By EBRAHIM NOROOZI and OMID HAQJO Associated Press ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Clinging to hope that finding survivors was still possible, Afghan rescuers and villagers kept digging through rubble in western Herat province on Tuesday, three days after one of the deadliest earthquakes in the region left more than 2,000 dead. Elsewhere in Herat,
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An executive at Japanese publishing house Kadokawa has been found guilty of bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. Toshiyuki Yoshihara was given a two-year prison sentence Tuesday, which was suspended for four years. That means he avoids prison time as long as he doesn’t break
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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was hobbling Sunday afternoon.
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Wednesday in Asia, tracking Wall Street gains following an easing of pressure from the bond market. U.S. futures were little changed and oil prices rose slightly. In China, investor sentiment got a boost from a report by Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, that the government
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A senior Filipino diplomat known for his past expletive-laced tirade against China joined a coast guard trip to the disputed South China Sea last week and saw Beijing’s ships block and nearly collide with Philippine vessels, including one he was on. Teodoro Locsin Jr. was on
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — El presidente saliente de Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, anunció este lunes que su Gobierno pedirá órdenes de aprehensión contra algunos manifestantes que encabezan protestas y bloqueos en el país, inconformes con los allanamientos que el Ministerio Público ha hecho en las instalaciones del Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE). En un mensaje emitido
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military is accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin that killed about 30 people, including about a dozen children. A local Kachin human rights group said the attack on the Mung Lai Hkyet displacement camp in
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Union workers are set to go on strike at Chevron’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Australia next Thursday, in renewed action that could disrupt about 7% of global LNG supply. Chevron (CVX) confirmed that it had received notice of industrial action scheduled to start on October
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — Luego de que las Fuerzas Armadas de Argentina informaran que iniciarían la operación Rescate Seguro para evacuar a connacionales que se encuentren varados en Israel, el canciller Santiago Cafiero recibió al ministro de Defensa y al presidente de Aerolíneas Argentinas para organizar el plan de acción, así lo informó el
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The 43 Malaysians rescued from a trafficking syndicate operating a telecommunication fraud in Peru were young people who had arrived in Lima a week earlier. They ranged in age from 18 to 36. Police were still investigating how they were recruited and ended up in Peru. Hundreds of Malaysians have
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has been defeated in its bid to regain a seat in the United Nations premiere human rights body by a significant majority in an election in the General Assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine. Russia competed against
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Una vez más, no hubo ningún ganador del premio mayor en Powerball después del sorteo de este lunes por la noche. La Asociación de Lotería Multiestatal dice que el próximo gran premio será de aproximadamente US$ 1.730 millones, el segundo premio mayor de lotería en la historia de Estados Unidos, superado
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Syria has boycotted a hearing at the UN’s highest court, where the Netherlands and Canada are accusing Damascus of “institutionalized” use of torture. The two countries say that since 2011, “Syrians have been tortured, murdered, sexually assaulted, forcibly disappeared and subjected to chemical weapon attacks
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — En un instante, los sonidos beat fueron silenciados por las balas y las explosiones de combatientes del grupo extremista Hamas, que disparaban contra cientos de jóvenes que disfrutaban el sábado del festival de música electrónica Nova, realizado en un terreno cerca de Gaza. Imágenes de asistentes al concierto muestran a
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By Hadas Gold, Tara John, Helen Regan, Christian Edwards, Heather Law and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Israel is hammering Gaza with airstrikes, hitting hundreds of targets and reducing neighborhoods to rubble, as new atrocities are uncovered in its territory after a devastating surprise attack by Hamas militants. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it
Continue ReadingBy JOANNA KOZLOWSKA and MICHAL DYJUK Associated Press CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) — Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and attending Catholic school in Warsaw. After her grandmother’s death in 2010, she began to drift away from the church. A decade later, when the Catholic leadership backed a near-total abortion ban in
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — General Motors and the union representing Canadian auto workers have reached a tentative contract agreement, ending a strike that began just after midnight. About 4,300 striking workers at two GM factories and a parts warehouse will return to work Tuesday afternoon and will vote on the three-year deal later. Lana Payne, president
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has said peace with China is the “only option,” while strongly asserting the self-governing island’s defenses. Tsai said in a National Day address that the international community views stability in the Taiwan Strait as an “indispensable component of global security and prosperity.” China claims Taiwan as its
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, anunció que organizará una reunión sobre el creciente flujo migratorio con múltiples países el 22 de octubre en la ciudad de Palenque, en el estado de Chiapas, en el sur de México. El anuncio se hizo durante una conferencia de prensa este lunes.
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