By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMB0, Sri Lanka (AP) — Senior Indian officials are in Sri Lanka for talks on how to help the island nation weather an unprecedented economic crisis. The Indian delegation’s visit Thursday followed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s declaration that Sri Lanka’s economy had “collapsed.” Sri Lankans have endured months
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN American swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, after she lost consciousness. Coach Andrea Fuentes jumped into the pool after she saw the 25-year-old artistic swimmer sink to the bottom at the end of
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will meet President Emmanuel Macron in France next week to reset a bilateral relationship that was damaged when the previous Australian government canceled a submarine contract. Albanese said Thursday that Macron had invited him to visit France while he
Continue ReadingQUEZON CITY, Philippines (AP) — Players on the German national volleyball team have forfeited a match for refusing to play China after after some of their opponents tested positive for COVID-19. The Chinese team was given a 3-0 victory in the men’s Volleyball Nations League. The International Volleyball Federation says the game in the Philippines
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Un incendio en un edificio residencial en la ciudad de Buenos Aires dejó hasta el momento cinco personas muertas y otras 25 resultaron heridas, según informó a medios locales este jueves Alberto Crescenti, director del Sistema de Atención Médica de Emergencias (SAME). De acuerdo a información difundida por el
Continue ReadingCNN, KGO, WWNY, SPECTRUM NEWS NY1 By Rachel Fadem, CNN Elmo, everyone’s favorite red Muppet, has received the Covid-19 vaccine. In a public service announcement released on Tuesday by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, Elmo’s dad Louie — also a Muppet — shared his questions about the Covid-19 vaccine for children
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Even the littlest children can experience long Covid, according to a large study, one of the first of its kind to include infants and toddlers. The study published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health included 44,000 children in Denmark ranging in ages zero through 14 years old.
Continue ReadingPERRYVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A man being booked into a central Arkansas jail on drug charges pulled out a gun and fatally shot a guard before someone disarmed him, authorities said Thursday. Jeremiah Story, a 21-year-old detention officer at the Perry County jail in Perryville, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, died
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Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy, CNN The story of the “West Memphis Three,” whose decades-long murder case was the source for a noted documentary trilogy, returned to court Thursday, with a judge denying one of the men access to evidence he wants tested for DNA, according to his defense team. The hearing was requested by attorneys for
Continue ReadingBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Andrea Fuentes prevented a tragedy at the swimming world championships with her quick reaction. The United States coach knew something was wrong when she saw artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez sink motionless to the bottom of the pool during a solo free routine on Wednesday. The fully clothed Fuentes dived in. She
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in Britain faced disruption Thursday as railway staff staged their second national walkout this week, and workers at Britain’s busiest airport announced plans to walk out, adding to summertime travel misery. The 24-hour strike by 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and station staff canceled
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in Britain faced disruption Thursday as railway staff staged their second national walkout this week, and workers at Britain’s busiest airport announced plans to walk out, adding to summertime travel misery. The 24-hour strike by 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and station staff canceled
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Jasmine Wright, CNN President Joe Biden has been bracing for the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade for months, preparing for it to potentially set off mass protests and heap pressure on the White House to act, according to officials, even as there remains little he can do through
Continue ReadingLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Three Russian officials have won a court ruling to overturn being barred from this weekend’s International Weightlifting Federation elections. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it upheld appeals by the men who were excluded last month by a panel vetting potential candidates. IWF board member Maxim Agapitov was among the
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — An investment group led by former Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow has bought Spanish soccer club Leganés. Luhnow lost his job in baseball with the Astros in 2020 in the wake of a sign-stealing scheme during the team’s World Series title run in 2017 and again in 2018. An investigation by
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An American executive who resigned from Toyota after being arrested in Japan in 2015 on suspicion of drug law violations has returned to the Japanese automaker. Toyota said Thursday that Julie Hamp has been hired by its North American operations to support its chief executive, Akio Toyoda,
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An American executive who resigned from Toyota after being arrested in Japan in 2015 on suspicion of drug law violations has returned to the Japanese automaker. Toyota said Thursday that Julie Hamp has been hired by its North American operations to support its chief executive, Akio Toyoda,
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN You can’t predict the future, but you can do your best to prepare for it. According to a survey of more than 1,100 US retirees, 70% of respondents wished their younger selves would have saved more and started earlier to create bigger nest eggs for retirement. Here’s what you need to
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You can’t predict the future, but you can do your best to prepare for it. According to a survey of more than 1,100 US retirees, 70% of respondents wished their younger selves would have saved more and started earlier to create bigger nest eggs for retirement. Here’s what you need
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