By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A U.N. agency says Myanmar’s military government has rescinded its approval for international organizations to distribute food, shelter and medicines to thousands of residents in cyclone-hit areas in the country’s west. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says the suspension of aid activities could
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death. Almost the entire
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A grainy black-and-white gunsight video Russia released this week to bolster a claim its military blew up some of Ukraine’s most fearsome tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor, according to a visual analysis by The Associated Press. The Russian Embassy in Washington announced Monday on
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer ISTANBUL (AP) — The “Miracle of Istanbul” happened the last time Turkey hosted the Champions League final. It’s taken nearly two decades to miraculously bring the game back. Istanbul was supposed to host the 2020 Champions League final. It didn’t happen. Then the 2021 final. Also didn’t happen. The
Continue ReadingBy Matt Foster, CNN (CNN) — Ticket sales for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand overtook those of the previous edition of the tournament on Thursday, according to FIFA, soccer’s global governing body. The 1,032,884 tickets sold means the event is set to surpass France’s 2019 World Cup as the
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — If you’ve organized your life around a fully remote or highly flexible hybrid work schedule over the past three years, it can feel jarring if your employer decides to change the rules on remote work and require or enforce more on-site attendance. When that happens, employees
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — A far-right party banned from participating in Greece’s upcoming election has pledged support for a newly founded political group that received Supreme Court approval to field candidates. Greece’s top court this week upheld an earlier election ban on the Greeks Party. The ruling was based on legislation that denies political groups
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — “Soy Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, vecino de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y un apasionado por mi país”. Así se presenta en su biografía oficial el actual jefe de Gobierno de la capital de Argentina, que luego de dos mandatos busca ser presidente del país en medio de una complicada competencia
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green assisted a man who was injured after falling from the bed of a pickup truck Thursday, marking the second time in three weeks the former emergency room physician responded to a roadside emergency. The most recent incident happened as Green was traveling in Kauai and
Continue ReadingCNN By Paula Reid and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump acknowledged on tape in a 2021 meeting that he had retained “secret” military information that he had not declassified, according to a transcript of the audio recording obtained by CNN. “As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump acknowledged on tape in a 2021 meeting that he had retained “secret” military information that he had not declassified, according to a transcript of the audio recording obtained by CNN. “As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump says,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un juez del Tribunal Superior de Londres denegó el permiso de Julian Assange para apelar una orden de extradición para enviarlo a Estados Unidos, donde enfrenta numerosos cargos de espionaje. En un fallo fechado el 6 de junio de 2023 y visto por CNN, un juez dijo que la solicitud
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Wheelchair users are reacting with excitement to Delta’s new airplane seat design that would make flying more accessible for passengers with disabilities. Though still a prototype, it’s hoped that the concept could enter commercial use within 18 months if it passes testing and is adopted by airlines. Here’s
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — De las múltiples cotizaciones que tiene el dólar estadounidense en Argentina, existe una variante denominada “dólar ahorro o dólar solidario”, que se encuentra entre las más convenientes por precio del mercado, pero tiene dos particularidades: por un lado, cualquiera puede comprarlos si tiene el dinero bancarizado para adquirir hasta US$
Continue ReadingBREMEN, Germany (AP) — Midfielder Naby Keïta is leaving Liverpool on a free transfer to move to the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen. Keïta leaves Liverpool after five years with a team which won every major prize in English soccer. He was a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2019 and a Premier League winner one
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — After two years of surging prices, economists still can’t agree on what has caused the world’s worst inflation crisis in decades. While the usual culprits cited by economists include pandemic-era supply chain bottlenecks, the war in Ukraine and various US economic policies, others say it’s due to
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — A Spanish government official says the bodies of two migrants were found on a beach in southeastern Spain after 132 other people arrived in two boats. The official in the city of Almería says the two died while trying to swim to the coast and were victims of criminal human smuggling gangs.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Hong Kong/Seoul (CNN) — Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, used a high-profile trip to South Korea on Friday to call for coordinated international regulation of generative artificial intelligence, the technology that underpins his famous chatbot. “As these systems get very, very powerful, that does require
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The UK government plans to scrap its windfall tax on oil and gas companies if energy prices fall below certain levels, abolishing a levy that has raised around £2.8 billion ($3.5 billion) since it was introduced a year ago. The country’s finance ministry announced Friday that it would
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said Friday she will no longer be able to skip classes as a way to draw attention to climate change because she is graduating from high school. Thunberg, 20, started staging Friday protests outside the Swedish parliament building during school hours in 2018. Teenagers from around the
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