By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has rejected the merger between South Korean shipbuilders Hyundai and Daewoo. Officials said Thursday that a union between two of the world’s biggest players in the industry would have given the merged company a global stranglehold on the production of liquified natural gas carriers.
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has rejected the merger between South Korean shipbuilders Hyundai and Daewoo. Officials said Thursday that a union between two of the world’s biggest players in the industry would have given the merged company a global stranglehold on the production of liquified natural gas carriers.
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban are confirming the weekend killing of a former spokesman in neighboring Afghanistan. The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, known as TTP, announced the Jan. 9 assassination of Mohammad Khurasani, which is an alias. His real name is Khalid Balti. He was killed in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. The TTP spokesman vowed
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN When Pedro Peña lost his job as a restaurant cook at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he applied for Medicaid to replace his job-based insurance. A diabetic, Peña understood the importance of being covered. But the Miami resident was repeatedly turned down for public health insurance because Florida is among
Continue ReadingBy Dalal Mawad and Camille Knight, CNN Changes to France‘s Covid-19 testing protocol for schools are causing “constant chaos” and “putting teachers’ lives in danger,” a spokesperson from one of the country’s teaching unions said Thursday, as thousands of teachers nationwide went on strike. The French Ministry of Education told CNN that about 31% of
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Sam Dancy has witnessed it all during his 30 years at supermarket chain QFC in Seattle. But the Omicron variant is pushing him to the brink. Dancy is a front-end supervisor overseeing the store’s cash registers, self-checkout kiosks, customer service and liquor departments. In late December he worked 11 straight
Continue ReadingBy SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Travel in the second half of 2021 was a chaotic mess in many capacities, with canceled flights, long delays and other interruptions. It wasn’t uncommon for travelers to find themselves among the mob of people hovering over the customer service counter, jockeying against everyone else to get rebooked on the
Continue ReadingBy SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Travel in the second half of 2021 was a chaotic mess in many capacities, with canceled flights, long delays and other interruptions. It wasn’t uncommon for travelers to find themselves among the mob of people hovering over the customer service counter, jockeying against everyone else to get rebooked on the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines is reporting a $408 million loss for the final quarter of 2021, dragged down by a COVID-19 surge that rocked the airline in December. It expects to suffer one more quarterly loss before travel picks up in the spring and summer. CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Sara Spary, CNN When 40-year-old Zane Wedding went swimming last week, he left with more than he bargained for — a cockroach, which burrowed inside his left ear and stayed there for three days. Wedding, who is Māori and works for Greenpeace, had taken a dip at his local pool in Auckland, New Zealand,
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Pandemic price hikes showed no signs of letting up last month. The consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, hit a fresh a 39-year high in December. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You
Continue ReadingCNN By AJ Willingham, CNN Pandemic price hikes showed no signs of letting up last month. The consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, hit a fresh a 39-year high in December. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
Continue ReadingCNN By AJ Willingham, CNN Pandemic price hikes showed no signs of letting up last month. The consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, hit a fresh a 39-year high in December. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
Continue ReadingCNN By AJ Willingham, CNN Pandemic price hikes showed no signs of letting up last month. The consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, hit a fresh a 39-year high in December. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
Continue ReadingCNN, WRAL, KTUL By AJ Willingham, CNN Pandemic price hikes showed no signs of letting up last month. The consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, hit a fresh a 39-year high in December. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business N95 respirators, the gold standard of filtration masks, are back in the pandemic spotlight because of the highly contagious Omicron Covid-19 variant. Unlike earlier in the pandemic, N95s are now widely available — but the top N95 manufacturer cautioned parents who are considering buying them for their children. 3M, a
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN If you live in the heart of the South, you might be dreaming of a rare snowy weekend. Don’t get the snow sleds out quite yet. Yes, a winter storm could bring snow to Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and into the Northeast beginning over the
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN If you boarded a passenger plane in 1950 and peeked into the cockpit, you would have seen five people in there (almost certainly men): two pilots, a radio operator, a navigator and a flight engineer. Over the years, technical advances in radio communications, navigation systems and on-board monitoring equipment gradually removed
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff The Australian Open draw took place after an unexplained delay of more than an hour on Thursday, with top seed Novak Djokovic facing fellow Serb Miomir Kecmanovic in the first round. Djokovic, looking to win his 10th Australian Open title in Melbourne this month, is waiting for Australia’s immigration minister Alex Hawke
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Dado que un número récord de estadounidenses está infectado con covid-19, en gran parte debido a la variante ómicron que se propaga rápidamente, los sistemas de atención médica de algunos estados de EE.UU. están plagados de unidades de cuidados intensivos casi llenas. Cuatro estados tienen menos del 10% de capacidad restante en
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