HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — German soccer club St. Pauli has refused the use of its stadium for a German Cup game because Leipzig is one of the teams involved. Defending champion Leipzig was drawn at Hamburg-based FC Teutonia Ottensen in the first round. The fourth-tier club’s 5,000-capacity ground is unsuitable for the game on Aug.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Funcionarios encargados de hacer cumplir la ley en la escena del tiroteo en la escuela de Uvalde, Texas, el mes pasado, sabían que había personas heridas atrapadas dentro de las aulas antes de que las autoridades decidieran forzar la entrada a los salones de clase, según una revisión de The
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police say a man apparently attacked a woman and a 7-year-old girl with a knife at an elementary school in southwestern Germany and then fled. The school in Esslingen, near Stuttgart, was closed for a regional vacation on Friday but some children were being looked after there during the holiday. The girl
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Battling rampant inflation, Zimbabweans are counting their toes as they struggle to buy food for their families. An internet rumor blazed through the country that desperate people were selling their toes for cash. The false report became so widespread that the country’s Deputy Minister of Information
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A 100 billion-euro ($107 billion) fund to strengthen the German military has cleared its final legislative hurdle, winning approval from parliament’s upper house. The decision clears the way for the government to move ahead with a massive procurement drive that Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. Parliament’s upper house,
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Three Russian canoeists including a gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics have been banned or being part of the state-backed doping program eight years ago. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges upheld appeals filed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after the
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s shuddering realization that inflation got worse last month, not better as hoped, sent markets reeling on Friday. The S&P 500 sank 2.9% to lock in its ninth losing week in the last 10, and tumbling bond prices sent Treasury
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s shuddering realization that inflation got worse last month, not better as hoped, sent markets reeling on Friday. The S&P 500 sank 2.9% to lock in its ninth losing week in the last 10, and tumbling bond prices sent Treasury
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN Malaysia will abolish the mandatory death penalty, the government said Friday, in a move cautiously welcomed by rights groups as a rare progressive step on the issue for the region. In a statement, Malaysian law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said mandatory death sentences for serious crimes would be replaced by
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Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN A team of international scientists tasked with understanding how the coronavirus pandemic began released their first report on Thursday, saying that all hypothesis remain on the table, including a possible laboratory incident. The 27-member scientific advisory group convened by the World Health Organization said available data suggests the virus jumped from
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La Comisión selecta de la Cámara de Representantes que investiga el ataque al Capitolio de EE.UU. del 6 de enero de 2021 celebró su primer encuentro en horario de máxima audiencia el jueves por la noche. Ahí se detallaron los hallazgos de la investigación del panel y se mostraron nuevos videos de
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian rescue crews have resumed searching for a private helicopter carrying seven people that went missing in a forested, mountainous area of northcentral Italy. Italian firefighters and the Alpine rescue service said the searches began Thursday after the private chopper disappeared from radar screen over the province of Modena, in the Tuscan–Emilian Apennines.
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote this week, at least one other world leader shared his relief. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was “great news” that “we have not lost a very important ally.” It was a welcome boost for a British
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A woman who was turned over to officials at an Arizona church as a baby more than four decades ago has been identified through DNA as the daughter of a Florida couple whose murdered bodies were found in Texas in 1981, officials said Thursday. Investigators are still working
Continue ReadingKPRC, IDENTIFINDERS INTERNATIONAL, CNN By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A woman who was turned over to officials at an Arizona church as a baby more than four decades ago has been identified through DNA as the daughter of a Florida couple whose murdered bodies were found in Texas in 1981, officials said Thursday.
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Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Steven Jiang, CNN Shanghai will carry out Covid-19 testing on more than half of its 25 million residents this weekend, fueling fears of a return to more stringent restrictions just days after the financial hub emerged from two months of painful lockdown. The mass testing announcements sparked fears of a return
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian artillery pummeled the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in April, one family decided to flee, walking for miles with three young children in tow to a nearby village. But it was thanks to a volunteer driver who crossed the front line that they managed
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank may soon get a taste of the military rule that Palestinians have been living under for 55 years. If Israel’s parliament does not act, a special legal status accorded to the settlers will expire at the end of the month,
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