By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Israel’s vast tech sector has seen its fair share of crises, from financial downturns and the Covid-19 pandemic to periodic flare-ups in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each time, the industry has bounced back, demonstrating why the country of just 9 million people is known as the world’s “startup nation.”
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan police spokesman says a suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan. The spokesman says the attack killed at least seven people and wounded 15 others in the city of Pol-e-Khomri, which is the capital of Baghlan province. The Taliban footage from
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday spoke with the families of the Americans who remain unaccounted for in Israel after promising to speak with family members of those who are held hostage by Hamas. During a speech in Philadelphia Friday afternoon, Biden recounted the conversation. “They’re going through agony
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Grammy award-winning artist Taylor Swift continues to be a good luck charm for the Kansas City Chiefs, as they defeated the Denver Broncos 19-8 at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night. Swift was watching the Chiefs in person for the third time this season and has yet to see them
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase’s third-quarter profit soared 35% from last year, fueled by a rapid rise in interest rates, but the bank’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, issued a sobering statement about the current state of world affairs and economic instability. Dimon said the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestinian wars, high
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — It’s Sunday night and Crystal P. Lira is not answering her messages. Inside the headquarters of Colectiva Bloodys y Projects, an organization that has supported reproductive rights near the U.S.-Mexico border since 2016, her only concern is for the woman she has provided with a
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Michal Muszkat-Barkan is a natural leader. The kind of person who can rally the troops and knows exactly how to get help where it’s needed. A professor at the Hebrew Union College, Muszkat-Barkan had spent the past 10 months organizing protests against the Israeli government’s plans to weaken
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — In the future, some Covid-19 vaccines may not be jabs in the arm. They could be a nasal spray or even a patch on the skin. Those are just two examples of the kind of next-generation vaccine technology that federal health officials are hoping to help advance. The US
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN KABUMBA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s president says he will gradually ease the state of military rule in the conflict-riddled east and lift some restrictions imposed more than two years ago. Speaking to the nation Thursday, President Felix Tshisekedi said there would be a gradual easing of the
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Party leaders competing in Poland’s parliamentary election on Sunday have called on voters to give them winning support. They held their final campaign rallies Friday as opinion polls suggested a close race. Ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and main opposition leader Donald Tusk sought to discredit
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative deal with the unions representing 75,000 employees, following the largest-ever health care strike in US history. “The frontline healthcare workers of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are excited to have reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente,” the union coalition
Continue ReadingLAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say several suspects behind this week’s killing of a member of an outlawed anti-India militant group in a mosque attack have been arrested. The arrests took place in multiple raids over the past two days. That’s according to the police chief in eastern Punjab province. The gunmen in Wednesday’s
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN (CNN) — The Israel-Hamas war is sending investors in search of defensive assets. Israel declared war on Hamas Sunday after the Palestinian militant group launched a brutal attack that killed at least 1,300 people. Stock markets initially fell on Monday, before rebounding. But investors have since bought up shares of virtually
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin, on his first trip abroad since being indicted by the International Criminal Court in March, has Friday called on an alliance of former Soviet states to expand relations with non-Western countries. In an address to the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Putin
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Svetlana Vlasova and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — Russian forces have launched a “fierce,” large-scale attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, intensifying the fighting there, but they have so far been unable to make significant progress, according to Ukrainian officials, analysts and geolocated footage shared on social media. “The fighting
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon kicked off third-quarter earnings season Friday with a stern warning to investors: “Now may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades,” he wrote in the company’s report. The wars in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza “may have far-reaching impacts
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s role as a leader confronting antisemitism – and, personally, his historic role as the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president – has taken new significance this week. “We witnessed a mass murder of innocent civilians,” Emhoff told Jewish leaders Wednesday at the
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — As student loan payments resume this month, more than 43 million Americans carrying that debt saw the end of more than three years of relief from monthly payments. But the financial landscape in which they resume payments has shifted. Researchers are still working to understand the impact that the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — On Saturday, a celestial spectacle will occur over North, Central and South America as an annular solar eclipse creates a “ring of fire” in the sky. Annular solar eclipses are like total solar eclipses, except the moon is at the farthest point in its orbit from Earth, so it
Continue ReadingBy Isabelle Chapman, Audrey Ash, Daniel A. Medina and Allison Gordon, CNN. Visuals by Tal Yellin, Ian Berry and Vanessa Leroy. (CNN) — Homemade rockets. Modified AK-47s. Decades-old Soviet machine guns. Cheap, second-hand, and purloined weapons comprised Hamas’ deadly makeshift arsenal that fueled a devastating, multi-pronged attack on Israel over the weekend. CNN analyzed dozens
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