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By ADIL JAWAD Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a powerful gas explosion in a sewage system in a southern Pakistan city has killed at least 12 people and injured 11 others. A police spokesman said the blast Saturday was apparently caused when something ignited gas that had accumulated in the sewer beneath
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of Catalans have taken to the streets of Barcelona to protest against a court decision that mandates that 25% of all school subjects be taught in Spanish and reduces the still predominant use of the local Catalan language in classrooms. Demonstrators say this would threaten
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Robert Lewandowski scored his 43rd Bundesliga goal of 2021 to break Gerd Muller’s 49-year record of most goals scored in a calendar year. The Polish forward scored the fourth goal in Bayern Munich’s 4-0 win over Wolfsburg on Friday, eclipsing Muller with just three minutes remaining in Bayern’s last Bundesliga match
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN For as much controversy as actor Ben Affleck stirred when talking about his marriage and addiction, he also shined a light on important conversations for addicts and their loved ones, an expert said. Marital problems and addiction have a “chicken and egg” relationship, said psychologist John F. Kelly, Harvard Medical School
Continue ReadingCNN By Madeline Holcombe, CNN For as much controversy as actor Ben Affleck stirred when talking about his marriage and addiction, he also shined a light on important conversations for addicts and their loved ones, an expert said. Marital problems and addiction have a “chicken and egg” relationship, said psychologist John F. Kelly, Harvard Medical
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Las autoridades en el área metropolitana de DC dijeron este viernes que un hombre de 35 años, a quien apodaron el “asesino del carrito de compras”, que fue acusado el mes pasado por el asesinato de dos mujeres, podría ser un asesino en serie y el principal sospechoso de la muerte
Continue ReadingCNN By 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.
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VAL d’ISÈRE, France (AP) — Olympic champion Sofia Goggia and her American rival Breezy Johnson have finished 1-2 in a women’s World Cup downhill for the third time this season. Goggia stretched her unbeaten run in the discipline to a year. The Italian has won all seven World Cup downhills she competed in since Dec.
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La investigación de la virulencia de la variante del coronavirus ómicron aún se encuentra en las primeras etapas, pero lo que está muy claro, según los expertos, es que está a punto de extenderse rápidamente por EE.UU. Y probablemente abrumará a un sistema de atención médica y a hospitales ya golpeados.
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda Londres (CNN Business) — Desconcertado por la subida de los precios, el Banco de Inglaterra se convirtió el jueves en el primer banco central importante en subir las tasas de interés desde que comenzó la pandemia. La Reserva Federal de EE.UU. seguirá en los próximos meses, y se esperan tres aumentos de
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is doubling down on his efforts to quash the old Latin Mass. He is forbidding the celebration of some sacraments according to the ancient rite in his latest salvo against conservatives and traditionalists. The Vatican’s liturgy office issued a document that clarified some questions that
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By Amir Vera, CNN When football season kicked off back in September, it felt like normalcy was returning to a world upended by Covid-19. Fans packed stadiums at both college and professional games, eager to watch their favorite teams play, despite the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus. Basketball and hockey’s respective seasons soon began,
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By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish truckers have won concessions from the government to help check rising fuel costs and improve work conditions after threatening to stop hauling freight just before Christmas. Spain, like many governments across the globe, faced pressure to help relieve the pain caused by record-high inflation. The
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish truckers have won concessions from the government to help check rising fuel costs and improve work conditions after threatening to stop hauling freight just before Christmas. Spain, like many governments across the globe, faced pressure to help relieve the pain caused by record-high inflation. The
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — A moderate earthquake has rattled Milan. There have been no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Italy’s Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology said the quake had a preliminary magnitude between 4.3 and 4.8. It struck at 11:34 a.m. (1034 GMT) Saturday in the province of Bergamo.
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon has left at least 31 people dead in the Philippines, knocked down power and cellphone services in entire provinces and wrought widespread destruction. A governor says her island was leveled to the ground. Typhoon Rai blew away Friday night into the South China
Continue Reading KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a powerful gas explosion in a sewage system in a southern Pakistan city has killed at least 10 people and injured 13 others. A police spokesman said the blast Saturday was apparently caused when something ignited gas that had accumulated in the sewer beneath a bank building. The explosion
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Driving in a snow storm is difficult. Add in blowing wind and poor visibility, and travel can become downright dangerous. And driving in a snow squall is next to impossible. “There is no safe place on a highway during a snow squall,” the National Weather Service (NWS) warned. A snow
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Dakin Andone, CNN The research is still early on the virulence of the Omicron coronavirus variant — but what’s abundantly clear, according to experts, is that it’s poised to spread rapidly across the US and will likely overwhelm a battered US health care system. The variant is expected to become the
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Christina Maxouris, CNN When Leyda Becker heard a weather alert on her phone in the early morning hours of December 11, she wasn’t surprised. Tornado alerts in Bowling Green are not uncommon and often don’t amount to much. But along with her husband and two children, she took shelter
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