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By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with seven more sexual offenses, UK police have said. The 63-year-old actor was charged on Tuesday with a number of sexual offenses against the same man between 2001 and 2004, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement to CNN on Wednesday. The UK’s Crown
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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto urged lawmakers not to remove presidential terms limits from the country’s constitution, dismissing comments by a legislator that there should be no such limits on a capable leader. Kenya’s constitution says a president can only serve for two terms, and many Kenyans
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran. That’s according to a Mideast-based defense official and an Israeli official who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Ferragamo belt-buckles are being tightened across Wall Street as bankers prepare for a gloomy bonus season. Year-end payouts, typically an outsized part of total financial industry compensation, are expected to plunge as merger and acquisitions dry up, inflation persists and recession threats grow. What’s happening: Bankers who help consolidate companies
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Target’s profit plunged 52% in the third quarter and the retailer warned of a sluggish holiday. Target blamed inflation and a deteriorating economic outlook for its miserable quarter — and also lowered its outlook for the rest of the year. That sent shares down more than 12% in premarket trading.
Continue Reading NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger ferry carrying 271 people has caught fire off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali but there are no immediate reports of casualties and evacuation efforts are ongoing. The ferry was carrying 236 passengers and 35 crew members when it caught fire in the Bali Strait on Wednesday. Dozens of
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By FRANK JORDANS, SAMY MAGDY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them faster than agreements are coming out of them, negotiators at the U.N. climate summit are in a difficult spot. Talks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh got off to a plodding
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS, SAMY MAGDY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them faster than agreements are coming out of them, negotiators at the U.N. climate summit are in a difficult spot. Talks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh got off to a plodding
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A senior German opposition official has lobbied the European Union to block the government’s plans to decriminalize the possession of limited amounts of cannabis and allow its sale for recreational purposes. Germany’s health minister unveiled the legalization plan last month but said the government would check with the European Commission whether the
Continue Reading DOHA, Qatar (AP) — World Cup organizers insist the atmosphere in Doha days before the games start is genuine and being created by authentic fans. There’s been skepticism after fan parades in Doha and throngs of people greeting team buses arriving at hotels. Organizers say media and social media commentators “have questioned whether these are
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service says actor Kevin Spacey will be charged with seven further sex offenses, all against one man. The move piles on the pressure for one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. The service said Wednesday that the charges against the former “House of Cards” star are three of indecent assault, three
Continue Reading By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — Poland said Wednesday there is “absolutely no indication” that a missile which came down in Polish farmland, killing two people, was a intentional attack on the NATO country, and that neighbor Ukraine likely launched the Soviet-era projectile as it fended off a Russian air assault that
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español): Faltan apenas unos días para el inicio del tan ansiado Mundial de Qatar 2022, y las selecciones afinan detalles y buscan la última puesta a punto de cara a la competencia. En ese marco, este miércoles y este jueves se llevará a cabo una importante jornada de amistosos, los últimos
Continue Reading By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet If you want to save money and avoid the airport crowds during the holiday season, you’ll want to fly on the holiday itself or several days before and after it. NerdWallet analyzed the Transportation Security Administration’s data of passengers screened at U.S. airports and found the Sunday after Thanksgiving and
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since Russia invaded is that what’s here today can be destroyed tomorrow and that nothing in war can be taken for granted. Except perhaps the national rail company. It proudly boasts
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Uganda has been struggling with an Ebola outbreak for months, and although there have been no suspected or probable Ebola cases identified in the United States, federal and local health officials are working together to prepare for the possibility that the virus will spread across the Atlantic. The US Centers for
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An unexpected and potentially ominous pullback in customer spending ahead of the holiday shopping season pushed third quarter profits at Target down 52% after it was forced to slash prices for Americans who are feeling the squeeze of inflation. CEO Brian Cornel says sales weakened
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years
Continue Reading BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer 90% of counties in the United States suffered a weather-related disaster between 2011-2021, according to a report published on Wednesday. The authors of the report found that some counties experienced as many as 12 disasters over that ten-year period and that the U.S. had 20 disasters that cost at
Continue Reading By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western backers of Ukraine threw their weight Wednesday behind an investigation into why and how a missile that Poland said was Russian-made came down in Polish farmland, killing two people, when Russia was savaging the Ukrainian power grid with missiles
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