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By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An official in Nepal says the new airport where a Yeti Airlines plane was attempting to land when it crashed over the weekend, killing all 72 on board, did not have a functioning instrument landing system that guides planes to the runway. Aviation safety experts say
Continue ReadingBy Joseph Ataman, Marguerite Lacroix and Hanna Ziady, CNN Strikes disrupted train services, flights, schools and businesses in France on Thursday as more than one million people protested against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age for most workers. Protests in major French cities, including Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes and Nice, brought many transport
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By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New research shows climate misinformation has been flourishing on Twitter since Elon Musk bought the platform last year. Analysts at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue find searches for information about climate change turned up recommendations for content that denied the reality of climate change or made misleading
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Paris is a city beloved for fine food, fine art and fine fashion. But a new index from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) also says that Paris is the world’s most powerful city for tourism. The WTTC, a nonprofit travel industry body based in the UK, analyzed tourism data
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A bloody crime scene left in the aftermath of four college students killed in Idaho would help authorities navigate their hunt to find the person responsible, court documents unsealed Wednesday reveal. It took investigators nearly two months to arrest and name Bryan Kohberger as a suspect in the stabbing deaths of
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most adults in the US consider the quality of the country’s health care to be unfavorable, according to a new survey. This is the first time in a 20-year trend from Gallup polls that the share of adults who rated the quality of the nation’s health care to be “excellent” or
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Singer Dua Lipa, tennis star Roger Federer and actors Penélope Cruz and Michaela Coel will join Vogue magazine’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour as co-chairs of the 2023 Met Gala. The celebrity quartet was unveiled Wednesday by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose Costume Institute serves as the beneficiary of the exclusive fundraiser. The
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN President Joe Biden was planning to launch a campaign sometime in the period after his February 7 State of the Union address before word leaked about the documents found in his home — and that remains the plan, even as White House aides and his personal lawyers answer questions about who
Continue Reading By NICK PERRY ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, who was one of the first members of her generation elected as a national leader and became a global icon of the left, said Thursday she was leaving office after five and a half years. Ardern was praised around
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — It was a long road back to elite-level tennis for Mackenzie McDonald, and his victory over defending champion Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open showed just how much things have changed for the 27-year-old Californian who was a college star at UCLA. To understand McDonald’s
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bared frustration Thursday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos about not obtaining enough tanks from some Western countries to help his country defend itself from Russia. Speaking by video link at a breakfast with U.S. Sen.
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bared frustration Thursday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos about not obtaining enough tanks from some Western countries to help his country defend itself from Russia. Speaking by video link at a breakfast with U.S. Sen.
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly lower Thursday as investors grew cautious after Wall Street’s biggest pullback of the year. France’s CAC 40 lost 0.4% in early trading to 7,052.61, while Germany’s DAX edged down 0.5% to 15,106.21. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell nearly 0.6% to 7,787.49. The future
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly lower Thursday as investors grew cautious after Wall Street’s biggest pullback of the year. France’s CAC 40 lost 0.4% in early trading to 7,052.61, while Germany’s DAX edged down 0.5% to 15,106.21. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell nearly 0.6% to 7,787.49. The future
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new survey of the Milky Way galaxy has unveiled 3.3 billion celestial objects. Our galaxy is brimming with hundreds of billions of stars, dark pillars of dust and gas, and gleaming stellar nurseries where stars are born. Now, astronomers have documented those wonders in unprecedented detail during the Dark Energy
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin and Alasdair Howorth, CNN As the Buffalo Bills prepare to play the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday in the AFC playoffs divisional round, Bills head coach Sean McDermott has told reporters that safety Damar Hamlin is at the team facility almost daily. “It’s limited, just overall, but he comes in and — it
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Michelle Watson, CNN Three family members who were charged with murder in the shooting death of a Family Dollar security guard in Flint, Michigan, in May 2020 have been sentenced to life in prison, court records show. The security guard, Calvin Munerlyn, was shot after telling a customer she needed to
Continue ReadingBy Celine Alkhaldi, Mostafa Salem and Aqeel Najim, CNN A Gulf Cup final match between Iraq and Oman will take place in Basra on Thursday as scheduled, Iraqi soccer officials said, despite a deadly stampede outside the stadium just hours earlier. “The match between the Iraqi and Omani national teams will take place as scheduled,”
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong says her government is “deeply troubled” by the delays in China resolving espionage allegations against Chinese-Australian writer and blogger Yang Hengjun. Wong raised the issue Thursday on the anniversary of Yang’s detention in 2019 when he arrived in southern China’s Guangzhou
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in Barcelona to strengthen relations between the European neighbors by signing a friendship treaty. The one-day summit in Barcelona comes amid a day of widespread strikes and protests on the other side of the
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