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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Aramco has announced a $2.65 billion agreement to acquire Valvoline’s global products business, which includes motor oils, transmission fluids, coolants and other automotive maintenance products. Valvoline said Monday the transaction will separate its global products from its retail services businesses, transforming it into a purely automotive service provider.
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN A passenger traveling from Bali, Indonesia to Australia has found themselves paying a hefty price for a McDonald’s breakfast. The unnamed traveler was handed a fine of 2,664 Australian dollars ($1,874) after two undeclared egg and beef sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant were found in their luggage on arriving at Darwin
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s intelligence ministry has arrested several members of the Baha’i faith and charged them with spying. The Iranian state TV report on Monday said the suspects collected and transferred information to the Baha’i center in Israel, where the religious group’s international headquarters are located. The ministry rarely reports the
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan. It’s possible that he could meet there with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church who has justified Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The Vatican says Francis will attend an interfaith conference in the Kazakh
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CNN, WRAL By Tina Burnside and Paradise Afshar, CNN The body of a man who got off an aircraft mid-flight during an emergency landing Friday near Raleigh, North Carolina, has been recovered, authorities said. Around 2:40 p.m. ET, a twin-engine CASA CN-212 Aviocar landed in the grass at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Pat Carroll, the Emmy-winning actress best known as the voice of the villainous sea witch Ursula in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” has died at the age of 95. Carroll’s daughter, Kerry Karsian, told the Hollywood Reporter that her mother died from pneumonia at her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on Saturday.
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Vasco Cotovio, CNN The first ship carrying grain under a UN-brokered export deal left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday, raising hopes that a global food supply crisis caused by Russia’s invasion can be eased. The M/V Razoni became the first commercial vessel to leave the crucial Black Sea port
Continue ReadingCNN By Rob Picheta and Vasco Cotovio, CNN The first ship carrying grain under a UN-brokered export deal left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday, raising hopes that a global food supply crisis caused by Russia’s invasion can be eased. The M/V Razoni became the first commercial vessel to leave the crucial Black Sea
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say at least five people were killed and 50 injured after a fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded. The Health Ministry in the capital of Tripoli says the incident took place in the central town of Bent Bayya. The ministry did not say how many were killed, but Foreign
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says it has formed a new government to defuse a protracted political feud that has blocked economic reforms in the oil-rich state. The country’s state-run news agency reported on Monday that Kuwait’s newly-appointed prime minister, Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al Sabah, will lead the 12-member Cabinet until early elections.
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Videos que supuestamente muestran a soldados rusos castrando y matando a un soldado ucraniano atado y amordazado están circulando en las redes sociales, atrayendo una acusación de posibles crímenes de guerra de las Naciones Unidas y provocando una investigación ucraniana sobre posibles torturas. Los tres videos parecen mostrar a un
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Cheung, Kylie Atwood, Alex Rogers and Kevin Liptak, CNN US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official, despite warnings from Biden administration officials, who are worried about China’s response to such a
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of the two contenders to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is defending his decision to quit the government, a move that helped end Johnson’s scandal-tarnished leadership. Allies of Johnson accuse Rishi Sunak of treachery for stepping down as U.K. Treasury chief last month. More than
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Cunningham has chosen a civil litigator who flew combat missions in Iraq to be his running mate. Cunningham is trying to become South Carolina’s first Democratic governor in 20 years. He previewed his pick of Tally Parham Casey ahead of a formal announcement Monday in
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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said Monday that it would strive to maintain its listing status both in New York and Hong Kong, days after U.S. regulators included it in a list of companies facing possible delisting if they don’t meet auditing requirements. The U.S. Securities and
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said Monday that it would strive to maintain its listing status both in New York and Hong Kong, days after U.S. regulators included it in a list of companies facing possible delisting if they don’t meet auditing requirements. The U.S. Securities and
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Students are heading to another school year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but this time, there seem to be fewer discussions and fretting about masks and other mitigation measures — despite a rise of infections sweeping the country. Most of the largest public school districts in the United States are not requiring
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mostly higher Monday after a strong close on Wall Street last week, though the latest manufacturing surveys showed weakening factory activity in Asia’s two biggest economies: China and Japan. Germany’s DAX gained 0.3% to 13,522,83 while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.4%
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mostly higher Monday after a strong close on Wall Street last week, though the latest manufacturing surveys showed weakening factory activity in Asia’s two biggest economies: China and Japan. Germany’s DAX gained 0.3% to 13,522,83 while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.4%
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By MILA KOUMPILOVA and MATT BARNUM of Chalkbeat, and COLLIN BINKLEY of The Associated Press Chalkbeat and Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — On a recent morning inside Chalmers School of Excellence on Chicago’s West Side, five preschool and kindergarten students finished up drawings. Four staffers, including a teacher and a tutor, chatted with them about
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