By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer The Premier League has disqualified Roman Abramovich from running Chelsea after the club owner was sanctioned by the British government over Russia’s war on Ukraine. The announcement that Abramovich had been disqualified from being a club director was made by the league’s board on Saturday. The team is
Continue ReadingBy ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer The Premier League has disqualified Roman Abramovich from running Chelsea after the club owner was sanctioned by the British government over Russia’s war on Ukraine. The announcement that Abramovich had been disqualified from being a club director was made by the league’s board on Saturday. The team is
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China has instituted new COVID-19 restrictions that included urging the public not to leave Beijing and closing schools in Shanghai while the leader of Hong Kong warned that its coronavirus outbreak has yet to reach its peak. In Beijing, where five new cases were reported, part of a housing complex was locked
Continue ReadingBy Harry Enten, CNN My least favorite weekend of the year is upon us. It’s the weekend in which I feel the effects of losing an hour of sleep because of the switch to Daylight Saving Time (notice the singular) from standard time. For others, this weekend is a happier time because we just gained
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Friends and loved ones of Stanford University star soccer player Katie Meyer, who died by suicide earlier this month, will pay their respects at a memorial service on Saturday. Meyer, who helped secure the 2019 NCAA women’s soccer championship for her school, was found dead in her dorm
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN The Players Championship is set for its latest finish in at least 17 years after a powerful storm delayed the PGA Tour event for a second successive day in Florida. Play at Ponte Vedra Beach’s TPC Sawgrass course has faced severe disruption since the tournament got underway on Thursday, with almost
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Un lóbulo de aire gélido se hundirá profundamente en EE.UU., trayendo temperaturas bajo cero hasta el sur de Florida, mientras que severas tormentas eléctricas se extienden por el Atlántico Medio y fuertes nevadas golpean partes del noreste. Marzo comenzó bastante templado en el este de EE.UU. e incluso francamente cálido en
Continue ReadingTIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians have staged a protest in the capital Tirana against recent fuel and food price hikes that authorities blame on the war in Ukraine. Albanians from across the country converged on the main Skanderbeg Square Saturday before marching in front of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s office with banners and
Continue ReadingTIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians have staged a protest in the capital Tirana against recent fuel and food price hikes that authorities blame on the war in Ukraine. Albanians from across the country converged on the main Skanderbeg Square Saturday before marching in front of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s office with banners and
Continue ReadingÅRE, Sweden (AP) — Austrian skier Katharina Liensberger has won the penultimate women’s World Cup slalom as pre-race favorites Petra Vlhová and Mikaela Shiffrin both failed to make the podium. Mina Fürst Holtmann was second and Michelle Gisin placed third. Vlhová was second after the opening run but dropped to fourth and Shiffrin lost five
Continue ReadingMARSEILLE, France (AP) — French authorities say a man with a knife injured three police officers in the southern city of Marseille and was killed by police after repeatedly ignoring warning shots. The reason for Saturday’s attack was unclear. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin described a “violent attack with a blade.” He said the attacker was
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian officials have criticized NATO for what they called a slow reaction to the military drone that apparently flew all the way from the Ukrainian war zone over three alliance member states before crashing in an urban zone of the Croatian capital. The Russian-made aircraft crossed Romania and Hungary before entering
Continue ReadingCNN By Tamara Qiblawi, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Olga Voitovych, CNN Lviv, Ukraine — In the midst of a days-long, chaotic cross-country train ride to the northwestern city of Lviv, near Ukraine’s border with Poland, a terrible realization dawned on Marina. The 54-year-old carer, who managed to evacuate an orphanage in a besieged industrial town in
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN A false story that actor Leonardo DiCaprio made a $10 million donation to Ukraine was repeated this week by media outlets around the world and shared by tens of thousands of people on social media. Articles and social media posts claimed that DiCaprio is connected to Ukraine because his late maternal
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers say their countries have agreed to press ahead with efforts to establish diplomatic relations “without conditions” and continue the normalization efforts that could lead to the reopening of their shared borders for trade. Ararat Mirzoyan met with his Turkish counterpart
Continue ReadingBy Julia Vargas Jones, CNN In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer responds: “That’s why we have the ambulance coming.” But Floyd did not meet any of the 10 criteria used by
Continue ReadingCNN By Julia Jones, CNN In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer responds: “That’s why we have the ambulance coming.” But Floyd did not meet any of the 10 criteria used by
Continue ReadingKRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Olympic champion Marco Odermatt has finished runner-up to Henrik Kristoffersen in a men’s World Cup giant slalom to lock up the discipline season title with two races to spare. Odermatt improved from seventh position after the opening run to share second place with Kristoffersen’s Norwegian teammate Lucas Braathen. Odermatt’s teammate
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — A U.N. officials says at least 47 children were killed or injured in war-torn Yemen in the first two months of 2022 as fighting escalated between government forces and the Houthi rebels. Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF representative to Yemen, has called on warring parties and their foreign backers to protect civilians. Yemen has
Continue ReadingWith Russian’s war on Ukraine in its third week, Russian forces continued their relentless assault on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, shelling the city’s downtown. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that Russia is bombing Mariupol “24 hours a day.” And as Russian units also fanned out to prepare for an assault on Ukraine’s
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