By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press The foreign fans descending on Doha for the 2022 World Cup will find a country where women work, hold public office and cruise in their supercars along the city’s palm-lined corniche. They’ve been driving for decades, unlike in Saudi Arabia, where women gained the right just a few years ago.
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press The foreign fans descending on Doha for the 2022 World Cup will find a country where women work, hold public office and cruise in their supercars along the city’s palm-lined corniche. They’ve been driving for decades, unlike in Saudi Arabia, where women gained the right just a few years ago.
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN Stanford University is reviewing its safety procedures after a man was reportedly found illegally living on campus, the university said in a statement Tuesday. The man was “reported to be on campus several times since December of last year” but was most recently caught on October 27, according to Dee Mostofi,
Continue ReadingKGO, NIKOLAS LIEPINS, THE STANFORD DAILY, INSTAGRAM, @WILLIAMCURRY, CNN By Taylor Romine, CNN Stanford University is reviewing its safety procedures after a man was reportedly found illegally living on campus, the university said in a statement Tuesday. The man was “reported to be on campus several times since December of last year” but was most
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rescue crews searching for dozens of migrants missing from the sinking of a sailing boat in rough weather off an island near Athens are recovering mostly bodies, with only one more survivor plucked from the sea. The coast guard said it had recovered 20 bodies by
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says it has recovered another 12 bodies from the area where a sailing boat sank the previous day with reportedly 68 people on board, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13. Dozens of people remain missing. A total of 12 people, all men,
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Schools and offices closed and some events in Hong Kong were canceled as Tropical Storm Nalgae swept south of the city, while a finance conference that was meant to restore Hong Kong’s image as an international business center went ahead. The city’s observatory raised its No.
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Schools and offices closed and some events in Hong Kong were canceled as Tropical Storm Nalgae swept south of the city, while a finance conference that was meant to restore Hong Kong’s image as an international business center went ahead. The city’s observatory raised its No.
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s National Police Agency has raided local police departments in the capital, Seoul, and the city’s Yongsan district office as it investigates whether official ineptitude contributed to a deadly crowd surge that killed 156 people in the neighborhood of Itaewon. The raids came a
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A government inquiry has begun hearing evidence of unsolved deaths resulting from gay hate crime over four decades in Australia’s most populous state. Peter Gray, a lawyer assisting the inquiry, said on Wednesday that the investigation of suspicious deaths in New South Wales is the “first
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Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Los Angeles County officials reached an $8 million settlement with the family of 18-year-old Andrés Guardado, who was shot five times by a sheriff’s deputy in June 2020, attorneys for his family said Tuesday. “While the settlement reached with the County of Los Angeles brings closure to more
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared headed toward victory Wednesday, with some 85% of the ballots from national elections counted and showing that voters gave him and his far-right allies what looks like a majority in the country’s parliament. Votes were still being counted
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Scuba divers are combing through a river in western India to make certain no bodies are left behind after the collapse of a newly repaired suspension bridge. In the meantime, officials are investigating what led to the tragedy that killed at least 135 people. The bridge
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Access to an industrial zone in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou was suspended Wednesday after the city reported 64 coronavirus cases and workers who assemble Apple Inc. iPhones left their factory in the zone following outbreaks. The announcement did not say whether the isolation of the
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Access to an industrial zone in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou has been suspended after the city reported 64 coronavirus cases and workers who assemble Apple Inc. iPhones left their factory in the zone following outbreaks. The announcement did not say if the isolation of the
Continue ReadingBy LEE KEATH and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Sarah Asimrin still hears it from her uncles sometimes: “You’re a girl, it’s not right.” But on a recent evening, the 13-year-old Jordanian was on her club’s soccer field practicing alongside other girls and boys. “I fell in love with the game because
Continue ReadingBy LEE KEATH and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Sarah Asimrin still hears it from her uncles sometimes: “You’re a girl, it’s not right.” But on a recent evening, the 13-year-old Jordanian was on her club’s soccer field practicing alongside other girls and boys. “I fell in love with the game because
Continue ReadingCNN By Yoonjung Seo, Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN A senior South Korean police inspector who was being investigated in connection with the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul has been found dead in his home. The inspector was found lifeless by his family at around 12:45pm on Friday, according to South Korean police.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Bruce Boudreau became the second-fastest coach in NHL history to 600 wins. He reached the milestone with the Vancouver Canucks last week in his 1,049th regular-season game. Boudreau still believes in a lot of the principles he had as an offensive player who wanted freedom to make plays with
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