By The Associated Press The French interior minister says French authorities in New Caledonia have regained full control of their Pacific territory’s capital after two weeks of unrest that left seven people dead. Gerald Darmanin said Friday in a post on X that “a major police operation has taken place successfully” in the last area
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Caitlin Clark picked up her third technical foul of her fledgling WNBA career on Thursday as the Indiana Fever suffered their eighth loss of the season. Midway through the second quarter of Indiana’s game against the Seattle Storm at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Clark hit a long three-pointer over Storm guard
Continue ReadingOpinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — A recent visitor to Israel told me about a conversation in which he noted that Benjamin Netanyahu is the worst prime minister in modern Israel’s history. His Israeli interlocutor disagreed. No, he responded, “Bibi,” as he is known, is the worst leader in the history of the Jewish people. Almost eight months have
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV, MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany has joined the United States in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying. Friday’s move is a significant policy change that comes as depleted Ukrainian troops are losing ground in the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation ticked up to an annual 2.6% in Europe in May. The new figure released on Friday is more than expected as a painful spike in consumer prices takes its time to fade away. Yet that’s unlikely to stop the European Central Bank from making
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer World shares were mixed on Friday after an official survey showed Chinese factory activity weakening in May on slowing export orders. U.S. futures were little changed and oil prices slipped ahead of an OPEC meeting this weekend. Technology-related shares saw some of the biggest declines after Nvidia, recently a
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the hospital, said on Friday that Fico was transported to his home, where he continues to recover from the attack. Lapunikova thanked Fico in a statement
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — “This is not daredevil stuff,” says 75-year-old fine art photographer Donn Delson as we sit in a helicopter with no door, almost 2,000 feet above London. At this height, the winds are numbing even in May, yet Delson, on the outermost seat, dangles his legs out as a
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Picture this: It’s a Thursday night in Houston and thunderstorms are rolling in. Suddenly, winds roar past 100 mph. Trees snap, windows shatter and the city darkens as power flickers out. Even after it’s over, it takes days for the lights to come back on in parts of
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Well before the Manhattan jury finished deliberating on Thursday, most of President Joe Biden’s advisers concluded that a guilty verdict wouldn’t drastically alter their 2024 election strategy. But it has stoked some hopes among supporters of the president that if 12 people who focused on
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By Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — As Donald Trump became the first former US president to be convicted of a felony on Thursday, the historic verdict sparked huge interest – and a fair amount of schadenfreude – in China. As a rising authoritarian superpower, China has long sought to project its political system as superior to American democracy.
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — One of India’s biggest airlines has just launched a new feature that allows female travelers to see where other women are sitting when selecting seats for their flights. According to a statement sent to CNN, low-cost carrier IndiGo Airlines is offering the feature on a pilot basis to female
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the answer to that question is often: quite a lot. The history of D-Day is often told through the stories of the men who fought and died when
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the clinic in central city of Banska Bystrica said on Friday that Fico was transported to his home, where he continues to recover from the attack. Lapunikova
Continue ReadingJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority. With more than half of votes counted across the country’s nine provinces on Friday, the ANC has received just under
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian ballistic missiles have slammed into an apartment block in Kharkiv and killed at least four people in a nighttime attack. The bombardment comes a day after U.S. President Joe Biden gave Kyiv a green light to strike back with American weapons at
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — Se suponía que un edificio achaparrado y de color claro en Tigard, Oregon, sería parte de una nueva solución revolucionaria para la industria mundial del plástico. Esta instalación de reciclaje, llamada Regenyx, tomó poliestireno (un plástico difícil de reciclar que se usa para productos como tazas de café, cartones de huevos
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over the rebels’ attacks on shipping.
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — NATO foreign ministers were meeting in the Czech capital Friday to prepare for this summer’s leaders’ summit as the alliance boosts support for Ukraine and countries one-by-one remove restrictions on how Kyiv can use western-supplied weaponry to combat Russia’s invasion. A day after U.S.
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Friday it will sell a second sliver of stock in its state oil giant Aramco worth billions of dollars, its first tranche since its initial public offering back in 2019. Saudi Aramco, formally known as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., acknowledged the stock sale in a
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