By Mostafa Salem, Anna Chernova and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Turkey’s main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused Russia of interfering in the country’s ongoing presidential election campaign. “Dear Russian friends, you are behind the montages, conspiracies, deep fake content and tapes that were exposed in this country yesterday,” he said in a tweet posted Thursday.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN One of Hollywood’s most famous power couples score a split decision starring in separate thrillers hitting the market the same day, as Ben Affleck‘s lower-profile “Hypnotic” significantly outshines Jennifer Lopez’s just-in-time-for-Mother’s Day Netflix movie, “The Mother,” which comes across as an ultra-violent Hallmark card. Lopez puts on her Liam Neeson
Continue ReadingCNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN One of Hollywood’s most famous power couples score a split decision starring in separate thrillers hitting the market the same day, as Ben Affleck‘s lower-profile “Hypnotic” significantly outshines Jennifer Lopez’s just-in-time-for-Mother’s Day Netflix movie, “The Mother,” which comes across as an ultra-violent Hallmark card. Lopez puts on her Liam
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts have been adjusting to the challenges of sleeping in space for years — and the lessons learned from their zero gravity slumbers will ensure that one day the first crewed missions to Mars will have gotten enough rest before exploring the red planet. Rotating crews have spent an average of
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “Ghosts” concluded its season with the smallest of cliffhangers, leaving the audience to dangle into the fall (and possibly beyond, depending on how long the writers strike drags on). Yet the finale more broadly underscored the growth of this very funny CBS comedy, which has joined ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” in
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ defense minister says the island nation is working together with Irish and U.S. military experts to help train two groups of Ukrainian personnel in clearing an untold number of unmarked minefields in their homeland. Replying to an Associated Press query, Minister Michalis Georgallas said Friday
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY AP National Writer As Republican-governed states across the nation advance myriad bills targeting transgender young people, America’s faith leaders are starkly divided in their assessment. Some view the legislation as reflecting God’s will; others voice outrage that Christianity is being invoked to justify laws they view as cruel and hateful. In one
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Adidas has decided what it’s going to do with its unsold Yeezy merchandise. At an investors’ conference Thursday, Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said that the apparel company is going to “sell parts of this inventory and donate money to the organizations that are helping us and that was also hurt by
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt and Dan Heching, CNN Michael J. Fox is getting candid about life with Parkinson’s disease, and the moment he decided to step away from acting for good. The “Back to the Future” star recalled that during filming for “The Good Fight,” a spin-off of legal drama “The Good Wife,” he couldn’t remember
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — As changing policies, rampant misinformation and exasperated, fearful crowds converge in this desert city, faith leaders are striving to provide shelter and uplift. Along with prayers, they are counseling migrants about the daunting challenges that await them on U.S. soil, with enormous backlogs in asylum
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN As the US barrels into a high-stakes and consequential election cycle, US climate envoy and former Secretary of State John Kerry is confident of one thing: If a Republican is elected president, they won’t be able to reverse the Biden administration’s wins on climate change and clean energy. The economy has
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press Storms in parts of the southern Plains produced numerous small tornadoes but no reports of deaths or injuries. The National Weather Service is reporting as many as 10 tornadoes in central Oklahoma on Thursday and nearly 15 in northwestern Kansas. A school in the Kansas town of Weskan was damaged.
Continue ReadingCNN By Sophia Saifi, Azaz Syed and Rhea Mogul, CNN Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been granted bail by the Islamabad High Court, days after his dramatic arrest over corruption charges set off a deadly outpouring of anger against the country’s military. Khan left the court on Friday under police protection to return
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Nordstrom. Walmart. Whole Foods. Starbucks. CVS. These big chains and others have closed stores in major US cities recently, raising alarm about the future of retail in some of the country’s most prominent downtowns and business districts. Several forces are pushing chains out of some city centers: a glut of stores,
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN José Mourinho, who in 2004 famously referred to himself as the ‘The Special One‘ as he was introduced to the media as the new Chelsea manager, is having quite a week. Under the 60-year-old’s watchful gaze, Italian club Roma is well placed to reach this season’s Europa League final having beaten
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic was tested by 61st-ranked Tomas Martin Etcheverry in a 7-6, 6-2 opening win at the Italian Open. Djokovic is aiming for a seventh title on the red clay of the Foro Italico as he prepares for the French Open. He twice had to recover
Continue ReadingBy Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent After generations of trying to produce the power of a star on Earth, a successful nuclear fusion ignition happened in the middle of a December night and was over in 20-billionths of a second. That’s more than 100 billion times shorter than the Wright Brothers’ first, 12-second flight
Continue ReadingNYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA insists the Champions League final will be played in Istanbul no matter the outcome of this weekend’s Turkish elections. The European soccer body hit back at a newspaper report that claims Lisbon is being explored as a standby option if there is turmoil in Turkey following the presidential election. Turkish
Continue ReadingNYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA insists the Champions League final will be played in Istanbul no matter the outcome of this weekend’s Turkish elections. The European soccer body hit back at a newspaper report that claims Lisbon is being explored as a standby option if there is turmoil in Turkey following the presidential election. Turkish
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un ciclón tropical se está fortaleciendo en la Bahía de Bengala y está en camino de golpear el oeste de Myanmar y Cox’s Bazar de Bangladesh, donde alrededor de un millón de personas viven en precarios refugios en lo que muchos consideran el campo de refugiados más grande del mundo.
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