Story by Reuters Austrian leaders appealed for national unity after a doctor who faced death threats from anti-vaccination activists and coronavirus pandemic conspiracy theorists took her own life. “Let’s put an end to this intimidation and fear mongering. Hate and intolerance have no place in our Austria,” President Alexander Van der Bellen said, hailing Lisa-Maria
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business If you have one or more drawers filled with old gadgets and wires, you’re not alone. Decades of the tech sector’s pressure to “innovate or die” have led to a long list of useful and flashy household tech products, but many of these same devices also have a need to
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Dakin Andone, CNN At least 28 people have died in last week’s flooding in Kentucky as rescuers continue to search for missing people and the region braces for yet more rain. “Our confirmed count of Kentuckians we’ve lost has now reached 28, and we expect that there will be more, and
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By JOE McDONALD and LISA MASCARO Associated Press BEIJNG (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has confirmed she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has riled Beijing, which claims the island as its own territory. Pelosi said in a statement she is
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah is airing drone footage of Israeli gas production barges in a disputed gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. The Iranian-backed militant group on Sunday aired the drone footage of the Karish gas field as senior U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein was to arrive in Beirut.
Continue ReadingBy Anna Pantelia, for CNN Photographs by Anna Pantelia for CNN Dimitris Mitsaris opens his garage door and the smell of fermenting grapes emerges, as the first morning light bounces off dozens of steel tanks. Mitsaris and his family live here, in Agios Panteleimonas, a mountainous village of just 800 residents in northern Greece, and
Continue Reading By RODNEY MUHUMUZA, FARAI MUTSAKA and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Apollo John Rwamparo speaks forlornly of the eight-legged stool, a symbol of authority for his ancient kingdom in Uganda, now glimpsed through a glass barrier at a museum thousands of miles away in Britain. The wooden stool is permanently exhibited at
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s space agency says debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit has fallen into the sea in the Philippines. The agency said most of the final stage of the Long March-5B rocket burned up after entering the atmosphere. The location of the “landing area” cited
Continue Reading KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A drone-borne explosive device detonated Sunday at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, injuring six people, officials said. The explosion at the headquarters in the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 caused cancellation of observances of Russia’s Navy Day holiday. The Black
Continue ReadingBy Sarita Harilela and Alex Stambaugh, CNN US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is heading to Asia for a tour of the region after landing in Hawaii, where she visited the Pearl Harbor Memorial and the USS Arizona. Pelosi is leading a Congressional delegation to the Indo-Pacific and plans to visit places including Singapore, Malaysia, South
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WIEJKOWO, Poland (AP) — More than 1,000 years after his death in what is now Poland, a European king whose nickname lives on through wireless technology is at the center of an archaeological dispute. Chronicles from the Middle Ages say King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson of Denmark acquired his nickname courtesy
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Neurologist Rudy Tanzi was still a graduate student at Harvard Medical School when he helped identify the first gene associated with hereditary Alzheimer’s — amyloid beta-protein precursor, or APP. “It was the summer of ’86. I was 27 years old,” Tanzi recalls. “I remember thinking that for the first time since
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON and NICO GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Mona Lisa may maintain her famously enigmatic smile because she benefits from one of Paris’ best-kept secrets: An underground cooling system that’s helped the Louvre cope with the sweltering heat that has broken temperature records across Europe. The little-known “urban cold” network snakes
Continue Reading By BABACAR DIONE and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal is holding a legislative election. Opposition parties in the West African nation are trying to minimize the ruling party’s influence before the 2024 presidential election. They are worried that President Macky Sall may seek a third term. In Sunday’s vote, 165 deputies
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two people are running to be Britain’s next prime minister, but a third presence looms over the contest: Margaret Thatcher. The late former prime minister dominated Britain in the 1980s, and has left a large and contested legacy. Critics see her as an intransigent ideologue whose free-market
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Wild tigers in Nepal have clawed their way back from the brink of extinction. There are now almost three times as many wild tigers in the country as there were in 2009, according to the Nepalese government. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba announced the conservation success Friday morning, according to a
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Samuel Sandoval, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers who served during World War II, died Friday, according to a release from the Navajo Nation. During the war, Sandoval was one of hundreds of young Navajo men recruited to use an 813-word code based on the native
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — With Mike Trout sidelined by back issues, the Los Angeles Angels have received a jolt of offense from an unlikely source. Luis Rengifo hit a go-ahead, two-run double as the Angels rallied for five runs in the eighth inning to beat the Texas Rangers 9-7
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An official survey shows Chinese manufacturing’s recovery from anti-virus shutdowns faltered in July as activity sank. That adds to pressure on the struggling economy in a politically sensitive year when President Xi Jinping is expected to try to extend his time in power. The survey by
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An official survey shows Chinese manufacturing’s recovery from anti-virus shutdowns faltered in July as activity sank. That adds to pressure on the struggling economy in a politically sensitive year when President Xi Jinping is expected to try to extend his time in power. The survey by
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