By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The deaths of at least 27 people in the English Channel is fueling tensions between the U.K. and France over how to stop migrants from crossing the world’s busiest waterway in small boats. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron have pledged to “do
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has begun relocating hundreds of Rohingya refugees to an island in the Bay of Bengal, despite concerns from rights groups over the conditions on the vulnerable low-lying island and that no refugees should be sent forcibly. Bangladesh has been sheltering 1.1 million Rohingya from Myanmar
Continue ReadingBy Jill Disis and Kylie Atwood, CNN Business The Biden administration is piling more pressure on Chinese companies it claims could undermine US national security. The US Commerce Department on Wednesday added a dozen Chinese companies to a trade blacklist, saying that some of the firms have supported the modernization of China’s army. US officials
Continue ReadingCNN By Jill Disis and Kylie Atwood, CNN Business The Biden administration is piling more pressure on Chinese companies it claims could undermine US national security. The US Commerce Department on Wednesday added a dozen Chinese companies to a trade blacklist, saying that some of the firms have supported the modernization of China’s army. US
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Grupos de ladrones robaron bienes de dos tiendas de lujo en California el miércoles, según las autoridades, en el último capítulo de una serie de robos similares en algunas ciudades de Estados Unidos. En Los Ángeles, al menos cinco personas entraron a la tienda Nordstrom en Canoga Park y robaron artículos que
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Metalworkers in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz are returning to work after trade unions reached a pay agreement with employers. The agreement was approved by workers in a ballot Thursday. The open-ended strike began Nov. 16, with street protests at times turning violent as riot police clashed with strikers and their
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has opened a virtual meeting of Asian and European leaders with a call for sustainable and shared global growth as the world seeks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty European countries and 21 Asian countries, along with multinational organizations,
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has opened a virtual meeting of Asian and European leaders with a call for sustainable and shared global growth as the world seeks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty European countries and 21 Asian countries, along with multinational organizations,
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Millones de estadounidenses están decidiendo renunciar a sus trabajos por estos días, y no siempre tienen otro en fila. Ya sea debido al agotamiento, el deseo de mayor flexibilidad o mejor pago, o la búsqueda de una carrera completamente diferente, decir “renuncio” puede tener implicaciones financieras a largo plazo. “Antes de
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court has started hearing a petition to shut down one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights groups, a move that sparked public outrage and is part of a months-long crackdown on dissent. The Prosecutor General’s Office this month petitioned the Supreme Court
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — An official says at least 10 people, including five children, died this week in South Sudan after their boat capsized on the White Nile river in Upper Nile state. The state’s information minister said the boat was heading to Malakal when it sank with 28
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — El año pasado, el desfile anual del Día de Acción de Gracias de Macy’s fue algo silencioso. Debido a la pandemia, fue un evento solo de televisión. No había multitudes animadas que bordeaban las avenidas de Manhattan. No había una ruta de desfile larga. Qué diferencia hacen las vacunas de covid-19
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists studying ancient disease have uncovered one of the earliest examples of spillover — when a disease jumps from an animal to a human — and it happened to a Neanderthal man who likely got sick butchering or cooking raw meat. Researchers were reexamining the fossilized bones of a Neanderthal who
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A renowned Chinese fashion photographer has apologized for her past work after online critics called it insulting to the Chinese people and fashion house Dior removed one of her photos from a show in Shanghai. Chen Man apologized in a social media post
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has drawn up plans to help people better understand when they are seeing political ads online and who is responsible for them. The proposals are aimed at ensuring fair and transparent polls or referendums. They would ban political targeting and methods used to reach
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Elise Hammond and Mike Hayes, CNN Three men convicted Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery each faced nine possible charges that stemmed from their involvement in the 2020 shooting near Brunswick, Georgia. But the verdicts rendered by the jury on some of the allegations differed. Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan
Continue ReadingCNN By Travis Caldwell, Elise Hammond and Mike Hayes, CNN Three men convicted Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery each faced nine possible charges that stemmed from their involvement in the 2020 shooting near Brunswick, Georgia. But the verdicts rendered by the jury on some of the allegations differed. Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie”
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Milos Zeman has been readmitted to hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19, just hours after he had been discharged following more than a month’s treatment for an unspecified illness. The presidential office said Zeman was tested after he arrived at his official residence in Lany, west of Prague, Thursday
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La familia de Ahmaud Arbery reaccionó con alegría y alivio el miércoles después de que tres hombres blancos fueron declarados culpables de los cargos relacionados con la muerte del hombre negro de 25 años. Esto luego de un juicio inmerso en cuestiones como la raza y los derechos y limitaciones de la
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say 52 miners and rescuers have died after a devastating blast in a Siberian coal mine about 250 meters (820 feet) underground. Hours after a methane gas explosion and fire filled the mine with toxic fumes, rescuers found 14 bodies but then
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