The U.S. began implementing changes Thursday to its visa policies that will make it harder for some Europeans to travel to the United States in a bid to keep ISIS adherents out of the country.The new rules apply to European, Japanese and Australian travelers to the United States who have visited Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria since 2011 and dual-citizens who have citizenship in one of those countries.Under the change, ...
A suicide car bomber and gunmen on Thursday attacked a beachside restaurant-hotel complex in the capital of Somalia, a country that’s no stranger to such deadly violence.Col. Abdulkadir Mohammed, a senior police officer, said that a car rammed the gate of the Liido Seafood Restaurant overlooking a Mogadishu beach. After the blast, militants entered the adjoining hotel — at least some of them by boat — Mohammed and a Western ...
The Pentagon announced the transfer of two detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison Thursday, but a third detainee refused the terms of his release.Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah, an Egyptian, was transferred to Bosnia, while Abd Al-Aziz Abdallah Ali-Suwaydi, a Yemeni, was transferred to Montenegro. Both men had been held at the detention facility for more than 13 years.But Mohammed Bwazir, another Yemeni cleared for transfer, declined release because he ...
One month after a landslide forced Oregon City families to leave their apartments, some are still struggling to find housing. The city declared a state of emergency due to landslide activity that began on Dec. 14, 2015 around the 14000 block of South Beavercreek Road. Some people living at Berrryhill Townhouses and Apartments were evacuated first, followed by evacuations of multiple buildings at Forest Edge Apartments. Carrie Folden said she ...
(CNN) — Un manifestante empapa su cuerpo de gasolina y se prende fuego afuera del consulado británico.Asesinos del gobierno matan a un político local para provocar un motín que les permitirá tomar un mayor control.”Jóvenes guardias” uniformados atacan una librería acusada de vender materiales prohibidos.Así será Hong Kong en 2025, según la exitosa película local “Ten Years”, la cual ha atraído a grandes audiencias en medio de las preocupaciones en ...
The U.S. Coast Guard recovered the body of a fisherman from a jetty near Coos Bay on Wednesday morning. The person is suspected to be a crew member of the boat that capsized Tuesday night. The Coast Guard had boats and helicopter crews searching the area for the two remaining fishermen, but the search was suspended by Wednesday afternoon. The Coast Guard reported that they had covered more than 50 ...
The word “blizzard” can get overused. It doesn’t mean just a lot of snow — you also need at least 35 mph winds and poor visibility, all for at least three hours.For parts of the Mid-Atlantic and maybe the Northeast, the storm that’s expected to hit Friday and Saturday might qualify.And, blizzard or not, with heavy (and possibly historic) snowfall northward from North Carolina, and significant ice accumulations expected for ...
British parliamentary reports don’t often make global headlines, but that is exactly what happened with a report released Thursday that looked into the 2006 death of a former Russian secret agent in London.The Owen Report — named for Sir Robert Owen, the senior British judge conducting the investigation — provides details on how rare radioactive polonium-210 came to be found in Alexander Litvinenko’s body, and the series of events that ...
(CNN Español) — Este 21 de enero la bailadora española Lola Flores habría cumplido 93 años. Por eso Google le dedicó su doodle a la icónica artista. La imagen de Flores vestida con un traje rojo de flamenco se pudo ver en la página principal del buscador en varios países de Europa y América Latina. Además de bailarina, María Dolores Flores Ruíz, era cantante y actriz. Nació el 21 de ...
A Clayton County doctor is facing charges after police say he repeatedly prescribed dangerous medications to patients for no legitimate medical reason. DEA agents raided Doctor Narendra Nagareddy’s office last week. He is currently out on bond. The District Attorney told CBS46 that 36 of his patients have died, and a dozen of those are confirmed to have died from drug overdoses. Lynn Autry’s life has been turned upside down. ...
The stories that teenage brothers “Virgil” and “Phillip” tell about growing up in Compton, California, sound like war stories.Their battle begins when they step out of their door. Virgil says he doesn’t walk around at night.”I still be shaky about walking in the daytime, ’cause nowadays people don’t care out here,” he explains, adding that people are shooting during the day as well as at night.He and his brother — ...
(CNN) — Cerca de 1.200 rinocerontes fueron cazados en Sudáfrica en 2015, según un tweet publicado por la cuenta de los Parques Nacionales de ese país. El trino dice que para finales de 2015, el número de estos animales que murieron por actividades relacionadas con la caza fue de 1.175. De ese número, 826 rinocerontes fueron cazados en el Parque Nacional de Kruger. Esta cifra representa una disminución de las ...
Good news for United frequent fliers. The airline is buying 40 new Boeing 737-700 airplanes to replace some of the smaller, older planes operated by its regional carriers.United, which has ranked near the bottom of several airline customer satisfaction indexes for several years, said the new planes will enter its fleet in mid-2017. United did not say how much it would cost to purchase the new planes from Boeing.United’s current ...
(CNN) – El Real Madrid puede no haber ganado un título de la Liga española desde la temporada 2011-2012 pero sigue en lo más alto de la tabla de posiciones cuando de ganancias se trata.Cifras calculadas por contadores de Deloitte —una firma de auditoría— publicadas este jueves muestran que el equipo español es el club de fútbol con los ingresos más grandes del mundo por 11 años consecutivos.Durante la temporada 2014-2015 el equipo ...
Viacom has slashed the pay of founder and executive chairman Sumner Redstone in the face of questions about his competency and the company’s performance.In a statement late Wednesday, Viacom said Redstone still received his typical $2 million salary in 2015, but was no longer eligible to receive a bonus or stock in the company. His total compensation in 2014 was $13 million. That amounts to an 85% pay cut.CEO Philippe ...
In 2008, Republicans faced a choice.America had just elected a Democratic president. The Senate was majority-Democratic. The House of Representatives had more Democrats than at any time since 1992.The Republicans could either change themselves — by embracing the young, diverse and tolerant America of the 21st century — or they could try to change whose voices count in our democracy.We all know the cynical path they chose. Six years ago ...
A tiger has attacked a keeper at an Australian zoo founded by the late wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin. The incident, which took place Thursday morning at the Sunshine Coast’s Australia Zoo, left 41-year-old Che Woolcott with “significant puncture wounds” to his head and forearm, according to local media reports. He was treated at the scene before being transferred to the hospital. Australia Zoo described the incident in a statement: “While ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the operation by Russian officials to kill former FSB spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, a detailed UK inquiry has concluded.Retired High Court Judge Robert Owen, who conducted the inquiry, wrote that he was “sure” that two former Russian officials poisoned the 44-year-old at a London hotel with highly radioactive polonium-210.And Owen wrote that he was also “sure” that the two men who poisoned Litvinenko ...
Google announced that it will begin to roll out an update to Chrome that will make your browser speeds much faster.The update contains a new data compression algorithm called Brotli, which Google first unveiled in September. It squishes the size of a website down by 26% more than Chrome’s previous compression tool, Zopfli. Like Zopfli, the new algorithm is named after a Swiss baked good. (Brötli means ‘small bread’ in ...
A moment of calm? Asian markets closed firmly in the red on Thursday, but Europe appears to be taking a pause and indexes are all up over 0.5%. Oil firmed at around $28 a barrel after a sharp decline Wednesday. U.S. stock futures are flat. Oh, and the European Central Bank is meeting Thursday.Here are the six things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York: ...
Detroit teachers could be back at work Thursday, but the crisis gripping the city’s public school district is far from over. The school system posted a message on its Facebook page saying all public schools would be open Thursday. Teachers have been staging mass sickouts for more than a week in protest of deplorable conditions and inadequate funding they say negatively impacts the learning environment. Nine out of 10 public ...
Militants raided a university in northwest Pakistan Wednesday, timing their attack to a ceremony at the school to ensure maximum casualties. They slaughtered at least 22 people, a provincial police authority told CNN. The scent of burning metal hung in the air a few hours after the attack as a CNN crew made its way through the building where many were shot and wounded. Blood covered stairwells, the walls were ...
(CNN)— Un monasterio cristiano de 1400 años de antigüedad, monasterio cristiano -el más antigua de Iraq fue “arrasado” pocos meses después de que la ciudad de Mosul cayó en manos de ISIS, según muestran imágenes de satélite.El monasterio de San Elías -también conocido como Dair Mar Elia- se encuentra en las afueras de Mosul. Pese a su antigüedad, es poco probable que el monasterio se derrumbara de forma natural, según los ...
A 1,400 year-old Christian monastery — the oldest in Iraq – was “razed to the ground” just months after ISIS took over the Iraqi city of Mosul, satellite pictures show. The Saint Elijah monastery — also known as Dair Mar Elia — was located on the outskirts of Mosul. Despite its age, it’s unlikely the monastery collapsed naturally, according to experts at AllSource Analysis, an imagery intelligence company which studied ...
The small number of female pioneers involved in key roles in men’s sports leagues grew once more Wednesday when the Buffalo Bills added Kathryn Smith to their special teams staff.The past 18 months have seen significant hirings by the NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball. They include: the first (and second) female full-time assistant coach in the NBA, the first female full-time NFL official, the first female instructor employed ...
