By 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
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Manuel Rocha, el exembajador de EE.UU. en Bolivia acusado de actuar como agente extranjero secreto de Cuba, dijo en la corte este jueves que planea declararse culpable de los cargos, según su expediente judicial. Rocha, de 73 años, está acusado de varios cargos, entre ellos actuar como agente ilegal de
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York was sentenced Friday to more than 25 years to life in prison. Kevin Monahan, 66, was convicted of second-degree murder
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines arts organization is preparing to rip out a groundbreaking artwork that lines a pond in a historic city park, surprising the New York artist who created the work decades ago and leading to an outpouring of opposition by other artists and local
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En el marco del inicio de la temporada de 2024 en el monte Everest, Nepal anunció un nuevo requisito para todos los alpinistas: deberán alquilar y utilizar chips de seguimiento en su viaje. “Las empresas de renombre ya los utilizaban, pero ahora es obligatorio para todos los escaladores”, dijo a
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s nothing complicated about the latest tobacco product trending online: Zyn is a tiny pouch filled with nicotine and flavoring. But it has stoked a debate among politicians, parents and pundits that reflects an increasingly complex landscape in which Big Tobacco companies aggressively push alternative products
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