ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s health minister says an injectable medicine that was causing a severe eye infection and sight loss in diabetic patients in the province of Punjab has been recalled and an investigation ordered while police are looking for the suppliers. Federal Health Minister Nadeem Jan said Sunday that a case has been lodged
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is considering scrapping a big chunk of an overdue and over-budget high-speed rail line once touted as a way to attract jobs and investment to northern England. Media report that an announcement is expected this week that the High Speed 2 line from London
Continue ReadingBy OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The death toll from a bombing attack at a government checkpoint in central Somalia has reached 21. A government official says the number of wounded in Saturday’s truck bombing in Beledweyne stood at 52. He said that 17 of those critically wounded were airlifted to the
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — With the government on the brink of a shutdown as Congress remains at an impasse on a funding deal, federal departments and agencies have begun the mandatory process of planning to bring nonessential functions to a halt at the start of the new fiscal year on
Continue ReadingCNN, KABC, WJLA By Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — With the government on the brink of a shutdown this week as Congress remains at an impasse on a funding deal, federal departments and agencies have begun the mandatory process of planning to bring nonessential functions to a halt. The Office of Management
Continue ReadingCNN By Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — With the government on the brink of a shutdown this week as Congress remains at an impasse on a funding deal, federal departments and agencies have begun the mandatory process of planning to bring nonessential functions to a halt. The Office of Management and Budget
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday provided yet another opportunity for Red Bull and Max Verstappen to stamp their authority on this Formula One season. Verstappen streaked away from the field in Suzuka to claim his 13th win of the season while Red Bull won the constructors’ championships for
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — More than a decade after he became the first former migrant worker to soar into space as a NASA astronaut, José Hernández reached another milestone this month. The film about his remarkable journey from the fields of California to the International Space Station debuted as the most popular
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Los patios de recreo de Rusia se están convirtiendo en campos de desfiles. En las escuelas, desde el Pacífico hasta el mar Negro, los niños de la guardería se visten con uniformes y participan en prácticas de marcha. A los niños mayores se les enseña a cavar trincheras, lanzar granadas y
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom drew loud cheers and applause on Wednesday when he spoke at the UN’s Climate Ambition Summit in New York, after pointedly calling the climate crisis “a fossil fuel crisis.” He told the room full of global leaders, climate advocates and non-governmental organizations the world needs
Continue ReadingBy Sofia Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is considered the holiest day of the year for people who practice Judaism. The holiday technically spans two calendar days, because the Jewish calendar is lunar. Days are marked sunset to sunset. This year, it begins at sunset on September 24 and
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to establish diplomatic relations Monday with two South Pacific nations, the Cook Islands and Niue, as his administration aims to show to Pacific Island leaders that it is committed to increasing American presence in the region. The announcement comes as Biden prepares
Continue ReadingLAHORE, Pakistan. (AP) — Pakistani officials say a passenger train collided with another already parked and carrying goods in eastern Pakistan, injuring at least 30 passengers, five of them seriously. Following the accident early Sunday in Shaikhupura district near Qila Sattar Shah, railway authorities suspended the driver of the Lahore-bound passenger train, his assistant and
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — It’s rare in sport that an athlete leaves behind a legacy such as the one Megan Rapinoe has cultivated over her remarkable international career. Two World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal would be enough for many, but the 38-year-old has never just been satisfied with sporting achievements.
Continue ReadingBy EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German city of Nordhausen is best known as the location of the former Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora. A mayoral election on Sunday put the focus on the municipality of 42,000 people as a far-right candidate came close to winning the vote. The election underscored recent gains
Continue ReadingBy ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — At least 30 Serb gunmen have killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off ongoing gunbattles that have left three assailants dead and raised tensions between the two former wartime foes
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Una niña de 2 años que caminó descalza más de 5 km con los dos perros de su familia fue encontrada durmiendo en un sendero boscoso de Michigan usando al perro más pequeño como almohada, dijeron las autoridades. Los agentes fueron llamados a una casa en la zona rural de Faithorn,
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s a star the Federal Reserve is chasing. It isn’t a celebrity or sphere of gas that dazzles the sky at night. It’s not even a visible object. “We only know it by its works,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The star the central bank
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — You wouldn’t be far off if you guessed Italy or France as the country with more of this year’s “World’s 50 Best” restaurants than any other. But no, that distinction goes to Spain, where six restaurants earned honors this summer on the 2023 list. (Italy had five and France
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Authorities in Taiwan say one person remains missing following a Friday night fire at a golf ball factory, after forensic analysis revealed that some bones found Sunday were not human. The blaze killed nine other people, including four firefighters. An explosion at about 6:10 p.m. Friday caused part of the building
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