MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has ordered 12 men to be held without bail on suspicion they faked a medical emergency to make a plane land in Mallorca so they could try to enter Europe illegally. The court also alleges the group menaced the flight crew. Authorities are investigating events surrounding the unscheduled landing
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has landed in Paris at the start of a four-day visit and charm offensive aimed at shoring up the U.S. relationship with France, America’s oldest ally. Washington’s relations with Paris hit a historic low this year after a U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia scuttled a French deal
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hospitals in the southern Dutch province of Limburg are warning the national government that they can no longer cope with new COVID-19 patients. The warning Tuesday comes amid soaring rates of coronavirus infections. Five hospitals in the province that borders both Belgium and Germany raised
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN When Perrysburg School Superintendent Thomas Hosler sent a survey to parents in his Toledo-area district to see how many wanted to get their children vaccinated against Covid-19, he got more than 20,000 “no” responses. His district only has 5,700 students in it. “Clearly someone spent a lot of time in their
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer General Electric is splitting itself into three public companies that concentrate on aviation, healthcare and energy. The company said Tuesday that it plans a spinoff of its healthcare business in early 2023 and of its energy segment in early 2024. GE anticipates keeping a 19.9% stake in the healthcare
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer General Electric is splitting itself into three public companies that concentrate on aviation, healthcare and energy. The company said Tuesday that it plans a spinoff of its healthcare business in early 2023 and of its energy segment in early 2024. GE anticipates keeping a 19.9% stake in the healthcare
Continue Reading By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus deaths in Russia have hit a new record two days after a nine-day non-working period ended in most of the country’s regions. The state coronavirus task force reported 1,211 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, Russia’s highest daily death toll of the pandemic. The task force also reported
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By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — A player on Germany’s national soccer team has tested positive for the coronavirus and four more are in quarantine as a precaution ahead of the team’s World Cup qualifying games against Liechtenstein and Armenia. The German soccer federation says the unnamed player was fully vaccinated and
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN The Pittsburgh Steelers survived a late Chicago Bears comeback attempt to chalk up a fourth successive win with a 29-27 victory on a Monday Night Football marked by a highly controversial penalty call. A series of contentious flags marked a game that — at 20-6 in the third quarter — had
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The European Tour is being rebranded as the DP World Tour starting next year. It marks the end of an era for the European Tour. DP World is a Dubai-based logistics company that has sponsored the season-ending event on the European Tour. That has been held in Dubai since
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Former U.S. President Barack Obama has dropped in on U.N. climate talks to urge young climate activists to stay in the fight. Obama is credited as one of the leaders responsible for the 2015 Paris climate accord. In a speech, a roundtable and other events Monday
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is condemning the assassination attempt against Iraq’s prime minister as a “vile act of terrorism.” The Vatican secretary of state sent a telegram to Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi expressing Francis’ solidarity and prayers to Kadhimi’s family and those injured in a Monday drone attack on the prime minister’s residence. Francis visited
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic caused a 16% rise in expected deaths among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, hitting overall life expectancy in 24 out of 30 members, the organization said Tuesday. Life expectancy fell the most in Spain and the United States, the group said, with
Continue ReadingCNN, NBC By Maggie Fox, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic caused a 16% rise in expected deaths among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, hitting overall life expectancy in 24 out of 30 members, the organization said Tuesday. Life expectancy fell the most in Spain and the United States, the group
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los organizadores del Day N Music Festival anunciaron a última hora de este lunes que el rapero Travis Scott ya no actuará en el evento de este fin de semana en Las Vegas tras la tragedia del festival Astroworld de Houston. La última novedad se produce mientras los investigadores centran
Continue ReadingCNN By David Culver, Yong Xiong and Nectar Gan, CNN China is ready to manage differences with the United States, the country’s leader Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, ahead of a planned virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden. The meeting, the first since Biden became President earlier this year, will be held as early
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Un paramédico armado que recibió un disparo de Kyle Rittenhouse en Kenosha, Wisconsin, el año pasado testificó el lunes que sacó su propia arma de fuego porque creía que Rittenhouse era un tirador activo. Gaige Grosskreutz, de 27 años, testificó que desenfundó su pistola el 25 de agosto de 2020, mientras
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics maker Sony and TSMC of Taiwan say they are jointly building a computer chip plant in Japan with an initial investment of $7 billion. The plant in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, will be the first foundry in Japan for TSMC, one of the world’s leading
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN en Español) — Este martes, tras más de 20 horas de debate en la Cámara de Diputados de Chile, se aprobó, con 78 votos a favor, 67 en contra y tres abstenciones, la acusación constitucional contra el presidente Sebastián Piñera. La acusación pasa ahora al Senado de Chile para debate y votación. Las
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CNN, KHOU, KTRK, INSTAGRAM, @TRAVISSCOTT, LESLIE HANS, JARED KUKER, TWITTER, @ERICDANIELS, APPLE MUSIC, GETTY IMAGES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ARKANSAS GAZETTE, Instagram/@TravisScott, Twitter/@EricDaniels By Raja Razek, CNN A 9-year-old boy who was seriously injured at the Astroworld Festival on Friday night is in a medically induced coma in an attempt to overcome trauma to his brain, according
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