CNN By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s imports and exports in what could become the country’s most disruptive work stoppage in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — The scientific center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and is billed as the world’s biggest machine is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Over the last seven decades, CERN, the sprawling research center on the Swiss-French border at Geneva, has become a household name in Europe, the West
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of Tibetans living in India protested outside China’s embassy against the human rights situation in their homeland, which China annexed in 1951. Police blocked the protesters from entering the embassy and detained some after chasing them and wrestling them to the ground. The protest came as China marks its 75th
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro fell to 1.8% in September, below the European Central Bank’s target of 2% for the first time in more than three years. Tuesday’s official figure coupled with an anemic growth outlook could pave the way for faster interest rate
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An apparent Russian artillery strike has hit a market in the southern Ukraine city of Kherson, killing at least six people and wounding three others. Authorities say the strike happened Tuesday when Ukrainians across the country were observing a minute’s silence for their military and war dead. The regional
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made his first public remarks since his release after he struck a deal with the United States, saying he is free because he pleaded “guilty to journalism.” The 53-year-old on Tuesday traveled to the French city of Strasbourg to appear before the Parliamentary Assembly
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung and Robert Shackelford, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan has put its military units on standby and closed schools and offices across several counties on Tuesday, as the island braces for a powerful typhoon set to make landfall in the next couple days, after bashing the Philippines. Super Typhoon Krathon, equivalent to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, leaving more than 20 feared dead, officials and rescuers said. The bus with 45 passengers — six teachers and 39 elementary and junior high school students — was traveling from the
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Baseball lost a legend on Monday — one with a tarnished reputation.
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Up and down the United Kingdom, parents have been packing their cars with bedding, crockery and much more as they hold back the tears and drive their children to university. But the usual concerns about how they will fend for themselves have taken on an added dimension for some.
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel has launched a ground operation across its northern border into Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, opening a new and dangerous phase in almost a year of war. The incursion, which Israel’s National Security Cabinet has called the “next phase” of its war with Hezbollah,
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks retreated from their records Tuesday after Iran fired missiles into Israel, a sharp escalation of tensions in the Middle East that investors fear could lead to disruptions in the flow of oil. The S&P 500 pulled 0.9% lower, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 173
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated his pledge to achieve “reunification” with Taiwan on the eve of Communist China’s 75th birthday, as Beijing flexed its military might in the run-up to the national holiday. At a state banquet celebrating the founding of the People’s Republic on Monday, Xi used
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The new head of NATO is vowing to help shore up Western support for war-ravaged Ukraine and says he can work with whoever is elected president of the United States, the alliance’s most powerful member. New NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte took charge of the world’s biggest security organization on Tuesday,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers in Nepal are searching for two dozen people still missing and trying to recover the bodies of those killed in weekend flooding and landslides that left more than 200 dead. The disaster came just ahead of the country’s biggest festival Dasain, and roads were busier than usual. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is considering whether to issue clarification or guidance for two rules from the Georgia State Election Board that have to do with county certification of election results. Supporters say the rules will help ensure the accuracy of the vote totals. But critics worry that Donald Trump supporters could
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been executed for fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago. Garcia Glenn White repeatedly apologized for his crimes before receiving a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The 61-year-old was condemned for the December 1989 killings of Annette
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched an explosive-loaded drone that crashed into one ship in the Red Sea and a missile that exploded against another. The attacks Tuesday are the rebels’ first assaults on commercial shipping in weeks as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to become a regional conflict.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Closing arguments are expected in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichol. Attorneys for Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith rested their cases Monday without any of the three testifying. Defense attorneys each had called experts to
Continue ReadingBy Esha Mitra, Alex Stambaugh and Teele Rebane, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Fans eagerly awaiting the return of Coldplay to India were shocked to find tickets being resold online for as much as $11,000, prompting police to seek a statement from the CEO of the shows’ vendor over allegations of fraud. The British rock
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