Aug 12 Watch 3:45 News Wrap: Federal teams arrive to help search efforts after deadly Maui fires In our news wrap Saturday, the death toll in the Maui wildfires rose to 80 and is expected to grow as damaged buildings are searched, heavy rains forced over 80,000 people to evacuate in southwestern China, 6 people died when… Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch 8:03 New documentary explores mesmerizing, dangerous world of freediving By John Yang, Harry Zahn The extreme sport of freediving is growing in popularity and interest. A new Netflix documentary called “The Deepest Breath” goes inside the high-risk sport, following freedivers Alessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan. Director Laura McGann joins John Yang to discuss the… Continue watching
Aug 12 Supporters of ousted Niger president plead with U.S. and other allies to save his life By Ellen Knickmeyer, Tracy Brown, Associated Press After nearly three weeks of appealing to the U.S. and other allies for help restoring Niger’s president to power, friends and supporters of the democratically elected leader are making a simpler plea: Save his life. Continue reading
Aug 12 Shippers warned to avoid Iranian waters amid elevated U.S.-Iran tensions By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Western-backed maritime forces in the Middle East on Saturday warned shippers traveling through the strategic Strait of Hormuz to stay as far away from Iranian territorial waters as possible to avoid being seized. Continue reading
Aug 12 Russia says it shot down 20 drones over Crimea after a spate of attacks on Moscow By Susie Blann, Associated Press Drone attacks have increased in recent weeks both on Moscow and on Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 — a move that most of the world considered illegal. Continue reading
Aug 11 Ecuador detains 6 Colombians in assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio By Gabriela Molina and Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press Ecuador will hold six Colombian men as the country probes their involvement in the slaying of a presidential candidate whose life’s work was fighting crime and corruption. Continue reading
Aug 11 West African nations order troops to restore democracy in Niger after military coup By Sam Mednick, Associated Press Tensions are escalating between Niger’s new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered troops deployed to restore Niger’s flailing democracy. Continue reading
Aug 11 5 UN staff members reportedly walk free after Yemen kidnapping 18 months ago By Associated Press The United Nations says five staff members who were kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago have walked free. Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said all “available information suggests that all five colleagues are in… Continue reading
Aug 11 Evacuations in Norway could grow as swollen river levels rise By Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press Authorities are on standby to evacuate more people in southeastern Norway, where huge amounts of water, littered with broken trees, debris and trash, are thundering down the usually serene rivers after days of torrential rain. Continue reading
Aug 11 Severe floods in China killed 29 and caused tens of billions of economic losses By Associated Press Last week, Hebei was hit by serious flooding as the remnants of the typhoon battered the region and brought the heaviest rainfall in neighboring Beijing in at least 140 years. Continue reading