ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union’s border protection agency Frontex has joined the search for 12 crew members missing after a cargo ship sank in rough weather near the Greek island of Lesbos. Authorities said that a 40-year-old Egyptian was rescued while the body of another Egyptian crew member was recovered by a commercial
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By Melissa Alonso and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Portland students will return to classrooms Monday after the Portland Association of Teachers signed a tentative agreement with Portland Public Schools on Sunday, ending a weeks-long strike that shut classrooms down, according to statements from both. “This contract is a watershed moment for Portland students, families, and
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A critically endangered Sumatran rhino was born in Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the second Sumatran rhino born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species that currently numbers fewer than 50 animals. A female named Delilah gave birth to
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The top Palestinian diplomat made a plea Monday to extend the fragile cease-fire in Gaza, hours ahead of its scheduled expiry, at a meeting of European Union members and Middle Eastern and north African countries that focused on diplomatic efforts to stop the Israel-Hamas war. “We
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — “Football season starts after Thanksgiving.” It has become a trope from Bill Belichick during his storied run with the New England Patriots and, if the legendary head coach’s sage wisdom is to be followed, the 2023 NFL season has only just begun. The remaining few weeks of the current
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Rock icon Ozzy Osbourne opened up about his health struggles in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, and said he would “die a happy man” if he could perform one more show to express his gratitude to his fans from the stage. “If I can’t continue doing shows on
Continue ReadingBy LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Companies make it easy to subscribe to their services — and frustratingly hard to unsubscribe. Businesses are forced to give you privacy options, then make it difficult to opt out of sharing your data. Retailers pressure you to buy with fake countdown timers and “low stock” warnings. These are all
Continue ReadingBy MELANIE LIDMAN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Elon Musk, who’s been under fire for endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory and wider accusations of hatred flourishing on his social media platform X, visited Israel, where he toured a kibbutz attacked by Hamas militants and held talks with top leaders. The billionaire met
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El presidente israelí, Isaac Herzog, espera reunirse con Elon Musk este lunes mientras el hombre más rico del mundo continúa enfrentando una tormenta de críticas por su respaldo público a una teoría de conspiración antisemita en su plataforma de redes sociales, X. Musk tiene previsto reunirse con Herzog a puerta cerrada
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will convene the first meeting of his supply chain resilience council. The Democratic president is using Monday’s event to announce 30 actions to improve access to medicine and needed economic data and other programs tied to the production and shipment of goods. Biden’s announcement
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Ramos, CNN (CNN) — In the bottom left-hand corner of Africa, just before the landscape gives way to the arid terrain of Namibia, sits a green and temperate region that could be one of the most beautiful on the continent – and yet few people beyond this part of the world know about
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El fundador de Alibaba, Jack Ma, tiene un nuevo título: propietario de “Ma’s Kitchen”. El multimillonario tecnológico más famoso de China apoyó una startup recién formada, cuyo nombre en inglés se traduce como “Hangzhou Ma’s Kitchen Food”. Según registros públicos chinos, la compañía se constituyó este miércoles en Hangzhou, la ciudad
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic upended the work habits of people around the world, with millions working from home, at least for part of their week. Workers have returned in waves back to the office on some days, but navigating that transition is a significant hurdle for
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A storm in the Black Sea damaged buildings and knocked down power lines, leaving more than half a million people without power in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine, Russian state media and Ukraine’s energy ministry said. One person was killed. The storm sent waves flooding into the Russian Black Sea beach resort
Continue ReadingBy FADLAN SYAM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s three presidential hopefuls have vowed a peaceful race, a day before campaigning for next year’s election officially began as concerns rose their rivalry may sharpen religious and ethnic divides in Southeast Asia’s largest democracy. The election, due in February, will determine who
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in India say they’re set to begin manual digging of what they hope is the final phase of rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks. Rescuers have started to drill vertically — an alternate plan to digging horizontally from the front —
Continue ReadingBy GISELA SALOMON and SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — In New York, migrants at a city-run shelter grumble that relatives who settled before them refuse to offer a bed. In Chicago, a provider of mental health services to people in the country illegally pivoted to new arrivals sleeping at a police station
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The fragile pause in Israel’s onslaught against Hamas in Gaza, which has enabled the release so far of 58 hostages, has been surprisingly enduring given that neither side is in direct contact and each is bent on obliterating the other. The question now is how long the intersection
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president is swearing in a government that isn’t expected to last more than 14 days, a tactical maneuver that allows the conservative Law and Justice party to hang onto power a bit longer. Following a national election in October, President Andrzej Duda is due to
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Labor unions have staged a day of protests and strikes across the Czech Republic to voice their opposition to the government’s package of cuts and austerity measures meant to keep the ballooning deficit under control. The unions are also demanding more money for education and healthcare and oppose the proposed draft of
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