By 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 Reading Melissa 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 Reading By 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 Melissa 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 Reading By 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 By 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
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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 Reading By 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 Reading By 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 Reading Gonzalo 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 Reading Gonzalo 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 Reading By 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
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Artemis Moshtaghian, Kristina Sgueglia and Liam Reilly, CNN Three unions representing about 9,000 Rutgers University faculty and staff have gone on strike after nearly a year of gridlocked contract negotiations, marking the first educator strike in the university’s nearly 257-year history, according to the unions. Picket lines are expected to continue Tuesday
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Michael Lerner, un veterano actor de carácter que recibió una nominación al Oscar por su interpretación de un prepotente jefe de estudio en la película de 1991 “Barton Fink”, falleció a los 81 años, anunció su sobrino, el actor Sam Lerner, en un publicación en las redes sociales. “Anoche perdimos a
Continue Reading NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville officials are poised to vote Monday to reinstate one of the two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by Republican colleagues for their gun control protest on the Tennessee House floor after a deadly school shooting — essentially, sending him back after a long weekend. Nashville’s metro council has called the meeting
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The investigation started roughly 29 months ago with two missing children. It soon grew to encompass five states, four suspected murders and claims of unusual, doomsday-focused religious beliefs involving “dark spirits” and “zombies.” On Monday morning, an Idaho jury will begin the difficult task of deciding
Continue Reading By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation. For 16 years, she had been a social worker in Mumbai, India’s frenetic financial capital, and she loved the work. But her family kept telling her she needed to stay at home to take care of
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Se produjo un cambio sísmico en la perspectiva de los inversores: las malas noticias ya no son buenas noticias. Durante el último año, Wall Street esperó que los buenos datos económicos mensuales animaran a la Reserva Federal (Fed) a detener su agresivo ritmo de aumentos de las tasas de interés para controlar
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