By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s culture minister has welcomed the return of 201 prized antiquities valued at over 10 million euros ($11 million). The objects welcomed back on Thursday had been located in prestigious U.S. museums and galleries after being illegally trafficked in recent decades. They were among thousands of antiquities
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state statistics agency says that more than 87,500 people with COVID-19 died in Russia in November, the highest montly tally since the start of the pandemic. Thursday’s report by Rosstat brought the overall number of virus-linked deaths between April 2020 and October 2021 to over 625,000
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Bahrain’s news agency says the king has appointed the country’s first ambassador to Syria in more than a decade. Thursday’s decree by Bahrain’s king came as more Arab countries are improving relations with Damascus, nearly 11 years after the outbreak of Syria’s civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed
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Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico informó este miércoles que la próxima semana estarán disponibles en la isla las píldoras para tratamientos antivirales orales contra el covid-19. Paxlovid y Molnupiravir, las píldoras aprobadas recientemente para el uso de emergencia por parte de la Administración Federal de Alimentos y Medicamentos
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to broaden eligibility for Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine boosters to youths ages 12 to 15 in the coming days, according to a person familiar with the agency’s plan. People as young as 16 are already eligible to receive boosters of the Pfizer vaccine six
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers and Denver’s Michael Malone have been placed into the NBA’s health and safety protocols, raising the total number of head coaches on that virus-related list to seven. Rivers and Malone join the Los Angeles Lakers’ Frank Vogel, Chicago’s Billy Donovan, Phoenix’s Monty Williams, Portland’s Chauncey Billups
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers and Denver’s Michael Malone have been placed into the NBA’s health and safety protocols, raising the total number of head coaches on that virus-related list to seven. Rivers and Malone join the Los Angeles Lakers’ Frank Vogel, Chicago’s Billy Donovan, Phoenix’s Monty Williams, Portland’s Chauncey Billups
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers and Denver’s Michael Malone have been placed into the NBA’s health and safety protocols, raising the total number of head coaches on that virus-related list to seven. Rivers and Malone join the Los Angeles Lakers’ Frank Vogel, Chicago’s Billy Donovan, Phoenix’s Monty Williams, Portland’s Chauncey Billups
Continue Reading By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters rallying against the October military coup. A Sudanese medical group says at least four protesters were killed in the violence. The Sudan Doctors Committee tweeted that the fatalities took place in Khartoum’s twin city of
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a second man shot while inside a car stopped at a red light early Wednesday has died. Police on Thursday identified the victim who died at the scene as 27-year-old Everado Sandoval and said the other victim who died later of his injuries was 21-year-old Jorge Granados. According to
Continue Reading By BRANDON GDULA numberFire Keep an eye on the news with Jimmy Garoppolo in San Francisco. He has a chance to play this week, but if he’s ruled out, then we can add Trey Lance into quarterback-needy lineups. With Kansas City’s Clyde Edwards-Helaire unlikely to play this week, we can turn to Darrel Williams. Williams,
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer NFL executive Troy Vincent hopes hiring minority candidates becomes so common that the Rooney Rule is unnecessary. Vincent, a five-time Pro Bowl cornerback who played from 1992-2006 and a former president of the NFL players union, is the league’s executive vice president of football operations. He told The
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak by phone on Thursday about the Russian troop buildup near Ukraine. It’s a new round of leader-to-leader talks that come as the Kremlin has stepped up its calls for security guarantees and test fired hypersonic missiles to underscore
Continue ReadingBy Amy Cassidy and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Mourners flocked to St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday to pay their respects to anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he lay in state in a simple pine coffin. The coffin was the “cheapest available” at the request of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and human
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Perhaps no team was hurt more than Atlanta when Major League Baseball locked out its players on Dec. 2. The move hurts the Braves’ chances to make the most of the franchise’s first World Series championship since 1995. The afterglow of a championship is traditionally quite
Continue Reading By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The University of Connecticut has settled a gender equity lawsuit, ensuring the school keeps its women’s rowing program for at least the next five years. The lawsuit was filed by 12 rowers after the school announced in June 2020 that the sport would be among
Continue ReadingBy CAITLIN LILLY Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — The Nevada Gaming Control Board warned licensees that it will be intensifying enforcement of the state’s mask mandate in casinos. According to a notice to all gaming licensees on Wednesday, the gaming board noted that Emergency Directive 045 requires each person,
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN UK bank Santander got into the Christmas spirit this year by paying out a total of £130 million ($175 million) to customers by mistake on December 25. The total payment was split over 75,000 transactions for around 2,000 corporate and commercial customers, Santander said in a statement published Thursday. “We’re sorry
Continue Reading By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are pressing nursing home workers to get their booster shots amid a spike in COVID-19 cases among staffers and a concerning lag in booster vaccination for residents and staff. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday the nation cannot afford another COVID-19 surge in nursing
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are pressing nursing home workers to get their booster shots amid a spike in COVID-19 cases among staffers and a concerning lag in booster vaccination for residents and staff. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday the nation cannot afford another COVID-19 surge in nursing
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