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Leah Dolan, CNN The literary landscape has never been richer or more reflective of our present moment. Compassionate depictions of the ongoing refugee crisis won Zanzibar-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, while American writer Jason Mott took home the National Book Award for his novel on the racism, police brutality and
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane, CNN Business Intel has apologized in China following a backlash over a directive to suppliers not to source products or labor from the Xinjiang region. The US chipmaker told suppliers in a letter dated December 2021 that it “is required to ensure our supply chain does not use any labor or source
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By The Associated Press For Afghanistan, 2021 was punctuated by the chaos of a U.S. withdrawal and an uncertain next chapter. The Taliban quickly took power back in mid-August. They could not be stopped by a collapsing Afghan military and Western-backed government that fled. Four months into Taliban rule, Afghanistan is facing a looming economic
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olivertapia Hong Kong (CNN) — El martes, la ciudad de Xi’an, en el centro de China, registró 52 nuevos casos de covid-19. Para el miércoles, las autoridades habían impuesto estrictas medidas de confinamiento a sus aproximadamente 13 millones de residentes. Las amplias restricciones, que impiden que las personas abandonen sus hogares, se producen cuando el
Continue ReadingBy Matt Villano, CNN Long gone are the days of accessing porn only at the local magazine and video stores. Today, internet and cable television services make pornographic content available to almost anyone. A lot of internet porn is available without charge, and some graphic novels and Japanese anime have incorporated pornographic or nearly pornographic
Continue ReadingCNN By Matt Villano, CNN Long gone are the days of accessing porn only at the local magazine and video stores. Today, internet and cable television services make pornographic content available to almost anyone. A lot of internet porn is available without charge, and some graphic novels and Japanese anime have incorporated pornographic or nearly
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was removed early Thursday, wiping out the city’s last place of public commemoration of the bloody 1989 crackdown. For some at the University of Hong
Continue Reading TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s state news agency says a court has sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to four years in prison for “undermining the external security of the state.” Marzouki had urged France to end its support for Tunisia, calling current President Kaïs Saied a “dictator.” Saied froze parliament, sacked the prime
Continue ReadingBy Dana Santas, CNN The holiday season can bring much joy, but it can be a challenging time for maintaining your health and fitness. Between the added pressure of social events and opportunities to overindulge, it’s all too easy to throw in the towel, resolving to get back on track in the new year. But
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Thousands of years before Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, tiny beads helped humans make social connections. A decade-long study of more than 1,500 beads made from ostrich eggshells and found across Africa has revealed a 50,000-year-old social network, archaeologists say. The donut-shaped beads are among the earliest kinds of personal adornment found
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Un “accidente industrial importante” en la planta de ExxonMobil en Baytown, Texas, la madrugada del jueves llevó a la movilización de varios agentes, dijeron las autoridades. Los informes iniciales indican que ocurrió algún tipo de explosión dentro de la planta, dijo el sheriff del condado de Harris, Ed González, en un tuit.
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A family of seven, including three children, who were found dead earlier this week inside a northwest Minnesota home died of what appears to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, police said Wednesday. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded in its preliminary results that the bodies of all seven seemed to
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Tencent is dramatically cutting its stake in JD.com, China’s second largest e-commerce company, as it seeks to stay on the right side of Beijing, which has been cracking down on tech giants to rein in their growing power and influence. Tencent plans to distribute more than $16 billion worth of
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he expects a surge in coronavirus cases around the New Year period, as the national disease control center says the country has now recorded its first death of someone with the new omicron variant. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said Thursday that Germany hasn’t seen a big, rapid wave
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — A medida que las variantes del nuevo coronavirus ómicron y delta, altamente transmisibles, continúan arrasando en Estados Unidos, las autoridades de salud advierten que se espera que más personas se infecten, incluso aquellas que están completamente vacunadas contra el covid-19, y deben quedarse en casa y aislarse para no contagiar el virus
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside and Jason Hanna, CNN A “major industrial accident” injured at least four people early Thursday at one of the United States’ largest oil refineries, sheriff’s officials in the Houston area said. Initial reports indicated an explosion happened at the ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baytown, Texas, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares are higher after stocks advanced on Wall Street, buoyed by encouraging reports about the potential impact of the omicron variant of coronavirus. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that the U.S. economy grew at a 2.3% rate in the third quarter, slightly better than previously
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares are higher after stocks advanced on Wall Street, buoyed by encouraging reports about the potential impact of the omicron variant of coronavirus. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that the U.S. economy grew at a 2.3% rate in the third quarter, slightly better than previously
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Sara Sidner, Stephanie Becker and Dan Przygoda, CNN For the second year in a row, weary doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic are preparing to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients over the Christmas holiday as the highly transmissible Omicron variant drives up case counts across the United States. “It’s
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. officials have denied an American citizen who was arrested in Turkey for allegedly providing a fake passport to a Syrian man is a U.S. diplomat. Turkish officials said Wednesday they detained a U.S. diplomat at Istanbul Airport on Nov. 11. Authorities in Turkey publicly identified the man only by his
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