By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold the fifth talk of their presidencies on Thursday morning amid rising tensions. Their conversation will be their first since March, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Relations between the two countries have been strained
Continue ReadingCNN By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Joseph Ataman CNN Poland is buying almost 1,000 tanks, more than 600 pieces of artillery and dozens of fighter jets from South Korea, in part to replace equipment donated to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight the Russian invasion, the Polish Ministry of Defense told CNN on Tuesday. The
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin has warned that a possible prisoner swap with the United States involving American basketball star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated quietly without fanfare. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Washington had offered Russia a deal that would bring home Griner and
Continue ReadingBy Michael Warren, CNN The top controversies upending both the sporting world and international relations are coming together this week at Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club, with the former President stepping right in the middle of the drama. Starting Friday, Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster will host the third event for LIV Golf,
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Associated Press JetBlue is buying Spirit Airlines in a $3.8 billion deal, a day after Spirit and Frontier Airlines agreed to abandon their merger proposal. JetBlue will acquire Spirit for $33.50 per share in cash, including a prepayment of $2.50 per share in cash payable once Spirit stockholders approve the transaction. There’s also a ticking
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN It was less than a year ago that Cristiano Ronaldo made his sensational return to Manchester United, but the superstar is once again involved in another transfer saga. Not happy with his current club’s position, it appears the 37-year-old is on the hunt for a new adventure that can satisfy his
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — A British judge has jailed for life a man who killed his grandfather in the first crown court sentencing to be televised in Britain. Judge Sarah Munro’s remarks were the first to be broadcast live on news channels after a change in law to allow cameras in British crown courts, which deal
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s push to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a former gold mine key to the nation’s industrialization will be delayed. The Sado Island mine in northern Japan operated for nearly 400 years and was once the world’s largest gold producer before closing in 1989. But the
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN It seems somewhat of an understatement to call the Tour de France a bike race. It transcends cycling, shutting down every mountain pass, village, town and city it passes through, drawing huge crowds along the roadside like some kaleidoscopic carnival. But — except for a brief period between 1984 and 1989
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La cantante colombiana Shakira enfrentará un juicio oral por seis presuntos delitos contra la Hacienda Pública de España. Un juez dice que la artista ha defraudado al fisco español pero la cantante niega estas acusaciones. El caso data de 2018 cuando la Fiscalía de Barcelona presentó una querella contra
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Rusia logró en las últimas horas un “éxito parcial” en su intento por controlar la región de Donetsk, en el este de Ucrania, donde mantiene los bombardeos desde hace semanas. Además, funcionarios de la administración de Joe Biden aseguraron que más de 75.000 soldados rusos murieron o resultaron heridos
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Business Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an “unprecedented” rise in costs. The world’s largest food company raised its prices the most in North America — a 9.8% increase — followed by Latin America at 9.4%, Nestlé said in a statement
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh, CNN James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory, which hypothesizes Earth acts as a single living organism, has died at the age of 103. Lovelock died on Tuesday “surrounded by his family on his 103rd birthday,” a statement from his family released to the Guardian and shared
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Yang Huiyan, Asia’s wealthiest woman, has seen her wealth fall to $11 billion from nearly $24 billion this year as China’s property crisis escalates, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The 41-year-old controls Country Garden Holdings, China’s largest real estate developer by sales. Her stake was largely transferred from her
Continue Reading By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Turning around South Carolina’s chronically dangerous juvenile prisons is now the job of a prosecutor who sent some of those children to jail. Juvenile Justice Director Eden Hendrick tells The Associated Press she’s very hopeful that reforms are actually getting some traction. She leads
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN That Venice is in peril is indisputable. That it is ultimately saveable is up for discussion. Now, one company thinks they can make a difference to the floating, sinking city — with “flying” boats. Swedish company Candela thinks that its electric boats can help fight “moto ondoso” — the damaging phenomenon of
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN On August 9, Kenyans head to the polls and with soaring food and fuel prices, high unemployment and post-pandemic stagnation, a change in leadership could not come at a more critical time for East Africa’s largest economy. Who are the candidates? Deputy President William Ruto, 55 and veteran
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN A 7-year-old girl from Georgia camping with her family in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was killed Wednesday when a tree fell on their campsite, park officials said. Rangers responded to an emergency call at the Elkmont Campground in Tennessee at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, the park said in a news release.
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Iran’s capital has killed at least four people. The report said heavy rains in the early hours of Thursday caused flash floods and then landslides in the northwestern part of Tehran. Damage was also caused to a religious shrine. Rescue
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police say cars crashed into tires and other garbage piled on a highway in the northern Netherlands by radical farmers protesting against government plans to rein in nitrogen emissions. Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Thursday branded the protests “unacceptable.” Police in the northern province of Friesland say nobody was injured
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