By HAU DINH Associated Press VUNG TAU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam will lift the lockdown in its largest city on Friday, ending nearly three months of restrictions on movement to curb a coronavirus surge. People in Ho Chi Minh City, a metropolis of 10 million, will be able to leave their homes, restaurants can serve
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Political adversaries in Congress are united in outrage against Facebook for privately compiling information that its Instagram photo-sharing service appears to grievously harm some teens, especially girls, while publicly downplaying the popular platform’s negative impact. Mounting public pressure over the revelations have prompted Facebook to put
Continue Reading By JAMES LAPORTA, JUSTIN PRITCHARD and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press The Associated Press has found that a technology some units in the U.S. military are using to keep track of guns could let enemies detect troops on the battlefield. The rollout continues — even though the Pentagon itself called use of the tech in
Continue ReadingBy Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth and Ahmet Mengli, CNN Every day for the past month, Emal Ahmadi’s 7-year-old daughter Hada has asked him the same thing: “Where is my sister?” She misses playing with her younger sister Malika, he says. She cries a lot, wondering when she is coming home. The tragic answer
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth and Ahmet Mengli, CNN Every day for the past month, Emal Ahmadi’s 7-year-old daughter Hada has asked him the same thing: “Where is my sister?” She misses playing with her younger sister Malika, he says. She cries a lot, wondering when she is coming home. The tragic
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By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer IndyCar crowned a new champion this season and the fresh-faced Spaniard has been a breath of fresh air. Alex Palou won the title in his second season of IndyCar competition, becoming the first driver from Spain to win America’s open-wheel championship. The 24-year-old is an earnest and eager
Continue Reading By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Urban Meyer didn’t even try to downplay his homecoming. Jacksonville’s head coach is returning to his home state for the first time since making the jump to the NFL. And it won’t be just any road trip for Meyer when the winless Jaguars visit
Continue Reading By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister arrived in Bahrain on Thursday, the first high-level visit to the small Gulf state by a senior Israeli official since the signing last year of a landmark agreement to establish diplomatic ties. Yair Lapid landed in Bahrain’s capital, Manama, for meetings with his
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a potential prison term in a verdict to be rendered on Thursday about campaign financing in his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid — a ruling that comes seven months after he was convicted in a corruption and influence peddling case. Sarkozy, France’s president from 2007 to
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Cuando se inauguró este viernes una exposición sobre el futuro del trabajo en un museo de arte danés, en teoría los visitantes debían ver dos grandes marcos llenos de billetes por un valor combinado de US$ 84.000. Las piezas debían ser reproducciones de dos obras del artista Jens Haaning, que anteriormente
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By MOHAMMAD NASIRI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As U.S. sanctions strangle Iran’s economy, record inflation is causing stunned shoppers in the country to cut meat and dairy from their diets and to purchase less each month. Those who previously hauled sacks of staples from grocery stores now struggle to scrape together meals. Iran’s
Continue Reading By MOHAMMAD NASIRI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As U.S. sanctions strangle Iran’s economy, record inflation is causing stunned shoppers in the country to cut meat and dairy from their diets and to purchase less each month. Those who previously hauled sacks of staples from grocery stores now struggle to scrape together meals. Iran’s
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s legislature descended into a rowdy brawl after opposition lawmakers interrupted a policy address and rushed the podium Tuesday. Opposition lawmakers pushed their way to the speaker’s podium as the head of the Cabinet, Su Tseng-chang, was opening his annual address on the government’s performance with a focus on national security
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A 96-year-old former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp is going on trial Thursday in Germany on charges of more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder. Prosecutors argue that she was part of the apparatus that helped the Nazi camp function more
Continue Reading By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — This fall, the academic year in Lebanon is gripped by the same chaos that has overwhelmed everything else in the country in its financial and economic meltdown. Thousands of teachers are on strike, demanding salary adjustments to cope with hyperinflation and the currency’s free-fall. A month’s
Continue Reading By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Jarred Kelenic stood outside the Seattle Mariners dugout with the crowd roaring and holding a placard with a phrase borrowed from a popular television show. “Believe” has become Seattle’s rallying call, and the Mariners are charging into the final weekend of the regular season with plenty
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Corey Seager hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning, when the Los Angeles Dodgers went deep four times to rally past the San Diego Padres 11-9 on Wednesday night. Los Angeles trailed 9-6 before Max Muncy and AJ Pollock began the onslaught by
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Corey Seager hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning, when the Los Angeles Dodgers went deep four times to rally past the San Diego Padres 11-9 on Wednesday night. Los Angeles trailed 9-6 before Max Muncy and AJ Pollock began the onslaught by
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Business) — Google Maps facilita la búsqueda de la información más reciente sobre incendios forestales como parte de un impulso para garantizar que la popular aplicación sea más útil durante las emergencias. Google dijo el miércoles que agregará una nueva capa de incendios forestales a Google Maps, que los usuarios podrán
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping paid respects at a solemn commemoration Thursday for those who died in the struggle to establish Communist Party rule, as he leads a national drive to reinforce patriotism and single-party authority. Xi and the six other members of the party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee led aged veterans and
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