CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Central Bank announced a new hike in interest rates as the cash-strapped North African country battles surging inflation and a depreciating currency. The bank said Thursday that its monetary policy committee agreed to increase its most basic lending rate from 18.25% to 19.75%. Egyptian, particularly working class households, are struggling to
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — When Clarisse Agbégnénou won her sixth world judo title, confirming the reigning Olympic champion as one of the athletes to watch at next year’s Paris Games, the French star’s smallest but greatest fan was less wild about her mother’s newest gold medal than she was about her
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Olga Voitovych, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukrainian sea drones attacked a major naval base in Russia on Friday, leaving a damaged Russian warship listing in the Black Sea in a brazen strike carried out hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-held territory. Dramatic social media videos showed the vessel, an
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s leader is proposing to enshrine in the country’s constitution a right to use cash, which remains more popular in the Alpine nation than in many other places. Chancellor Karl Nehammer said in a statement on Friday that “more and more people are concerned that cash could
Continue ReadingBy Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — An evening of inner tubing turned perilous for three Montana women when they were attacked by an otter. The women were floating along the Jefferson River on Wednesday around 8:15 p.m. when they observed one or two otters, the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) said in a news
Continue ReadingWPLG, DELRAY BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT, CNN By Aya Elamroussi and Morayo Ogunbayo, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder on suspicion of killing and dismembering his wife, whose remains were found in suitcases at a beach last month, authorities said Thursday. William Lowe, who was arrested Wednesday, is accused of
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said its sea drones struck a major Russian port Friday and damaged a warship in an attack that underlined Kyiv’s growing naval capabilities as the Black Sea becomes an increasingly important battleground in the war. The strike on Novorossiysk halted maritime traffic
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Morayo Ogunbayo, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder on suspicion of killing and dismembering his wife, whose remains were found in suitcases at a beach last month, authorities said Thursday. William Lowe, who was arrested Wednesday, is accused of killing his 80-year-old wife, Aydil Barbosa
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Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement with a Black journalism professor who said her tenured position offer fell apart after backlash to her work on diversity and equity efforts, the university announced Thursday. The university’s leadership apologized to Kathleen McElroy for “the way her
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Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Defense chiefs from West African nations finalized an intervention plan Friday and urged militaries to ready resources after negotiations deadlocked with Niger’s military junta, which says it is severing military agreements with France, its former colonial ruler. With two days remaining before a
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China is lifting a stifling 3-year-old tariff on Australian barley in a sign of an improving bilateral trade relationship since Australia’s government changed. China effectively closed its door to Australian barley in May 2020 by imposing an 80.5% tariff after the previous Australian government angered Beijing
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — El primer ministro griego ofrece una “segunda oportunidad” a los turistas cuyos viajes a la isla de Rodas se vieron interrumpidos o directamente se cancelaron debido a los incendios de este verano. El 2 de agosto, el primer ministro Kyriakos Mitsotakis apareció en el programa británico Good Morning Britain para hablar
Continue ReadingBy YUCHENG TANG Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Eight people were killed when a freight train struck a pickup truck crossing the tracks in an eastern province of Thailand. The State Railway of Thailand says the accident at 2:20 a.m. Friday also injured four people in the Muang district of Chachoengsao province. The railway agency
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon and Sooyeon Kim, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — As tensions with North Korea spike, South Korea will hold its first nationwide civil defense drill in six years later this month, requiring most of the country’s 51 million residents to practice evacuating to shelters or underground safe spaces during the 20-minute exercise.
Continue ReadingBy Gawon Bae and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Hundreds of teenage boy and girl scouts have fallen ill at a global event in South Korea as a sweltering heat wave sweeps the country, angering some parents who have called for the 12-day event to be canceled. Nearly 40,000 participants – mostly
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife Friday in the city of Daejeon. The stabbing follows a separate, apparently random attack on Thursday in which 14 people were wounded near a busy subway station in Seongnam.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump se declaró inocente este jueves de los cargos penales federales derivados de sus planes para anular las elecciones de 2020, en un procedimiento de 27 minutos de duración en el que surgieron los primeros destellos de las tácticas de la defensa. Fue la tercera ocasión en
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Friday to close out a rare losing week for Wall Street following mixed reports on the U.S. job market and two of the market’s most influential stocks. The S&P 500 sank 23.86, or 0.5%, to 4,478.03. It was the fourth straight drop for
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