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By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Team USA’s 87-72 opening game victory over Belgium at the Women’s Basketball World Cup was overshadowed by the absence of forward Brittney Griner, who has been sentenced to nine years in Russian jail for possessing cannabis oil. The USA’s players honored their friend and teammate by electing to not wear her
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HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish and Estonian rescue officials say a crude oil tanker caught fire in the Gulf of Finland, but the crew was able to extinguish the flames. The incident involved the 250-meter (820-foot) -long vessel Alexia, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of the Finnish peninsula of Porkkala, the Helsinki Sea Rescue Command
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HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish and Estonian rescue officials say a crude oil tanker caught fire in the Gulf of Finland, but the crew was able to extinguish the flames. The incident involved the 250-meter (820-foot) -long vessel Alexia, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of the Finnish peninsula of Porkkala, the Helsinki Sea Rescue Command
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Las prácticas empresariales del expresidente Donald Trump incluyeron algunos momentos que sorprendieron, como una vez que se le pagó con lingotes de oro que se introdujeron en su apartamento de la Torre Trump, según la información obtenida por CNN de un próximo libro de la periodista de The New York
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Britain’s central bank raised its key interest rate by another half-percentage point Thursday, avoiding more aggressive steps to tame inflation that the U.S. Federal Reserve and other banks have taken. It is the Bank of England’s seventh straight move to increase borrowing costs as rising food and energy prices fuel a cost-of-living
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has confirmed it is lifting a ban on fracking in England, arguing that the move will help boost the country’s energy security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. New Prime Minister Liz Truss announced within days of taking office earlier September that she will reverse a
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has confirmed it is lifting a ban on fracking in England, arguing that the move will help boost the country’s energy security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. New Prime Minister Liz Truss announced within days of taking office earlier September that she will reverse a
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart and Target plan to begin offering deals and price matching offers earlier this year to keep up with Americans pressed by soaring inflation and looking for ways to take the sting out of holiday shopping. Inflation that is hovering near four-decade highs, experts believe,
Continue Reading ZEYNEP BILGINSOY ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has delivered another interest rate cut and lowered the benchmark rate by 1 percentage point to 12%. The bank’s action on Thursday is the reverse of what other world economies are doing to combat soaring inflation. The lira was trading around 18.38 against the dollar, weakening beyond
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Britain’s central bank raised its key interest rate by another half-percentage point Thursday, avoiding more aggressive steps to tame inflation that the U.S. Federal Reserve and other banks have taken. The Bank of England raised its benchmark rate to 2.25%, matching its half-point increase last month — the biggest hike in 27
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Halloween is still a month away, but Walmart is ready for Christmas. Walmart on Thursday said it’s getting the ball rolling on its year-end holiday shopping season at its stores and online as early as next month. Noting that more than half of its customers make their holiday shopping plans
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and George Ramsay, CNN Greg Norman, the head of the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour, faced some conservative criticism on Tuesday after he met with a group of House Republicans behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. Norman, on a trip to Washington as part of a public-relations push to sell
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Russia’s military is divided over how best to counter Ukraine’s unexpected battlefield advances this month, according to multiple sources familiar with US intelligence, as Moscow has found itself on the defensive in both the east and the south. Russian President Vladimir Putin is himself giving directions directly to generals in
Continue ReadingCNN By Aya Elamroussi and Alaa Elassar, CNN More than a million people in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic are without power or running water again Thursday as crews work to repair critical utilities disabled by Hurricane Fiona, which is now a Category 4 monster heading toward Bermuda. The first major hurricane of this
Continue ReadingCNN By Uliana Pavlova and Tim Lister, CNN The number of Russians attempting to leave the country via air or land has risen sharply following President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens to bolster his depleted forces in Ukraine. Travel agency websites in Russia showed a dramatic increase on Wednesday in
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — El padre de una mujer iraní que murió bajo custodia policial la semana pasada acusó a las autoridades de mentir sobre su muerte, mientras las protestas continúan en todo el país a pesar del intento del gobierno de frenar la disidencia con un apagón de internet. Amjad Amini, cuya hija Mahsa murió
Continue ReadingBy Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch — you know them as the five traditional senses. They are meant to protect us from danger. They help us find food and potentially even a mate. They create order in the happenings of the world around us, and if we
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron is warning about a “crisis of democracies,” including in the United States, following years of “pressure” and “destabilization” efforts in an exclusive US interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Asked by Tapper if he’s worried about American democracy, Macron replied, “I worry about all of us.” “I hate
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials say the world’s biggest trading bloc is determined to impose more sanctions on Russia. That’s in response to Russian attempts to annex parts of Ukraine with suspect referendums, and President Vladimir Putin’s decision to ramp up the war. But finding a consensus among member
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials say the world’s biggest trading bloc is determined to impose more sanctions on Russia. That’s in response to Russian attempts to annex parts of Ukraine with suspect referendums, and President Vladimir Putin’s decision to ramp up the war. But finding a consensus among member
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