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PARIS (AP) — Health workers protested on Tuesday around France to demand more hiring and better salaries in public hospitals. Years of cost cuts left medics submerged when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and are now forcing emergency rooms to cut services. Nine unions and collectives organized a day of protest, including a demonstration outside the
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PARIS (AP) — Health workers protested on Tuesday around France to demand more hiring and better salaries in public hospitals. Years of cost cuts left medics submerged when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and are now forcing emergency rooms to cut services. Nine unions and collectives organized a day of protest, including a demonstration outside the
Continue Reading By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer After surgery, some cancer patients can safely skip radiation or chemotherapy, according to two studies exploring shorter, gentler cancer care. Researchers are looking for ways to precisely predict which cancer patients can avoid unneeded treatment to cut down on harmful side effects and unnecessary costs. One new study
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Business Burger King’s new hamburger to celebrate Pride Month has caused quite the stir on social media. The fast-food giant’s Austrian stores will be serving a “Pride Whopper” with “two equal buns” — either two top buns or two bottom buns — until June 20 to promote “equal love and equal
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister is cutting short a three-country foreign trip after testing positive for COVID-19 in Pakistan. Annalena Baerbock took a test after she noticed that she had lost her sense of taste at lunch, her ministry said on Twitter. It said that a test hours before had been negative. She met
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has chosen 19-year-old Leila Mottley’s “Nightcrawling,” a debut novel about a young Black woman from East Oakland and her battles with poverty, racism and the police, for next book club pick. A spokesperson for Winfrey said Mottley is the youngest author ever selected
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has chosen 19-year-old Leila Mottley’s “Nightcrawling,” a debut novel about a young Black woman from East Oakland and her battles with poverty, racism and the police, for next book club pick. A spokesperson for Winfrey said Mottley is the youngest author ever selected
Continue ReadingCNN Blane Bachelor, CNN Just as summer heats up, the US is lifting its long-standing requirement for all travelers entering the country to present a negative Covid-19 test. The news brings both a collective sigh of relief and a likely flood of new international travelers to an already chaotic summer season. For many American travelers,
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Mahtani, CNN Love them or loathe them, as the travel world re-opens, influencers are back on the move. That’s welcome news for some hotels like the Langham on New York’s Fifth Avenue. “Ninety percent of the people we work with are amazing, they are very diligent, this is their business and they do
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Germany’s top diplomat has expressed concerns that Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are leading that country into a complete “downfall,” and bringing about incredible suffering and hunger. Annalena Baerbock spoke at a press conference on Tuesday with her Pakistani counterpart after discussing a range of issues with officials
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Goodyear has agreed to recall more than 173,000 recreational vehicle tires that the government says can fail and have killed or injured 95 people since 1998. Goodyear’s G159 tires have been under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for over five years. On Tuesday
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Forget rummaging through the junk drawer. Soon, Europeans will only need to reach for one cable to charge their smartphones and other devices. European Union officials said they inked a provisional agreement Tuesday that will require a uniform charging cord in the 27-nation bloc. It’s part
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union officials agreed Tuesday on new rules requiring a uniform charging cord for smartphones and other devices, a move that would make life easier for consumers fed up with rummaging through a tangle of cables for the right one. EU negotiators said they inked a
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Ryanair has come under fire for asking South African travelers to take an Afrikaans test to prove their nationality before boarding flights. The low-cost airline is being accused of racial discrimination after presenting passengers with a test in the West Germanic language, which was forced upon black South Africans under apartheid and
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed Tuesday it has occupied large swaths of eastern Ukraine after a relentless, weekslong barrage and the recent deployment of more troops. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow’s forces have control of 97% of the Luhansk region. Russia has declared that
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CNN By Jason Hanna, Amanda Musa and Tina Burnside, CNN Arnulfo Reyes can’t forgive law enforcement for taking more than an hour to stop a gunman who killed 11 fourth-graders in his Texas elementary school classroom and 10 other people in the next room, he told ABC. Reyes, a teacher who was shot twice during
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Amanda Musa and Tina Burnside, CNN Arnulfo Reyes can’t forgive law enforcement for taking more than an hour to stop a gunman who killed 11 fourth-graders in his Texas elementary school classroom and 10 other people in the next room, he told ABC. Reyes, a teacher who was shot twice during the
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating three employees of rail company Deutsche Bahn on suspicion of negligent homicide over a train crash last week that killed five people and injured dozens more. The double-deck regional train that derailed Friday near the southern Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen had about 140 people on
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macamilarincon (CNN) — El príncipe Harry y Meghan, duquesa de Sussex, publicaron una nueva foto de su hija Lilibet, tras celebrarle su primer cumpleaños el sábado pasado en Frogmore Cottage en Windsor, Gran Bretaña, dijo un portavoz de la familia. La pareja compartió una nueva imagen de su hija Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, quien cumplió 1
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — En las elecciones de este martes en California se está produciendo un terremoto que podría sacudir el panorama político de costa a costa. En Los Ángeles y San Francisco, dos de las grandes ciudades más liberales del país, los votantes están dispuestos a enviar mensajes de descontento por el creciente
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