By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Voters in Malta are electing a new Parliament and deciding which party will be in government for the coming five years. Results of the general election on the Mediterranean island nation are expected Sunday. The election will see a few firsts for Malta: Youths as
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix has accomplished a lot in Hollywood: It’s partnered with notable filmmakers, produced buzzy hit films and launched the streaming craze that revolutionized the industry. Yet there’s one coveted Tinseltown accolade Netflix hasn’t received: the Academy Award for best picture. That could change this weekend. Netflix’s film “The Power of
Continue ReadingStephy Chung, CNN Korean culture has spread across the world like wildfire in recent years, with the hugely successful K-pop, K-film and K-beauty sectors attracting insatiable interest. Now, South Korea is looking to take its fashion industry to the next level, too. The drive is being led by the biannual Seoul Fashion Week (SFW), which,
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN This week at CNN Travel, we’re eating our dinner out of the world’s coolest toothpaste tube, dreaming about sunny Indonesian beaches and admiring the latest developments in British mass transit. Come along for the ride, won’t you? Asia opening up Traveling to Asia just got easier as Hong Kong will allow
Continue ReadingCNN Barry Neild, CNN A huge new subterranean railway whisked fare-paying passengers deep beneath the streets of London for the first time on Tuesday as the UK capital opened a $25 billion new metro line that will transform travel across the city. Large crowds of rail enthusiasts, commuters and excited locals turned out to catch
Continue ReadingBy AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Officials say a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have unleashed a barrage of airstrikes on the capital and a strategic Red Sea city. They said Saturday at least eight people were killed. The overnight airstrikes on Sanaa and Hodeida —
Continue ReadingBy LUJAIN JO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on energy-rich nations to increase their production of oil and natural gas to counteract the loss of Russian supplies amid sanctions over Moscow’s war on his country. Zelenskyy made a surprise video appearance Saturday at Qatar’s Doha Forum. Zelenskyy asked
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates is hosting a United Nations-backed climate summit next week. But the venue is jarring. The environment officials, scientists and executives from across the Middle East will have to address many forms of water stress their regions are already experiencing, including
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Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Just days ago, Artem Gorelov was trying to survive in one of the most brutal parts of Ukraine, the Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Now he stands in a quiet room in the late afternoon sunlight, hand-making hats for a local fashion brand worn by Madonna
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Just days ago, Artem Gorelov was trying to survive in one of the most brutal parts of Ukraine, the Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Now he stands in a quiet room in the late afternoon sunlight, hand-making hats for a local fashion brand worn by Madonna
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it’s ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun, and millions of times brighter. It’s the farthest detection of a star yet, from
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The Solar Orbiter mission will make its closest flyby of the sun Saturday since launching in February 2020. The spacecraft will come within 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) of the sun, less than one-third the distance between the star and Earth. This will take Solar Orbiter inside the orbit of
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elaine May, Samuel L. Jackson and Liv Ullmann are at long last Oscar winners. The four Hollywood legends were celebrated Friday night in Los Angeles and given honorary Oscars at the annual Governors Awards. Danny Glover was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his
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Piglet and Olivia are very friendly and social guinea pigs, waiting for a new home at the Humane Society of Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and JEFF AMY Associated Press COMMERCE, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump wants to use November’s midterm elections to solidify his continued dominance of the national Republican Party. Few places are more central to that effort than Georgia. Enraged that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t advance lies that the state’s free and fair
Continue ReadingAya Elamroussi, CNN | Seán Federico-O’Murchú, CNN When Vladimir Putin’s forces last approached a capital city, they leveled it. As the invasion of Ukraine enters its second month, Russian forces are digging in on the outskirts of Kyiv — and there are fears they could be preparing for the same indiscriminate scorched-earth tactic used in
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Bend artist Jason Graham, also known as MOsley WOtta, is putting on live multimedia shows at Open Space Event Studios and has a new album out, called “It’s Not the Year, It’s You.”
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A Chinese Australian journalist who has been held in China since August 2020 will be tried next week, the Australian government said Saturday. Cheng Lei, who was a prominent journalist for China’s state-run international network CGTN, was initially detained and later formally arrested on suspicion of supplying state secrets overseas. The Chinese
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Historical Society is proud to announce two transformative gifts from the Boyle family to endow the institution’s top position, providing long-term stable funding for this key staff role, as well as expand its educational outreach efforts. On Monday, March 17, Tim Boyle, Mary Boyle and Sally Bany announced a gift,
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