By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press BOHOYAVLENKA, Ukraine (AP) — In a small village in eastern Ukraine the sounds of war echo in the distance while 10-year old Khrystyna Ksenofontova plays. She pets the neighborhood cats, paints and, like everyone else here, hopes the fighting will end soon. The small village of Bohoyavlenka, in Donetsk province,
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s central bank says that Pakistanis living abroad sent $2.5 billion home in March, responding to the cash-strapped government’s appeal for more hard currency remittances. The sum represents a 27.4% increase compared to February and is the highest in seven past months. That’s according to a tweet
Continue ReadingBy Jo Shelley and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Lauren and Emily Blewitt may have been in preschool at the time, but they were old enough to know that then-Vice President Joe Biden had committed a serious breach of mealtime etiquette. “He was just eating our chips!” Lauren, 10, says — a mixture of delight and outrage
Continue Reading By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey says he’ll seek a fourth term, bringing unmatched name recognition in Pennsylvania politics to his party’s defense of a seat in a presidential battleground state. Casey’s announcement Monday gives Democrats a boost ahead of a difficult 2024 Senate map. Casey is a key
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Monday, The Columbia Board of Education is set to swear in members who were elected during the April 4 election. The board also has plans to discuss some main agenda items during their meeting on Monday. New board members April Ferrao, Paul Harper, and John Lyman will be sworn in at
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN For the first time, the Chinese navy appears to have simulated strikes by aircraft carrier-based warplanes on Taiwan, as drills around the island wrapped up on their third day. Beijing launched the drills on Saturday, a day after Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen returned from a 10-day visit to Central America and
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Lawyer Xu Zhiyong has spent nearly two decades fighting for human rights in China, and on Monday he was handed one of the longest prison sentences ever issued for civil activism under Xi Jinping’s crackdown on dissent. Xu was sentenced to 14 years in prison and his long-time partner and fellow
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La Armada de Estados Unidos envió un destructor cerca de una isla en disputa en el mar de China Meridional que Beijing ha fortificado con instalaciones militares para reclamar sus derechos territoriales en la región. La navegación se produjo cuando el ejército chino entró en el tercer día de una
Continue ReadingBy Jo Shelley and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Lauren and Emily Blewitt may have been in preschool at the time, but they were old enough to know that then-Vice President Joe Biden had committed a serious breach of mealtime etiquette. “He was just eating our chips!” Lauren, 10, says — a mixture of delight and outrage
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El dalái lama se disculpó después de que apareciera un video que lo muestra besando a un niño en los labios y luego pidiéndole que le “chupe la lengua” en un evento en el norte de India. En un comunicado este lunes, la oficina del dalái lama dijo que “desea
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, Amanda Jackson and Andi Babineau, CNN A shelter-in-place order has been lifted for neighborhoods near a burning fishing vessel in the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma, Washington, officials said. The vessel — which was still burning Monday and believed to be carrying 55,000 gallons of diesel and 19,000 pounds of freon — caught
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, Amanda Jackson and Andi Babineau, CNN A shelter-in-place order has been lifted for neighborhoods near a burning fishing vessel in the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma, Washington, officials said. The vessel — which was still burning Monday and believed to be carrying 55,000 gallons of diesel and 19,000 pounds of freon — caught
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Two bodies were found overnight in the rubble following an explosion that collapsed a building in the southern French city of Marseille, as rescuers continued searching for at least six people who are unaccounted-for, authorities said Monday. Firefighters noted “the particular difficulties of intervention” and said in a statement the judicial authority
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger laws to prevent others from suffering the same fate. Ng Chuan Sing and his wife Lim Siew Guan, both in their early 80s, unknowingly purchased at least two pufferfish from an online
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN The US Navy has sent a destroyer close to a contested island in the South China Sea that Beijing has fortified with military installations to stake its territorial claims on the region. The sailing came as the Chinese military entered a third day of a show of force around Taiwan, a
Continue Reading By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments. The anniversary is little noted, but
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) –La Fiscalía General de Justicia del Estado de México (FGJEM) informó este domingo en un comunicado que el piloto de una aeronave siniestrada el pasado 1 de abril en el municipio de Teotihuacán, fue vinculado a un proceso legal por los delitos de homicidio y lesiones. En audiencia celebrada este día ante
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El invierno todavía se mantiene aferrado a través de la región del Atlántico Medio en Estados Unidos, donde más de 30 millones de personas están bajo alertas de congelación. Las advertencias de congelación están en vigor para Washington D.C. hasta las 10 am hora del Este de EE.UU. de este lunes,
Continue Reading BALTIMORE (AP) — The mayor of Baltimore called for a summer curfew after two teenagers were shot while police were attempting to break up a large crowd of minors. A 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were shot and wounded as police attempted to break up fights among a crowd of more than 200 teenagers gathered at
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN Tigers once roamed across Asia, their numbers as high as 100,000 at the start of the 20th century, before the species plummeted to the brink of extinction. By 2006, their population in India — home to the majority of the world’s remaining wild tigers — hit a record low of just
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