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By Max Foster and Sophie Tanno, CNN British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Sunday there would be a public holiday to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III next year. Sunak said the bank holiday would fall on Monday, May 8, following the coronation two days earlier. Charles, 73, automatically became monarch in September on
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A small passenger plane crashed Sunday morning into Lake Victoria on approach to an airport in Tanzania, and regional authorities said at least three people died. Local authorities said 26 of the 43 people on board the Precision Air flight from the coastal city of Dar es Salaam were rescued and
Continue Reading By COLLEEN BARRY and SALVATORE CAVALLI Associated Press CATANIA, Sicily (AP) — Italian authorities have prevented 35 migrants they did not deem vulnerable from getting off a boat in Sicily. The Humanity 1 was carrying 179 rescued passengers when it was given access to the Sicilian port. Officials at the German-run charity SOS Humanity challenged
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The discourse was never all that civil on Twitter. The loudest voices have often drowned out softer, more nuanced takes. After all, it’s much easier to rage-tweet at a perceived enemy than to seek common ground, whether the argument is about transgender kids or baseball. In the chaos that
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The discourse was never all that civil on Twitter. The loudest voices have often drowned out softer, more nuanced takes. After all, it’s much easier to rage-tweet at a perceived enemy than to seek common ground, whether the argument is about transgender kids or baseball. In the chaos that
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lionel Richie soared. Pat Benatar roared. Duran Duran stumbled but stayed sophisticated. Eminem was Eminem. The four acts found very different ways to celebrate on Saturday night, but all can now forever say they’re Rock & Roll Hall of Famers. So are Carly Simon, Eurythmics,
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lionel Richie soared. Pat Benatar roared. Duran Duran stumbled but stayed sophisticated. Eminem was Eminem. The four acts found very different ways to celebrate on Saturday night, but all can now forever say they’re Rock & Roll Hall of Famers. So are Carly Simon, Eurythmics,
Continue Reading NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian media are reporting that a Precision Air plane has crashed into Lake Victoria on approach to Bukoba Airport. It is not immediately clear how many people were on board the aircraft. Police said they didn’t know of any casualties so far. The Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation reported that bad weather caused
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks on tackling climate change amid a multitude of competing crises, including the war in Ukraine, high inflation, food shortages and an energy crunch. Notching up
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up the first-ever papal trip to Bahrain on Sunday by encouraging priests and nuns to keep ministering to the Gulf kingdom’s tiny Catholic flock. He specifically mentioned its prisoners, saying “the way in which these ‘least ones’ are treated is a measure of
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his country urgently needs to strengthen its military capabilities as security risks increase including threats from North Korea and Russia’s war on Ukraine. He was speaking at an international fleet review where 18 warships from 12 countries participated Sunday, including the
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Photographs by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Redux for CNN Before she became one of America’s most-decorated Special Olympics athletes, before the made-for-TV movie and the shared stages with actor Denzel Washington and Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Loretta Claiborne was a great-granddaughter — of one Anna Johnson. Johnson died mysteriously after the
Continue ReadingBy Idris Mukhtar, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Larry Madowo, CNN A Tanzanian commercial flight operated by Precision Air crash-landed in bad weather in Lake Victoria on Sunday, killing 19 people. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said officials believe all bodies have been recovered from the airplane. “We’re starting to pull out the luggage and personal items from
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Home Depot workers in Philadelphia voted against forming the first store-wide labor union at the world’s largest home improvement retailer Saturday night, a loss for a fledgling movement to organize at major U.S. companies. The National Labor Relations Board says workers voted 165 to 51 to reject forming a union to represent
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Authorities are seeking multiple people suspected of firing into a crowd outside a Philadelphia bar Saturday night, wounding at least nine, police said. The gunfire erupted just before 11 p.m. ET in the Kensington neighborhood, First Deputy Commissioner John Stanford of the Philadelphia Police Department said at a
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN The end of Daylight Saving Time is upon us again, an autumn tradition when the United States, Europe, most of Canada and a number of other countries move their clocks backwards an hour in a sort of Groundhog Day trust fall. We’ll move them forward (again) next spring when governments put
Continue Reading By JACK MAGRUDER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Dorian Thompson-Robinson hurdled a defender on a 33-yard touchdown run, one of his two rushing scores, and also passed for two TDs as No. 10 UCLA held off Arizona State 50-36 on Saturday night. Thompson-Robinson threw an interception on the first play from scrimmage, and the
Continue Reading By JACK MAGRUDER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Dorian Thompson-Robinson hurdled a defender on a 33-yard touchdown run, one of his two rushing scores, and also passed for two TDs as No. 10 UCLA held off Arizona State 50-36 on Saturday night. Thompson-Robinson threw an interception on the first play from scrimmage, and the
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lionel Richie soared. Pat Benatar roared. Duran Duran stumbled but stayed sophisticated. The three acts found different ways to celebrate on Saturday night, but all can now forever say they’re Rock & Roll Hall of Famers. So are Carly Simon, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Harry
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lionel Richie soared. Pat Benatar roared. Duran Duran stumbled but stayed sophisticated. The three acts found different ways to celebrate on Saturday night, but all can now forever say they’re Rock & Roll Hall of Famers. So are Carly Simon, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Harry
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