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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The United Kingdom has a jobs problem. There just aren’t enough workers to keep its economy moving forward, and many employees are growing angry about inflation taking a large bite out of their paychecks. The problem escalated Tuesday as thousands of rail workers went on strike over demands for better
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it has successfully launched its first homegrown space rocket. The Science Ministry says the three-stage Nuri rocket succeeded Tuesday in releasing and placing its functioning “performance verification” satellite at a desired altitude of 435 miles. Experts say the success boosted the country’s
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Native American has been nominated to be U.S. treasurer, a historic first. President Joe Biden’s nomination of Marilynn Malerba comes as his administration establishes an Office of Tribal and Native Affairs at the Treasury Department. The treasurer’s duties include oversight of the U.S. Mint. The treasurer’s
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Native American has been nominated to be U.S. treasurer, a historic first. President Joe Biden’s nomination of Marilynn Malerba comes as his administration establishes an Office of Tribal and Native Affairs at the Treasury Department. The treasurer’s duties include oversight of the U.S. Mint. The treasurer’s
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea successfully launched satellites into orbit with its homegrown Nuri rocket on Tuesday, a significant step for the country’s burgeoning space program after a failed attempt last year. The three-stage rocket, more than 47 meters (154 feet) long and weighing 200 tons, was launched from
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with France’s main party leaders after his centrist alliance failed to win an absolute majority in parliamentary elections. The meetings at the Elysee presidential palace come after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne formally offered her resignation Tuesday, in line with
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A United Nations summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China, the second major international event to be moved from China because of its strict anti-coronavirus policies. China’s environment ministry says the meeting will be held in December in Montreal. It says the decision was made “after comprehensively considering
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol turns its attention Tuesday to the campaign to pressure state-level officials to overturn the 2020 election results. The hearing will focus in particular on then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol turns its attention Tuesday to the campaign to pressure state-level officials to overturn the 2020 election results. The hearing will focus in particular on then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Do the challenges of the modern world and the effects of the pandemic have you tied up in knots? Maybe an ancient practice can give you some relief. For thousands of years, people have turned to yoga to feel more limber, release stress and rejuvenate their overall physical and mental health.
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police say a stabbing in a shopping mall west of the Swedish capital has left at least two people wounded, one with life-threatening injuries. A suspect has been arrested. Police said that “some kind of sharp object” had been used in Tuesday’s attack in the town of Vasteras, and that the case
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La victoria de Gustavo Petro en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia este domingo abre una nueva página en la historia de las relaciones del país con Estados Unidos. Colombia, que nunca ha tenido un presidente de izquierda, ha sido el aliado más cercano de Washington en la región durante décadas.
Continue Reading NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Earl and Countess of Wessex have met with the president of Cyprus as part of a three-day visit to the former British colony to underscore close bilateral ties and to meet soldiers serving with a U.N. peacekeeping force and those stationed at two U.K. military bases. The Earl — the
Continue Reading By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s state news agency says a flight by a private Syrian airline has landed at an airport used by Russia’s military in the country’s coastal province of Latakia. The Cham Wings flight from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday was the first to land in at
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of railway workers walked off the job in Britain on Tuesday, bringing the train network to a crawl in the country’s biggest transit strike for three decades — and a potential precursor to a summer of labor discontent. About 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN Paris Fashion Week is back again, with this week marking the beginning of the Spring-Summer 2023 menswear shows. Menswear has fast become one of the most subversive and innovative areas of fashion. Earlier in the year, a landmark exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert museum reminded us that dressing “masculine” has been
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By Rosa Flores, Eric Levenson and Rebekah Riess, CNN The mayor of Uvalde, Texas, visibly frustrated with the constantly changing information released about what happened the day 19 children and two teachers were gunned down, lashed out Tuesday, telling residents at a city council meeting he’s tired of being kept in the dark about what
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a civilian bus in northern Syria that killed 13 people. The extremist group said in a statement late on Monday that its gunmen attacked the bus with automatic rifles. The Syrian military said 11 soldiers and two civilians were killed in
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s judicial authorities have brought home six women and 16 children with Belgian citizenship who were held in Syria for their suspected connection with the Islamic State group. The federal prosecutor’s office said it’s the second repatriation operation following a July 2021 flight that brought back six mothers and 10 children. Spokesman
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world’s biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 661 pounds (about 300 kilograms), and took around a dozen men to haul to shore. Named Boramy — meaning “full moon” in the Khmer language — because
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