garden, the embattled Chinese real estate firm, made late interest payments on two US dollar bonds shortly before the end of a 30-day grace period, avoiding an imminent debt default, according to multiple state media reports. The China Securities Journal reported on Tuesday that the company
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Cuba descubrió una red de trata de personas que recluta a ciudadanos cubanos, tanto viviendo en Rusia como en Cuba, para luchar por Rusia en su guerra en Ucrania, dijo este lunes el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores cubano. “El Ministerio del Interior detectó y trabaja en la neutralización y desarticulación de
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Invasive species cost the world at least $423 billion every year as they drive plant and animal extinctions, threaten food security and exacerbate environmental catastrophes across the globe, a major new United Nations-backed report has found. Human activity – often through travel or global trade – is spreading these
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