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U.N. Command’s deputy commander says it has started a conversation with North Korea over detained U.S. soldier

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.N. Command’s deputy commander says it has started a conversation with North Korea over detained U.S. soldier.Source

Los investigadores de los asesinatos de Gilgo Beach registraron la casa del sospechoso con un sabueso y un radar de penetración terrestre, informa afiliada de CNN

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

(CNN) — Las autoridades que registraron la casa del sospechoso de los asesinatos en serie de Gilgo Beach, Rex Heuermann, continuaron con esos esfuerzos durante el fin de semana con la ayuda de un perro policía y un radar de penetración terrestre, informó News 12 Long Island, afiliada de CNN.La estación de noticias informó que su equipo estaba en la escena este domingo cuando trajeron el sabueso y el radar. Más tarde ese mismo día, las autoridades comenzaron a excavar en el patio trasero de Heuermann con una retroexcavadora, según la afiliada.Los investigadores no han revelado si se encontró algo en la casa durante el fin de semana, agregó la estación de noticias.Los investigadores registran el patio trasero de la casa de Rex Heuermann el 23 de julio de 2023. (Crédito: News 12 Long Island)CNN solicitó a la policía y al fiscal de distrito detalles sobre el registro de la vivienda este fin de semana, pero no ha recibido respuesta.La policía estima que pasarán otros dos o tres día...

Russia blames Ukraine for drone attacks in Moscow, Crimea

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

Several drone attacks struck Crimea and Moscow overnight, causing the evacuation of several villages in the Russian-occupied peninsula and damaging buildings in the vicinity of the defense ministry in the Russian capital, Russian officials said Monday.“Drone strikes on two non-residential buildings were recorded at around four o’clock this morning,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in the early hours of Monday, adding there had been “no serious damage or casualties.”“Two Ukrainian UAVs were suppressed by means of electronic warfare and crashed” over Moscow, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement, accusing Kyiv of being responsible for the attack.The drones damaged two buildings in the Russian capital, causing temporary traffic interruptions, state-owned newswire TASS reported. One of the buildings is located just a few blocks from the Russian defense ministry, in downtown Moscow.An ammunition storage facility in southern Crimea wa...

Green campaigners fear UK policy backlash after ULEZ keeps Uxbridge Tory

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

LONDON — The Conservatives held off Labour by just 495 votes in last week’s Uxbridge and Ruislip by-election — and one hot topic tipped the scales in their direction.The Tories successfully turned the campaign for a House of Commons seat into a de facto referendum on the ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ), a green tax levied on higher-polluting cars and vans by Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan. ULEZ extends beyond central London — including to Uxbridge — next month, handing the Conservatives a local issue they could use to batter their opponents, at a time when they’re otherwise languishing in the national polls. Green campaigners already worry that both parties will now decide to jettison policies aimed at both cleaning up the air and decarbonizing the economy — so-called net zero goals — for fear of alienating voters.“I don’t think there is any doubt that ULEZ was the reason that we lost the election in Uxbridge,” said Labour leader Keir Starmer on Sa...

Gunman who killed co-workers at New Zealand building site died from self-inflicted wound, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The gunman who killed two coworkers at a New Zealand construction site was injured during a shootout with police but died from a self-inflicted wound, police said Monday.The shooting Thursday closed part of downtown Auckland hours before the opening game of the Women’s World Cup soccer tournament, which was held under increased security. Detective Superintendent Ross McKay said the completed autopsies showed how the violence ended after 24-year-old Matu Reid had barricaded himself in an elevator shaft during the shootout with police.McKay said three workers injured in the shooting remained hospitalized in stable condition and were recovering well. He said the officer wounded in the shootout also remained hospitalized and “will have a long road to recovery.” Two other injured people were earlier released from hospital.Court records obtained by The Associated Press show Reid was serving a home detention sentence after being convicted of domestic violence...

Moscow, Crimea hit by drones as Russian forces bombard Ukraine’s south

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow early Monday that saw one of the drones fall near the Defense Ministry’s main headquarters, while the Russian military launched new strikes on port infrastructure in southern Ukraine.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said there were no casualties when the drones struck two non-residential buildings. The Defense Ministry claimed that the military jammed both attacking drones, forcing them to crash. Russian media reported that one of the drones fell on the Komsomolsky highway near Moscow’s center, close to the main Defense Ministry building. Another drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting its upper floors.Ukrainian authorities didn’t immediately claim responsibility for the strike, which was the second drone attack on the Russian capital this month.In the previous attack on July 4, the Russian military said four of the five drones were downed by air defenses on ...

Netanyahu leaves hospital as Israel faces a key vote – and a crisis – over divisive legal changes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the hospital Monday after an emergency heart procedure, facing an unprecedented national crisis ahead of parliament’s vote on the first major piece of legislation to remake the country’s justice system.Demonstrators, many of whom feel the very foundations of their country are being eroded by the government’s plan, stepped up their opposition, blocking a road leading up to parliament. Businesses shuttered their doors in protest of the vote.Driven by a governing coalition made up of ultranationalist and ultra-religious parties, the judicial overhaul has divided Israel, testing the delicate social ties that bind the country, rattling the cohesion of its powerful military and repeatedly drawing concern from even its closest ally, the United States.Efforts to find a last-ditch compromise were underway, with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog shuttling between the sides, including a meeting at the...

Iran targets e-commerce giant over photos of female employees without headscarves in new crackdown

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian authorities have shut down one of the offices of the country’s biggest e-commerce company and launched judicial procedures after it published pictures online showing female employees not wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf, semi-official media reported.The move appears to be part of a new campaign launched last week to impose the Islamic dress code nearly a year after the morality police largely melted away in the face of widespread protests.Digikala, informally known as “Iran’s Amazon,” appears to have run afoul of the rules by posting pictures of a corporate gathering in which several female employees were not wearing the hijab.The company boasts more than 40 million active monthly users and hosts over 300,000 merchants. Iranians are largely cut off from international retailers like Amazon because of Western sanctions linked to the country’s disputed nuclear program.The website of Iran’s Hamshahri daily, which ...

Stock market today: Asian shares mixed as investors watch for Fed rate hike

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Monday, with Hong Kong’s benchmark sinking 2.2% following reports suggesting China’s leaders do not plan major stimulus measures to prop up slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy. U.S. futures edged lower and oil prices also fell. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its federal funds rate on Wednesday to its highest level since 2001. Investors are hoping that might be the final increase of the tightening cycle because inflation has been cooling since last summer. The federal funds rate started 2022 at virtually zero. A meeting this week of the powerful Politburo of the ruling Communist Party later this week had raised hope for more help for the slowing economy. While reports Monday said that was unlikely, the country’s economic planning agency disclosed detailed measures Monday to encourage private investment, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The National Development and Reform Commi...

Macron promotes French interests on a trip to South Pacific where US-China rivalry is intensifying

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:11 GMT

PARIS (AP) — The French president is heading to the South Pacific to make France’s voice heard in a region shaping up as a prime geopolitical battleground for China and the U.S.President Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and New Caledonia comes as French forces take part in massive U.S.-Australian-led military exercises in the region. With French troops, citizens and resources spread across its Pacific territories, France wants to protect its own interests and project its power alongside like-minded democracies worried about China’s growing assertiveness.Macron starts Monday in the French archipelago of New Caledonia, trying to rebuild trust after voters rejected a string of independence referendums that exposed entrenched frustrations of native Kanaks and inequalities with the mainland, and divisions over management of the region’s rich nickel reserves. Negotiations are underway for a new status for the territory and its institutions. After Vanuatu, Macron’s...