HALLE, Germany (AP) — Daniil Medvedev has been upset by Roberto Bautista Agut 7-5, 7-6 (3) in the Halle Open quarterfinals for only his second loss in nine quarterfinals this season. The third-ranked Russian drops to a 2-2 record on grass this season following his first-round loss at the Libema Open last week. Bautista Agut
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Made by dragging fingers across relatively soft rock, lines, swirls and dots on the walls of a cave in France are the oldest known engravings by Neanderthals,
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s interior minister says an estimated 350 Pakistanis were on board an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants that sank off Greece last week, and that many remain missing and may have died in one of the deadliest incidents in the central Mediterranean Sea. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia is likely to cancel this year’s Moscow air show, which for decades has been a major venue for showing off new warplanes and negotiating aerospace contracts, a top official says. The director for international cooperation at the state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec, was quoted by the state news agency Tass on Friday
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Workers at about 150 unionized Starbucks stores in the United States are going on strike Friday over a dispute about the coffee chain’s policy for Pride decorations in stores. Starbucks (SBUX) Workers United, the union representing organized stores, has claimed that Starbucks (SBUX) has restricted decorations celebrating
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn and Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — An 18-year-old boy was killed and dozens were injured when a fire extinguisher exploded during a drill at a high school in Bangkok on Friday, police and fire authorities said. The extinguisher exploded during a fire drill at the Rajavinit Mathayom school, Thiti Saengsawang, commissioner of
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn and Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — An 18-year-old boy was killed and dozens were injured when a fire extinguisher exploded during a drill at a high school in Bangkok on Friday, police and fire authorities said. The extinguisher exploded during a fire drill at the Rajavinit Mathayom school, Thiti Saengsawang, commissioner of
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Cientos de manifestantes se alinearon en la calle frente al Tribunal Superior del Reino Unido el sábado con carteles que decían “Nuestros cuerpos, nuestro derecho a decidir”, antes de marchar por las calles del centro de Londres exigiendo reformas a las leyes de aborto para mujeres en Inglaterra y Gales.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Abortion today, at least in the United States, is a political, legal and moral powder keg. But for long stretches of history, terminating an unwanted pregnancy, especially in the early stages, was a relatively uncontroversial fact of life, historians say. Egyptian papyrus, Greek plays, Roman coins, the medieval biographies
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi and Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — In the year since the monumental US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the federal constitutional right to abortion nationwide, more than a dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to the procedure. Abortion remains legal in seven states that
Continue ReadingMUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich has signed Portugal left back Raphaël Guerreiro on a free transfer from Bundesliga rival Borussia Dortmund. Guerreiro joins on a three-year deal after his Dortmund contract expires at the end of the month. He will likely compete for the starting left back spot with Alphonso Davies but he can also
Continue ReadingBy KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — The New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies will play a two-game series in London next season as MLB takes another rivalry abroad. League commissioner Rob Manfred has confirmed the June 8-9 games at London Stadium. He was speaking ahead of this weekend’s series between the St.
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The Olympic flame for the 2024 Paris Games will pass through 64 departments and 400 towns over 68 days before the cauldron is lit. Organizers announced the route for the torch relay at a Paris university. Organizing committee president Tony Estanguet says “the torch relay plays
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The Olympic flame for the 2024 Paris Games will pass through 64 departments and 400 towns over 68 days before the cauldron is lit. Organizers announced the route for the torch relay at a Paris university. Organizing committee president Tony Estanguet says “the torch relay plays
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 1.2 million vehicles in the U.S. because the rear view camera image may not appear on the dashboard screen. The recall covers certain Odyssey minivans from 2018 to 2023, as well as Pilot SUVs from 2019 to 2022 and Passport SUVs from 2019 to 2023. Honda says in
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities in South Africa say at least 31 illegal miners are believed to have died in a gas explosion in a shuttered gold mine that happened last month but is only now coming to light after people reported their relatives missing. It’s thought the miners died on
Continue ReadingBy Reuters and Laura Paddison, CNN Climate change may have stimulated a plankton bloom that caused thousands of dead fish to wash up along a roughly 4 kilometer (2.5 mile) stretch of beach in Thailand’s southern Chumphon province on Thursday, an expert said. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, deputy dean of the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University,
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An American aircraft carrier is due to make a port call in Vietnam on Sunday. The rare visit by one of the U.S. Navy’s biggest ships comes as Washington and Beijing step up efforts to bolster ties with Southeast Asian nations. The USS Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Soon, Americans are going to be able to try chicken that comes directly from chicken cells rather than, well, a chicken. On Wednesday, the USDA gave Upside Foods and Good Meat the green light to start producing and selling their lab-grown, or cultivated, chicken products in the
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Pro-government Cambodian lawmakers have unanimously approved changes to the country’s election law that will ban anyone who fails to vote from running as a candidate in future elections. All National Assembly members belong to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party, and critics say the
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