By Nick Paton Walsh, Sophie Tanno and Radina Gigova, CNN London (CNN) — CIA chief Bill Burns said Saturday he hoped to have a “more detailed” hostage and ceasefire proposal to put before Israel and Hamas negotiators in the coming days, but stressed that its success would come down to “political will” on their part. He
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Huge numbers of Israelis again poured into the streets to protest the government’s failure to secure the return of remaining hostages in Gaza, while hospital and local authorities said Israeli air raids in the territory killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday. The new protest
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials say the number of children who were burned to death in a school dormitory in central Kenya has risen to 21. Government workers on Saturday began removing the bodies of the children as they tried to account for dozens of boys who are still missing. The Thursday night
Continue ReadingBy Mauricio Torres and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan security forces surrounded the Argentine embassy in the capital Caracas on Friday after two opposition members took refuge inside, according to posts by the opposition on social media. The pair joined four other Venezuelan opposition figures who have taken refuge in the embassy this year.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press POLTAVA, Ukraine (AP) — Funeral services have been held in the eastern Ukrainian city of Poltava for the victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the invasion began, which killed over 50 people at a military training facility. As grieving families and local residents mourned, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies say Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding war. Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said Kyiv’s surprise move in August to seize territory in Russia’s Kursk region was “typically
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — With just days to go before his first and likely only debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny. “WHEN I
Continue ReadingBy Avery Schmitz, Amanda Musa, Lucas Lilieholm and James Legge, CNN (CNN) — The family of an American woman shot and killed while protesting in the occupied West Bank has blamed Israel for her death and called for an independent investigation, saying in a statement that an Israel-led probe would be inadequate. Two eyewitnesses told
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerians have voted in an election to decide whether army-backed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gets another term in office — five years after pro-democracy protests prompted the military to oust the previous president after two decades in power. There is little suspense about the result with Tebboune expected to win easily. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Balkan countries are reporting that the summer of 2024 was the hottest since the measurements started more than 130 years ago. There were long periods with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius or 86 degrees Fahrenheit. And the mercury often didn’t fall below 20 degrees Celsius or 68 Fahrenheit overnight.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted dozens of Europe-bound migrants on a boat and returned them to the shore. The boat was carrying 64 migrants and was stopped Friday off the northwestern town of Sirte, said the town’s coast guard on Saturday. This came after a boat carrying 32
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Rebekah Schuler was walking to her 10th grade history class with her best friend, each with a shared headphone in her ear, blasting their favorite song, when gunshots and bloodcurdling screams sent them running for their lives. It has been nearly three years since the 2021 Oxford High School
Continue ReadingWANF, WXIA, CNN By Isabel Rosales, Sara Smart and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather. Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales, Sara Smart and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather. Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his mother, Marcee Gray,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza. “Anyone our age
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese meteorological officials as “one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade,” made its way
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Ecuador circulated a draft resolution asking the United Nations to begin planning for a U.N. peacekeeping operation to replace the Kenya-led mission now in the Caribbean nation helping police to quell gang violence. The proposed Security Council resolution, obtained Friday by The Associated Press, says
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts left behind at the International Space Station have both flown long space missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been at the space station since June after arriving as the first crew of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. But their trip to the
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The Missouri high school football season continued Friday with some Mid-Missouri teams playing host and others on the road.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his grandmother to a reef at low tide, where she plucked black snails, spiny lobsters and spiky sea
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