By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer FIFA says it will take “adequate actions” once it has investigated the the racial abuse that England players faced in Hungary. England’s players were targeted during their 4-0 victory over Hungary in a World Cup qualifier at Puskas Arena in Budapest. They were jeered for taking a knee,
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business Alibaba is pouring 100 billion yuan ($15.5 billion) into China’s drive to achieve “common prosperity,” marking the latest big pledge from a Chinese company to support President Xi Jinping’s campaign. The tech giant announced Friday that it would spend the staggering sum by 2025 with an eye on five priorities:
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Jacob Chansley, acusado de disturbios en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos, y quien es conocido como el ‘chamán de QAnon’ por usar un traje de piel de oso con cuernos durante el ataque, se declarará culpable este viernes, según los registros judiciales. Chansley ha sido acusado de seis delitos federales en relación
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says the world and especially urban areas experienced a brief and sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year. It happened during lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic. The World Meteorological Organization released its first
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says the world and especially urban areas experienced a brief and sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year. It happened during lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic. The World Meteorological Organization released its first
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL COLE, SYLVIE CORBET and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron opened a global summit on biodiversity calling for better protection of the high seas, which largely don’t fall under any national jurisdiction but are threatened by fishing and other human activities. Speaking Friday at the summit in
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN When Jordan Milano Hazrati was offered a job as a flight attendant with Virgin Atlantic, it was a dream come true. “It was everything I’d ever wanted — I still can’t believe I did it,” she says. “I was sitting in the flight deck landing at Heathrow on my first flight, and
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Los cosmonautas rusos Oleg Novitskiy y Pyotr Dubrov realizarán una caminata espacial el viernes para preparar el nuevo módulo Nauka para las operaciones en la Estación Espacial Internacional. La caminata espacial comenzará a las 10:35 am ET y se espera que dure casi siete horas. La cobertura en vivo se compartirá en
Continue ReadingBy FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press SANGEH, Indonesia (AP) — Deprived of their preferred food source — the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus — hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers’ homes in their search for something
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca say they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company’s COVID-19 vaccines. The European Commission said Friday that AstraZeneca made a “firm commitment” to deliver a total of 300 million vaccine
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca say they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company’s COVID-19 vaccines. The European Commission said Friday that AstraZeneca made a “firm commitment” to deliver a total of 300 million vaccine
Continue Readingolivertapia Tokio (CNN) — El primer ministro de Japón, Yoshihide Suga, dijo el viernes que no se postulará en las próximas elecciones por el liderazgo de su partido, con lo que cederá el cargo de primer ministro y abre la carrera a otros candidatos después de un período turbulento de menos de un año. Suga,
Continue ReadingBy Emiko Jozuka, Chie Kobayashi and Selina Wang, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday said he will not run in his party’s forthcoming leadership election, effectively ceding the premiership and opening the race to other candidates after a turbulent term of less than a year. Suga, who assumed the top role last September
Continue ReadingCNN By Emiko Jozuka, Chie Kobayashi and Selina Wang, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday said he will not run in his party’s forthcoming leadership election, effectively ceding the premiership and opening the race to other candidates after a turbulent term of less than a year. Suga, who assumed the top role last
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN en Español) — Este jueves, el presidente de Guatemala, Alejando Giammattei, anunció en televisión nacional que enviará a primeras horas del viernes una solicitud al Congreso con nuevas medidas por la pandemia de covid-19 y dijo que espera que las apruebe en los próximos tres días. (Photo by ORLANDO ESTRADA/AFP via Getty Images)
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A former nurse pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting an intellectually disabled woman in an Arizona long-term health care facility. Nathan Sutherland also pleaded guilty to abusing a vulnerable adult, court records show, at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, where the victim had been living for years.
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The United Nations chief will convene a ministerial meeting in Geneva on Sept. 13 to seek a swift scale-up in funding to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where nearly half the country’s 38 million people need assistance. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will also appeal “for full
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The United Nations chief will convene a ministerial meeting in Geneva on Sept. 13 to seek a swift scale-up in funding to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where nearly half the country’s 38 million people need assistance. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will also appeal “for full
Continue ReadingDEBARK, Ethiopia (AP) — As they bring war to other parts of Ethiopia, resurgent Tigray fighters face growing allegations that they are retaliating for the abuses their people suffered back home. In interviews with The Associated Press, more than a dozen witnesses offered the most widespread descriptions yet of Tigray forces striking communities and a
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN en Español) — Panamá se sometió a dos pruebas la noche del jueves. En la primera terminó con un empate ante Costa Rica con marcador de 0-0, luego del encuentro de fútbol en las eliminatorias para el mundial de Qatar 2022. En su segunda prueba, los resultados podría tenerlos en dos semanas, cuando
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