By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet If your family of origin didn’t teach you about credit cards, maybe it’s because they didn’t use them. You may have even been taught that credit cards are dangerous. Now that you’re managing your own finances, you’re ready for your own credit cards — only you don’t really know how
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand say they will indict a former national police chief on charges of impeding legal action against an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who was accused of killing a Bangkok police officer in a 2012 hit-and-run. Several government officials and police officers
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of farmers are gathering in the Polish capital to protest the European Union’s agricultural policies and the imports of cheap food from Ukraine. The protesters say they are demanding that the Polish government withdraw from the EU’s Green Deal, a plan meant to help the environment and fight climate change
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Poland say their countries are united in their support for Ukraine and pledged to look for ways to increase their help in its fight against Russian military aggression. Poland says it is ready to contribute to a Czech plan
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Antoinette Candia-Bailey loved Lincoln University. A proud alum of the historically Black college, Candia-Bailey — known as “Bonnie” to her friends — stuck a Lincoln University bumper sticker on her mom’s new car as a freshman. When she graduated in 1998, her mother bought a brick in her name. And
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Prince William will miss a memorial service for the late King Constantine of Greece because of a personal matter, a royal source has told CNN. The Prince of Wales, 41, had been expected to attend the remembrance event at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. The source
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group who is accused of participating in a string of robberies has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run. The 65-year-old Daniela Klette was arrested at an apartment in Berlin
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace says Britain’s Prince William has pulled out of attending a memorial service for his godfather, the late King Constantine of Greece, because of a personal matter. The palace declined to elaborate on Tuesday but said his wife, the Princess of Wales, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, continues to do
Continue ReadingBy ELISE MORTON Associated Press A Moscow court has sentenced a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine to two years and six months in prison. Oleg Orlov, 70, was convicted of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army in an article he wrote denouncing the invasion of Ukraine. He has rejected
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife have appeared before a judge in a high security court near Islamabad. Officials say the two pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in a graft case alleging they accepted the gift of land from a real estate tycoon
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A leading British think tank that specializes in the state of the country’s public finances thinks there’s a “weak economic case” for tax cuts in next week’s budget, which the Conservative government is hoping can lift its prospects ahead of the general election this year. With the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, Melissa Alonso, Jamiel Lynch and Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Fallout continues from the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children, an unprecedented decision that has already prompted clinics in the state to halt some IVF treatments. Here are the latest developments: Bills introduced in both the Alabama Senate and
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea have been refusing to see patients and attend surgeries since they walked off the job Feb. 20 in response to the government’s push to recruit more medical students. As of Tuesday, about 8,940 medical interns
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German far-right extremist already serving a life sentence following an attempt to attack a synagogue in 2019 has been convicted of hostage-taking for his actions in a jailbreak attempt. The 32-year-old was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison. He also was ordered to make payments to several people. The defendant
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted 17 suspects in the long-running trial of an underworld gang that planned a string of killings. Judges on Tuesday handed life sentences to three of them, including the country’s formerly most-wanted fugitive Ridouan Taghi. The trial and three more murders linked to
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media say former Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who has been missing from public view since last June, has resigned from the national legislature. Qin was dismissed from office in July, in one of China’s biggest political surprises in years. The National People’s Congress Standing
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — New findings on Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” provide alarming insight into how its collapse could cause catastrophic global flooding. The massive glacier — which is roughly the size of Florida — is melting at a historic pace due to climate change and could raise sea levels by several feet.
Continue ReadingCNN By Alex Marquardt and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — US President Joe Biden said that he hopes there’ll be a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict by “next Monday,” as the death toll in Gaza approaches 30,000, according to health officials. “Well I hope by the beginning of the weekend, I mean, the end of the
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mostly higher on Tuesday after U.S. stocks edged back from their record peaks. Germany’s DAX added 0.5% to 17,503.99. In Paris, the CAC 40 edged less than 0.1% higher to 7,931.86 and London’s FTSE 100 was up 0.1% at 7,691.96. The future for
Continue ReadingBy Joshua Berlinger, Amy Cassidy, Luke McGee and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Paris (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron has openly discussed the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine to help Kyiv win the war against Russia, a potential major escalation to the largest ground war Europe has seen since World War II. Though the
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