By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and JOSH FUNK AP Business Writers Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is buying the insurance company Alleghany in a deal valued at approximately $11.6 billion. The acquisition will expand Berkshire’s already considerable insurance holdings that include brands like Geico auto insurance, and put some of Berkshire’s nearly $147 billion in cash to work.
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has turned to grassroot supporters, lobbying the poor and promising better hospital care as he faces a no-confidence motion in parliament. The challenge may be the biggest yet for the former cricket star turned Islamist leader since he came to power in
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s what
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Marseille defender William Saliba has been called up to France’s national team for upcoming friendly matches. The French soccer federation says Saliba will replace Benjamin Pavard. The Bayern Munich player has been ruled out after testing positive for COVID-19. The defending World Cup champions will take on Ivory Coast in Marseille on
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Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Central Bank of Egypt has raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2017, citing inflationary pressures triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The war hiked oil prices to new records. The key rate was raised by 100 basis points,
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Central Bank of Egypt has raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2017, citing inflationary pressures triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The war hiked oil prices to new records. The key rate was raised by 100 basis points,
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. More than 18 hours after communication
Continue Readingolivertapia La guerra de Rusia en Ucrania llega a la cuarta semana. Habrá cumbre de la OTAN. Buenas noticias para quienes se aplicaron la vacuna de J&J. El FC Barcelona humilló al Real Madrid. Además, Daddy Yankee se retira de la música. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An elected official from New Mexico is the second person tried on charges stemming from the U.S. Capitol riot. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden is expected to hear attorneys’ closing arguments Tuesday for the case against Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin. His trial in is the second
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s outgoing liberal government takes issue with a plan by its rival and conservative President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol to relocate the presidential office by his inauguration in May. The development could put Yoon’s ambitious project in doubt and trigger a domestic political firestorm. On
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A team of Associated Press journalists were documenting the agony of Mariupol from inside the Ukrainian city when they learned their names were on a Russian list. AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov tells the story of their rescue by Ukrainian soldiers as the Russian forces closed
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has already appeared before the Senate three times in confirmation proceedings for prior roles. But several days of hearings for her Supreme Court nomination this week will be the highest-profile — and likely most contentious — grilling that Jackson has faced from lawmakers.
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rogers, CNN Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson introduced herself on the first day of her confirmation hearings, highlighting her unique background as the potential first Black female justice. Jackson said that she was a beneficiary of the Civil Rights Act passed in the decade before she was born, hardworking parents who gave
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations says countries scrambling to replace Russian oil, gas and coal supplies with any available alternative may fuel the world’s “mutually assured destruction” through climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy pursued by major economies to end fossil fuel
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, ha hecho su llamado más ferviente hasta el momento para las conversaciones de alto el fuego con Vladimir Putin, pero el presidente ruso, hasta ahora inamovible, ha dado una respuesta despiadada aumentando las atrocidades contra los civiles. Zelensky le dijo a Fareed Zakaria de CNN el
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