CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — It will be a bit of a wait until the next total solar eclipse if you missed out on Monday’s spectacular show — but just how long depends on how far you’re willing to travel. Several upcoming total solar eclipses will traverse paths through popular tourist destinations, including
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a sign of mutual support amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and shared opposition to Western democracies led by the U.S. No details of the meeting were immediately released, although Lavrov held a news conference earlier Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A top authority in Norway has revoked a decision by a city council to only take Ukrainian refugees and not others, saying it was contrary to the Norwegian Constitution and the Scandinavian country’s discrimination laws. The office of the Country Governor of Oslo and Viken had asked the right-leaning municipal council
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Golfers are in the sun as much if not more than players in other sports. It can be as many as eight hours a day. And there is renewed emphasis on protecting their skin. Camilo Villegas has been using an app to analyze sunscreen ingredients.
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off. She was right, she tells them in a subsequent clip. But she was planning to pursue a different career anyway: as a
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off. She was right, she tells them in a subsequent clip. But she was planning to pursue a different career anyway: as a
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s Yordan Alvarez might be the top left-handed hitter in Major League Baseball. Teammate Framber Valdez ranks among the best left-handed pitchers, too. Other than that, those guys are all right. Literally — neither player considers himself left-handed at all. MLB and its history are dotted
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fifty-one passengers were safely rescued after a bus they were traveling in was swept away by floodwaters on a river bridge in northern Kenya. The bus is still stuck in the river some 30 meters (yards) away from the bridge, although the waters are continuing to
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Germany on Tuesday strongly rejected a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations’ top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly assault on Gaza. “The minute
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is in Washington to press senior Republicans to unlock money for Ukraine. His visit Tuesday comes after he met a skeptical Donald Trump in Florida. Cameron says victory for Ukraine is “vital for American and European security.” But the former president is a critic of continued U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with top Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov in Beijing Tuesday, state media reported, in yet another sign of the importance China gives to its increasingly robust ties with Moscow. Lavrov is making a two-day visit to the Chinese capital, which comes after Russian
Continue ReadingBy MOLLY QUELL Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese youngsters aimed at forcing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerland’s failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis was in violation of human rights, in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France delivered its ruling
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian space officials have aborted a test launch of a new heavy-lift rocket from a far-eastern launch pad just two minutes before the planned blastoff. The Angara-A5 rocket had been scheduled to lift off from the Vostochny space launch facility at 0900 GMT Tuesday. Yuri Borisov, head of Roscosmos state space corporation,
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — European equities dipped in early trading Tuesday while Asian stocks closed mostly higher, as investors mainly focused on a U.S. inflation report and what it means for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Oil prices advanced. Germany’s DAX shed 0.7% to 18,185.55. In Paris, the
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The federal program that helps pay for groceries for millions of low-income mothers, babies and young kids will soon emphasize more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, as well as provide a wider choice of foods from different cultures. The final rule changes for the program known as WIC were
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Washington (CNN) — The newly opened papers of the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor reveal the internal deliberations of a groundbreaking Supreme Court case that gave US regulators significant latitude to protect the environment and public health – and show how the ruling almost never happened. The 40-year-old milestone, Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A top Chinese leader will lead a delegation to North Korea this week. China’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Zhao Leji would visit the isolated country from Thursday to Saturday. He is chairman of the National People’s Congress and considered the No. 3 official in China’s ruling Communist Party. No details were
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has opened a trial of the son of Spanish actors accused of killing and dismembering a Colombian surgeon on a popular tourist island. Daniel Sancho Bronchalo was indicted in October over the death of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, whose remains were found stuffed in plastic bags in a landfill
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Six northern Europe countries bordering the North Sea have signed an agreement to work together to protect underwater infrastructure in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean from an increased risk of sabotage. The Danish Ministry for Climate, Energy and Utilities on Tuesday called the North Sea a hub for critical
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