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10 mins ago
Three candidates nominated to be the next president of Sri Lanka
By Iqbal Athas and Alex Stambaug
Three candidates, including interim president Ranil Wickremesinghe, have been nominated and endorsed by members of parliament to be considered for the post of Sri Lanka's next president.
The three candidates are Wickremesinghe, backed by the ruling Podujana Peramuna party (SLPP);
Dullas Alahapperuma, a member of the SLPP who participates on his behalf and was nominated by opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, and Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vumukthi Peramuna (JVP) party representing the National Popular Force.
Following the acceptance of the nominations, President Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced that parliament will reconvene on Wednesday at 10 am local time for a secret ballot to elect the next president.
The person chosen on Wednesday as the country's next president will serve the remaining two years and four months of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's term, according to the constitution.
40 mins ago
The UK hits a new record with its warmest night yet
By Zahid Mahmood
The UK has experienced its warmest night on record from Monday to Tuesday, according to provisional figures from the UK Met Office.
"Temperatures did not fall below 25°C in places, exceeding the previous record high daily low of 23.9°C, recorded at Brighton on 3 August 1990," the UK Met Office said in Twitter.
60 mins ago
Panama: Social movements and alliances agree to participate in the dialogue table.
By CNN Spanish
The Archdiocese of Panama reported this Tuesday through an official statement accessed by CNN that the Alianza Pueblo Unidos por la Vida, the Alianza Nacional del Pueblo Organizado (ANADEPO), the organized groups in the Ngöbe-Buglé region and the Executive Branch accepted participate in a single dialogue table.
The Catholic Church adds that the social movements and alliances decided to start the single table this Tuesday, July 19, in the province of Coclé and that the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo, reiterated that he maintains the disposition of the Executive Organ to participate in the dialogue and that the government will move to where the social movements determine.
1 hour ago
China reports highest number of local COVID-19 cases since May amid heat wave
By Shawn Deng, Robert Shackelford and Alex Stambaugh
China reported 699 local COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the most daily new cases the country has reported since late May, according to the country's National Health Commission.
This includes 199 symptomatic cases and 50 asymptomatic cases.
South China's Guangxi province reported 243 local COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, most of which were found in the city of Beihai, a popular summer vacation destination.
On Saturday, the Beihai government locked down urban parts of the city, where its tourist centers and attractions are located, ordered mass testing and banned residents from leaving their homes, stranding more than 2,000 tourists.
Gansu province in northwestern China also reported 231 locally transmitted cases, bringing its outbreak there to nearly 1,000 cases since July 7.
The provincial capital, Lanzhou, has been in partial lockdown since July 13, forcing non-essential businesses to close and some residential communities to lockdown with only one person in each household allowed to go out once a day to buy groceries.
The city of Tianjin, about 150 kilometers east of Beijing, also launched its second round of large-scale testing so far this month after two locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were found.
Meanwhile, China remains suffocated by high temperatures amid a heat wave.
As of Tuesday, 51 cities have issued the second-highest orange alert level warnings, with temperatures expected to hover around 37 degrees Celsius (98 Fahrenheit).
This is a decrease from the 82 cities that issued orange alert warnings on Monday.
Shanghai, which reported 23 local cases on Tuesday, as well as the capital Beijing, have seen temperatures hovering around 37 degrees Celsius (98 Fahrenheit) in recent days.
Residents of these cities may get some much-needed relief from this week's high temperatures as the rains pass, according to the latest forecast.
However, parts of China continue to experience scorching heat, with at least four cities expecting temperatures near or above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) on Tuesday.
These cities include the eastern cities of Xianju and Lishui, as well as Shengxian in the south and Turpan in the west, where temperatures could reach nearly 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit).
1 hour ago
New studies indicate Debanhi died of "suffocation" and there is no evidence of sexual violence, authorities say
By CNN Spanish
"The cause of death of Debanhi Susana Escobar BazaldĂşa was due to asphyxiation due to suffocation in its variety of obstruction of respiratory orifices. The second conclusion is that the postmortem interval that was established based on the macroscopic findings, the cadaveric signs, is of 3 to 5 days from the location of the victim. The third conclusion is the fact that no evidence was found, no type of injury, or finding that could support sexual violence. And the last is that the possibility of suffocation by submersion. Those are the four conclusions reached by the three forensic doctors," said Felipe Edmundo Takajashi Medina, general director of the Institute of Expert Services and Forensic Sciences of the Judiciary of Mexico City, at a conference of press.