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BERLIN (AP) — The German government is launching a new program to help to bring about 1,000 people who are at risk of persecution in Afghanistan to Germany each month. The program is part of an agreement between the three governing parties. It provides a formal structure for the way German authorities were already handling
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director The economy and inflation are the dominant issues three weeks out from the midterm congressional elections, challenging Democrats’ chances of maintaining control of Congress, according to a string of new polls released in the last few days. Widespread impressions of the economy as bad and worsening, combined with
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Dale, CNN Democrats have spent weeks attacking Republican midterm candidates with television ads about abortion. Some of the ads have been misleading. Many of the Democratic ads accurately describe their Republican targets’ strict anti-abortion positions. But some others employ slippery phrasing and the power of insinuation to promote the impression that certain
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party says it has investigated almost 5 million members for possible corruption over the last decade, with formal criminal cases brought against 553. At a briefing Monday on the sidelines of the party’s national congress held every five years, the party’s Committee for Discipline and Inspection said 207,000 party
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Kanye West is acquiring Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by many conservatives. Parler’s parent company announced the deal on Monday morning, saying West had made “a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again.” The acquisition
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain have started a state visit to Germany that was delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic and will see the monarch and Germany’s president open the annual Frankfurt Book Fair. Felipe was received with military honors by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain have started a state visit to Germany that was delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic and will see the monarch and Germany’s president open the annual Frankfurt Book Fair. Felipe was received with military honors by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday
Continue Reading By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Inflation isn’t leaving your life — at least not right now. While it’s still hanging around, you can take three specific actions to better insulate your finances. First, reconsider your emergency fund. Yes, it can be too large — and you may be better off investing that cash. Next, review
Continue Reading By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Inflation isn’t leaving your life — at least not right now. While it’s still hanging around, you can take three specific actions to better insulate your finances. First, reconsider your emergency fund. Yes, it can be too large — and you may be better off investing that cash. Next, review
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Juan Pablo Elverdin Beijing (CNN) — Durante las vacaciones del Día Nacional de China, a principios de octubre, varios amigos expatriados y yo llevamos a nuestros hijos pequeños —que son mestizos y suelen destacar entre la multitud china— a la Gran Muralla, en las afueras de Beijing. Mientras subíamos a una sección restaurada pero casi
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $495 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. over a yearslong dispute tied to mortgage-backed securities, an investment vehicle that played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis. The Swiss bank said that some of the transactions were prior to
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $495 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. over a yearslong dispute tied to mortgage-backed securities, an investment vehicle that played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis. The Swiss bank said that some of the transactions were prior to
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas and Clare Duffy, CNN Business When Peiter Zatko joined Twitter as head of security in late 2020 at the urging of founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey, he was surprised by what he discovered. Twitter, a social network with hundreds of millions of users, “was over a decade behind industry security standards,” he
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN After years of being pitted against each other by fans and the media, Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez want the world to know there is no bad blood between them. The model and the pop star attended the second annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, where they
Continue Reading By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A group of Ugandan activists has launched a legal challenge to controversial new legislation criminalizing some internet activity in the East African country. Their petition to the constitutional court argues that the description of computer-related crimes in the bill enacted with President Yoweri Museveni’s signature last
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish parliament has elected Ulf Kristersson — the conservative Moderate Party leader — as prime minister at the head of a coalition that is being supported by a once radical far-right party. Kristersson was elected Monday by 176-173 votes. His government is expected to be presented Tuesday. His three-party coalition does
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s new Treasury chief ripped up the government’s economic plan on Monday, dramatically reversing most of the tax cuts and spending plans that Prime Minister Liz Truss announced less than a month ago and raising new questions about how long the beleaguered British
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS AND DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt on Monday reversed most of an economic package announced by the government just weeks ago, including a planned cut to income tax. In a bid to soothe turbulent financial markets, Hunt said he was scrapping “almost all” the tax
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN The University of California, Berkeley is working on repatriating thousands of ancestral remains and sacred belongings to the Indigenous tribes they were taken from over a century ago. The Wiyot tribe in northern California is one of hundreds of tribes now in the process of taking back what was stolen from
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A weekend fire at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison damaged one of the largest buildings in the complex, according to satellite photos analyzed Monday. Authorities raised to eight the number of inmates killed, doubling the initial toll. What happened on Saturday night at the prison
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