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By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has signed deals to purchase electricity from Jordan via Syria to help the small Mediterranean country deal with its crippling energy crisis. The deals are expected to bring Lebanon up to 250 megawatts of electricity a day within two months, enough for about two hours
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El papa Francisco convocó a una jornada de oración por Ucrania, durante su audiencia general en el Vaticano. “Con la oración de Nuestro Señor, los invito a rezar por la paz en Ucrania, y a hacerlo a menudo hoy”, dijo. “Pidamos a Nuestro Señor con insistencia que ese país pueda
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La variante ómicron puede estar mostrando los primeros signos esperanzadores de estar pasando su punto álgido. Pero la furiosa política del covid-19 no hace más que intensificarse y, dadas sus futuras implicaciones electorales, parece seguro que durará más que la propia pandemia. Tras dos años de venenosas disputas partidistas sobre
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CNN, KGTV By Travis Caldwell and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN After a legal battle played out in New York’s court system this week, its state mask mandate was temporarily upheld Tuesday, but the back-and-forth left many residents trying to determine whether mask wearing at certain places was required or optional. The mandate, which was enacted in
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s navy is working to clean up a spill of as much as 128 tons (160,000 liters) of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand. The spill is near the country’s Eastern Seaboard industrial area but an official with the Pollution Control Department said some of the
Continue Reading By Travis Caldwell and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN After a legal battle played out in New York’s court system this week, its state mask mandate was temporarily upheld Tuesday, but the back-and-forth left many residents trying to determine whether mask wearing at certain places was required or optional. The mandate, which was enacted in December and
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LONDON (AP) — England coach Eddie Jones says captain Owen Farrell will miss the entire Six Nations rugby tournament because of injury. Farrell hurt his ankle in training with Saracens last week and requires surgery. Saracens say he will be out for up to 10 weeks. Jones says “it’s a massive blow for him personally
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The two New York Police Department officers who were killed responding last week to a domestic disturbance call are being remembered as dedicated heroes as city officials step up their push to curb escalating crime. Officers Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera, both in their 20s, were shot after encountering someone with
Continue ReadingBy David G. Allan, CNN Library Shelfie Day — proof that there is now a day of celebration for everything — is the fourth Wednesday of January. It’s a lovely reminder of the heroic civic role libraries play in our lives, related to the massive impact books in general have on our lives. Whenever I
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — La Clínica de la Universidad de La Sabana informó este martes a través de un comunicado que, tras la intervención de neurocirugía realizada, el ciclista del equipo INEOS Egan Bernal continua en recuperación, se le esta dando soporte respiratorio y se le ha dado manejo de líquidos para avanzar
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Pablo, meet Crypto. Heirs of Pablo Picasso, the famed 20th-century Spanish artist, are vaulting into 21st-century commerce by selling 1,010 digital art pieces of one of his ceramic works that has never before been seen publicly — riding a fad for “crypto” assets that have taken the
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN The life of an elite athlete is rarely straightforward but Danielle Collins has had to fight harder than most. In April, the American was undergoing emergency surgery for endometriosis and had suffered an abdominal injury at the French Open. Fast forward to 2022 and the 28-year-old has just progressed into the
Continue ReadingCNN By Katharina Krebs, Radina Gigova and Tara John, CNN Five people were shot dead and another five injured when a Ukrainian soldier opened fire at a military plant, the country’s interior ministry said Thursday. A Ukrainian National Guard service-member was detained following the attack, which left four soldiers and a worker dead at a
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Climate change is threatening the Winter Olympics and the future of snow sports by making conditions much more dangerous for athletes and participants, experts warned in a report published a week ahead of the start of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. The Beijing Games, kicking off on February 4, will be
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are mixed, with many investors staying on the sidelines ahead of an update on how aggressively the Federal Reserve will tackle inflation. European shares rose in early trading after a mixed session in Asia. Stocks have gyrated this week, putting heightened scrutiny on the
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from a fire at a major oil refinery in Kuwait has been raised to four after two critically injured workers died of their wounds. The Kuwait National Petroleum Company acknowledged in a statement Wednesday that the two workers died while receiving treatment in a hospital. The
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Human Rights Watch says one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group. The New York-based rights group said Wednesday that the software was used against the director of its Beirut office who also oversees its crisis response in several
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The Coachella Valley arena name has been revealed. The arena will be named the Acrisure Arena, officials revealed on Wednesday. The arena’s developer, the Oak View Group (OVG), announced they agreed to a 10-year naming rights agreement with fintech leader Acrisure. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Let’s do this #PalmSprings. 🤟
Continue Reading By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Stefanos Tsitsipas maintained his perfect record in Grand Slam quarterfinals with a straight-sets win over No. 11-seeded Jannik Sinner to reach the last four of the Australian Open. Seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek rallied to beat 36-year-old Kaia Kanepi 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3 and move into the
Continue Reading By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Repeated COVID-19 testing of millions of Beijing residents is starting to test the patience of some as the city clamps down on the virus ahead of the coming Winter Olympics. A third round of mass testing for the 2 million residents of Fengtai district got underway Wednesday.
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