By Abeer Salman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — President Mahmoud Abbas, the 87-year-old veteran who has led the Palestinian Authority for nearly two decades, is trending on Palestinian social media – but not in the way he might like. When he made a rare flying visit to Jenin this week, eight days after the largest Israeli
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney has asked a Florida judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by a board governing Disney World that is made up of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees. The board wants to void agreements that the company made in an attempt to neutralize the takeover of the
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — France’s preparations for the Women’s World Cup have received another injury blow after defender Selma Bacha left the field in tears on a stretcher in the final minutes of the team’s warm-up game against Australia. Bacha fell awkwardly on her left ankle after making a covering interception and had her head
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has launched the construction of a 1,200-megawatt Chinese-designed nuclear energy project. It’s being built at a cost of $3.5 billion as part of the government efforts to generate more clean energy. Friday’s ceremony to mark the start of the project comes less
Continue ReadingBy NOAH BERGER and DOUG GLASS Associated Press FORT ST. JOHN, British Columbia (AP) — As more than 900 fires burn in a Canadian fire season that has periodically pushed dangerous smoke south into the U.S. and even far east to Europe, one province — British Columbia — relies on smokejumpers to help fight the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police have arrested six young Germans for allegedly raping an 18-year-old German woman on Spain’s Mallorca island in the Mediterranean. Police said Friday that the alleged gang rape occurred in a hotel room in the popular tourist spot of Playa de Palma on Thursday. The
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Tucked into President Joe Biden’s ambitious, sweeping climate commitments is a crucially important goal that dates back to his campaign: Transforming the US electric grid to run entirely on clean energy by 2035. The goal could make or break Biden’s pledge to slash the country’s planet-warming emissions in half
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Northwestern has fired head baseball coach Jim Foster, the school announced on Thursday. According to the Chicago Tribune, the firing comes amid allegations that Foster “engaged in bullying and abusive behavior.” Per the report, Foster was investigated by the school’s human resources department. The investigation found “sufficient evidence” that Foster
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Miller, Nick Thompson and Jennifer Gray, CNN (CNN) — El Niño is a climate pattern that originates in the Pacific Ocean along the equator and impacts weather all over the world. Warm water normally is confined to the western Pacific by winds that blow from east to west, pushing it toward Indonesia and
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — This was the moment. If Novak Djokovic was going to be stopped in the Wimbledon semifinals, if his much younger and harder-hitting opponent, Jannik Sinner, was going to turn things around Friday, the monumental comeback required would need to start immediately. Djokovic knew it. Sinner
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN (CNN) — The name “Barbara Millicent Roberts” may not ring a bell, but say her nickname — Barbie — and people of all ages know her. Created by Mattel in 1959, Barbie doesn’t look a day over 19. And now she is getting new life in “Barbie” the movie, distributed by
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — A 10-day UPS strike could cost the US economy $7.1 billion. That could make it the costliest work stoppage ever in US history, according to an estimate from a Michigan economic research firm that studies the costs of labor disruptions. The estimate from Anderson Economic Group said
Continue ReadingCNN By Rhea Mogul, Sania Farooqui and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — India is bidding to become only the fourth country to execute a controlled landing on the moon with the successful launch Friday of its Chandrayaan-3 mission. Chandrayaan, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota
Continue ReadingCNN By Rhea Mogul, Sania Farooqui and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — India is bidding to become only the fourth country to execute a controlled landing on the moon with the successful launch Friday of its Chandrayaan-3 mission. Chandrayaan, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota
Continue ReadingBy Olesya Dmitracova and Alex Stambaugh, CNN London/Hong Kong (CNN) — The European Union has lifted all import restrictions on food, including fish, produced near the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan just as Tokyo prepares to release treated radioactive wastewater into the ocean. The bloc’s move follows positive results from tests carried out on the
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Barbie Latza Nadeau, Sharon Braithwaite and Elinda Labropoulou, CNN (CNN) — A blistering and deadly heat wave is sweeping Europe, potentially bringing record-breaking temperatures. Parts of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Italy are all facing intense heat, with temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). “Temperatures are sizzling across Europe this
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Barbie Latza Nadeau, Sharon Braithwaite and Elinda Labropoulou, CNN (CNN) — A blistering and deadly heat wave is sweeping Europe, potentially bringing record-breaking temperatures. Parts of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Italy are all facing intense heat, with temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). “Temperatures are sizzling across Europe this
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Ons Jabeur will face Marketa Vondrousova in the women’s final at Wimbledon on Saturday. The winner will be a first-time major champion. They are a combined 0-3 in title matches at Grand Slam tournaments. Jabeur left Wimbledon a year ago without the trophy but more
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Si olvidaste declarar tus impuestos durante los primeros días de la pandemia de covid-19 en 2020, tienes hasta el lunes para hacerlo. Cerca de 1,5 millones de contribuyentes aún pueden ser elegibles para un reembolso de impuestos del año fiscal 2019, según el Servicio de Impuestos Internos. La agencia estima
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced Friday that 804,000 borrowers will have their student debt wiped away, totaling $39 billion worth of debt, in the coming weeks due to fixes that more accurately count qualified monthly payments under existing income-driven repayment plans. “For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks
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