JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the northern West Bank. The Israeli military said Thursday that its troops carried out a raid in the Tulkarem refugee camp. It said that soldiers came under fire and that troops shot Palestinian gunmen. Palestinian officials said two militants
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By Emily Halnon, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. I watched the earth shrink below me. Sprawling fields became the size of my thumbnail. Lakes evaporated into teardrops. Millions of acres of Oregon’s
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Clare Sebastian, CNN London (CNN) — In April 2022, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said on his Telegram channel: “Our food is our silent weapon. Silent — but formidable.” Not silent any longer. Russia is expected to rake in a historically high wheat harvest for the
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TODAY: Showers will redevelop this morning ahead of cold front number one, which still has yet to clear the area. It will clear around midday, taking rainfall with it. The best chances lie east of a line from the Lake of the Ozarks to Audrain county. Widespread rain totals in this window will range from
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By Jonathan Hawkins, CNN (CNN) — Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Márquez will end his 11-year association with Honda, the factory team announced Wednesday, finally ending weeks of speculation around the rider’s future. “Honda Racing Corporation and Marc Márquez have mutually elected to terminate their four-year contract prematurely at the end of the 2023 MotoGP World
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Los abogados de 301 pacientes que acusaron a un médico de la Universidad de Columbia de abuso sexual durante las revisiones afirman que el exginecólogo –cuyos señalamientos de abuso fueron ampliamente reportados por CNN– es el depredador sexual en serie más “prolífico” en la historia del estado de Nueva York. Pacientes
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — Almost 50 European leaders are using a summit in southern Spain’s Granada to stress that they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy retorted on Thursday that maintaining such unity was now “the main
Continue ReadingOpinion by Mike Chinoy (CNN) — The novel, published in 2018 by a member of the North Korean Writers’ Union named Kim Ryong Yon, is called “Thunderclap.” The heroine is a fictional Korean American CNN correspondent, Byun Sa-hwang. She is preparing to make a reporting trip to North Korea in 2009 and is wrestling with conflicting
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By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — In Africa, demand for beauty and personal care is growing fast but there’s still a gap in what’s available for consumers. Fake cosmetics and skin-whitening products can put consumers at risk, while the global brands that import to the continent are often expensive and not tailored towards Black skin.
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The mayor of Tokyo’s busy Shibuya shopping and entertainment district is asking Halloween celebrants not to visit, fearing that a large number of partygoers following the COVID-19 pandemic could cause a disaster similar to last year’s fatal crowd surge in South Korea’s capital. Mayor Ken Hasebe says
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By Berry Wang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — On the day Liang resigned from his banking job in China’s Zhejiang province, his friends threw a party and congratulated him by beating gongs and drums, in an echo of traditional marriage rituals. His friends, who had also quit their jobs, pinned a flower
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CNN By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton, Sara Smart and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Four students and another person were wounded when gunfire erupted outside a crowded homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said, sending students on a dash for cover and a SWAT team into a dorm to hunt for suspects.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KEYTON, MIKE CORDER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing that prize organizers said gives “voice to the unsayable.” The novelist
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ALBERT AJI Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A drone attack hit a crowded military graduation ceremony Thursday in the Syrian city of Homs, killing 80 people and wounding 240, the health minister said, in one of the deadliest recent attacks on an army that’s been fighting a civil war for more
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose in cautious trading Friday after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on worries about a too-hot U.S. job market. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.3% to 31,129.06. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.5% to 6,906.96. South Korea’s Kospi edged up 0.3% to
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Leaders say the lack of sufficient resources costs companies and the state more than a billion dollars each year and is most felt in rural areas.
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Puede que el hemisferio norte esté entrando en el otoño, pero el calor extremo no ha dado tregua. Nuevos datos muestran que el mes pasado fue el septiembre más caluroso (el cuarto mes consecutivo de un calor sin precedentes), lo que ubica a 2023 firmemente en camino de ser el año
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Conor Powell and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Residents in Lahaina are petitioning Hawaii Gov. Josh Green to delay reopening West Maui to tourists this weekend, saying the community is still grieving and needs more time to heal after the devastating wildfires that left 97 dead. The fires on West Maui nearly
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two trains have collided head-on in the northern Polish city of Gdynia, injuring five people. The collision occurred at 7 a.m. Thursday near the main station in Gdynia, a city on the Baltic Sea. Four people were taken to a hospital while a fifth person was treated on-site. The Gdynia fire
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Ice-cold floodwaters swept through mountain towns in India’s Himalayan northeast, killing at least 31 people, washing away houses and bridges, and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes, officials said Friday. The flood began shortly after midnight Wednesday, when the waters of
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