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Month: July 2024

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges Britain to help it strike deeper inside Russia as he addresses UK Cabinet

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Britain’s new government to help Kyiv’s forces attack deeper inside Russia to stop deadly missile strikes. He made the appeal during a rare address by a foreign leader to a U.K. Cabinet meeting. Zelenskyy said “long-range capability” to destroy sites where Russian weapons are

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Cheng Pei-pei, martial arts actor who starred in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,’ dies at age 78

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Cheng Pei-pei, a Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died, her family announced Friday. She was 78. Cheng, who had been diagnosed with a rare illness with symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease, passed away Wednesday at home surrounded by her

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Germany’s chancellor praises lithium deal with Serbia that could reduce Europe’s dependency on China

Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised a tentative  deal between the European Union and Serbia that paves the way for the disputed excavation of lithium. It’s a mega project that could reduce Europe’s dependency on China but one that has been fiercely criticized by environmentalists and opposition groups. Scholz on Friday

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Bangladesh estalló por los puestos de trabajo reservados a los hijos de los “luchadores por la libertad”. Esto es lo que hay que saber

Julia Hernández (CNN) — Enormes protestas en todo Bangladesh escalaron en violencia mortal esta semana, con enfrentamientos entre estudiantes, partidarios del Gobierno y policías armados que avivaron la ira generalizada por las cuotas de empleo en la función pública, que los opositores consideran discriminatorias. Según los informes, decenas de personas murieron y cientos resultaron heridas

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South Korea restarts blaring propaganda broadcasts to retaliate against North’s trash balloon flying

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it has restarted anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in response to North Korea’s resumption of trash-carrying balloon launches. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says its front-line loudspeaker broadcasts were conducted between Thursday evening and Friday morning in areas where North Korea floated the

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This couple’s hobby? Illegally scaling the world’s tallest buildings together

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — What was your most thrilling first date? In 2016, two young Russians known for their extreme “rooftopping” adventures — where they attempt to illegally climb vertiginous landmarks like La Sagrada Familia and the Eiffel Tower — skipped the perfunctory happy hour cocktail and instead ascended China’s tallest incomplete skyscraper,

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‘Chariots of Fire’ immortalized the 1924 Paris Olympics. Decades since its release, the film has taken on ‘a life of its own’

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Almost everyone knows the opening sequence, film buff or not: the windswept beach, the foaming waves, the soaring, triumphant music against the sound of runners’ feet patting on wet sand. So begins the 1981 Oscar-winning film “Chariots of Fire,” introducing a group of British athletes as they train for

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A faulty software update causes havoc worldwide for airlines, hospitals and governments

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices. The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on just a few providers for key computing

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