By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, and Manveena Suri, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Six people, including two US citizens, who were found dead inside a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok likely drank from tea and coffee cups laced with cyanide following a dispute linked to bad investments, Thai police said Wednesday. The grisly discovery was made
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday, with Tokyo’s benchmark dipping more than 2%, after Wall Street’s record-breaking rally slammed into a wall of worries over potentially worsening trade tensions with China. By early afternoon, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index was down 1.9% at 40,324.17. The markets’ spotlight was squarely on
Continue ReadingBy Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The memory of Russia invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022, is lodged in Ukrainian Olympic diver Anna Pysmenska’s mind. “When the invasion happened at 4 a.m., I was so shocked and didn’t know what to do, so at 7 a.m., I went to the swimming pool to train,”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU general court says the European Commission did not allow the public enough access to information about COVID-19 vaccine purchase agreements it secured with pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic. The decision Wednesday comes a day ahead of a vote at the European Parliament at which European Commission President Ursula
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Most Americans know the No. 1 rule in real estate: “location, location, location.” But for some developers, there’s a new winning strategy: “recycle, recycle, recycle.” A growing number of office buildings have found second lives as apartments, boosted by the Covid-era work-from-home movement that slashed office attendance and thinned
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A faint burst of applause broke out from the Republican National Convention floor as Sen. JD Vance took the stage Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee for the first time as Donald Trump’s running mate. The Gettysburg Address was loaded into the teleprompters, adjusted for Vance’s towering frame. Arms crossed over
Continue ReadingCNN By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion Tuesday, after the city was hit by a torrential rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and power outages. “This better be Espresso Martini,” Drake joked on Instagram alongside a video of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died in violent campus protests. Also Wednesday, protest organizers said they would shut down all but essential services as relentless clashes between demonstrators and police stretched into the night. Protesters are demanding an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday that the Islamic State group is trying “to reconstitute” as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double this year, compared to the year before. IS claimed 153 attacks in the two countries in the first six months of
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Una destacada experta en Corea del Norte y antigua analista de la CIA fue acusada por un jurado investigador de Nueva York de trabajar en secreto para el gobierno surcoreano a cambio de artículos de diseño, comidas con estrellas Michelin y US$ 37.000 para un fondo que ella controlaba. Sue Mi
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. held steady at the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% in June. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that the largest upward contribution came from restaurants and hotels, with some economists attributing the increases to Taylor Swift’s tour of the U.K. The biggest downward
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Crook County School District is excited to welcome Dr. Melissa Skinner as the new superintendent, effective this week. Dr. Skinner’s first day on the job included attending her first school board meeting Monday night, where she was welcomed by the board and community, setting the stage for her first 100 days
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The community showed up in full force for Tuesday night’s Bend Park & Rec Board meeting to weigh in on a proposed Deschutes River footbridge that’s been discussed and debated since the mid-’90s. It was standing room only as community members came out to either express their support or rejection over the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El primer ministro de Hungría Viktor Orban les dijo a los líderes europeos que Donald Trump está “dispuesto a actuar como mediador de paz” entre Rusia y Ucrania si es elegido presidente, en medio de la preocupación en todo el continente de que Trump intente forzar a Kyiv a ceder
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics as well as part of the opening ceremony, now only nine days away. Daily water quality tests in
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion Tuesday, after the city was hit by a torrential rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and power outages. “This better be Espresso Martini,” Drake joked on Instagram alongside a video of murky
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — In a year of major elections setting the course of many countries for years to come, China’s ruling Communist Party is holding top-level meetings in Beijing to draft policies for reviving its slowing economy. The closed-door meetings come at a time of growing pressure to fix chronic problems dragging
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer The head of upcoming climate negotiations is telling world leaders that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck nations is the urgent and make-or-break goal of United Nations talks this fall. Mukhtar Babayev, the Azerbaijan ecology minister who will preside over the November talks in his home country, said time
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The fatal stabbing of two people by a man at a residential compound in southern China has ignited an online debate that has amplified during a summer scarred by a spree of similar crimes across the country. Two days after those June 28 killings in the Guangxi region, national
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