By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Police are investigating a Chinese wealth management company owned by Zhongzhi Enterprise Group days after the firm told investors it was insolvent. The Beijing Public Security Bureau said in a statement published on the social media platform WeChat that they had taken “criminal enforcement measures”
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn’t have pneumonia. Francis himself on Sunday revealed that he was suffering from the inflammation problem, explaining why he didn’t keep his weekly window appointment to greet people in St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican’s press
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A powerful weekend storm in the Black Sea region toppled trees, tore down power lines and caused coastal flooding, and government officials and media reports said more than half a million people were without power in southern Russia and Ukraine. The storm caused several regions of Crimea, which was annexed by
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN Español) –El papa Francisco canceló algunos de sus compromisos de este lunes porque continúa sufriendo una inflamación pulmonar, dice el portavoz del Vaticano, agregando que el pontífice se encuentra en “buenas y estacionarias condiciones”. “Para facilitar la recuperación del papa, se han pospuesto algunos compromisos importantes previstos para estos días para que
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CNN Words by Callum Sutherland, video by Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, CNN (CNN) — On the outskirts of Cape Town an unusual resident can often be found rummaging through rubbish bins and around back yards. The chacma baboon, native to southern Africa, has become quite familiar with the urban setting. Most of these primates
Continue Reading Words by Callum Sutherland, video by Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, CNN (CNN) — On the outskirts of Cape Town an unusual resident can often be found rummaging through rubbish bins and around back yards. The chacma baboon, native to southern Africa, has become quite familiar with the urban setting. Most of these primates spend
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of Americans of all ages streamed into Atlanta’s Jimmy Carter Presidential Library to pay respects to Rosalynn Carter, who laid in repose Monday evening. Many of those who came to bid the former first lady a final farewell paused briefly in front of her wooden casket, which was
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A party ally of far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has quit his role in the building of a new governing coalition over a fraud allegation. The decision Monday throws the process of building a new government into turmoil before it had begun. Gom van
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — A 15-year-old boy is facing charges of first-degree murder and other offenses after a homeless man was fatally shot in the face in Pennsylvania, authorities said. The victim, 39-year-old Jeremiah Hawkins, was shot Wednesday afternoon after the teen, Thomas James Niarhos, allegedly confronted the man in
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The top Palestinian diplomat has made a plea during a meeting of European Union members and Arab nations for a definitive end to Israel’s retaliatory attacks on the Gaza Strip. Speaking hours before Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their expiring cease-fire by two more days,
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say the country’s navy has added a destroyer to its Caspian Sea fleet capable of launching cruise missiles. A report on Monday by the state-owned IRNA news agency says the 1,400-ton Deilaman destroyer, named for a town in the north of Iran, is able to launch torpedoes while
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — La frágil pausa en el ataque de Israel contra Hamas en Gaza, que permitió la liberación hasta ahora de 58 rehenes, fue sorprendentemente duradera dado que ninguna de las partes está en contacto directo y cada una está empeñada en destruir a la otra. La pregunta ahora es por cuánto tiempo
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers in India have started digging manually in hopes of reaching 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for over two weeks. A state government spokesperson said a dozen men were taking turns burrowing into the debris with hand-held drilling tools on
Continue ReadingBy SHARON LURYE Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, La. (AP) — Arliya Martin accepted her high school diploma with relief and gratitude. It was her ticket to better-paying work, she felt, after getting kicked out of high school and toiling for eight years at factory jobs to support her children. “This is a new path for me
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By Michelle Toh, Lauren Izso and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Hong Kong/Jerusalem (CNN) — Elon Musk visited Israel Monday, meeting the country’s leaders and walking through a kibbutz destroyed by Hamas last month as he tried to calm outrage caused by his endorsement of an antisemitic post on his social media platform, X. Musk was taken
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG, JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday. That raises the prospect of an even longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war, and further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt is going on trial over charges of favoritism related to a 2009 public sector contract passed when he was a mayor. France’s financial prosecutor’s office said Dussopt is suspected of having favored a private company, the Saur group, in the awarding of a water contract when he
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Six teenagers go on trial in Paris for their alleged role in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class. The killing in 2020 led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression and secularism. The Islamic radical who killed the teacher was shot
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU and KEMO CHAM Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s president says most of the leaders of weekend attacks on the nation’s main military barracks and prisons have been arrested, but the capital remains tense. Many streets are empty after a 24-hour curfew was relaxed to a dusk-to-dawn lockdown. The
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The troubles besetting one of China’s biggest privately-owned financial conglomerates have deepened with Zhongzhi now at the centre of a criminal investigation. Beijing police have begun a probe into the wealth management unit of Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, the authorities said over the weekend. The announcement comes just
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