By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani health officials say there have been no fatalities for the past three days from the deadly floods that engulfed the country since mid-June, a hopeful sign that the nation is turning a corner on the disaster that killed 1,545 people and affected 33 million. Authorities said
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Lea Michele has leaned into being a “Funny Girl.” The star of the Broadway show decided to have a bit of fun with the continuing online conspiracy theory that she never learned to read or write. Michele recently joined TikTok while on a break from playing Fanny Brice after testing
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — En una entrevista emitida este domingo, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, afirmó que el personal militar estadounidense defendería a Taiwán si los militares chinos lanzaran una invasión de la isla, gobernada democráticamente, en comentarios que, una vez más, parecen aventurarse más allá de la antigua política de EE.UU. sobre la
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Jordan Pefok’s bid to make the United States team for the World Cup is helping Union Berlin to an unprecedented spell at the top of the Bundesliga. Pefok scored the opening goal in Union’s win over Wolfsburg on Sunday. It came four days after Pefok was
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Sweden’s third largest party — the center-right Moderates — has formally been asked to try to form a new coalition government that could include the populist Sweden Democrats. In Sweden’s Sept. 11 election, the four center-right parties won a narrow majority over the center-left led by Prime Minister
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Koenig, Dakin Andone and Eric Levenson, CNN A judge on Monday approved a motion by prosecutors to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the popular “Serial” podcast, who has maintained he is innocent in the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend. Baltimore prosecutors filed the motion
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Christian Edwards, CNN Over the seven decades of the Queen’s reign, the British public came to know many of her quirks: her corgis, her hats, her wave. But, as the nation gathered for her funeral on Monday, they witnessed a lesser-known fixture of the Queen’s life: her piper. For most of
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — Swiss officials have formally signed a procurement contract to buy three dozen F-35 fighter jets from the United States as part of a planned refurbishment of Switzerland’s air force that has run afoul of critics of the big defense purchase. The head of Switzerland’s armaments service and F-35A program director inked the
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Mark Frerichs, un estadounidense cautivo en Afganistán desde hace más de dos años, fue liberado en un intercambio de prisioneros, según confirmó este lunes un alto funcionario de la administración Biden. “Traer a Mark a casa ha sido una prioridad para el presidente Biden y su equipo de seguridad nacional”,
Continue ReadingBy KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press Apples are a traditional food on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. AP food writer Katie Workman has an apple cake she recommends — for the holiday or just to celebrate fall. Traditionally, apples are dipped into honey at the beginning of the meal for a sweet year to come.
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Central banks are faced with the unenviable task of trying to put a lid on decades-high inflation without triggering harsh recessions that could unleash misery around the world. But Robert Shiller, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at Yale University, thinks they have no choice but to hold the line. “If we
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen has set the price range for the multibillion-euro sale of a minority stake in luxury brand Porsche. The deal will reap billions to fund the German automaker’s investments in new technologies and businesses including electric cars, software and services. The company said it aims for a listing on the Frankfurt
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen has set the price range for the multibillion-euro sale of a minority stake in luxury brand Porsche. The deal will reap billions to fund the German automaker’s investments in new technologies and businesses including electric cars, software and services. The company said it aims for a listing on the Frankfurt
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — One major takeaway from the just-concluded Italian Open at the Marco Simone club outside Rome that will host next year’s Ryder Cup is that the course is being set up to reward accurate tee shots with narrow fairways surrounded by nasty rough and even
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A court in Vienna says six men with alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in the Austrian capital in 2020 will go on trial next month. Four people were killed in the attack on Nov. 2, 2020, and the gunman also died.
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colorado-based research firm BDSA projects legal marijuana sales in the U.S. will jump 8% this year to $27 billion. Much of the increase is expected to come from states that recently passed laws allowing legal cannabis sales, while sales in more established markets are slowing.
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — With a goal and a dance, Real Madrid’s young Brazilian forwards made a statement against racism in soccer this weekend. With their samba-like moves after a goal in the derby against Atlético Madrid on Sunday, Rodrygo and Vinícius Júnior made it clear they are not backing
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN Tom Brady snapped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ seven-game losing streak against the New Orleans Saints as his team overcame a fraught game filled with scuffles and frayed nerves to seal a 20-10 victory in Louisiana. Four of those seven losses have come since Brady arrived at Tampa Bay, and those three
Continue ReadingTOKYO (AP) — Elise Mertens won the first three games before Typhoon Nanmadol forced the match to be halted and then won the next three when they resumed in a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Qiang Wang at the Pan Pacific Open. Wang was serving when rain forced play to be suspended for 45 minutes while
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.S. aircraft carrier is to visit South Korea this week for its first joint training with South Korean warships in five years, officials said Monday, in an apparent show of force against increasing North Korean nuclear threats. The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and
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