LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Six men have been arrested in northern India for allegedly raping and killing two teenage girls whose bodies were found hanging from a tree a day earlier. The 15- and 17-year-old girls belonged to the Dalit community, the lowest rung of India’s rigid caste hierarchy. Police say they were found hanging
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two minutes of silence will be observed Monday across the United Kingdom at the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral at Westminster Abbey. That’s to give the British public a chance to pay their respects to the late monarch. Buckingham Palace released details Thursday of the
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A two-minute nationwide silence will be held shortly before the state funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II concludes on Monday, palace officials have revealed. The meticulously planned arrangements are set to be a fitting farewell to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, and will see King Charles III and members of
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Investors are on edge as the Federal Reserve gears up for its policy decision next week. Some are even starting to brace for a big surprise. What’s happening: New inflation data on Tuesday showed that prices aren’t easing as quickly as Wall Street had hoped. Markets plummeted as the report
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has undergone nose surgery to improve her breathing and will not play again until next year. The ninth-ranked Romanian writes in a post on Twitter that she felt “completely exhausted” after her first-round loss to qualifier Daria Snigur at the U.S. Open last month. She then
Continue ReadingOpinion by Joseph H. Davis for CNN Business Perspectives The Federal Reserve is aware of the pain that spiraling prices are causing Americans. At the recent Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said bringing inflation down “will also bring some pain to households and businesses.” But what the nation’s central bankers are hesitant
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN Ukraine says Russian missile strikes have broken a major dam in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, the latest attack from Moscow in a series of bombardments on civilian infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Russia targeted the Karachunivske Reservoir, adding that it had
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN Life imitated art on the front row of the Michael Kors show on Wednesday when assigned seating placed Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and actor Anne Hathaway next to one another in a display of PR genius. Wintour was, as always, dressed in her signature look — a pair of dark sunglasses skewing
Continue ReadingCNN By Jacob Lev, CNN In an open letter to Phoenix Suns employees and players on Thursday, team vice chairman Jahm Najafi has called on team owner Robert Sarver to resign. In the letter, obtained by CNN, Najafi said: “I cannot in good judgment sit back and allow our children and future generations of fans
Continue ReadingBy LISA ANTHONY of NerdWallet The possibility of a recession in the near future and the likely reduction in credit availability that is often associated with it may drive some small-business owners to explore financing options like a line of credit. Applying for a business line of credit may make sense for businesses that experience
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Queen Letizia has turned 50. It’s only a birthday but Spain is taking the opportunity on Thursday to assess its scarred monarchy and ponder how the arrival of a middle-class commoner may help shake up one of Europe’s most storied royal dynasties into a modern and
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have declared that Hungary has become “a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy” under the leadership of its nationalist government. The lawmakers say Hungary is undermining the bloc’s democratic values and it was no longer in the community of democracies. The parliamentarians raised concerns Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Since the beginning of the monkeypox outbreak, scientists and activists have pushed for the name of the virus and the disease to be changed to something “non-discriminatory” and “non-stigmatizing.” Public health experts have worried that stigma could steer people away from getting tested and vaccinated. A new name can help slow
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Ethereum, the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, has completed a massive software upgrade that its backers claim will slash its carbon footprint. The long-awaited revamp, which is known as “The Merge,” will reduce ethereum’s energy consumption by nearly 99.95%, according to the Ethereum Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Hanoi’s popular “train street” is once again the subject of a significant crackdown. The street, where trains travel along a track just inches away from homes and businesses in the Vietnam capital, has long been one of the most popular tourist sites in Hanoi and a regular favorite on social media.
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is proposing legislation to force manufacturers to ensure that devices connected to the internet meet cybersecurity standards. The aim is to make the 27-nation bloc less vulnerable to attacks. The EU says a ransomware attack takes place every 11 seconds. The global
Continue ReadingAMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian rescue teams pulled another body from the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital on Thursday, bringing the death toll from the incident to 10. It remained unclear what caused the collapse of the four-story residential building in Amman on Tuesday. Ten people were wounded. Rescue teams have been
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — The Spanish soccer federation has denied accusations by a former employee that federation funds went to pay for a party with “young ladies” and to hire a detective to investigate the head of Spain’s players’ union. The federation run by Luis Rubiales says it “firmly” denies the charges made to state prosecutors
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Hong Kong (CNN Business) — El líder de China, Xi Jinping, y su homólogo de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, se reunirán cara a cara esta semana por primera vez desde que Moscú envió tropas a Ucrania a principios de este año. Cuando se reunieron por última vez, en febrero en Beijing durante los
Continue ReadingBy LISA ANTHONY of NerdWallet The possibility of a recession in the near future and the likely reduction in credit availability that is often associated with it may drive some small-business owners to explore financing options like a line of credit. Applying for a business line of credit may make sense for businesses that experience
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