TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — State TV reports that Iran has detected its first case of infection by the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The report Sunday comes as the new version spreads around the world and offers clues about what it may have in store. Omicron is may case less severe disease than other variants
Continue ReadingBy EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Germany should implement stricter measures this week to slow the spread of the omicron variant. That’s according to the German government’s new expert council. The council — made up of Germany’s top virologists and health officials — said Sunday that omicron “brings a new dimension to the
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Susannah Cullinane, CNN The United States is likely in for a hard winter as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreads rapidly, Dr. Anthony Fauci says, straining a health care system already battered by the Delta variant. “It’s going to take over,” Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said of the
Continue ReadingCNN By Dakin Andone and Susannah Cullinane, CNN The United States is likely in for a hard winter as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreads rapidly, Dr. Anthony Fauci says, straining a health care system already battered by the Delta variant. “It’s going to take over,” Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said of
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Richard Rogers, the lauded British architect who was one of the forces behind the Pompidou Center in Paris and later designed London’s Millennium Dome, has died. He was 88. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the company he founded, confirmed his death Sunday. It described him as “a
Continue ReadingKARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani police officer says the death toll from a sewer gas blast in the country’s largest city has jumped to 17. That’s five more people killed than initially reported after Saturday’s explosion in Karachi. Senior police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz Shaikh said Sunday the number of injured also increased from 11
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN As Johnny Stutzman surveyed the wreckage of what had been his house, all he could do was muster a laugh. “My front porch is laying over there on the other side of the road,” he said, pointing to a splintered pile of rubble that had landed amid trees across a Kentucky
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese have taken to the streets across the country in mass protests against a military takeover and a subsequent deal that reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok but sidelined the movement. Sudanese authorities tightened security in the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, barricading government and
Continue ReadingBy MALAK HARB Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Internationally-known DJ David Guetta has defended his participation in Saudi festivals in an interview with The Associated Press. The French DJ is a resident of the United Arab Emirates and is performing Sunday at the MDLBeast Soundstorm music festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN They weren’t meant to be heroes. Frodo Baggins, his steadfast companion Samwise Gamgee and their accidental journey-mates, jejune cousins Merry and Pippin, could have been content living out their days in the Shire with their fellow hobbits, feasting and smoking in pastoral comfort. But when a mission that would determine the
Continue ReadingBy JAMES BROOKS Associated Press ROVANIEMI, Finland (AP) — Christmas is in full swing in Finnish Lapland, where venue operators happily report that visitors have returned in numbers approaching pre-pandemic levels. Tourists from elsewhere in Finland and abroad come to revel in the festive spirit at the sprawling Santa Claus Village theme park, take a
Continue ReadingBy JAMES BROOKS Associated Press ROVANIEMI, Finland (AP) — Christmas is in full swing in Finnish Lapland, where venue operators happily report that visitors have returned in numbers approaching pre-pandemic levels. Tourists from elsewhere in Finland and abroad come to revel in the festive spirit at the sprawling Santa Claus Village theme park, take a
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN, MAE ANDERSON and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — While restaurants in the U.S. and United Kingdom are open without restrictions and often bustling, they are entering their second winter of the coronavirus pandemic anxious about what’s ahead. They’re squeezed by labor shortages and skyrocketing food costs and the omicron variant
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN, MAE ANDERSON and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — While restaurants in the U.S. and United Kingdom are open without restrictions and often bustling, they are entering their second winter of the coronavirus pandemic anxious about what’s ahead. They’re squeezed by labor shortages and skyrocketing food costs and the omicron variant
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s military says two rockets have struck Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. embassy. The military says the Sunday morning attack caused no casualties but resulted in some property damage. One rocket was destroyed by the U.S. embassy’s C-RAM defense system and another fell near a national
Continue ReadingBy Lauren M. Johnson, CNN With the Omicron variant spreading quickly across the US, several school districts are sending Covid-19 antigen tests home for the holidays to help curb a spike when they return to school in January. The school systems include Marin County Schools in California, Chicago Public Schools, several cities in Massachusetts, and
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Four people including two children have died after a light aircraft crashed into the sea near the coast of Australia’s Queensland state. Police say the four-seater Rockwell aircraft crashed off the end of a runway at Redcliffe, northeast of Brisbane. Divers recovered the bodies of two adults, including the 69-year-old male pilot,
Continue ReadingHilary Clarke, CNN | Jonny Hallam, CNN Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, whose landmark buildings include the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the 3 World Trade Center tower in New York and London’s Millennium Dome, has died aged 88. Rogers “passed away quietly” on Saturday evening, his representative Matthew Freud of Freud Communications confirmed to CNN
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