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Month: June 2024

Expect the cost of your airfare to continue to rise, an aviation trade group and industry heads warn

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The cost of your next flight is likely to go up. That’s the word from the International Air Transport Association, which held its annual meeting Monday in Dubai, home to the long-haul carrier Emirates. While carriers recover from the groundings worldwide from the coronavirus

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Iran’s acting top diplomat visits Lebanon in the first official visit since his predecessor’s death

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s acting foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon on his first official diplomatic visit since his predecessor died in a helicopter crash last month. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reports that Ali Bagheri Kani will visit Lebanon and then Syria “to meet with the two countries’ officials

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France’s far right may win big in the EU elections. That’s worrying for migrants, Macron and Ukraine

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is likely to emerge as a big winner at the weekend’s European Parliament elections even though she isn’t even on the ballot. Polls expect her National Rally party to be the top vote-getter in France, trouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s moderate pro-business

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‘Lifting trophies?’ I’m a winner. That’s the ambition’: Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on the ‘painful’ chase of Manchester City

By Amanda Davies and Aleks Klosok, CNN Sardinia, Italy (CNN) — The fate of soccer players, managers and clubs can sometimes be determined by the finest of fine margins. The width of a goalpost. A dubious Video Assistant Referee (VAR) decision. An unexpected dropped point. Just ask Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. In two successive years

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Zelensky says China’s ‘support to Russia’ will extend war in Ukraine during surprise appearance in Asia

By Brad Lendon, Ivan Watson and Simone McCarthy, CNN Singapore (CNN) — China’s support to Russia will extend the war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday, as he called on countries across the Asia-Pacific to join an upcoming peace summit he accused Russia of trying to thwart. Zelensky made the comments in Singapore during

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OPEC+ extends oil output cuts into 2025

CNN By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies — a group of leading oil producers known as OPEC+ — agreed Sunday to extend production cuts announced last year into 2025. The group said in a statement it would extend a cut of 1.65 million barrels per

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Georgia’s parliament speaker signs a divisive foreign influence bill into law

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The speaker of Georgia’s parliament says he has given the final endorsement to a divisive “foreign agents” bill. The legislation has prompted weeks of protests by critics who say it will restrict media freedom and jeopardize Georgia’s chances of joining the European Union. Shalva Papuashvili said

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A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s next president and its first woman leader in more than 200 years of independence, captured the post by promising continuity. The 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist ran a disciplined campaign capitalizing on her predecessor’s popularity. But Mexicans will look to

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Georgia’s parliament speaker says he has signed a divisive foreign influence bill into law

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The speaker of Georgia’s parliamen said he gave the final endorsement on Monday to a divisive “foreign agents” bill that has prompted weeks of protests by critics who say it will restrict media freedom and jeopardize Georgia’s chances of joining the European Union. Shalva Papuashvili announced that he signed the bill

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