By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Investors in Thames Water have agreed to put an extra £750 million ($962 million) of equity funding into the troubled utility to hold off a temporary takeover by the government. The amount is less than the company was hoping to raise. Britain’s biggest water company said Monday that
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Just five days after staging a short-lived rebellion, mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ‘s commanders met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and pledged loyalty to the government, a senior government spokesman said Monday, the latest twist in a baffling episode that has raised questions about the power and influence both men wield.
Continue ReadingWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A U.S. honeymoon couple who survived severe burns when New Zealand’s White Island volcano erupted in 2019 are listed as the first witnesses to testify in a trial of tourism industry operators over the disaster that claimed 22 lives. Prosecutors open their case in the Auckland District Court on Tuesday
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia publicó un video del alto general del ejército Valery Gerasimov supuestamente hablando este domingo, su primera aparición pública desde la fallida insurrección del grupo Wagner el 24 de junio. En una publicación junto al video en Telegram, el ministerio dijo que Gerasimov, que rara vez
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Schools in New Delhi have closed after heavy monsoon rains battered the Indian capital, caused landslides and flash floods in the country’s north and killed at least 15 people over the last three days. The torrential rain over the weekend left parts of New Delhi on Monday overflowing with water that
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A man with a knife killed six people and wounded one Monday at a kindergarten in southeastern China, police and a news report said Monday. A 25-year-old man was arrested following the 7:40 a.m. attack in Lianjiang, a city in Guangdong province, a police statement said. Employees who answered at the Lianjiang
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Six people have been killed and one injured in an early morning knife attack outside a kindergarten in southern China, according to Lianjiang city police and Chinese state-run media. The incident took place around 7:40 a.m. on Monday in Hengshan town within Lianjiang, in Guangdong province,
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Six people have been killed and one injured in an early morning knife attack outside a kindergarten in southern China, according to Lianjiang city police and Chinese state-run media. The incident took place around 7:40 a.m. on Monday in Hengshan town within Lianjiang, in Guangdong province,
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — American golfer Allisen Corpuz won the US Women’s Open on Sunday, securing her first LPGA title at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. The 25-year-old Hawaii native shot 3-under par in the final round to become the first American to win the major since Brittany Lang in
Continue ReadingBy MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the match wasn’t going to be a nail-biter: the Association Sportive des Forces Armees Royales, a powerhouse in women’s soccer here, ended up crushing its Moroccan national women’s professional league opponent 7-0. One young fan in the
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Tuesday ahead of an update on U.S. consumer prices that traders hope will show inflation is easing, reducing the need for more interest rate hikes. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced. Oil prices rose. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P
Continue ReadingBy MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the outcome wasn’t much in doubt: the Association Sportive des Forces Armees Royales, a powerhouse in women’s soccer here, ended up crushing its Moroccan women’s national professional league opponent 7-0. Regardless, one young fan in the stands
Continue ReadingBy CNN’s Matthew Chance and Mick Krever. Video by Oscar Featherstone (CNN) — August 5, 2022 was a day like many others in Ukraine. First light revealed the devastation from a night of Russian bombing. Russian attacks on a residential neighborhood of Mykolaiv that morning brought “significant destruction,” the governor of the region said at
Continue ReadingBy CNN’s Matthew Chance and Mick Krever. Video by Oscar Featherstone (CNN) — August 5, 2022 was a day like many others in Ukraine. First light revealed the devastation from a night of Russian bombing. Russian attacks on a residential neighborhood of Mykolaiv that morning brought “significant destruction,” the governor of the region said at
Continue ReadingCNN By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Harry Styles was hit in the eye by an object thrown at the stage while he was performing in Vienna on Saturday, marking the latest incident in an ever-growing list of similar situations in recent weeks. Video footage posted on social media by concertgoers shows the “As It
Continue ReadingBy MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the match wasn’t going to be a nail-biter: the Association Sportive des Forces Armees Royales, a powerhouse in women’s soccer here, ended up crushing its Moroccan national women’s professional league opponent 7-0. One young fan in the
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China Sea and concern over arms buildups in the region are expected to dominate the agenda when Southeast Asia’s top diplomats gather for talks this week in Indonesia. Russia’s year-old invasion of Ukraine and
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead. Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on
Continue ReadingVILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia’s war in Ukraine will top the agenda when U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts hold a summit in Lithuania’s capital over two days starting Tuesday. They are expected to focus on ensuring that Ukraine has support as long as the conflict continues, how to bring the country even
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — When it comes to criticizing the NATO members who fail to spend enough on defense, tiny Luxembourg is an easy target. One of NATO’s richest countries, and routinely ranked at the top of Europe’s economic growth tables, the Grand Duchy currently spends 0.72% of gross domestic product
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