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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets rose Friday after U.S. inflation eased in March and China reported unexpectedly strong exports. London and Frankfurt opened higher. Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong advanced. Oil prices rose. Wall Street futures were lower, giving up part of Thursday’s gains after U.S. inflation at
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Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China won’t sell weapons to either side in the war in Ukraine, the country’s foreign minister said Friday, responding to Western concerns that Beijing could provide military assistance to Russia. China has maintained that it is neutral in the conflict, while backing Russia politically, rhetorically and economically at a time when Western
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Tens of thousands of England’s trainee doctors have gone on strike this week over pay. For many, hourly pay falls below that of some baristas and fast-food workers. Junior doctors working in the country’s National Health Service (NHS) walked out Tuesday — the first of four days of strikes — demanding
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos llevará una disputa de emergencia sobre la píldora para abortar a la Corte Suprema, dijo este jueves el secretario de Justicia del país Merrick Garland. El anuncio de Garland se produce después de que un tribunal federal de apelaciones congelara de la noche
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The entire Russian Pacific Fleet has been put on high alert for snap drills that will involve practice missile launches. The massive show of force comes amid the tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the goal of the war games launched Friday was to
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Fort Lauderdale’s 25 inches of rain is a case of a strong thunderstorm not knowing when to say when. Normally storms fizzle out after 20 minutes or they move on. But Wednesday’s supercell didn’t. It poured for six to eight hours and was continuously fed by the nearby Gulf
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN A former auctioneer has admitted he helped create and verify 25 fake Basquiat paintings that were seized from the Orlando Museum of Art last year, according to authorities. Michael Barzman, 45, admitted in court papers filed on Tuesday that he and another man — known only as J.F. — created the paintings
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — An elite French institution was expected to rule Friday on whether President Emmanuel Macron’s contested plan to raise the retirement age is constitutional, a decision that could calm or further enrage opponents of the change. All eyes were on the heavily guarded Constitutional Council, which can nix all or parts of a
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s defense minister will visit Moscow for meetings with his Russian counterpart and other military officials. The Defense Ministry said Friday that Gen. Li Shangfu would also visit Russia’s military academy during his April 16-19 visit. Li’s trip underscores China’s strengthening engagement with Russia, with which it has largely aligned its foreign
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El jefe del gobierno tibetano en exilio defendió al dalái lama tras conocerse un vídeo en el que el líder espiritual besa a un niño en los labios y luego le pide que “chupe” su lengua. Las acciones del dalái lama fueron “inocentes” y malinterpretadas, dijo Penpa Tsering a periodistas
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La familia de Connor Sturgeon, quien fue asesinado después de llevar a cabo un mortal tiroteo en el que mató a cinco personas este lunes en el Old National Bank en Louisville, Kentucky, planea someterlo a una prueba cerebral para detectar encefalopatía traumática crónica, comúnmente conocida como CTE, le dijeron
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Rescue crews have recovered the bodies of three students training to be Alpine guides who were caught in an avalanche along Italy’s northwest border with France. The National Alpine Rescue Corps had suspended the search on Thursday due to bad weather after the avalanche in the Val di Rhemes, near the Gran
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after six weeks, according to a release from the governor’s office late Thursday night. The six-week ban would not go into effect until the state Supreme Court overturns its previous precedent on abortion. “We
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de China, Wang Wenbin, informó este viernes que el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Uruguay, Francisco Bustillo Bonasso, y el presidente de Gabón, Ali Bongo Ondimba, visitarán China la próxima semana. Wang también añadió que el canciller de Uruguay visitará China del 16 al
Continue ReadingCNN By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN South African prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against Zolile Sekeleni, the father of the girlfriend of high-profile convicted murderer Thabo Bester, who is accused of escaping from a South African prison after faking his own death in a fire, officials told CNN Monday. Sekeleni’s daughter, Nandipha
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Some South Korean youth are so cut off from the world, the government is offering to pay them to “re-enter society.” The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced this week that it will provide up to 650,000 Korean won (about $500) per month to isolated social recluses,
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Updated Sunday at 12:00 a.m. Cal Fire said Saturday that the fire was turned over to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Previous report: UPDATE AS OF 7 P.M. FRIDAY: The fire is now 19 acres and 20% contained. Firefighters say that the change is because of more accurate mapping of the fire Evacuation orders have
Continue ReadingCNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN A giant snow corridor near the otherworldly Mount Tateyama, one of Japan’s three sacred mountains, is reopening to travelers on April 15. Called Yuki no Otani (or Great Valley of Snow), this 500-meter-long (1,620-foot-long) pathway cuts through towering snow walls that rise up to 20 meters (66 feet) at
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister on Friday said the country would not sell weapons to parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine and would regulate the export of items with dual civilian and military use. Qin Gang was responding to concerns from the U.S. and others that China was considering providing military assistance to
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