ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn’t have pneumonia. Francis himself on Sunday revealed that he was suffering from the inflammation problem, explaining why he didn’t keep his weekly window appointment to greet people in St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican’s press
Continue ReadingA storm in the Black Sea took down power grids and left almost half a million people without power after it flooded roads, ripped up trees and damaged buildings in Crimea, Russian state news agency Tass said. One person was killed. Around 800 exotic fish and animals at an aquarium also died after the room
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly retreated Monday as investors awaited updates on consumer spending and inflation in the U.S. and other nations. France’s CAC 40 edged 0.1% lower in early trading to 7,285.41, while Germany’s DAX fell 0.2% to 15,997.64. Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 0.3% to 7,467.37. U.S.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A party ally of far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has quit his role in the building of a new governing coalition over a fraud allegation. The decision Monday throws the process of building a new government into turmoil before it had begun. Gom van
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CNN Words by Callum Sutherland, video by Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, CNN (CNN) — On the outskirts of Cape Town an unusual resident can often be found rummaging through rubbish bins and around back yards. The chacma baboon, native to southern Africa, has become quite familiar with the urban setting. Most of these primates
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The troubles besetting one of China’s biggest privately-owned financial conglomerates have deepened with Zhongzhi now at the centre of a criminal investigation. Beijing police have begun a probe into the wealth management unit of Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, the authorities said over the weekend. The announcement comes just
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A party ally of far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has quit his role in the building of a new governing coalition over a fraud allegation. The decision Monday throws the process of building a new government into turmoil before it had begun. Gom van Strien, a senator for Wilders’
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — A 15-year-old boy is facing charges of first-degree murder and other offenses after a homeless man was fatally shot in the face in Pennsylvania, authorities said. The victim, 39-year-old Jeremiah Hawkins, was shot Wednesday afternoon after the teen, Thomas James Niarhos, allegedly confronted the man in
Continue ReadingBy Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Such is Novak Djokovic’s greatness on the tennis court that he is expected to routinely win the majority of his matches, so when the Serbian lost twice on Saturday it was a surprise of seismic proportions. That he lost one of his matches after having three match points was
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Delegations from European Union member states and Middle Eastern and north African countries are meeting Monday in Barcelona, Spain, to discuss the crisis in Gaza, where a fragile pause in fighting is set to expire. Forty-two delegations gathered at the event hosted by the Union for
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media says the country’s navy has added a destroyer to its Caspian Sea fleet capable of launching cruise missiles. A Monday report by the state-owned IRNA news agency said the 1,400-ton Deilaman destroyer, named for a town in the north of Iran, is able to launch torpedoes while traveling
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An international watchdog is urging the United Nations Security Council to consider all options to protect civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region. The U.N. refugee agency says more than 800 people were reportedly killed in a multi-day assault earlier this month. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which was
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — La frágil pausa en el ataque de Israel contra Hamas en Gaza, que permitió la liberación hasta ahora de 58 rehenes, fue sorprendentemente duradera dado que ninguna de las partes está en contacto directo y cada una está empeñada en destruir a la otra. La pregunta ahora es por cuánto tiempo
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in India say they were set to begin manual digging of what they hoped was the final phase of rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for over two weeks. This came a day after an attempt to drill vertically — an
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering near the University of Vermont campus Saturday evening. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested Jason J. Eaton, 48, while conducting a search of
Continue ReadingBy SHARON LURYE Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, La. (AP) — Arliya Martin accepted her high school diploma with relief and gratitude. It was her ticket to better-paying work, she felt, after getting kicked out of high school and toiling for eight years at factory jobs to support her children. “This is a new path for me
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — International mediators were pressing to extend a cease-fire in Gaza that has halted the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian violence in decades but is set to expire after Monday, as Israel and Hamas prepared for a fourth exchange of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt is going on trial over charges of favoritism related to a 2009 public sector contract passed when he was a mayor. France’s financial prosecutor’s office said Dussopt is suspected of having favored a private company, the Saur group, in the awarding of a water contract when he
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Six teenagers go on trial in Paris for their alleged role in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class. The killing in 2020 led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression and secularism. The Islamic radical who killed the teacher was shot
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Sierra Leone’s president says most leaders of attacks on the nation’s main military barracks and prisons have been arrested. The attacks early Sunday surprised residents and security forces in the West African nation and raised fears of a possible coup in a troubled region. President Julius
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