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Former Bank of China chairman investigated by graft agency

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — A former chairman of Bank of China Ltd., one of the country’s four major state-owned lenders, is under investigation by the ruling Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency, state TV reported Friday, adding to a string of high-level financial figures ensnared in a marathon crackdown.Liu Liange, who also is a former party secretary of the bank, is suspected of “serious disciplinary violations,” China Central Television said on its website. The one-sentence report gave no details of the allegations against Liu.Figures including bank executives, a deputy central bank governor and a former insurance regulator have been caught up in the crackdown led by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The campaign is popular with the public and has allowed Xi to sideline political rivals.The former head of a state-owned asset management company was put to death in 2021 on charges of taking bribes. Others have been sentenced to long prison terms.Source

Palm weaving workshops join faith, culture for Palm Sunday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As new volunteers kept streaming into the Church of the Incarnation, Reynaldo Hidalgo prepped fresh palm fronds for them to weave into elaborate designs that will be blessed at services on Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity’s holiest week. “It’s to give welcome to the king, our Lord Jesus Christ,” said Hidalgo, who has led traditional Mexican palm weaving workshops here for half a dozen years, along with his wife. “We wanted to keep a memory of this tradition.”Many Christians around the world will be getting blessed palm or other tree branches this weekend, in commemoration of Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, when the Gospel narrates that crowds spread branches on the road before him.At Hidalgo’s Catholic church, and others across the country where parishioners observe the Easter traditions of many Latin American and European countries, the fronds are woven and braided into intricate designs of up to several feet, often decorated with rosettes, r...

Napoli striker Osimhen injured, misses game against AC Milan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Serie A scoring leader Victor Osimhen has an injured abductor muscle in his left leg and will miss Sunday’s game against AC Milan, Napoli said Friday.“His condition will be evaluated next week,” Napoli said.The injury raises questions over whether Osimhen will recover in time for the Champions League quarterfinals — also against Milan — on April 12 and 18.Osimhen has scored 21 goals in 24 Italian league appearances for Napoli this season, helping the southern club to a massive 19-point lead at the top of the standings.Giovanni Simeone should replace Osimhen at center forward.The injury comes upon Osimhen’s return from national team duty with Nigeria.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Sudanese officials say 14 workers dead in gold mine collapse

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — At least 14 workers are dead after a gold mine collapsed in northern Sudan, state mining authorities said Friday.According to the state-run news agency, SUNA, the fatal collapse happened after one of the hillsides that surround the Jebel Al-Ahmar gold mine – situated near the Egyptian border – gave way Thursday afternoon.Many other miners are still missing among the rubble, it said.Witnesses cited by SUNA said the workers were searching inside mining wells for gold using heavy machinery which caused the collapse.Several of the bodies, mostly of young men, have been recovered from the site and search efforts are ongoing, SUNA said. A security source cited by the state agency said workers are feared to be trapped beneath the mine’s groundwater. Few further details were given.Collapses are common in Sudan’s gold mines, where safety standards and maintenance are poor.In 2021, 31 people were killed after a defunct gold mine collapsed in West Kordo...

Charles III commorates WWII dead, child refugees in Hamburg

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — King Charles III commemorated the more than 30,000 people, mostly German civilians, who were killed in the Allied bombing of Hamburg almost 80 years ago as he visited the northern city Friday on the last leg of his first foreign trip since becoming monarch.The attack in July 1943 carried out by British and American planes using incendiary bombs was a response to Nazi Germany’s deadly aerial raids on Britain. It resulted in a firestorm which destroyed large parts of the city and remains a painful memory in the Hanseatic port’s proud history.Charles laid a wreath at the ruined church of St. Nikolai, now a memorial site, and listened to Hamburg’s Bishop Kirsten Fehrs read the Coventry Litany of Reconciliation, written to commemorate the destruction of the English city of Coventry by German bombers in 1940.Earlier, Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, visited a memorial to the Kindertransporte, or children’s transports, that saw more than 10,000 Jewish...

Stroman commits 1st of 14 pitch-clock violations on 1st day

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Marcus Stroman is getting used to Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock. And it’s no small deal for the Chicago Cubs right-hander.“It’s tough,” he said. “It’s a big adjustment.”Stroman committed baseball’s first regular-season pitch-clock violation Thursday in the third inning of the Cubs’ 4-0 victory over Milwaukee on opening day. It was the first of 14 violations in 15 games on a day the average game time was 2 hours, 45 minutes. Five violations were by batters, eight by pitchers and one by a catcher as all MLB teams opened on the same day for the first time since 1968.Stroman took a long look at rookie Brice Turang leading off second base with no outs and Christian Yelich batting at Wrigley Field. Just as Stroman turned his attention back to Yelich, plate umpire Ron Kulpa called the violation for taking too long to deliver a pitch. Kulpa pointed to his wrist in announcing the call, and the automatic ball made it a 2-2 cou...

Hoy es el Día Internacional de la Visibilidad Transgénero. Esto es lo que debes saber

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

(CNN) — Hoy, las personas transgénero y no binarias de todo el mundo conmemoran el Día Internacional de la Visibilidad Transgénero. Con la visibilidad transgénero en EE.UU. en su punto más alto en política, medios y deportes, hoy es un día para que los aliados y defensores se presenten y muestren su apoyo.Esto es lo que debes saber.¿Cómo comenzó?El Día de la Visibilidad Transgénero fue fundado en 2009 por Rachel Crandall, una activista transgénero con sede en Michigan y directora ejecutiva de Transgender Michigan. Comenzó como un día de concientización para celebrar los éxitos de las personas transgénero y de género no conforme y es un día importante para la comunidad LGBTQ.Mientras que el Día del Recuerdo Transgénero se lleva a cabo todos los años el 20 de noviembre para conmemorar a las personas transgénero que han perdido la vida como resultado de la violencia contra las personas transgénero, el Día de la Visibilidad Transgénero es un día dedicado a honrar y empoderar las v...

An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slowed in February

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slowed in February.Source

Detienen a cinco personas por el incendio que dejó al menos 39 personas muertas en centro migratorio de Ciudad Juárez

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

(CNN Español) — La titular de la Fiscalía Especializada en materia de Derechos Humanos de México, Sara Irene Herrerías Guerra, informó que ya se ejecutaron al menos cinco órdenes de arresto contra presuntos involucrados en el incendio que esta semana dejó al menos 39 personas muertas en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.Al responder una pregunta este jueves de una periodista sobre el estatus de las órdenes, Herrerías dijo que “ya se ejecutaron cinco de ellas” y que faltaba una por hacerse efectiva. La funcionaria agregó que “eso quiere decir que ya fueron puestos a disposición del juez”.Herrerías no dio más detalles sobre los detenidos.CNN intenta obtener más detalles por parte de la Fiscalía.Incendio en centro de migrantes en México deja 38 muertos: hay “frustración” en Ciudad Juárez por la tragediaQuería mejorar su vida, dice padre de migrante muerto en Ciudad Juárez 2:22México reparará a familias de las víctimas del incendioEl gobierno de México i...

Cold case: Who murdered this woman after she left a west Denver bar?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:53 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — “Their voices may now be silent . . . those who may know the truth are not,” the Colorado Bureau of Investigation shared as a part of its mission as it works to assist in bringing justice to cold case tragedies.There are hundreds of unsolved homicide cases, long-term missing person cases, and unidentified remains cases in our state where at least three years have passed since the crime happened. Strangled, stabbed, left to die: Who murdered this woman in 1996? The Colorado cold case task force created a list of those cases dating back to 1970. The Problem Solvers are working to highlight cold cases in our state each week.Who murdered Veronica Lucero?The Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Denver Police Department are working to solve a cold case from 1995. The investigation started on Aug. 12, 1995, when Veronica Lucero was found dead in the street near West 7th Avenue and Hazel Court.The CBI said Lucero was last seen leaving a bar called "Top of To...