By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press give ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek coast guard on Friday defended its response to the sinking of a ship that went down off the country’s south coast and left as many as 500 migrants presumed drowned. Criticism mounted over Europe’s yearslong failure to to prevent such
Continue ReadingBy David Close and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Justice is to investigate the planned partnership between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), which owns LIV Golf, over antitrust concerns, according to the Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The reported DOJ probe into
Continue ReadingBy Mark Tutton, CNN (CNN) — Our world is built of concrete. Durable and cheap, it’s the construction material of choice for buildings, bridges and tunnels. But its ubiquity means it has a huge environmental impact. Concrete is made from water mixed with aggregates like sand and gravel, bound together by cement – and it’s
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — UNICEF says Sudan’s warring factions should better protect vulnerable children in the conflict zone, where hundreds of children have been killed and millions of young people “are trapped in an unrelenting nightmare.” The call from the United Nations children’s agency came after it announced that 330 children
Continue ReadingBy Martha Zhou, Steven Jiang and Chris Lau, CNN Beijing (CNN) — It was the sort of astonishing run the world has come to expect from those who don Argentina’s iconic number 10 soccer jersey. From the corner of the pitch, the fleet-footed figure evades one challenger and leaves two others trailing hopelessly in his
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The rain-lashed isle of Islay off Scotland’s west coast is not always easy to get to. Temperamental ferries run three times a day from the mainland port of Kennacraig and frequent sea mists can disrupt the small passenger planes that fly daily from Glasgow. Even so, the island attracts
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Bill Gates and Xi Jinping met Friday, marking the Chinese leader’s first known one-on-one meeting with a Western business figure in years. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft (MSFT) and world’s fifth-richest man, is in Beijing this week for his first trip to the Chinese capital since 2019,
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors and local authorities in Nigeria say most of the 108 people who drowned after a boat broke apart were women and their children. Search opperations ended Thursday in the boat accident on the Niger River in Kwara state. Survivors say the wooden boat was carrying
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has failed to release data on how many cremations took place in the country at the end of 2022 – obscuring a key indicator that could have shed light on the impact of the wave of Covid-19 infections that were sweeping the country at that time.
Continue ReadingSRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say Indian soldiers have killed five suspected militants in a gunfight along the highly militarized de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir. Police say the gunfight began early Friday after a joint team of police and army soldiers carried out an counterinsurgency operation in northwestern Kupwara district along the so-called Line of
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The head of Finland’s conservative National Coalition Party says four parties have agreed to form a government. Petteri Orpo, who is expected to become the Nordic nation’s next prime minister, is expected Friday to present a government program for a center-right coalition that includes a far-right anti-immigration party. The four parties
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archewell Audio, the company of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has announced the end of a multi-year partnership with Spotify in a joint statement released to CNN Friday. “Spotify and Archewell Audio have mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series
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Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring. The 86-year-old Francis smiled, waved and said “thanks” to a crowd of well-wishers as he left Gemelli Polyclinic on Friday. His surgeon
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — ¿Cómo puedes hacer señas si llevas un piolet en la mano? ¿Se niegan los guías a trabajar contigo si no oyes? ¿Qué ocurre si no puedes ver al otro cuando se comunican por señas por la noche? Estas son solo algunas de las cuestiones que los aventureros estadounidenses Scott Lehmann
Continue ReadingCNN By Rhea Mogul, Sophia Saifi and Manveena Suri, CNN Islamabad and New Delhi (CNN) — Tropical Cyclone Biparjoy has made landfall in India’s western Gujarat state, close to the Pakistan border, unleashing powerful gusts of wind that ripped up trees and toppled electricity poles. At landfall, Biparjoy was equivalent to a strong tropical storm
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Russia accused Australia of “Russophobic hysteria” for canceling the lease on the land where Moscow wanted to build its new embassy. The Australian government judged the plan to be a security risk because it was too close to Parliament House. Parliament passed emergency legislation blocking the
Continue ReadingBy AJIT SOLANKI, SIBI ARASU and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press MANDVI, India (AP) — Cyclone Biporjoy is churning through coastal India toward Pakistan with lashing rains and gusts of up to 105 kph (65 mph). A man and his son died as they tried to save their livestock in Gujarat state, where the cyclone came
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer John Simon III was a hungry baby, a “chunky” toddler and a chubby little boy, his mother said. But by age 14, his weight had soared to 430 pounds and was a life-threatening medical condition. Nine months after weight-loss surgery that removed a portion of his stomach, John has
Continue ReadingMONROE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of fatally shooting his three young sons admitted to planning the killings and lined them up before executing them with a rifle, prosecutors said Friday. Chad Doerman, 32, who is also accused of wounding the boys’ mother at the family’s home, has been charged with aggravated
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