By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Chelsea has signed France forward Christopher Nkunku from Leipzig on six-year contract. The London club spent around $630 million last season and has got its latest recruitment drive up and running with the deal for the highly rated Nkunku. His contract starts on July 1.
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — The efforts of John Eastman, an ex-attorney for former President Donald Trump, to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could interfere with Congress’ certification of the 2020 election results will be the subject of several days of attorney ethics proceedings set to begin in a Los Angeles
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Victor Wembanyama’s long frame and versatile game makes him the top big man in this year’s NBA draft. The 19-year-old Frenchman has strong perimeter skills and the size at 7-foot-3 to score over defenders. The teenager is projected to be the No. 1 overall pick in Thursday night’s draft
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los picos más altos del mundo corren el riesgo de perder hasta el 80% de su volumen para finales de siglo, con profundas consecuencias para millones de personas en los peores escenarios climáticos, advierten científicos internacionales en Nepal en un nuevo informe. El informe, publicado este martes por el Centro
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is moving ahead with plans for joint naval exercises in September, the first held by countries in the bloc on their own, at a time when several are responding more strongly to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the
Continue ReadingBy ANGELA CHARLTON and GRAHAM DUNBAR Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French police searched the Paris Olympic organizers’ headquarters on Tuesday as part of corruption investigations into contracts linked to the Games, according to prosecutors, the third straight time graft allegations have dogged a Summer Olympics. The Paris organizing committee said in a statement that
Continue ReadingBy ANGELA CHARLTON and GRAHAM DUNBAR Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French police searched the Paris Olympic organizers’ headquarters on Tuesday as part of corruption investigations into contracts linked to the Games, according to prosecutors, the third straight time graft allegations have dogged a Summer Olympics. The Paris organizing committee said in a statement that
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The governor of Darfur called for an international investigation into alleged atrocities against residents of the region that witnessed some of the worst battles in Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Mini Arko Minawi urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to allow the International Criminal Court to probe “crimes
Continue ReadingIssy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A Rubens painting lost to history and misidentified for almost 300 years has re-emerged with the help of X-ray analysis and could now fetch up to £6 million ($7.7 million) at auction next month. Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completed “Saint Sebastian Tended by Two Angels” more than 400 years
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is warning of a growing threat of extremism, particularly from the far right, with the number of politically motivated crimes carried out by extremists reaching a record high last year. His comments on Tuesday come as polls show growing support
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Official statistics in Germany show that large numbers of refugees from Ukraine fleeing Russia’s war fueled a 1.3% rise in the German population last year. That helped push up the number of inhabitants in the European Union’s most populous country to more than 84.4 million. The national statistics office said Tuesday that
Continue ReadingGELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — The mascot for next year’s European Championship in Germany will be a teddy bear — and this time it won’t be naked from the waist down. The mascot made its first appearance Tuesday morning by surprising children at a primary school in Gelsenkirchen, where it was set to appear again later
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Officials are in a race against time to find a civilian submersible that had five people aboard after it went missing Sunday in the North Atlantic while voyaging to the wreckage of the Titanic. The 21-foot vessel has four days of emergency capability, the leader
Continue ReadingCNN, OCEANGATE EXPEDITIONS, WFXT, DVIDS By Nouran Salahieh, Eric Levenson, Priscilla Alvarez and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Sonar picked up banging sounds on Tuesday from underneath the water in the North Atlantic Ocean while searching for a submersible with five people onboard that went missing two days earlier on a dive to the Titanic
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senator has invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian military commanders knew about war crime allegations in Afghanistan in a bid to pressure Australia into launching its own review. On Tuesday, Sen. Jacqui Lambie invited the Hague-based court because she says military commanders
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden has convened a group of technology leaders in San Francisco to debate the risks and promises of artificial intelligence. The Biden administration is seeking to figure out how to regulate the emergent field of AI, looking for ways to nurture its potential for
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La búsqueda de varias agencias se está intensificando en busca de un sumergible que desapareció con cinco personas a bordo mientras recorría los restos del Titanic; los equipos de búsqueda peinan aguas agitadas y remotas con poca visibilidad. La Guardia Costera y la Real Fuerza Aérea Canadiense están desplegando más
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — When RMS Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, she was the largest passenger ship in service and considered to be “unsinkable.” Just four days later, Titanic’s maiden voyage was transformed into an international tragedy when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. April
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III is set to feature prominently at this year’s Royal Ascot, as the race week bids to forge a new identity since the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The horse racing spectacle became synonymous with the late monarch, with her deep passion for the sport a
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say the country’s air defenses have downed 32 of 35 Shahed exploding drones Russia launched overnight. Most of them were taken down in the Kyiv region. The attack was part of a wider bombardment of Ukrainian regions that extended as far as the Lviv
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