By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is getting another COVID-19 vaccine choice. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Novavax shots for adults. It’s a more traditional type of vaccine than the Pfizer and Moderna shots already used to protect most Americans. Still, millions of adults haven’t yet gotten vaccinated even this
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Amazon has promised to treat third-party merchants on its website fairly as it seeks to resolve two European Union antitrust investigations. The bloc’s competition watchdog said Thursday that the U.S. online retail giant offered to make a number of commitments to ease competition concerns. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Amazon has promised to treat third-party merchants on its website fairly as it seeks to resolve two European Union antitrust investigations. The bloc’s competition watchdog said Thursday that the U.S. online retail giant offered to make a number of commitments to ease competition concerns. The European
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Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia have detained 85 migrants near the border with Hungary where a clash earlier this month apparently involving people smugglers left one person dead and several injured. Police said that a police task force found automatic weapons, guns, knives and other weapons and ammunition
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia have detained 85 migrants near the border with Hungary where a clash earlier this month apparently involving people smugglers left one person dead and several injured. Police said that a police task force found automatic weapons, guns, knives and other weapons and ammunition
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work together in countering the impact from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yellen and other top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering on the Indonesian island of
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work together in countering the impact from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yellen and other top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering on the Indonesian island of
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — High temperatures are prompting cites in eastern China to open former air raid shelters as a relief from the heat. Temperatures have surpassed all-time records in much of the country, while flooding has hit many parts. Air raid shelters were built in numerous Chinese cities during the Japanese invasion beginning in 1937.
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN In the days before the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Chinese hackers sent out a flurry of malicious emails to prominent White House correspondents and other journalists at major US news outlets in an apparent intelligence collection effort, US cybersecurity firm Proofpoint said Thursday. As Chinese hackers scrambled to ascertain whether there
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La publicación esta semana de 82 minutos del video de vigilancia escolar de la masacre de mayo en Uvalde, Texas, está alimentando el escrutinio sobre las consecuencias, si las hubiera, que podrían enfrentar los agentes de policía que intervinieron en la escena del tiroteo por su decisión de enfrentar la
Continue ReadingBy MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others far from the front lines, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine’s president accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in locations without military value.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty Thursday in a London court to four charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, according to Britain’s PA Media news agency. The “House of Cards” actor, 62, who appeared
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister and Oren Liebermann, CNN There’s a new and potentially very significant factor in the Ukrainian conflict: the Ukrainians’ ability to use recently supplied Western systems to hit Russian command posts, logistical hubs and ammunition dumps a long way beyond the front lines. In the past week, there have been enormous explosions in
Continue ReadingBy ANDI JATMIKO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Australia’s top agriculture official has met with his Indonesian counterpart to discuss ways to stop a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of cattle in Indonesia and prevent the outbreak from spreading to Australia. The disease was detected in the
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN Players lining up for their respective national anthems is one of the most recognizable sights in any international football tournament. Each side belts out their anthem, accompanied by its fans in the crowd; shoulders are back, heads are held high, sometimes eyes fill with salty tears at the sound of the
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has sentenced an Iranian citizen to life imprisonment after being convicted of murder and other war crimes during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The Stockholm District Court said Thursday that Hamid Noury took part in severe atrocities in July-August 1988 while working as an
Continue ReadingSUVA, Fiji (AP) — Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says his new country’s security pact with Beijing would not allow China to build a military base on the South Pacific nation. Sogavare had made an agreement with Beijing in April to provide security support, with the deal raising fears of a permanent Chinese military
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5 represents at least 65% of new Covid-19 infections in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infections are rising in most parts of the country, and these numbers are almost certainly an undercount, given how many people are determining
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union expects Russia’s war in Ukraine to wreak havoc with the economic recovery for the foreseeable future through lower annual growth and record-high inflation. The EU said Thursday that summer figures for the 19-nation eurozone predict inflation reaching an average of 7.6% this year, a major
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