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PRAGUE (AP) — Qatar’s emir is paying his first visit to the Czech Republic, for business talks expected to include a potential deal for deliveries of Qatari liquefied natural gas. He was formally greeted by Czech President Milos Zeman at the Prague Castle Wednesday. Among other issues, talks are expected to focus on deliveries of
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CNN, NASA TV, APL, YOUTUBE, NASA, JOHNS HOPKINS APL, ED WHITMAN, TWITTER, @ASTROSNAPPER, @FALLINGSTARIFA, TOUCHSTONE PICTURES, UNIVERSAL PICTURES By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a crew of astronauts who hail from all over the world on a trip to the International Space Station Wednesday. The mission, which includes some historic firsts, moved forward
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell Consky Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Scientists have uncovered an association between tumours and fungi, which may lead to a deeper understanding towards the biology of certain cancers. An international research initiative identified 35 types of cancer that carry traces of fungi lurking in various mutations of
Continue ReadingBy Spencer Van Dyk Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA (CTV Network) — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told a House of Commons committee Tuesday that Bill C-21, the proposed legislation to further restrict access to handguns in Canada, is critical to ending gun violence. In his testimony before the Public Safety Committee,
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An independent expert appointed to mediate in the bitter dispute between the Dutch government and the nation’s farmers over plans to drastically slash emissions of nitrogen and ammonia has presented a report that includes a suggestion that the government buy out hundreds of the heaviest
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a crew of astronauts who hail from all over the world on a trip to the International Space Station Wednesday. The mission, which includes some historic firsts, moved forward even as rising geopolitical tensions brew on the ground. The four crew members — astronauts Nicole Mann and
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By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A 911 call that sent Vermont State Police troopers on a search for a nonexistent man claiming to have shot his wife was a big clue that helped detectives unravel an international murder-for-hire plot tied to a potentially lucrative — yet troubled — oil deal. Within
Continue ReadingBy Alasdair Howorth, Xiaofei Xu, Natacha Bracken and Renée Bertini, CNN It’s likely that many French fans will be following this year’s World Cup in Qatar as their team, the winner four years ago in Russia, fights to defend its title, but they won’t be doing it with other football supporters in some of France’s
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Leaders of Spain and Germany are meeting in northwestern Spain for a brief summit centering on Europe’s energy crisis and consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and 15 ministers from their governments are attending the meeting Wednesday in the city of A
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica, CNN Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes raised more than $20 million in the third quarter of 2022, according to details from the Wisconsin lieutenant governor’s campaign, dwarfing what he raised throughout his entire bid for Senate. Barnes is aiming to unseat Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican incumbent who is seeking a third
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Spring is for skinny bears and March Madness basketball. Fall, however, is for fat bears — and for Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022. And unlike that bracket-busting basketball tourney, you can actually participate in and sway
Continue ReadingCNN, NPS.GOV, CHRISDACOW, NASA, MINISTRY OF CULTURE & SPORTS By Forrest Brown, CNN Spring is for skinny bears and March Madness basketball. Fall, however, is for fat bears — and for Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022. And unlike that bracket-busting
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Persistently high inflation, the Federal Reserve’s tightening policy and record-breaking US debt have wreaked havoc on US Treasuries this year. Now, economists are noting a fundamental and worrisome imbalance in the bond market. There are trillions of dollars worth of bonds for sale, they say, but a growing scarcity of
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By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called a general election for Tuesday Nov. 1, seven months ahead of the end of her term in office. Frederiksen, who has headed the Social Democratic minority government since June 2019, has seen her popularity dwindle in recent weeks
Continue ReadingCNN, WCBS By Chloe Melas, CNN Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, who have been living separately from each other in recent weeks, have each hired divorce attorneys and are “exploring their options” regarding their marriage, a source close to the estranged couple told CNN on Tuesday. CNN reported last month that Brady, a seven-time Super
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — As he walked through a concourse in the outfield at Globe Life Field, high-fiving with fans and surrounded by a sea of cameras, it was almost as if Cory Youmans had hit a huge home run. Instead, he hit the jackpot. Youmans made the catch of a lifetime Tuesday night, snagging
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese member of Parliament has entered a bank branch near Beirut demanding some of her trapped savings to cover medical expenses. Lawmaker Cynthia Zarazir on Wednesday entered a Byblos Bank branch with her lawyer seeking the cash, the latest in the country’s surge of depositors storming
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ethiopia has turned over to Dutch judicial authorities a 38-year-old Eritrean man suspected of playing a leading role in a major international criminal network that smuggled Eritreans to the Netherlands. Prosecutors said Wednesday that the man is suspected of “large-scale smuggling of Eritreans from Africa to the Netherlands.” They said
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ethiopia has turned over to Dutch judicial authorities a 38-year-old Eritrean man suspected of playing a leading role in a major international criminal network that smuggled Eritreans to the Netherlands. Prosecutors said Wednesday that the man is suspected of “large-scale smuggling of Eritreans from Africa to the Netherlands.” They said
Continue Reading By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds Tesla’s Model S has enjoyed a nearly 10-year head start on the premium electric sedan competition, but the gap between it and its electric luxury sedan rivals is beginning to close. It now faces a challenge from a fellow startup, the 2022 Lucid Air. Can this new long-range champ unseat the
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