By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Copenhagen’s mayor says she has been in touch with her Paris counterpart to see what could be learned from the reconstruction of the Notre Dame cathedral in the French capital, after a fire devastated the Danish city’s 400-year-old stock exchange building. Firefighters are still at
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CAPRI, Italy (AP) — Top NATO and European Union officials are urging industrialized nations to take quick and concrete steps to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned on Thursday that continued delays could tilt the war in Moscow’s favor. Borrell was speaking
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The last time Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel addressed his parishioners he was standing at the front of a church delivering an Assyrian bible reading that was dramatically cut short by the dark shadow of an alleged assailant armed with a knife. From hospital on Thursday, after a
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities say that a strong earthquake that struck the country’s southwest Japan has left nine people with minor injuries. The temblor also caused damage such as burst of water pipes and small landslides. But there was no danger of a tsunami. The magnitude 6.6 quake struck
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported a smaller-than-expected profit and a substantial double-digit fall in sales in the first quarter due to a market weakened by a lack of investment by clients in 5G technology. The Finnish company reported a net profit of 501 million euros for the January-March period,
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden received the formal endorsement of more than a dozen members of the extended Kennedy family on Thursday, aiming to harness the legacy of a storied Democratic family while implicitly underscoring their near-universal rejection of a third-party challenge mounted by one of their own, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un error experimental llevó a un equipo de científicos que investigaban los abejorros a hacer un descubrimiento sorprendente: la notable capacidad de estos insectos para sobrevivir bajo el agua hasta una semana. Un estudio publicado este miércoles en la revista Biology Letters describe cómo científicos de la Universidad de Guelph
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un agente del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles no enfrentará cargos penales por el tiroteo mortal en 2021 de una adolescente de 14 años que murió en el interior de una tienda por departamentos cuando la Policía disparó contra un hombre sospechoso de atacar a una mujer, informó el
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — In a disturbing worldwide trend, new cancer cases among young people have been increasing sharply. Early-onset cancers, defined as cancer cases diagnosed in people under 50, increased globally by a staggering 79%. In the United States, the American Cancer Society reported that the demographics of cancer patients are increasingly shifting from older
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Continue ReadingBy Nicole Mowbray, CNN (CNN) — This week sees the opening of the Venice Biennale, an 8-month-long festival of art and culture staged every other year. For 2024 — the show’s 60th iteration — Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa has chosen the topic of “Foreigners Everywhere,” and announced an intention to spotlight artists from diverse and
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party suspended a lawmaker who is alleged to have misused campaign funds. The Times of London claims Mark Menzies used donors’ money for personal medical expenses and to pay off someone who was threatening him. Its report includes a claim Menzies called an aide
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Jury selection in the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president has moved briskly, with the judge suggesting opening statements could begin Monday. On Tuesday, after just a day and a half of jury selection, seven people from Manhattan were selected to judge the
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Google has fired more than two dozen employees who protested this week against the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers were dismissed after an investigation found that they had staged protests inside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. In Sunnyvale, they entered
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Real Madrid will face Bayern Munich in the Champions League semifinals after defeating Manchester City in a tense penalty shootout on Wednesday. Defender Antonio Rüdiger struck the decisive blow for Real Madrid, burying his penalty into the bottom-left corner before his teammates piled on top of him in celebration.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — In Istanbul in June 2023, Manchester City lift the Champions League trophy to cap a historic Treble-winning campaign. Over a billion dollars has been spent by the club’s Abu Dhabi-based owners since 2008 in recruiting players to transform City into a footballing and commercial juggernaut. Further down the soccer
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks tumbled Friday, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 3.5% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other market heavyweights. Tensions in the Middle East were weighing on sentiment across the region, and U.S. futures were sharply lower. Oil prices jumped about $3 as the state-run IRNA
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIT MERI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s Interior Minister says Israeli agents were most likely behind this month’s killing of a U.S-sanctioned Lebanese currency exchanger in a mountain resort overlooking Beirut. The minister said Wednesday that the ongoing investigation points to Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, because of
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Ali versus Frazier. The Red Sox versus the Yankees. Doha versus Singapore. For the last decade, Singapore’s Changi International Airport and Doha’s Hamad International Airport have been going back and forth, battling over the title of ‘world’s best’. Every year, UK-based airline and airport review and ranking site Skytrax
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine. Second, a reduction in the trade imbalance. It’s not clear if it will get very far on either front. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz this week became the latest
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