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Month: October 2024

Un video muestra los daños causados en la casa de Netanyahu en la playa mientras Hezbollah denuncia un ataque con drones

Julia Hernández (CNN) — La casa junto a la playa del líder de Israel Benjamín Netanyahu resultó dañada en un ataque con dron reivindicado por Hezbollah, según muestran imágenes de video geolocalizadas por CNN, en un ataque que penetró profundamente en Israel, incluso cuando el grupo militante se tambalea por el bombardeo israelí sostenido. Netanyahu

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‘I felt like luggage’: American Airlines fined $50 million for violating disabled passengers’ rights

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The federal government is slapping American Airlines with a $50 million fine after a multi-agency investigation uncovered repeat violations of the rules designed to protect airline passengers who use wheelchairs. The investigation by the Department of Transportation aided by the Justice Department’s civil rights division found that American made

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US fines American Airlines $50 million over mishandling of disabled passengers and wheelchairs

AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government is fining American Airlines $50 million for failing to provide wheelchair assistance to passengers with disabilities and damaging thousands of wheelchairs over a five-year period. The Transportation Department announced the civil penalty on Wednesday. American will only have to pay half of the fine because it

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Housing on the ballot: Harris, Trump push different plans for tackling housing affordability crisis

AP Business Writers Millions of Americans can’t afford to buy a home or rent a suitable apartment, making housing a central issue for voters in the upcoming presidential election. The Harris and Trump campaigns have laid out plans aimed at boosting home construction. Among Harris’ policy proposals: tax incentives to build 3 million additional homes

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Pakistan police arrest 3 men who stabbed and killed 2 transgender women at their home

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police have arrested three men on suspicion of killing two transgender women with daggers at their home in the country’s conservative northwest. District police chief Zahur Babar Afridi told reporters that the men were arrested Tuesday over the killings, which took place Sunday in Mardan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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23 economistas ganadores del Premio Nobel califican el plan económico de Harris de “enormemente superior” al de Trump

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Más de la mitad de los estadounidenses vivos que recibieron el Premio Nobel de Economía firmaron una carta en la que calificaron la agenda económica de la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris de “muy superior” a los planes establecidos por el expresidente Donald Trump. 23 economistas ganadores del Premio Nobel firmaron la carta,

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Miners are razing forests to meet surging demand for metals and minerals, report says

Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Whether it’s digging for metals and minerals for cellphones and electric vehicles or coal for power generation, mining around the world has skyrocketed since 2000, causing widespread destruction of tropical forests, degrading the environment and displacing Indigenous and local communities, the World Resources Institute says in a report released

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Financial cooperation and BRICS expansion are on the table as Putin hosts Global South leaders

KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part of Kremlin efforts to challenge Western global clout. The three-day meeting in the city of Kazan attended by 36 countries showcases the failure of

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