By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, says it will stop publishing a print edition this month, the latest blow to the country’s dwindling independent media. It wrote on
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TODAY: Temperatures will be near Thursday’s, with clouds lingering and south winds. We expect highs in the low 50s. TONIGHT: Skies clear overnight, and winds calm. Temperatures fall into the 30s. EXTENDED: Some patchy fog may be possible Saturday morning, but not likely for most. Partly cloudy skies return through the day. South winds will
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police and prosecutors say four people have been killed in shootings in northern Germany and the suspect is a soldier who turned himself in. Authorities said Friday that the four victims, including a child, were shot overnight at locations in the rural Scheessel and Bothel areas, near Hannover and Bremen. They said
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Local buses, subway trains and trams have ground to a halt in much of Germany, at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees demanding better working conditions. The Ver.di service workers’ union called for a week of strikes lasting from Monday through Saturday, with the main day of walkouts on
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By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovych and Kosta Gak, CNN Dnipro, Ukraine (CNN) — The residential block in Dnipro looked like someone had taken a huge bite out of it. Two whole apartments on the top floors were wiped out after a strike by Russian forces using an Iranian Shahed drone early last Friday morning. Yevhenia
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Patrons of glitzy Dubai bars could be sipping beverages cooled by a cube of ancient Arctic ice carved from a Greenland iceberg and shipped to the emirate — destined no longer to melt into the ocean, but into a very expensive drink. The startup company, Arctic Ice, shipped its
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By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and refined taste to be immortalized on canvas, Iselin instructed a maid to follow her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Both leading candidates for the 2024 presidential election — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — made trips to the southern border this week. Discussions about migrants crossing the border has been a hot political issue within the past several weeks, with Gov. Mike Parson announcing he is sending more
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Se espera que los mortíferos incendios forestales que ya han arrasado con más de 435.000 hectáreas en Texas y Oklahoma se propaguen con más velocidad a medida que los feroces vientos y el aire seco aviven las llamas el viernes y durante todo el fin de semana. El Smokehouse Creek
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden y su oponente político Donald Trump están de acuerdo: la situación a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México necesita cambiar. Pero sus extraordinarias visitas a Texas mostraron que los probables rivales en las elecciones generales de 2024 no podrían estar más distanciados
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In four months, the world’s best athletes will be at the Paris Olympics. Yet some competitors say it won’t be truly representative of the global talent as not all countries can afford to give their athletes a fighting chance to get there. Senegal’s top ranked surfer
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A private airplane carrying singer Karol G made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport Thursday evening, a news report said. The aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport around 9 p.m. with no immediate reports of injuries, KABC-TV reported. The plane left Hollywood Burbank
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Holly Yan, Joe Sutton and David Williams, CNN (CNN) — As many as 500 structures have already been obliterated as the biggest wildfire in Texas history continues its deadly march across the state’s panhandle. And the devastation is far from over as the inferno is expected to spread more rapidly this weekend,
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher Monday ahead of China’s top annual political gathering, while Japan’s benchmark surpassed the 40,000 level for the first time. U.S. futures fell and oil prices were little changed. Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index advanced 0.5% to 40,150.00, breaching the 40,000 level,
Continue ReadingBy VINCENT THIAN and EILEEN NG Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane has arrived in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is being treated at a hospital for an infection. King Harald V of Norway, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalized after he fell
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA and AJIT SOLANKI Associated Press JAMNAGAR, India (AP) — It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his son this summer, he’s expecting billionaires from around the world, heads of state, and Hollywood and Bollywood royalty
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — La Policía de Houston emitió una Alerta Amber para una niña de 12 años que ha estado desaparecida desde el 22 de febrero. Un portavoz de la Policía de Houston dijo el miércoles a CNN que, cuando E’minie Hughes desapareció, inicialmente se creyó que se había ido por su cuenta y
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report from United Nations experts says paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained
Continue Reading By Michael Rios, Caitlin Hu, Jim Rogers, Sahar Akbarzai and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Flights at Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti’s capital have been disrupted for the second straight day by heavy gunfire nearby, as the Caribbean nation grapples with surging gang violence and political instability. The US Embassy in Haiti issued a security alert on Friday,
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol lambasted North Korea Friday, for what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke on March 1 Independence Movement Day, a holiday marking a 1919 Korean
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