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By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Armand Duplantis reached seventh heaven at the Diamond League Final on Sunday as he yet again broke the pole vault world record. After he cleared six meters, 23 centimeters – the seventh time in his career that he has broken the world record – Duplantis leaped off the landing
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s leading Roma and Sinti group has presented its first report on discrimination and racism against the minority community. It warned that increasing nationalism and right-wing extremism are contributing to violence against Germany’s minorities. The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma said that of the 621 incidents recorded, most were cases
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of garments from French label Balmain’s forthcoming collection were stolen when a delivery truck was “hijacked by a group of people,” according to the company’s artistic director, Olivier Rousteing. The alleged robbery took place early Saturday, less than two weeks before the brand was due to unveil its
Continue ReadingBy Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — It was a tantalizing reveal, the lid of a pizza box being flipped open to show Lionel Messi’s Friday night dinner – a freshly baked pie. But in that moment, some of his many fans completely lost their appetite. It wasn’t his choice of toppings prepared by the Argentine
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge who rejected efforts by former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his charges in the Georgia election subversion case to federal court is set to hear arguments on Monday from former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on the same issue.
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By Eric Cheung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan’s defense ministry has urged Beijing to stop its “persistent military harassment,” after it detected more than 100 Chinese warplanes close to the island in a 24-hour span between Sunday and Monday. The number of warplanes recorded posed “severe challenges to the Taiwan Strait and regional safety,”
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s top foreign policy official is heading to Russia for security talks after two days of meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser over the weekend in Malta. China’s Foreign Ministry says Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be in Russia from Monday to Thursday for strategic security consultations. The U.S.
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States will exchange prisoners on Monday after some $6 billion once frozen in South Korea reached Qatar, a key element of the planned swap, officials said. The planned exchange comes just ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has flown 103 military planes toward Taiwan in a new daily high for the activity the island considers harassment. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it also detected Chinese vessels in the 24 hours from Sunday to early Monday. China’s military regularly sends planes over waters south and west of Taiwan in
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish state media says underwater teams are searching a lake for a helicopter that crashed while fighting a forest fire in western Turkey. Four crew members were aboard the firefighting aircraft when it fell into the waters of the Tahtali dam while battling a blaze in Izmir’s Menderes district over the weekend,
Continue ReadingBy Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a New York-based freelance health and science journalist. If you can’t seem to get the taste of onion, garlic or cheese out your mouth after brushing, you might benefit from a tongue scraper. As one of the most flexible muscles in the body, the
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The warnings were clear but went unheeded. Experts had long said that floods posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast of Libya. They repeatedly called for immediate maintenance to the two structures, located just uphill from the coastal
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s top foreign policy official is heading to Russia for security talks after two days of meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser over the weekend in Malta. China’s Foreign Ministry said that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be in Russia from Monday to Thursday for strategic security consultations. The
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States will exchange prisoners on Monday after some $6 billion once frozen in South Korea reached Qatar, a key element of the planned swap, officials said. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani was the first to acknowledge the swap would
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian lawmakers are sitting in the last session before moving to a new Parliament building and even the opposition parties responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call that saw him lauding the recently concluded G20 summit. Major opposition parties in May boycotted the inauguration of the
Continue ReadingMORGANTOWN, Pa (AP) — Authorities in Pennsylvania launched a search Sunday night for nine people who escaped from a juvenile detention facility following a riot. The Reading division of the Pennsylvania State Police and other agencies were searching for nine juveniles who escaped from Abraxas Academy around 8 p.m., Pennsylvania State Police Trooper David Beohm
Continue Reading By Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna (CNN) — International rescue teams in Libya are calling for more help to retrieve the bodies of victims killed in devastating floods that swept through the eastern city of Derna, killing thousands. More than a week on, the teams said the majority of the victims’ bodies
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Elon Musk, the head of electric carmaker Tesla, to establish a factory in Turkey. Erdogan’s office says the request came during a meeting in New York, where Erdogan is attending the U.N. General Assembly. The statement from Erdogan’s office also says the two discussed
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares fell Monday in Asia, with Hong Kong’s benchmark pulled lower by property stocks following reports that police had detained staff at the wealth management business of troubled real estate developer China Evergrande. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices advanced. Tokyo’s markets were closed for a national holiday.
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Before Australians last voted in a referendum on First Nations people in 1967, Uncle Bob Anderson set up a table and chair at a tram stop in central Brisbane. From his rail-side office, he’d tell anyone who would stop and listen that Australia counted its horses, cows,
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