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Month: August 2023

Mother of Spanish soccer chief Luis Rubiales released from hospital after church hunger strike, according to reports

CNN By Tara Subramaniam, Radina Gigova, Ana Melgar and Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — The mother of beleaguered Spanish soccer chief Luis Rubiales, who was admitted to a hospital in the Spanish town of Motril after a hunger strike, has been discharged, according to various Spanish media outlets. Ángeles Béjar locked herself in the Divina

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Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions. In a court filing Monday, attorneys for Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote that providing transportation for women in Alabama to leave

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Iran accuses Israel of supplying potentially exploding parts for ballistic missile program

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has accused Israel of trying to sabotage its ballistic missile program through faulty foreign parts that could explode, damaging or destroying the weapons before they could be used. Israel didn’t immediately acknowledge the accusation, made in a report aired on Iranian state television

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Some in Africa are celebrating the coups. Many are fed up and desperate for change, analysts say

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Coups that have resurfaced in Africa after years of stability are being celebrated by some. Experts warn that’s because of widespread frustration over unmet expectations in countries whose rich resources have not benefitted everyday citizens. Like in many countries, residents in Gabon celebrated in the streets

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El presidente de la UEFA, Aleksander Ceferino, dice que lo que Luis Rubiales hizo “fue inapropiado”

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El presidente de la UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, condenó el beso no consentido que le dio Luis Rubiales a la delantera de la selección femenina de España, Jenni Hermoso, calificándolo de “inapropiado” en una entrevista concedida este miércoles a L’Equipe. El presidente de la Federación Española de Fútbol fue suspendido provisionalmente

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North Korea says it simulated nuclear attacks on South Korea and rehearsed occupation of its rival

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says its latest missile launches were a simulation of “scorched earth” nuclear strikes on South Korea. The North’s state media said Thursday it’s also conducted a command post drill to rehearse occupying its rival’s territory in a conflict. South Korea and Japan had

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5 things to know for August 31: Idalia, Johannesburg, Mitch McConnell, Russia, Cannabis

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — As AI-generated images and deepfake videos become increasingly realistic, tech companies are scrambling to find reliable ways to identify and flag manipulated content. This week, Google unveiled an invisible, permanent watermark on images that will identify them as computer-generated but cautioned that “the technology isn’t perfect.” Here’s what else

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Uvalde mayor calls on district attorney to resign, accusing her of a ‘cover-up’ in the Robb Elementary shooting investigation

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The mayor of Uvalde, Texas, is calling on District Attorney Christina Mitchell to resign and filed a lawsuit accusing her of repeatedly blocking the city’s investigation into last year’s shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. “It’s been fifteen months since this tragedy,

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ANÁLISIS | El momento en que McConnell se queda congelado frente a reporteros renueva las preguntas sobre la vejez de los líderes de Estados Unidos

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Lo que ocurrió fue un momento insoportable de impotencia para uno de los hombres más poderosos de Washington. Las palabras del líder de la minoría del Senado, Mitch McConnell, se agotaron y se quedó paralizado, congelado, permaneciendo en silencio y mirando al frente durante unos 30 dolorosos segundos en medio

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Report says close associates of India’s Adani Group secretly purchased large numbers of shares

NEW DELHI (AP) — Two people closely linked to India’s Adani Group, one of the country’s largest conglomerates, secretly purchased of millions of dollars of stocks in the group’s companies, possibly violating Indian law, according to a report by a network of investigative journalists. Market rules require that at least 25% of a company’s shares

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La tormenta tropical Idalia amenaza a las Carolinas con lluvias torrenciales e inundaciones tras azotar Florida y dañar miles de viviendas

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Algunas comunidades de la costa oeste de Florida azotadas por el diluvio y los feroces vientos de Idalia sufrieron un “acontecimiento que les cambió la vida”, según un funcionario, después de que el huracán más potente que ha tocado tierra en la región conocida como el Big Bend en al

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A train slams into a group of workers on the tracks at an Italian station, killing 5 of them

ROME (AP) — A speeding out-of-service train slammed into a group of workers doing nighttime track maintenance in northern Italy on Thursday, killing five of them, authorities said. The crash occurred shortly after midnight at a station in Brandizzo, a town in Italy’s Piedmont region. Piedmont Gov. Alberto Cirio provided the death toll and said

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5 things to know for August 31: Idalia, Johannesburg, Mitch McConnell, Russia, Cannabis

CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — As AI-generated images and deepfake videos become increasingly realistic, tech companies are scrambling to find reliable ways to identify and flag manipulated content. This week, Google unveiled an invisible, permanent watermark on images that will identify them as computer-generated but cautioned that “the technology isn’t perfect.” Here’s what

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Gabon election results were a ‘smokescreen’ for soldiers to oust unpopular president, analysts say

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The ouster of Gabon’s president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population’s grievances against the government as an excuse to seize power, analysts said. Soldiers on Wednesday ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has ruled the oil-rich country

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China is still suffering from declining factory output. Demand for services is also slowing

By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Factory activity in China contracted for a fifth straight month in August, adding pressure on Beijing to roll out more stimulus measures to bolster the faltering economy. The official manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) — which surveys larger companies and state-owned enterprises — stood at 49.7 in

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Opinion: Putin, Trump, and a remarkable split-screen moment in world history

Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — When an airplane owned by Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin plummeted in a fiery crash northwest of Moscow last week, observers in Russia and around the world immediately recalled two indisputable facts. First, that Prigozhin had openly challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin, and second, that countless others who had defied Putin have met untimely, violent deaths. In the

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‘This is a life-changing event’: Floridians start an arduous recovery after disastrous Idalia

By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Idalia, now a post-tropical cyclone, is moving farther away from North Carolina’s coast after unleashing heavy rains and powerful winds across the Southeast this week and leaving parts of Florida’s west coast with “significant damage.” It was the most powerful hurricane to slam its Big Bend

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UBS reports huge 2Q profit skewed by Credit Suisse takeover and foresees $10B in cost cuts

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss banking giant UBS has announced plans to save $10 billion in costs, including through 3,000 staff reductions in Switzerland as it moves ahead with “full integration” of longtime rival Credit Suisse’s domestic operations following a takeover. The announcement on Thursday came as the Zurich-based bank reported

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Residents pick through the rubble of lost homes and scattered belongings in Hurricane Idalia’s wake

By REBECCA BLACKWELL and LAURA BARGFELD Associated Press HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida and Georgia residents living along Hurricane Idalia’s path of destruction on Thursday picked through piles of rubble where homes once stood, threw tarps over ripped-apart roofs and gingerly navigated streets left underwater or clogged with fallen trees and dangerous electric wires.

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Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s words, is “surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey.” The word “human” has

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At least 74 are dead, many of them homeless, as fire rips through a rundown building in South Africa

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg early Thursday, leaving at least 74 dead, officials said. Some people threw babies out of third-story windows to others waiting below in the desperate scramble to

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Japan’s defense ministry requests nearly 12% budget increase to bolster military’s strike capability

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense ministry is requesting a nearly 12% budget increase that includes two warships with advanced radar and long-range cruise missiles. The record $52.5 billion request for the next fiscal year comes as Japan further fortifies its military in the face of North Korean threats and Chinese

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North Korea says it simulated nuclear attacks on South Korea and rehearsed occupation of its rival

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday its latest missile launches simulated “scorched earth” nuclear strikes on South Korea and that it’s also been rehearsing an occupation of its rival’s territory in the event of conflict. Pyongyang has previously tested nuclear-capable missiles and described how it would use

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Guatemala’s Congress refuses to recognize president-elect’s party

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Congress, which is controlled by the currently governing party, on Wednesday refused to recognize the seven lawmakers from the Seed Movement party of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, following the suspension of his party earlier this week. Lawmakers declared their Seed Movement colleagues independents in the

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Newsom wants to transform San Quentin State Prison. The council advising him can meet in secret

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s planned transformation of San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation facility after decades as the home for death row inmates is being shaped by a hand-picked advisory council that is allowed to meet in secret. The Democratic governor wants to develop California’s

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Liberal groups seek to use the Constitution’s insurrection clause to block Trump from 2024 ballots

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press As former President Donald Trump dominates the Republican presidential primary, some liberal groups and legal experts contend that a rarely used clause of the Constitution prevents him from being president after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took

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California panel votes to increase storage capacity at site of worst US methane leak despite risks

By ROBERT JABLON and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators have approved a proposal to vastly increase natural gas storage at the site of the nation’s largest known methane leak. The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted Thursday to permit Southern California Gas to store nearly 70 billion cubic feet of

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After Jacksonville shootings, historically Black colleges address security concerns, remain vigilant

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer The white supremacist shooter who killed three Black residents over the weekend at a dollar store in Jacksonville, Florida, stopped beforehand at the state’s first historically Black college. A campus police officer at Edward Waters University approached the man before he fled, potentially thwarting an attack. The incident comes

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Nebraska volleyball sets world record for attendance at a women’s sporting event, at above 92,000, school says

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Memorial Stadium was the place to be on Wednesday night when the University of Nebraska women’s volleyball team hosted in-state opponent Omaha. The official attendance of 92,003 in Lincoln – at what normally is the university’s football stadium – set the world record for the largest announced crowd at

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Mother of Spanish soccer chief Luis Rubiales released from hospital after church hunger strike, according to reports

By Tara Subramaniam, Radina Gigova, Ana Melgar and Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — The mother of beleaguered Spanish soccer chief Luis Rubiales, who was admitted to a hospital in the Spanish town of Motril after a hunger strike, has been discharged, according to various Spanish media outlets. Ángeles Béjar locked herself in the Divina Pastora

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Liberan a más de 50 agentes penitenciarios y policías que estaban retenidos por presos en seis cárceles del Ecuador

macamilarincon (CNN Español) — Un total de 50 agentes penitenciarios y siete miembros de la Policía que se encontraban retenidos en seis prisiones del Ecuador a manos de reos fueron liberados, informó este viernes en un comunicado el Servicio Nacional de Atención Integral a Personas Adultas Privadas de la Libertad y a Adolescentes Infractores (SNAI).

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Marijuana recommendation by US health agency hailed as first step to easing weed restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has delivered a recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration on marijuana policy, and Senate leaders hailed it Wednesday as a first step toward easing federal restrictions on the drug. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that

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Descubren un templo romano “extremadamente raro” durante la construcción de un supermercado

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Sarsina es una ciudad rural muy tranquila, de apenas 3.000 habitantes, que está situada a ambos lados de las prístinas montañas de los Apeninos en la región de Emilia Romagna, Italia, rodeada de impresionantes vistas y ovejas pastoriles. Si bien tiene un pasado glorioso como puesto defensivo estratégico del Imperio Romano

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Hundreds of illnesses followed a Tough Mudder race in Sonoma County, California, officials estimate

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — An outbreak of illnesses after a Tough Mudder race in Sonoma County, California, this month has reached about 300 cases, the county estimated Wednesday. The Sonoma County Department of Health Services issued a health advisory last week after reports of rash, fever, muscle pain, nausea and vomiting among participants in the August 19-20

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US approves first-ever military aid to Taiwan through program typically used for sovereign nations

By Kylie Atwood (CNN) — The Biden administration has approved funding for the first-ever transfer of US military equipment to Taiwan under a program typically saved for sovereign nations, according to a notification sent to Congress on Tuesday. The package – which is part of the State Department’s foreign military financing (FMF) program – totals

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Top prosecutors back compensation for those sickened by US nuclear weapons testing

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing. The Democratic officials sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, saying “it’s

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