By AARON FAVILA and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration has belatedly congratulated journalist Maria Ressa for being one of two winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. However, it rejected criticism that it was a slap on Duterte’s administration despite Ressa being a critic of the president,
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are mixed amid persisting worries about energy shortages and weaker than expected jobs growth in the U.S. Shares fell in Paris, Frankfurt and Sydney but rose in Tokyo and London. Shanghai was flat. Surging demand has collided with supply and shipping constraints, among other
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are mixed amid persisting worries about energy shortages and weaker than expected jobs growth in the U.S. Shares fell in Paris, Frankfurt and Sydney but rose in Tokyo and London. Shanghai was flat. Surging demand has collided with supply and shipping constraints, among other
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olivertapia (CNN) — Las mujeres embarazadas que desarrollan síntomas de covid-19 corren el riesgo de complicaciones de emergencia y otros problemas con sus embarazos, según dos nuevos estudios. La enfermedad también pone en riesgo a sus hijos. El primer estudio mostró que las mujeres embarazadas con covid-19 sintomático tenían un mayor porcentaje de complicaciones de
Continue Reading By FADI TAWIL Associated Press ZAHRANI, Lebanon (AP) — Firefighters have extinguished a huge blaze that broke out in a storage tank at one of Lebanon’s main oil facilities in the country’s south. Monday’s fire lasted more than three hours and sent orange flames and a thick black column of smoke into the sky. The
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A military court in Burkina Faso has started the trial of 14 people including former President Blaise Compaore for the killing of influential leftist leader Thomas Sankara, who was ousted as president by Compaore in a 1987 coup. According to military documents seen by The
Continue Reading By TSAFRIR ABAYOV Associated Press YAVNE, Israel (AP) — Israeli archaeologists say they have unearthed a massive ancient winemaking complex dating back some 1,500 years. They say the complex includes five wine presses, warehouses, kilns for producing clay storage vessels and tens of thousands of fragments and jars. The complex was discovered in Yavne, a
Continue Reading SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Five Indian soldiers have been killed in a fierce gunbattle with militants fighting against Indian rule in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, as violence in the disputed region has increased in recent weeks. An Indian army spokesman says police and soldiers cordoned off a forested area following an intelligence report that
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Pregnant women who develop Covid-19 symptoms risk emergency complications and other problems with their pregnancies, according to two new studies. The disease also puts their children at risk. The first study showed that pregnant women with symptomatic Covid-19 had a higher percentage of emergency complications when compared to those who tested
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Para miles de millones de personas en todo el mundo, Facebook puede ser una fuente de fotos de bebés bonitos, de desinformación sobre vacunas y otras cosas más, y todo ello aparece en nuestros feeds con la ayuda de algoritmos. Ahora, horas de testimonio y miles de páginas de documentos de la
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British police will not be taking any further action against Prince Andrew after a review prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that he sexually assaulted her. Virginia Giuffre is suing Queen Elizabeth’s second son. She claims she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Andrew in London when she
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — El panorama general del covid-19 en EE.UU. se ve un poco más brillante a medida que disminuyen las nuevas infecciones y las hospitalizaciones. “Esa es la buena noticia. Y es de esperar que continúe en esa trayectoria descendente”, dijo el Dr. Anthony Fauci, director del Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades
Continue Reading Mariana Toro Washington (CNN) — Un denunciante que se identificó como un exfuncionario de alto rango de la Policía del Capitolio de Estados Unidos criticó el liderazgo del departamento antes, durante y después de la letal insurrección del 6 de enero en una nueva carta al Congreso. La carta de 16 páginas, obtenida por CNN
Continue ReadingCNN, WFTS By Christina Maxouris, CNN For more than three weeks, local and federal authorities have been combing through a 25,000-acre nature reserve searching for Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of 22-year-old Gabby Petito. On September 1, Laundrie returned in Petito’s van to the couple’s North Port, Florida, home from a cross-country road trip the couple
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN For more than three weeks, local and federal authorities have been combing through a 25,000-acre nature reserve searching for Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of 22-year-old Gabby Petito. On September 1, Laundrie returned in Petito’s van to the couple’s North Port, Florida, home from a cross-country road trip the couple embarked on
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy and Antonia Mortensen, CNN A record number of people attempted to cross the border between Poland and Belarus Saturday, amid accusations that Belarus is facilitating migration to the European Union’s eastern border. The Polish Border Guard told CNN that Saturday’s figure of of 739 attempted crossings was the most so far for
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has implored Israel not “to lose sight” of the need to establish a Palestinian state. Merkel spoke Monday at a Tel Aviv think tank as she wrapped up a two-day farewell visit to Israel. It was one of the few areas of disagreement
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Austria is getting a new chancellor two days after Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned amid corruption allegations. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen is set to swear in Alexander Schallenberg, currently the foreign minister, as chancellor on Monday. Career diplomat Michael Linhart will become the country’s new foreign minister, Austrian news agency APA
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s electoral committee says preliminary results show turnout from Sunday’s election was 41 percent. That’s a record low in the post-Saddam Hussein era and down from 44 percent in the 2018 election. The result signals widespread dissatisfaction and distrust in the vote. The election was held months
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British police will not be taking any further action against Prince Andrew after a review prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that he sexually assaulted her. Virginia Giuffre, who is suing Queen Elizabeth’s second son, claims she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Andrew in London when she
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