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By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A top executive at HSBC has apologized after reportedly calling the UK government “weak” for caving to US pressure over doing business with China, in another sign of the political tightrope the British bank has to walk. Sherard Cowper-Coles, HSBC’s head of public affairs, inadvertently caused a
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN Sydney (CNN) — Hours after the US women’s national team crashed out of the World Cup, former US President Donald Trump seized the opportunity to blame the loss on star player Megan Rapinoe and the country’s “woke” path under President Joe Biden. On his social media platform, “Truth Social,” Trump wrote:
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past year, inflation in the United States has tumbled from 9% all the way to 3%, softening most of the price pressures that have gripped the nation for more than two years. Now comes the hard part. Squeezing out the last bit of excess
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By Ivana Kottasová and Nectar Gan, CNN London (CNN) — A graffiti wall in London’s bustling street art hub of Brick Lane has become an unlikely canvas for protest messages against China’s authoritarian rule, after it was whitewashed and painted over with propaganda slogans promoting Chinese Communist Party ideology. The bright red slogans, spray-painted by
Continue ReadingCNN By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Sydney (CNN) — Hours after the US women’s national team crashed out of the World Cup, former US President Donald Trump seized the opportunity to blame the loss on star player Megan Rapinoe and the country’s “woke” path under President Joe Biden. On his social media platform, “Truth Social,” Trump
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Now that last month’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin. July’s global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit) was a third of a degree Celsius (six tenths
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — William Friedkin, director of iconic 1970s films including “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” has died, his wife Sherry Lansing, the former CEO of Paramount Pictures, told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. He was 87. Friedkin won the Oscar for best director for “French Connection” in 1972, going on
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani defense lawyer says former Prime Minister Imran Khan wants a top court in Islamabd to suspend his conviction and three-year jail sentence in a graft case. Naeem Haider Panjutha, Khan’s lawyer, said Tuesday the Islamabad High Court would hear the appeal the next day. Khan’s
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — The first asylum-seekers boarded a controversial barge moored in southern England Monday as public health experts warned of the possible risk of infection in living conditions that campaigners branded as inhumane. Fifteen migrants boarded the boat, named Bibby Stockholm, which is docked in Portland, on
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Buses began moving tens of thousands of Scouts to inland venues ahead of a tropical storm Tuesday, bringing an effective end to a World Scout Jamboree that had already struggled with heat, hygiene and land use controversies. Known for its insatiable desire to host international
Continue ReadingBy AMANCAI BIRABEN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Los Angeles city employees including sanitation workers, lifeguards and traffic officers walked off the job Tuesday for a 24-hour strike demanding higher wages and alleging unfair labor practices. Picket lines went up before dawn at Los Angeles International Airport and other
Continue ReadingBy AMANCAI BIRABEN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Los Angeles city employees including sanitation workers, lifeguards and traffic officers walked off the job Tuesday for a 24-hour strike demanding higher wages and alleging unfair labor practices. Picket lines went up before dawn at Los Angeles International Airport and other
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin. July’s global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius was a third of a degree Celsius (six tenths of a degree Fahrenheit)
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The world got its first preview last month of what summer will be like at 1.5 degrees of global warming — a threshold that scientists warn the planet should stay under, yet one that it has flown increasingly close to in recent years. The average global temperature in July,
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s opposition accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of choosing silence while a northeastern state governed by his party convulsed in ethnic violence. Parliament began debate Tuesday on a no-confidence motion against his government that’s certain to be defeated. Modi has been largely silent on the bloodshed
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This week, Acrisure Arena will host a job fair to fill a variety of hospitality positions. The arena needs to hire dozens of part-time positions: everything from cooks to cashiers to bartenders. Applicants would start immediately. The job fair will be held Thursday, Aug. 7 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. “Come on down, we’ve
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from Russian missile strikes that hit apartment blocks and other buildings in an eastern Ukrainian city has climbed to seven, with 67 injured, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said Tuesday. Two Russian missiles slammed into the downtown area of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donetsk region that is partially
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Nigeriens face deepening uncertainty about whether a regional bloc will follow through on its threat to use military force to try to reinstall ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, nearly two weeks after mutinous soldiers overthrew the democratically elected leader. The West African regional bloc ECOWAS had given
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon is asking the Justice Department and Donald Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta to weigh in on the legality of special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing grand jury activity in Washington, DC, which relates to the obstruction portion of the Mar-a-Lago documents case before her
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s exports suffered their biggest drop in more than three years in July as global demand slowed, adding further pressure on Beijing to find ways to reinvigorate the world’s second largest economy. The value of exports, measured in US dollars, fell 14.5% last month from a year
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