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Month: February 2024

Less is more? Consumers have fewer choices as brands prune their offerings to focus on best sellers

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — How much choice is too much? Apparently for Coca-Cola, it’s about 400 different types of drinks. That’s why the beverage company recently decided to discontinue half of them, shedding brands like Tab, Zico coconut water, Diet Coke Feisty Cherry and Odwalla juices but still leaving

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German, Danish leaders launch construction of new ammunition plant as Europe ramps up production

BERLIN (AP) — The leaders of Germany and Denmark have joined in a ground-breaking ceremony for a new ammunition factory, underlining Europe’s efforts to ramp up its weapons production as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on. The plant being built by defense company Rheinmetall at its existing site in Unterluess in northern Germany is expected

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Special counsel probe into Biden’s handling of classified documents appears to be nearing end

By Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Robert Hur’s interview of President Joe Biden is a sign that the classified documents investigation is nearing conclusion after casting a wide net that included dozens of witnesses during the ten-month long probe, multiple sources told CNN. The White House announced

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Dos heridos, incluido un niño, después de un tiroteo en la iglesia Lakewood en Houston; la atacante murió, dice la Policía

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Una mujer vestida con una gabardina y armada con un rifle largo -acompañada por un niño pequeño- ingresó a la iglesia Lakewood del pastor Joel Osteen el domingo por la tarde y comenzó a disparar, dijo el jefe de policía de Houston, Troy Finner. Dos agentes del orden fuera de

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Floats at Germany’s Carnival parades satirize leading political figures

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Throngs of revelers have taken to the streets of Germany’s Carnival strongholds along with floats that satirized the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, German politicians, former U.S. President Donald Trump and many others. Shrove Monday parades are a traditional high point of Carnival celebrations in Cologne, Duesseldorf, Mainz and other places in

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Indonesia police to charge 2 Chinese nationals in furnace explosion at Chinese-owned nickel plant

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police have named two Chinese nationals as suspects in the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Sulawesi Island that killed 21 workers and injured dozens of others. Eight Chinese and 13 Indonesian workers died after the furnace at PT Indonesia

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Cyprus president wants the European Union to discuss designating Syria safe zones for refugees

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus says the European Union won’t serve its own best interests if it doesn’t consider designating some parts of Syria as safe zones so refugees and migrants can be repatriated there. President Nikos Christodoulides said that Cyprus is working with like-minded EU member

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