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Germán Padinger Nueva York (CNN Business) — Más de 2.800 vuelos han sido cancelados este lunes en todo el mundo debido al avance de la variante ómicron del coronavirus. Según el sitio web de seguimiento FlightAware, cerca de 1.000 de los vuelos cancelados tenían destinos dentro, hacia o desde Estados Unidos. Además, más de 11.000
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By GREG BUCKLE Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — England fast bowler James Anderson is urging officials to continue with the Ashes cricket series against Australia despite a COVID-19 drama which unfolded at the team’s hotel on Monday and delayed the start of the second day of the third test. Like other sporting events around
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By MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees. Their first stop is the currency exchange and then it’s off to the markets and grocery stores in the northwestern city
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By MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees. Their first stop is the currency exchange and then it’s off to the markets and grocery stores in the northwestern city
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Dipali Roy no podía permitirse comer. Ella y su marido, Pradip Roy, eran trabajadores en la industria textil en Bangladesh cuando la pandemia de covid-19 golpeó la pasada primavera, provocando despidos masivos en su fábrica. Como millones de personas en todo el mundo, ambos perdieron sus empleos en la capital, Dhaka,
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Major world share benchmarks are mixed at the outset of the last trading week of the year as countries grapple with the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant. Some markets were closed Monday for holidays. Benchmarks were little changed in Frankfurt and Paris. They fell in
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Major world share benchmarks are mixed at the outset of the last trading week of the year as countries grapple with the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant. Some markets were closed Monday for holidays. Benchmarks were little changed in Frankfurt and Paris. They fell in
Continue Reading By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is insisting that the United States and its allies promise to allow Tehran to export its crude as negotiations on restoring the tattered nuclear deal are to resume in Vienna. Iran’s foreign minister said on Monday that Tehran wants the upcoming round of talks to
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Bells will ring at midday in Cape Town from St. George’s Anglican Cathedral to honor Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a day after his death. The bells at the cathedral, where Tutu urged South Africans of all races to work together against apartheid, will toll for 10 minutes
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CNN By Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Covid-19 numbers keep soaring as travelers scatter back across the country after Christmas and Americans prepare for another holiday weekend. The US is now averaging 198,404 new Covid-19 cases each day, according to Sunday data from Johns Hopkins University. That’s 47% higher than a week ago and
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Covid-19 numbers keep soaring as travelers scatter back across the country after Christmas and Americans prepare for another holiday weekend. The US is now averaging 198,404 new Covid-19 cases each day, according to Sunday data from Johns Hopkins University. That’s 47% higher than a week ago and the
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN Acclaimed film director Jean-Marc Vallée — who helmed the 2013 drama “Dallas Buyers Club” — died Sunday near Quebec City, Canada, his production company’s publicist told CNN. He was 58 years old. “He was a friend, creative partner and an older brother to me,” Nathan Ross, a partner in Vallée’s production
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Delta Air Lines says new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair. The move prompted a protest from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. An emailed statement from Delta says the new mandates at Shanghai Pudong International Airport require
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Delta Air Lines says new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair. The move prompted a protest from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. An emailed statement from Delta says the new mandates at Shanghai Pudong International Airport require
Continue ReadingCNN, WPLG, WSVN Francesca Street and Livia Borghese, CNN One of the largest cruise ships operating in the Mediterranean has become the latest to be hit by a Covid outbreak amid the current global surge in virus cases. MSC Cruises confirmed 45 Covid positive passengers disembarked from its MSC Grandiosa vessel in the Italian port
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Diksha Madhok and Jill Disis, CNN Business Chinese tech stocks got a big boost in Hong Kong on the last day of the year, but it’s far from enough to make up for what has been a historically tumultuous time for the sector. Shares in tech and internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and
Continue ReadingBy Jill Disis, CNN Business China is planning to tighten restrictions for Chinese companies that want to list overseas. And while Beijing won’t ban them from trading abroad altogether, life might be getting a lot tougher for firms hoping to score more foreign investment. China’s securities regulator proposed late Friday that any firm that wants
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will start their second week of deliberations Monday. Holmes faces 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical breakthrough when in actuality
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will start their second week of deliberations Monday. Holmes faces 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical breakthrough when in actuality
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will start their second week of deliberations Monday. Holmes faces 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical breakthrough when in actuality
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