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By Zoe Sottile, CNN You probably associate Labor Day with sales, family barbecues and the unofficial end of summer. For most Americans, the long weekend is a much-needed opportunity to reconnect with friends and family and provides a last hurrah before the start of fall. But Monday’s holiday holds a much deeper meaning, rooted in
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN Defending champion Daniil Medvedev was knocked out of the US Open after losing 6-7 6-3 3-6 2-6 against Nick Kyrgios in the fourth round. Medvedev won his first grand slam title in New York last year, but on Sunday was bettered by Kyrgios, who is enjoying the best run of results
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olivertapia (CNN Español) — Millones de chilenos votaron para decidir si aprobaban o rechazaban una nueva Constitución para cambiar la instaurada durante la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet. Con más del 99% de las mesas escrutadas, el rechazo a la nueva constitución obtuvo el 62% de los votos. El “apruebo” logró el 38%. Gana el “rechazo”
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN The Turkish national team is threatening to pull out of EuroBasket 2022 after it says one of its team members, NBA player Furkan Korkmaz of the Philadelphia 76ers, was attacked Sunday after being ejected from a game. The Turkish team is demanding security footage from the corridor where it
Continue ReadingCNN By Luke McGee, CNN Britons will find out later Monday who will be their next prime minister as the country faces a looming economic and humanitarian crisis, almost two months after Boris Johnson quit in the wake of a series of scandals. At approximately 12:30 p.m. local time (7:30 a.m. ET) the ruling Conservative
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, Shawn Deng and CNN’s Beijing bureau More than 70 Chinese cities have been placed under full or partial Covid lockdowns since late August, impacting more than 300 million people, as local authorities rush to stamp out infections at all cost in the final countdown to leader Xi Jinping’s expected third term. Since
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets sank Monday as Europe faced a new squeeze on Russian gas supplies. London and Frankfurt opened lower. Tokyo, Hong Kong and South Korea fell while Shanghai gained. Oil prices rose more than $2 per barrel while the euro edged lower. Markets were roiled
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Russian Foreign Ministry says two of its embassy staff were killed by an explosion outside Russia’s Embassy in Kabul on Monday. The ministry didn’t offer any details as to who the staff members were or how they died. Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti reported earlier, citing anonymous sources, that 15-20
Continue Reading By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Eight people are on trial in a special terrorism court in Paris. They are accused of helping a man who drove a truck into a crowded beachfront in the southern French resort of Nice and killed 86 people. The attacker was shot dead by
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA and OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The United Nations says “famine is at the door” in Somalia with “concrete indications” famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region. This falls just short of a formal famine declaration in Somalia as thousands are dying in a historic
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake killed at least seven people, triggered landslides and shook residents in a major city under lockdown in southwestern China on Monday, state media reported. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous area in Luding county in Sichuan province shortly after noon, the China Earthquake Networks Center said. Sichuan, which
Continue ReadingBy Sahar Akbarzai, Sharon Braithwaite and Jonny Hallam, CNN A private jet crashed into the Baltic Sea off the coast of Latvia on Sunday, hours after NATO jets were scrambled to follow the plane. The Austrian-registered Cessna Citation 551 departed Jerez, Spain at 12:56 UTC (8:56am ET) and its intended destination was Cologne, Germany, according
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — El boxeador mexicanoestadounidense Andy Ruiz Jr. regresa este domingo a los cuadriláteros, después de más de un año, para pelear contra el cubano Luis Ortiz. Andy Ruiz tuvo su último combate en mayo de 2021, cuando derrotó a Chris Arreola por decisión unánime. Por el tiempo que ha tenido desde entonces
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Scientists have created mouse embryos in a dish, and it could one day help families hoping to get pregnant, according to a new study. After 10 years of research, scientists created a synthetic mouse embryo that began forming organs without a sperm or egg, according to the study published Thursday in
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old militant in the occupied West Bank in clashes that broke out during an Israeli arrest raid. The military said he threw a firebomb at troops from close range and responded with live fire. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group said the man
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say the number of people who died in an accident while climbing Eurasia’s tallest active volcano has risen to eight. A helicopter with a rescue team is on the way to the site of the accident. Russian media initially reported on Saturday that five climbers died while trying to ascend
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli military body has released a list of rules and restrictions for foreigners wanting to enter Palestinian areas of the West Bank, extending its control of daily life and movement in and out of the occupied territory. COGAT, the Israeli body in charge of Palestinian civilian
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is accusing Washington of breaking into computers at a university that U.S. officials say does military research, adding to complaints by both governments of rampant online spying against each other. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center said Northwestern Polytechnical University reported break-ins in June. The
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say four planes carrying aid for Pakistani flood victims from the UN refugee are arriving in this impoverished Islamic nation. Monday’s announcement by the Foreign Ministry comes as the country’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif traveled to the south where the flood has swollen a major lake,
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Statistical Institute says the country’s annual inflation passed 80% in August, further hitting consumers facing high energy, food and housing costs. Consumer prices rose by 80.21% from a year earlier, up 0.6 percentage points from the previous month, the agency said Monday. Independent experts say inflation is much higher than
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