By Solarina Ho, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Radiation levels in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone rose after Russian forces took control of the nuclear reactor plant in Ukraine, according to radiation monitoring data, with Ukrainian experts attributing the spike to contaminated soil in the area being
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Turnbull, CTVNews.ca producer Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Canada will follow the lead of its allies and levy sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the country’s attack on Ukraine. The announcement comes
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business It doesn’t matter where you go: Fast-food hamburgers almost uniformly look like the same round, flat patties. Except for Wendy’s, which has square burgers. The reason for the outlier four-sided shape can be traced back to Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas. In 1969, he opened the first Wendy’s in Columbus, Ohio,
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN The Polish and Swedish national teams will not face Russia in a crucial 2022 World Cup qualification playoff matches in March in protest at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The president of Poland’s football association Cezary Kulesza announced the news on Saturday. “No more words, time to act! Due to the escalation
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Vladimir Putin ha estado esperando a Occidente. Desde 2014, cuando Estados Unidos y sus aliados occidentales impusieron sanciones a Moscú tras la anexión de Crimea y el derribo del vuelo 17 deMalaysia Airlines, el presidente de Rusia ha estado tratando de construir una economía capaz de soportar sanciones mucho más duras.
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CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Czech skier Ester Ledecka has won the first women’s World Cup downhill after the Olympics as all three medalists from Beijing finished well behind. Ledecka hat an attacking run down the Mont Lachaux course in perfect sunny conditions to beat Ragnhild Mowinckel by 0.21 seconds. Cornelia Hütter of Austria came 0.42
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By Christina Maxouris, Alta Spells and Maximillian Boudreaux, CNN Wanda Cooper-Jones said she wanted guilty verdicts in the federal trial for her son’s killers by the time she marked two years since Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down during a jog. They came a day earlier. Jurors found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William
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Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Kicking, hitting and screaming. It’s what happens at my house from the moment my kids wake up to the moment they go to sleep. My sons, ages 2 and 4, fight with each other over everything. Whether it’s sharing toys, the color of their dinner plates or even who has the
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, Simone McCarthy, Tara John and Tim Lister, CNN Two large explosions lit up the night sky south of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Sunday morning. The explosions appear to have been around Vasylkiv, which has a large military airfield and multiple fuel tanks and is about about 30 kilometers south
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The grocery run, the fuel-up and the utility bill are all costing more these days — not to mention the surging home prices and rising rents. But a trip to the neighborhood dispensary might not elicit similar feelings of sticker shock. While Americans have seen prices climb across most of
Continue Reading GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Swiss skier Tanguy Nef has upset the pre-race favorites and posted the fastest time in the opening run of a men’s slalom. It’s the first World Cup race after the Beijing Olympics. Nef started 25th and had a clean run to beat then-leader Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway by 0.07 seconds. Loic
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The Olympic bronze medal in women’s skicross has been changed on appeal nine days after the race at the Beijing Winter Games. Fanny Smith of Switzerland will now get bronze after she was wrongly demoted to fourth in China. The International Ski Federation announced the verdict Saturday after an appeal brought by
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is refusing to play its World Cup qualifier against Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Polish soccer federation president Cezary Kulesza made the announcement on Twitter, citing Russia’s aggression, and indicated Poland was in talks with other federations to present a unified position to FIFA. Previously, Poland had
Continue ReadingBy Terence Burlij, Melissa Holzberg DePalo and Ethan Cohen, CNN Voting ends in the first primaries for the 2022 midterm elections in a matter of days. Texas will kick things off on March 1, and the primary process will wrap up more than six months later on September 13 in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode
Continue ReadingJohn Walton, CNN Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and aviation bans are creating huge no-go areas in the sky, with major implications for long-haul carriers that normally criss-cross the skies of Eastern Europe en route to Asia. All this could have significant consequences for passengers, airlines and the cost of flying if Europe and Russia revive
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LONDON (AP) — British Airways has canceled dozens of flights from Heathrow Airport as it struggles to fix “technical issues” that have hobbled booking and check-in systems. The airline canceled all short-haul flights from the airport until midday Saturday. It said there would likely be delays to long-haul flights and there was likely to be
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN Carnival celebrations are taking place around the world ahead of Mardi Gras, and the world’s largest cruise ship is poised to set sail. But travel is also being impacted by Covid restrictions and the Ukraine invasion. Here are the biggest stories from CNN Travel this week. The world’s largest, highest and
Continue Reading Maya Brown, CNN As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970’s. Black leaders in the civil rights movement were among the effort’s biggest supporters, she says. Masaoka said winning reparations gave the Japanese American community strength, a chance to stand up and
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