By Aya Elamroussi and Taylor Ward, CNN (CNN) — A second and more powerful atmospheric river-fueled storm is set to bring potentially life-threatening flooding to Southern California from Sunday into next week after an earlier storm already unleashed record rainfall in some parts of the region. The second atmospheric river set to hit California within
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Local buses, trams and subway trains were canceled in much of Germany on Friday as transport employees walked off the job in the country’s third transport-related strike in two weeks. The Ver.di service workers’ union called Friday’s “warning strike,” a common tactic in German contract negotiations, earlier this week. It said that
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities in Norway have issued several landslide and avalanche warnings for the southern part of the country as it continues to get hammered by bad weather. Officials said on Friday that roads in the north also might have to be closed at short notice. Some 200 passengers slept inside the airport
Continue ReadingBy EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Pardons Board said Friday it has reduced ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12-year jail sentence by half and sharply cut a fine, less than two years into his sentence from a corruption case linked to the theft of billions of dollars from state coffers. With
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By Heather Chen and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Malaysia has cut former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12-year prison sentence for corruption in half, according to authorities in the Southeast Asian country. Najib, who served as prime minister from 2009 to 2018, was found guilty of money laundering, abuse of power and other charges in
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese markets have retreated despite a fresh flurry of measures to help prop up the ailing property sector. Shanghai’s Composite index dropped 1.5% after dipping sharply lower earlier in the afternoon. The retreat came after the International Monetary Fund forecast that China’s economy will expand at
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By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Bao Fan, a star Chinese tech banker who disappeared a year ago amid Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdown, has formally resigned from the firm he founded, the company said. China Renaissance announced in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Friday that Bao was stepping down as
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. The suspects, who allegedly passed details to Mossad via private detectives, were detained in a joint operation with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization on Friday. The Anadolu news agency says police anti-terror
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — ¿Por qué muchas personas comen en exceso patatas fritas, cereales, pasteles, pudines y otros alimentos ultraprocesados a pesar de saber que esos alimentos pueden no ser saludables? Según la ciencia emergente, puede deberse a procesos de fabricación que “predigieren” los ingredientes de los alimentos crudos, creando alimentos ultraprocesados que evitan
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Lionel Messi y el Inter de Miami, equipo de la Major League Soccer, llegaron a Hong Kong el viernes por la tarde para disputar un partido amistoso este fin de semana como parte de su primera gira internacional. Según un equipo de CNN que se encuentra en el aeropuerto, el
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More than 100 Rohingya immigrants have escaped from a detention center in Malaysia after a protest. Immigration Department Director-General Ruslin Jusoh says one of the 131 detainees who escaped from a center in Perak state Thursday night was hit by a car and killed. He said nearly 400 people were
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court says it has jurisdiction to rule on a request by Ukraine for a declaration that Kyiv is not responsible for genocide. The ruling Friday comes in the preliminary phase of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Moscow used trumped-up
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — La destrucción de un misil hutí por parte de un buque de guerra estadounidense en el mar Rojo esta semana marca la primera vez que se utiliza en este conflicto un avanzado sistema de armas apodado la “última línea de defensa” de la Armada. El destructor de la Armada USS
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Half of U.S. adults say Israel’s 15-week-old military campaign in Gaza has “gone too far,” a finding driven mainly by growing disapproval among Republicans and political independents, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Broadly, the poll
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — Cada año, los estadounidenses en los estados de EE.UU. en los que cae nieve esperan con gran expectativa ver si la marmota Punxsutawney Phil detectará su sombra. Y todos los años, tomamos el pronóstico del tiempo de la marmota Phil: ¿seis semanas más de invierno o una primavera temprana? Y su
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Mientras que en Estados Unidos es el Día de la Marmota, en México el 2 de febrero se dedica a celebrar el Día de la Candelaria y a comer tamales. Es algo que se ha convertido en una tradición nacional: el Día de Reyes (6 de enero) se parte una rosca
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Una explosión de gas en la capital de Kenya dejó al menos tres muertos y 280 heridos el jueves por la noche, según las autoridades del país del este de África. El incendio comenzó cuando un camión que transportaba gas explotó en el distrito Embakasi de Nairobi sobre las 11:30
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Big Tech stocks once again carried Wall Street to a record Friday, even though the majority of stocks fell amid worries about the downside of a hot economy. Big gains for Meta Platforms and Amazon helped drive the S&P 500 index up by 1.1% to
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For months, the underdog in the presidential primary refused to concede defeat. He fought hard in state after state, even as the front-runner amassed a delegate advantage that would be virtually impossible to overcome. The extended feud between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey, Amy Cassidy, Larry Madowo, Bethlehem Feleke and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A gas explosion at an unlicensed cooking gas-filling plant in Kenya’s capital on Thursday night killed at least three people and injured 280 others, according to authorities in the East African country. The blaze started when a truck carrying gas blew
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