By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s schools reopened their gates to students on Monday, ending the longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic anywhere in the world. There’s traffic congestion in some areas of the capital, Kampala, and students can be seen carrying their mattresses in the streets, a back-to-school
Continue ReadingBy Yoonjung Seo and Toyin Owoseje, CNN “Squid Game” star O Yeong-su has made history after becoming the first Korean actor to win a Golden Globe. The 77-year-old South Korean star, who plays Oh II-nam, also known as Player 001, in the hit Netflix series, beat the likes of Billy Crudup (“The Morning Show”), Kieran
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Beijing has accused Washington of inciting Lithuania to “contain China” in a feud over the status of self-ruled Taiwan after U.S. officials expressed support for the European Union-member country in the face of Chinese economic pressure. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman on Monday complained Washington “instigated the Lithuanian authorities.” Lithuania is the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has embarked on a fourth term. He leads a coalition that took office Monday amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and policy challenges ranging from climate change and housing shortages to the future of agriculture. King Willem-Alexander formally swore in the
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is now speaking about getting the coronavirus vaccination as a “moral obligation.” Francis used some of his strongest words yet calling for people to get vaccinated in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Monday. He denounced how people had been swayed by
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to the country’s Mediterranean coast to talk about internal security. Macron has yet to officially confirm that he is running for a second term in France’s presidential election on April 10. But his visit Monday to the French Rivera city
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern states are visiting China for meetings this week with officials from the world’s second largest economy. The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday gave no details of the agendas for the visits, but said they were expected to “deepen relations between the two sides.”
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, questioned former President Donald Trump‘s actions during his speech on January 6, 2021, as he considers for the first time whether Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol. During a court hearing Monday, Judge Amit
Continue ReadingCNN By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, questioned former President Donald Trump‘s actions during his speech on January 6, 2021, as he considers for the first time whether Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol. During a court hearing Monday, Judge
Continue ReadingBy Theresa Waldrop, CNN New York City and Philadelphia are mourning the loss of dozens of lives, including many children, in horrific apartment housing fires over the past few days. Together, the fires killed 29 people, 17 of them reportedly children. Adding to the tragedy are the winter temperatures in the region and the raging
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Mid-table Bologna has had virtually no training ahead of a Serie A game at relegation-threatened Cagliari after being placed in quarantine by local health authorities. The match was originally scheduled for Sunday then pushed back by two days due to give Bologna’s seven players who are positive with COVID-19 more time
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish diplomat appointed to improve contacts with Jews worldwide has been fired after he criticized his own government’s approach to regulating Holocaust speech. Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish diaspora, described a Holocaust speech law passed by his country’s ruling party as “stupid.” The Foreign Ministry said
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Exercise is good for you. Breaking a sweat has been shown to improve nearly every organ in the body, fight nearly every disease doctors diagnose and improve nearly every health condition that you might live with on a daily basis. It gets even better. A new study finds exercise boosts levels
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Drayer, CNN The new year brings with it some old circumstances: working from home, self- isolating again, and having close access to food almost all of the time. Some of us may enjoy more home-cooked meals and not having to walk too far for a snack, but working close to the refrigerator poses
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — Un sismo de magnitud 5,6 sacudió la madrugada de este lunes la provincia argentina de Tucumán, según un reporte del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El epicentro del sismo se ubico a 18 kilómetros al oeste noroeste de la localidad de Trancas, con una profundidad
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch King Willem-Alexander has sworn in a new ruling coalition, led for the fourth time by Mark Rutte. The ceremony Monday came amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and policy challenges ranging from climate change to housing shortages to the future of agriculture. It follows a
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, Melissa Alonso and Stella Chan, CNN A commuter train speeding toward them, the police officers rush to the wrecked airplane on the tracks — its bloodied pilot still inside. “Go, go, go!” an officer yells as they drag the apparently disoriented pilot to safety. Four seconds later, the Metrolink train’s horn blasts
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Las conversaciones críticas entre los representantes de Estados Unidos y Rusia en Ginebra concluyeron a las 4:32 p.m. hora local de este lunes, dijo un portavoz del Departamento de Estado. Funcionarios estadounidenses y rusos mantuvieron conversaciones cruciales sobre la acumulación de tropas en la frontera de Ucrania, mientras aumentan los temores sobre una
Continue ReadingLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Tthe International Olympic Committee says its former longtime director general François Carrard has died. He was 83. The IOC said it was “deeply saddened” to learn of Carrard’s death. The cause was not specified. In 14 years leading the IOC’s administration Carrard helped oversee its reforms after the Salt Lake City
Continue ReadingCNN, WABC By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York firefighters battled a fire with “great volumes of smoke” nearly 36 years ago at the same Bronx apartment building that caught fire Sunday, leaving 17 dead — all from smoke inhalation, officials said. The March 1986 fire was documented in FDNY’s official training publication, WNYF, in which
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