Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Se prevé que los partidos de extrema derecha obtengan un número récord de escaños en el Parlamento Europeo, un resultado que, de confirmarse, supondría un duro revés para la corriente política dominante en Bruselas y añadiría incertidumbre al rumbo futuro de Europa. Después de tres días de votaciones en los
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the opposition Liberal Party will renege on the nation’s ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if it wins elections due within a year. Albanese on Monday made Australian action on climate change an issue in elections due
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says the notorious Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, fighting Sudan’s military for over a year, fired shots and looted a main hospital in the western region of Darfur, forcing its closure. The RSF, attacked the South Hospital in al-Fasher, the capital city of North
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By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A Dutch warship was harassed by Chinese military aircraft in the East China Sea on Friday, the Netherlands said, becoming the latest country to accuse Beijing’s forces of initiating potentially unsafe encounters in international waters. In a statement Friday, the Dutch Defense Ministry said two Chinese fighter jets circled
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist party clinched its first electoral victory over a right-wing populist party in a decade by taking the most votes in the European Parliament election. While the results, announced Monday, solidified his position, they also showed that his lead is small,
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT, LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union with major gains in parliamentary seats, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron, who called snap legislative elections. Some ballots in the vote for the European Parliament were still
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cardinals posted a strong effort in all three phases of the game on Sunday afternoon, earning a 5-1 win over the Rockies to clinch a split of their four-game series. St. Louis scored five unanswered runs in the first eight innings of action. Pedro Pagés put the Redbirds on the
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite some ninth inning heroics, the Royals were unable to complete a sweep of the Mariners on Sunday afternoon, losing the series finale 6-5 in 10 innings. This loss might’ve snapped Kansas City’s three-game winning streak, but Matt Quatraro’s crew still ended the weekend with its first series win since May
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A major heat wave is forecast to spread across large swathes of northern China this week, bringing record high temperatures to some areas, according to China’s meteorological authorities. The heat wave, which began on Saturday, has already triggered government weather alerts and follows the
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday in a busy week with several top-tier reports on U.S. inflation due along with a policy meeting of the Federal Reserve. U.S. futures and oil prices fell. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index was up 0.3% at 39,155.16 as an
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo, Mike Valerio and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — North Korea sent a new wave of trash-laden balloons toward its southern neighbor late Sunday, after Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister warned of further responses if the South keeps up its “psychological warfare.” The new balloons, which Seoul has previously slammed as “base and
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s dramatic weekend rescue of four hostages from the Gaza Strip, in an operation that local health officials say killed 274 Palestinians, came at a sensitive time in the 8-month-old war, as Israel and Hamas weigh a U.S. proposal for a cease-fire and the release
Continue ReadingBy MARIAM FAM Associated Press Once a year, Muslim pilgrims flowing into Saudi Arabia unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, one of the pillars of Islam. As they fulfill a religious obligation, they immerse themselves in what can be a spiritual experience of a lifetime
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By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The Boston Celtics have seized a 2-0 series lead in the NBA Finals after a Game 2 win over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night. Boston was led to its 105-98 victory by guard Jrue Holiday, who had 26 points on 11 for 14 shooting. A back-and-forth first quarter was
Continue Reading By Lauren Izso and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Three hostages rescued during a deadly Israeli military operation on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza were held captive by a journalist, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) alleged Sunday, without providing evidence to support their claim. In a statement, the IDF claimed freed hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged activists on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian debate to “turn the heat down” after the U.S. Consulate in Sydney was vandalized. Surveillance video showed a person wearing a dark hoodie using a sledgehammer to smash nine holes in the reinforced glass windows of the building
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La terapia suele tener mala fama. En las películas antiguas, suele representarse con un paciente tumbado en un diván, hablando con un analista de rostro pétreo que toma notas y nunca habla. Los críticos a veces lo describen burlonamente como mirarse el ombligo. A los terapeutas se les llama “loqueros”,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou’s Brady Cook officially held his first youth football camp on Sunday afternoon. 175 people registered to participate in the Brady Cook Youth Football Camp, powered by TruEdge Sports, at Rock Bridge High School, which gave all the young athletes the opportunity to compete in football drills and learn from the Cotton
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Se esperan varios días de fuertes lluvias en el sur de Florida esta semana, y se espera que las peores precipitaciones comiencen este martes. Gracias a un frente frío que se mueve lentamente hacia el sur a través de Florida y a un flujo constante de humedad desde el Golfo de
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Donald Trump on Monday urged a staunchly anti-abortion Christian group to stand up for “innocent life,” ambiguously revisiting an issue that Democrats want to make a focus of this year’s presidential election. The former president and presumptive Republican nominee’s pre-recorded message praised the
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