NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The leaders of Greece and Cyprus are seeking to tamp down tensions with neighboring Turkey amid increasingly belligerent rhetoric from the Turkish president. They are insisting that the best way to counter such talk is through “calm and composed determination.” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a meeting with Cypriot
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s members have approved a plan to sell portions of the team’s television rights and future revenues from merchandise and licensing in hopes of injecting immediate cash into the debt-ridden Spanish club. The club says it hopes to earn 600 million euros ($631 million) from the
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN When US intelligence and national security officials gathered at a classified facility in April to speak with election officials around the country, there was no burning new intelligence to share about cyber threats to American democracy. The briefing covered Russia’s war on Ukraine and foreign and domestic sources of disinformation about
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Ana de Armas está atrayendo todas las miradas por su asombrosa interpretación de Marilyn Monroe en Blonde, la nueva película de Netflix que rinde homenaje a la ‘rubia de oro’ de Hollywood. Estas son algunas de las actrices que le han rendido homenaje a Monroe en series, películas y
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN New York Republican congressional candidate Carl Paladino told a radio host in late 2016 that Black Americans were kept “dumb and hungry” so they could be conditioned to only vote for the Democratic Party, saying, “You can’t teach them differently.” Paladino, then a Buffalo school board member, was
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has recommended making Ukraine a candidate for EU membership. The move would be a first step on what is expected to be a long road before the war-torn country could actually join the 27-nation bloc. The European Commission on Friday delivered its
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian reporter working for an Iranian news agency was briefly abducted, beaten and threatened by Palestinian gunmen. The incident happened on Tuesday, after he covered the violent dispersal of an Islamist student demonstration in the West Bank. The Tasnim news agency, which reported the event Thursday, says the men forced the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For half a century, every major Washington scandal started with some form of this question: Is this another Watergate? Watergate spawned an all-purpose suffix. If “gate” were appended to misdeeds it was controversy of first rank. Watergate brought down a president. It reordered American politics, at least
Continue ReadingGAIBA, Italy (AP) — Top-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium has eased into the semifinals of the Veneto Open with another straight-set victory. Van Uytvanck saw off Swiss player Ylena In-Albon 6-4, 6-2. Van Uytvanck hasn’t dropped a set this week. She will face Harmony Tan in the semifinals after the Frenchwoman beat Ana Bogdan
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union received a major boost on Friday morning, after the bloc’s executive said it believed the country should be formally considered for candidate status in the wake of Russia’s invasion. Speaking in Brussels, the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen said the Commission recommends
Continue ReadingBy Pallabi Munsi, CNN Women are not a monolith, their experiences of menopause are not all negative, and this stage of life should not be medicalized, argue an international group of experts. In an analysis piece published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday, obstetrician Martha Hickey of the Royal Women’s Hospital in Victoria, Australia
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — It took close to two years for Richard Nixon to be driven from the presidency in disgrace after the Watergate break-in 50 years ago. On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington. Revelations by the press, a methodical Senate inquiry
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, CNN Israeli police say they have concluded the investigation into police actions during the funeral procession of slain Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem last month. Police forces came under widespread criticism following the procession, in which television footage showed officers striking mourners with batons, nearly causing the pallbearers to
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Mientras aún resuenan las repercusiones del fuerte apoyo que recibió el presidente Volodymyr Zelensky por parte de líderes europeos, Ucrania dio este viernes un paso clave en su intento de ingresar a la Unión Europea, al recibir el apoyo directo de la Comisión Europea. Además, la ONU advirtió que
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — One of Pope Francis’ proposed new cardinals has bowed out of accepting the honor because of his record dealing with cases of clergy sexual abuse. The Belgian bishops conference said Ghent Bishop Luc Van Looy had asked Francis to decline the honor in order “to not harm
Continue Readingolivertapia Londres (CNN) — La secretaria del Interior del Reino Unido, Priti Patel, firmó una orden para extraditar al fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, a Estados Unidos, donde enfrenta cargos de espionaje, anunció el Ministerio del Interior el viernes. En abril, un tribunal de Londres emitió una orden formal de extradición, dejando que Patel aprobara
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