Amarachi Orie, CNN Around 1,500 items that once belonged to the late British rock star Freddie Mercury are going up for auction, including never-before-seen handwritten draft lyrics to “We Are the Champions,” one of the band Queen’s most famous songs. The objects are being offered for sale by Mary Austin, a close friend of Mercury,
Continue ReadingBy Nima Elbagir, Tamara Qiblawi and Amarachi Orie, CNN Fierce fighting across Sudan has left hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule in tatters. Forces loyal to two rival generals are vying for control, and as is so often the case, civilians have suffered the most. At least 459 people have been killed and
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Wall Street was able to breathe a sigh of relief on Tuesday as Google-parent company Alphabet and Microsoft both beat the market’s relatively modest earnings expectations. The companies saw big boosts from their search and cloud computing businesses. After a disastrous year for both stocks, the shares rebounded strongly in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Wall Street was able to breathe a sigh of relief on Tuesday as Google-parent company Alphabet and Microsoft both beat the market’s relatively modest earnings expectations. The companies saw big boosts from their search and cloud computing businesses. After a disastrous year for both stocks, the shares rebounded strongly in
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — As astronauts prepare for the first crewed mission to the moon in 50 years, a space exploration plan that will see Canada taking on an increased role, the question of keeping up with China will be a consideration,
Continue ReadingBy Adrian Ghobrial and Daniel Otis Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A Canadian citizen stuck in Sudan says the country has descended into “utter chaos.” “Our neighbours to the north and south of us were both hit by a (rocket-propelled grenade)– thankfully nobody was injured,” Safia Mustafa told CTV
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Losses continued to mount for Boeing, as the supply chain problems caused higher-than-expected losses. The company reported a loss of $1.27 per share, excluding special, one-off charges and gains. Although that was an improvement from the $2.75 a share it lost on that basis a year earlier, it marked the seventh-straight
Continue ReadingCNN By Tami Luhby, CNN House Republicans are using the debt ceiling standoff to advocate for one of their longstanding goals — requiring more low-income Americans to work in order to receive government benefits, particularly food stamps and Medicaid. They see work requirements as a twofer, allowing them to reduce government spending, while bolstering the
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Trae Young’s clutch three-pointer secured a shock 119-117 win for the Atlanta Hawks in Game 5 to cut the Boston Celtics’ first-round series lead to 3-2 and take the match-up back to Atlanta. Few people expected the Hawks to stave off elimination on Tuesday — including, it would seem, organizers at
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN The UK antitrust regulator has blocked Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, threatening to thwart one of the tech industry’s biggest deals over concerns it will stifle competition in cloud gaming. The Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement Wednesday that it was worried the deal would lead to “reduced innovation
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping appealed for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in a phone call Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, warning “there is no winner in a nuclear war,” state media said, in a long-anticipated conversation after Beijing said it wanted to act as peace mediator. Xi’s government will send a
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of the earliest portraits of a person of color by a British artist will remain on public display after London’s National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles struck a 50 million pound ($62 million) deal to buy it. The two institutions
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Pasco arrestó a un hombre en Holiday, Florida, relacionado con el asesinato de un conductor de Uber Eats que estaba haciendo su última entrega de la noche el miércoles 19 de abril, dijo la Policía en una conferencia de prensa este martes. Holiday
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops. It is an unprecedented change that reflects Francis’ hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church. Catholic women’s groups
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani military says an army operation in the northwest targeting militants triggered a firefight that left two soldiers and two insurgents dead. The firefight happened Wednesday in Tirah, a former militant stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, the military said in a statement. It provided no details about the slain
Continue Reading LONDON British regulators have blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. The Competition and Markets Authority said in its final report Wednesday that “the only effective remedy” to the significant loss of competition that the deal would result
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Pruebas en más de dos docenas de “gomitas” de melatonina vendidas como somníferos encontraron que algunas tenían cantidades potencialmente peligrosas de la hormona que ayuda a regular el sueño, según un nuevo estudio. “Un producto contenía un 347% más de melatonina de lo que realmente figuraba en la etiqueta de
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN They couldn’t, could they? Days after Wrexham’s promotion from the National League for the first time in 15 years, the club’s Hollywood owners are making an audacious attempt to complete a signing fit for a movie script. The target of their efforts? Oh, just arguably the greatest Welsh footballer of all
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN The House voted Wednesday to pass a bill raising the nation’s debt ceiling, after days of wrangling Republican lawmakers to unify behind the package, which would bolster House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s position at the negotiating table with the White House. The final
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he could be handed a life sentence on a set of new extremism and terrorism charges that he has described as a Kremlin-ordered political vendetta. Navalny exposed official corruption and organized massive anti-Kremlin protests in Russia, and survived a nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on
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