Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Nota del editor: este artículo fue publicado originalmente por The Art Newspaper, socio editorial de CNN Style. (CNN) — Cuando Caspar David Friedrich murió en la pobreza en 1840, el mundo del arte contemporáneo casi lo olvidó. A medida que se acerca su cumpleaños número 250, su reputación está alcanzando nuevas alturas,
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have decided to approve an outline deal that would keep in reserve the profits from hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian central bank assets that have been frozen in retaliation for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The tentative agreement still needs formal approval but
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi, Jessie Yeung and Rhea Mogul, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s former leader Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets, his political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said in a statement Tuesday. The hearing took place Tuesday in a closed court established under the Official Secrets Act in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail,
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks mostly declined Wednesday as markets awaited a decision on interest rates by the Federal Reserve, while China reported manufacturing contracted in January for a fourth straight month. U.S. futures were mixed while oil prices fell back. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.3% to 35,975.50. South
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of revealing official secrets and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. It is the latest in a slew of cases that supporters say are meant to sideline the imprisoned Islamist politician just days ahead of parliamentary
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Saudi Aramco says it will not try to increase its maximum daily oil production to 13 million barrels a day after receiving an order from the country’s Energy Ministry. The firm, known formally as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., said it would maintain its maximum
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The OSU men’s basketball team has had a rough go in league play this season. This past weekend, the Beavers upset 9th-ranked Arizona and Arizona State. Jordan Pope led the Beavers this weekend, averaging 25 points and five assists. He also had a buzzer-beating shot against the Wildcats to win the game. Pope was named
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese transport officials have raided a Toyota-affiliated plant to search for evidence after the company admitted cheating on engine testing. The Japanese automaker reported Tuesday that it kept its status as the world’s top automaker in 2023, selling 11.2 million vehicles. Hours after the probe began
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — India’s naval forces have rescued an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates and freed its 19 crew members off the east coast of Somalia. A navy statement on Tuesday said the ship intercepted the vessel late Monday and forced 11 pirates to release the crew and boat. The crew members
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party says it has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years. After a late-night meeting, Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the party’s executive has backed proposals to return to the government.
Continue ReadingDENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say they have arrested three Mexicans for alleged robbery on the resort island of Bali that left a tourist from Turkey badly wounded. The arrests were made Saturday at a villa where the Mexican men had been staying since Dec. 7 as tourists. Police said four men armed with
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Rockets fired by separatist insurgents have killed a police officer and wounded a dozen other people in southwestern Pakistan, in apparent retaliation for strikes by Pakistan on what it said were insurgent hideouts in Iran earlier in January. The government said Tuesday that six insurgents were
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las autoridades del sur de California arrestaron a cinco hombres en relación con los espantosos asesinatos de seis personas que fueron halladas con tiros (y algunas de ellas también estaban quemadas) la semana pasada en un lugar remoto en una zona del desierto de Mojave. Los seis tenían aparentemente heridas
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The Philippines and Vietnam have signed agreements to avoid incidents in the South China Sea and broaden cooperation between their coast guards. The growing alliance will likely be frowned upon by China, which claims virtually the entire waters. The agreements, along with discussions
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Nicole Kidman’s latest project is set in Hong Kong, but people who live there are blocked from seeing it, prompting speculation about censorship in a city where civil liberties are shrinking fast. The first two episodes of “Expats,” a six-episode drama about expat women, were released on Amazon Prime on Jan.
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Amazon Prime’s new drama series “Expats,” starring Nicole Kidman, is currently unavailable to watch in Hong Kong despite being set and partly filmed in the city. The drama largely centers around Kidman’s character, Margaret, an American living in Hong Kong in 2014, when months-long pro-democracy protests swept the city
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un jurado de Pensilvania dictó un veredicto de US$ 2.250 millones contra Monsanto y su empresa matriz, Bayer, después de determinar que su producto herbicida Roundup causó cáncer a un hombre, anunciaron los abogados del demandante. John McKivison, de 49 años, a quien le diagnosticaron linfoma no Hodgkin, demandó a la
Continue ReadingCNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Professional sports teams are becoming real estate empires, building luxury apartments and shopping malls. For decades, major league teams depended on ticket sales, concessions and TV deals to generate revenue. But team owners in recent years have turned to real estate development to bring in extra
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente and Andrew McNicol, CNN (CNN) — The US Figure Skating team will receive a gold medal for its 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic performance, after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was handed a four-year ban over a long-running doping controversy, but Canada has been left “extremely disappointed” after not being awarded
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index says efforts to fight public sector corruption are faltering and blames in part a “global decline in justice and the rule of law since 2016.” Transparency International compiles the index. It found 23 countries at their worst level since the global
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