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By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Omicron coronavirus variant will cause a “winter wave” that will complicate the return of workers to offices in the United States, according to Andy Slavitt, a former senior pandemic adviser to President Joe Biden. “The beginning of 2022 will be rough,” Slavitt told CNN in a phone interview. Scientists
Continue ReadingBy Michael Nedelman, CNN Pfizer’s updated results for its experimental treatment for Covid-19 showed it cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% if given to high-risk adults within a few days of their first symptoms, the company announced in a news release Tuesday. Pfizer hopes it can eventually offer the pills, under the
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BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he has applied to be the next governor of Norway’s central bank in an appointment that would last for six years if he gets the job. The current governor of Norges Bank is retiring in early 2022 after holding the
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BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he has applied to be the next governor of Norway’s central bank in an appointment that would last for six years if he gets the job. The current governor of Norges Bank is retiring in early 2022 after holding the
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Police say several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks, set fire to garbage cans and threw bottles at cars. It wasn’t clear on Tuesday whether the mosque was targeted deliberately. Police said the windows were broken on Monday
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olivertapia (CNN) — La destrucción fue instantánea. Muchas casas y negocios fueron arrojados al aire después de una ola de tornados en ocho estados de EE.UU., pero los que sobrevivieron, muchos de los cuales se quedaron solo con la ropa que llevaban puesta, ahora enfrentan un camino abrumador hacia la recuperación. Aproximadamente el 75% de
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Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As you make your way through the soda aisle, you may notice a lot less of the word “diet” than you used to. That’s because some diet sodas are disappearing — or at least, that packaging is gone. Instead you’ll find those beverages under their new branding: zero sugar. “Zero
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As you make your way through the soda aisle, you may notice a lot less of the word “diet” than you used to. That’s because some diet sodas are disappearing — or at least, that packaging is gone. Instead you’ll find those beverages under their new branding:
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has withdrawn his candidacy for a Senate seat in next year’s elections in his latest change of mind over what he plans to do after his turbulent term ends. Critics say Duterte, once out of power, would likely face an array of
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — Serbia is taking a significant step toward joining the European Union. Belgrade opened talks Tuesday on a series of policies linked to the environment but it was warned that progress on its European path still depends on normalizing relations with its former territory, Kosovo. Countries wanting to join the 27-country EU must
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — España comenzará a vacunar a niños de 5 a 11 años el miércoles, anunció el Ministerio de Salud. El objetivo es vacunar a los 3,3 millones de niños en este rango de edad durante diciembre y enero, según un comunicado. El Ministerio de Salud envió el primer embarque de 1,3 millones de
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China has detected its second case of the omicron variant in a 67-year-old man who tested positive after more than two weeks of quarantine. State broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday said the man returned from overseas on Nov. 27 and underwent two weeks of quarantine and repeatedly tested negative for the virus. On
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business Toyota is pumping more than $35 billion into electric vehicles as it tries to catch up with other global automakers in the race to cleaner cars. The world’s biggest carmaker announced Tuesday that it would invest 4 trillion yen ($35.2 billion) in developing battery-powered electric vehicles between 2022 and 2030
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — A volcano that has been spewing lava in Spain’s Canary Islands for almost three months has fallen quiet. But scientists are warning that the lull doesn’t necessarily mean the eruption is over. Scientists recorded no seismic activity from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma island for almost 12 hours. That’s the
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — A volcano that has been spewing lava in Spain’s Canary Islands for almost three months has fallen quiet. But scientists are warning that the lull doesn’t necessarily mean the eruption is over. Scientists recorded no seismic activity from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma island for almost 12 hours. That’s the
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Kristin Wilson, CNN Congress has acted to raise the national debt limit by $2.5 trillion and extend it into 2023 after lawmakers raced to avert a catastrophic default ahead of a critical midweek deadline. The Senate moved on Tuesday to pass legislation to increase the limit in a vote
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency has certified a 38-degree Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) reading in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk last year as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. The World Meteorological Organization said the temperature “more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic” was recorded in June 2020 during a heat wave
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv Estados Unidos supera los 50 millones de casos de covid-19. Elon Musk es la persona del año para la revista Time. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 El horror por el paso de tornados en EE.UU. Al menos 50 tornados azotaron ocho estados, incluidos Arkansas,
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley, CNN Business Germany is teetering on the brink of recession this winter as supply bottlenecks and a wave of new coronavirus cases hobble the economy. Europe’s largest economy will shrink 0.5% in the fourth quarter of this year, compared with the third, and stagnate in the first three months of 2022, according
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