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By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania is defending its decision to bar rail transit from Russia to a Russian Baltic Sea exclave of goods hit by European Union sanctions, in a move that drew Moscow’s strong anger amid high tensions in the region. The country’s foreign minister said Lithuania was simply
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By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania is defending its decision to bar rail transit from Russia to a Russian Baltic Sea exclave of goods hit by European Union sanctions, in a move that drew Moscow’s strong anger amid high tensions in the region. The country’s foreign minister said Lithuania was simply
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — El domingo 19 de junio, los colombianos eligieron a un nuevo presidente para el periodo 2022-2026. Gustavo Petro será el sucesor de Iván Duque, quien inició su mandato el 7 de agosto de 2018 y lo termina el 7 de agosto de este año. ¿Por qué el presidente Iván Duque no
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) autorizó este viernes el uso de emergencia de las vacunas de Pfizer/BioNTech y Moderna para niños pequeños. Los asesores en materia de vacunas de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU.
Continue Reading MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has expressed concern about rising food prices caused in part by the war in Ukraine and said he will serve as secretary of agriculture when he takes office to prepare for a possible emergency. He and Vice President-elect Sara Duterte take office June 30 after winning
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Russian-born tennis player Natela Dzalamidze has changed her nationality to Georgian to avoid the ban Wimbledon imposed on all Russian players following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The doubles specialist, ranked No. 43 in the world, is now officially listed as having Georgian nationality on the WTA website and is eligible
Continue Reading By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania is defending its decision to bar rail transit from Russia to a Russian Baltic Sea exclave of goods hit by European Union sanctions, in a move that drew Moscow’s strong anger amid high tensions in the region. The country’s foreign minister said Lithuania was simply
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Dos voluntarios estadounidenses que luchan por Ucrania fueron detenidos por los separatistas respaldados por Rusia en Donetsk tras ser capturados la semana pasada, según los medios estatales rusos. Los ciudadanos estadounidenses Alexander John-Robert Drueke, de 39 años y originario de Tuscaloosa (Alabama), y Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, de 27 años
Continue Reading By JULHAS ALAM and WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swaths of the countries. The floods triggered by monsoon rains have killed
Continue Reading By ANDREA ROSA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — From a hideout in a bombed-out house in eastern Ukraine, army commander Mykhailo Strebizh twirls a mortar shell the size of a bowling pin, calling it “aid we got from Europe and America.” He then turns to a makeshift blackboard — a door
Continue Reading By ANDREA ROSA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — From a hideout in a bombed-out house in eastern Ukraine, army commander Mykhailo Strebizh twirls a mortar shell the size of a bowling pin, calling it “aid we got from Europe and America.” He then turns to a makeshift blackboard — a door
Continue Reading NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa has offered to mediate in disputes in the region as Beijing seeks to strengthen its influence and protect its investments from conflict and other troubles. Xue Bing told a China-led peace conference in Ethiopia’s capital that he is “ready to provide mediation
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Coronavirus vaccines could start going into the arms of children as young as six months old as soon as this week. The Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup announced on Sunday it completed its review of coronavirus vaccines being safe and effective for children as young as six months old. This was for the Pfizer-BioNTech
Continue ReadingOpinion by Joe O’Connor and Juliet Schor for CNN Business Perspectives It’s now well recognized how difficult the pandemic has been for workers. A Conference Board survey of workers from September 2021 found that more than three-quarters of US respondents reported stress and burnout as big challenges to being at work, versus 55% six months
Continue ReadingCNN By Camila Moreno Lizarazo, CNN This year marks the second year Juneteenth will be observed as a federal holiday. June 19 commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were told by Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger that they had been liberated. Granger’s announcement came almost three years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Circle is the company behind USD Coin, the second-largest so-called “stablecoin” in the crypto industry. Unlike more popular cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, stablecoins are typically backed by gold, government bonds, cash or other assets, and are typically priced on a 1:1 ratio with the U.S. dollar.
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CNN, KGO, WWNY, SPECTRUM NEWS NY1 By Holly Yan, CNN A 5-year-old had just finished his first day of kindergarten when he watched his young mother collapse and take her final breaths. A 13-year-old has suffered panic attacks since her dad’s death. A 17-year-old must face adulthood without his idol. More than 202,000 US children
Continue ReadingBy Swati Gupta and Esha Mitra, CNN At least 84 people have died in landslides, lightning strikes and flash floods across India and Bangladesh in the past week, according to officials in both countries. In the state of Assam, at least 41 people have died and seven people were missing as of Tuesday, according to
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Nueva York (CNN Business) — La misión de la Reserva Federal es fomentar la estabilidad de los sistemas monetarios estadounidenses. Es la razón por la que el banco central se creó en 1913, y es la razón por la que sigue existiendo hoy en día. Por eso, cuando la inflación amenaza con
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries about a cut in Russia’s gas supplies. Russia’s Gazprom announced last week that it was sharply reducing supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany for what it
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