By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese property developer Country Garden has warned it cannot meet deadlines to repay its debts. The company’s difficulty in paying a 470 million Hong Kong dollar ($60 million) loan is the latest sign of distress in the industry after Beijing clamped down on mounting debts
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Acontecimientos cataclísmicos como la embestida de Hamas contra Israel desencadenan profundas conmociones políticas y transformaciones estratégicas que nadie pudo predecir en su momento. Los ataques con cohetes, la toma de rehenes y los asesinatos en masa dentro de Israel se produjeron cuando el orden mundial ya se encontraba en un
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin 🔄 Haz clic aquí para ver las entradas más recientes Agentes de policía evacúan a una mujer y un niño de un lugar alcanzado por un cohete en Ashkelon el 7 de octubre. (Crédito: Tsafrir Abayov/AP) The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is touting its 10-year-old Belt and Road Initiative as an alternative model for economic growth as it seeks to win friends and strengthen its leadership of the developing world. A government report released Tuesday praises the program, which has provided financing to build ports, power plants
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has appointed two senior military officers after predecessors resigned over an apparent spat with the defense minister just days before the country holds a general election. Duda stressed Tuesday that undisturbed command of the armed forces was crucial while there is war
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A 2-year-old girl has become the second person in Cambodia to die of bird flu this week, and the third this year. The country’s Health Ministry announced that laboratory tests confirmed that the girl, who lived in the southeastern province of Prey Veng, died Monday
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By Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer, Haley Talbot and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The House GOP’s two candidates for speaker detailed their plans during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday for avoiding a government shutdown – a key issue for members, and one that sank Kevin McCarthy’s speakership. House Majority Leader Steve
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The Las Vegas Raiders used their dominant defense to propel themselves to a narrow 17-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Monday night and end their three-game losing streak. The Raiders intercepted Packers quarterback Jordan Love three times – linebacker Robert Spillane with two and Amik Robertson with
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By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — For the second time in just over two months, Country Garden has warned investors that it could default on its $190 billion debt in a reminder that China’s real estate crisis is far from over. The company said it had not made a repayment of 470 million
Continue ReadingBy MARK N. MENGONFIA and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian President George Weah is seeking a second term in office, facing a rematch against his main challenger from the 2017 election. Weah, a former soccer star, is hoping that his track record of paving roads and bringing electricity to new parts
Continue ReadingBy ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Over 180,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are packed into U.N. shelters as Israeli warplanes pound the tiny territory of 2.3 million people after their Hamas militant rulers launched an unprecedented weekend attack on Israel. Among them is 27-year-old Sabreen al-Attar. She sprang into
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TODAY: Tuesday is a cold and clear start, with high pressure sitting squarely over the region. We will start in the upper 30s and warm to near 70 by the afternoon thanks to sunshine, and a slight west southwest wind by the afternoon. TONIGHT: We’ll see a more southerly wind tonight, as a warm front
Continue Reading By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — For a while there had been whispers in Barcelona that a new superstar was emerging from its prestigious youth ranks. Now, after a record-breaking year, almost everyone in world soccer is aware of Lamine Yamal. The electric attacker may only be 16, but he’s making a huge impression on
Continue Reading By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) — Though home to the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park is known for being green. It’s hard not to associate the two, considering the “Green Monster,” the stadium’s massive outfield wall that has towered over the field since it opened in 1912. The ballpark and its famed wall
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writers The world economy has lost momentum from the impact of higher interest rates, the invasion of Ukraine and widening geopolitical rifts, and it now faces new uncertainty from the war between Israel and Hamas militants, International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday. The IMF said it expects global
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Max tocó tierra este lunes por la tarde y se debilitó hasta convertirse en depresión tropical a medida que la tormenta continúa avanzando hacia el interior, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC). Según el Gobierno de México, se permitió que expiren todas las advertencias de tormenta tropical asociadas con Max.
Continue Reading By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees better odds that central banks will manage to tame inflation without tipping the global economy into recession, but it warned Tuesday that growth remained weak and patchy. The agency said it expected the world’s economy to expand by 3% this year, in
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — The leader of the U.K.’s Labour Party has promised to restore Britain’s battered institutions and to end an “age of insecurity” afflicting its people. Keir Starmer addressed the opposition party’s annual conference during what is likely the last such gathering before a national election next year.
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CNN By Paul P. Murphy, Teele Rebane, Hilary Whiteman, Brad Lendon, Amanda Jackson and David Williams, CNN (CNN) — Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings, new car dashcam video verified by CNN reveals. The video began circulating on social
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CNN By Paul P. Murphy, Teele Rebane, Hilary Whiteman, Brad Lendon, Amanda Jackson and David Williams, CNN (CNN) — Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings, new car dashcam video verified by CNN reveals. The video began circulating on social
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