By Stephanie Halasz, Niamh Kennedy and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — The outgoing Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has been formally selected as the next NATO secretary general, the military alliance announced Wednesday, coming at a pivotal time as it grapples with boosting its own security while also supporting Ukraine in its grinding war against
Continue ReadingOpinion by Sean Jacobs Cape Town (CNN) — I arrived in South Africa shortly before last month’s national elections. I was attending a conference on the country’s 1994 transition from white minority rule to democracy in Stellenbosch, a university town about a 30-minute drive east of Cape Town. The conference participants were mostly local academics
Continue Reading CNN By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Beside a desk scattered with soldering pieces, loose wires and electronic parts, Choi’s computer screen tracks wind conditions and the GPS location of some unlikely parcels: massive “smart” balloons he has sent floating into North Korea. From a small apartment
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Todopoderoso no estará en el escenario junto a Joe Biden este jueves por la noche. Pero Donald Trump sí. El equipo de Biden está aprovechando el debate presidencial más crítico en años para exponer un contraste sobre carácter y política que cree que decidirá las elecciones de 2024, si
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos (TEDH) declaró a Rusia culpable de violaciones sistemáticas de los derechos humanos desde que ocupó Crimea en febrero de 2014. Es una victoria para Ucrania en su primer caso interestatal presentado contra Rusia por Crimea. Según un comunicado de prensa del tribunal de este martes,
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By Amy Gunia, CNN (CNN) — The world’s first minister dedicated to developing artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is already becoming embroiled in a global power struggle for tech supremacy. In April, Microsoft (MSFT) announced a $1.5 billion investment in G42, an AI group based in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, went on trial Wednesday, appearing in a Russian courtroom’s glass cage with his head recently shaved. Later Wednesday, Gershkovich’s family said the past 15 months had been “extraordinarily
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities say a suspected missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden. It follows the departure of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower after a deployment in which the aircraft carrier led the American response to the Houthi assaults that have
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Beside a desk scattered with soldering pieces, loose wires and electronic parts, Choi’s computer screen tracks wind conditions and the GPS location of some unlikely parcels: massive “smart” balloons he has sent floating into North Korea. From a small apartment in
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El recién liberado fundador de Wikileaks, Julian Assange, tiene prohibido regresar a Estados Unidos sin permiso, según el Departamento de Justicia. “De conformidad con el acuerdo de culpabilidad, Assange tiene prohibido regresar a Estados Unidos sin permiso”, dijo el Departamento de Justicia en un comunicado publicado en su página web. El
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won Tuesday’s Republican primary in a U.S. House race that she jumped into last year, surviving a scandal over a video of her at a Denver theater and accusations of carpetbagging after fleeing what could have been a tough reelection bid in her current
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has welcomed the Japanese emperor and empress for a state visit offering the best in pomp and circumstance. The U.K. seeks to bolster its role as the most influential European nation in the Indo-Pacific region. Both countries look to each other as a source of stability and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — In a gathering near a picturesque lake outside Yellowstone National Park, hundreds of people cheered Wednesday as a Native American leader spoke the name revealed on a painted hide for a rare white buffalo that was born in the park earlier this month: Wakan Gli, which means “Return
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The state of Texas has executed a man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001. Inmate Ramiro Gonzales was pronounced dead after a chemical injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The 41-year-old man was condemned to die for killing Bridget Townsend
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The fate of Karen Read is in the hands of jurors after a two-month murder trial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. The jury went home Wednesday after a second day of deliberations. The jury must decide whether the Massachusetts woman angrily struck officer John O’Keefe
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran’s capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since mass protests over the death Mahsa
Continue ReadingLA PINE, Oregon (AP) — A rapidly growing wildfire near the central Oregon community of La Pine is being spurred by gusty winds and prompting evacuations. The Deschutes County Sherriff’s Office says evacuation alerts were sent to 1,100 homes and businesses. About 50-60 people sought refuge at a local high school serving as an evacuation
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says that a suspected hypersonic missile launched by North Korea has exploded. Wednesday’s missile launch by North Korea comes as it’s protesting the regional deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier for a trilateral military drill with South Korea and Japan. The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Continue ReadingAssociated Press YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, 15 months after his arrest in the Russian city on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government vehemently deny. The 32-year-old journalist appeared in the court in a glass defendants’
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