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Year: 2024

Asylum-seeker to film star: Guinean’s unusual journey highlights France’s arguments over immigration

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Landing in the midst of heated arguments in France about immigration comes an award-winning film about the issue with an eye-popping twist: Its lead actor Abou Sangare is himself an immigrant lacking permanent legal status. The movie “Souleymane’s Story” hit French theaters this week. Sangare’s acclaimed portrayal of an asylum

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22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal will retire from tennis after next month’s Davis Cup finals

Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal is retiring from professional tennis at age 38, he announced Thursday, after winning 22 Grand Slam titles — 14 at the French Open — during an unprecedented era he shared with rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Nadal has competed infrequently the past two seasons because of injuries

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At least 22 killed in airstrikes in central Beirut, with Israel also firing on UN peacekeepers

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut on Thursday left two neighborhoods smoldering, killed 22 people and wounded dozens, Lebanon’s health ministry said, as well as further escalating Israel’s bloody conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The air raid on central Beirut — the deadliest in over a year of war

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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy city-hops across Europe, promoting ‘victory plan’ to allies

ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been city-hopping across Europe to promote a “victory plan” that he said “aims to create the right conditions for a just end to the war” against Russia. He detailed the proposals Thursday to European allies after a summit with President Joe Biden was derailed by Hurricane Milton. Zelenskyy’s

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With roads often blocked by rebels in Congo, boats — the only alternative — have become death traps

Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — The overcrowded boat that capsized in eastern Congo last week killed eight members of Serge Nzonga’s family along with 70 others. One week later, as authorities continued to investigate the accident, families of those killed last week protested at the port of Kituku, accusing officials of negligence in failing

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Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize for literature. She’s the first South Korean to do so

Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South

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Investors went wild for China during its big holiday. But Chinese shoppers showed little of that optimism

By Juliana Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Global investors went wild during China’s just-concluded Golden Week holiday by snapping up “everything” related to the country. But that optimism didn’t extend to shoppers and travelers in the world’s second-largest economy itself. Goldman Sachs economists wrote in a Tuesday research note that tourism revenue per person

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China will lift 4-year ban on Australian lobster imports, Australia’s prime minister says

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says China will resume importing Australian live lobsters by the end of the year. Albanese made the announcement Thursday after meeting Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the sidelines of a Southeast Asian summit in Laos. The ban on lobsters is the last of a series

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