Germán Padinger (CNN) — La estrella del tenis japonés Naomi Osaka ha escrito un ensayo en primera persona sobre la salud mental en el último número de la revista Time. La cuatro veces campeona de Grand Slam que se retiró del Abierto de Francia en mayo, citando razones de salud mental, reveló después que había
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Hundreds dead in a historic heat wave. A Canadian village burned to the ground. Water shortages. Animals competing for food. The culprit? Humans, according to climate change scientists. The unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific Northwest in late June “would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change,”
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Opinion by Rabah Arezki and Per Magnus Nysveen for CNN Business Perspectives After a pandemic and a price war sent petroleum prices tumbling in 2020, they are again on the rise. A new oil price super cycle — an extended period during which prices exceed their long-term trend — seems to be in the making.
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By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed 22 million jobs in wealthy countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In a report Wednesday warning of the risk of a rapid rise in long-term joblessness, the Paris-based organization said that employment across OECD countries is not expected to recover to
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By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Two US service members were injured Wednesday in a rocket attack targeting the al-Asad airbase in Iraq which hosts US, Iraqi, and coalition forces. Col. Wayne Marotto, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, tweeted that the airbase was attacked by 14 rockets which landed on the “base & perimeter” and that
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Maybe America’s key inflation metric, the Consumer Price Index, should be redubbed the Car Price Index. CPI climbed to a 13-year high in May, with prices up 5% compared to a year earlier. But about one third of that increase was due solely to the price of used cars. Used
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A crash in Morgan County left three people injured Wednesday shortly after 5 p.m. The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report said the vehicles were traveling on Highway 5 near the Route TT North junction when a Kia Optima slowed down and stopped to make a left turn. A pickup truck
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CNN’s Harry Enten discusses the recent rise in coronavirus cases due to the spread of the Delta Variant.
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By Faith Karimi, CNN First there was blackface. Now there’s “Blackfishing.” The term has been increasingly in the news to describe behavior by White entertainers who appear to be imitating the appearance of Black people. It’s not a compliment. The latest example is pop star Iggy Azalea, who has drawn criticism for her look in
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has defended its decision to train female soldiers to march in high heels, following an outcry from local lawmakers. Women from the Ukrainian armed forces will march in a parade to mark the 30th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, according to a statement from Army Inform, the defense ministry’s official news agency. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports.
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By Rob Picheta and Denis Lapin, CNN Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has said it will give female soldiers “more comfortable” heels with a different kind of lacing, following a sexism outcry over its decision to train troops to march in high heeled footwear. The ministry had required women from the Ukrainian armed forces to march
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Didi shares plunged as much as 22% in premarket trading as fallout continued over news of the company’s troubles in China. CNN’s David Culver reports.
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen called on US financial regulators to probe the disastrous IPO of Chinese ride-hailing company Didi. “The SEC should thoroughly investigate this incident to see if investors were intentionally misled by Didi’s public disclosures,” Van Hollen told CNN Business in a statement. Didi raised $4.4 billion
Continue ReadingBy Brooke Taylor, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Temperature-related deaths caused by climate change are on the rise across the globe, and studies suggest that heat-related deaths will continue to increase as a result of climate change. The Barcelona Institute for Global Health published a study
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By Virginia Langmaid, CNN US death rates from cancer continued to decline from 2014 to 2018, driven mostly by drops in deaths from lung cancer and melanoma, according to a new report published Thursday. But America’s collective lack of exercise and poor diet may have driven increases in certain other cancers, including pancreatic cancer and
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La justicia de Córdoba, en el centro de Argentina, condenó este miércoles al golfista profesional Ángel “Pato” Cabrera a dos años de prisión efectiva por los delitos de lesiones leves calificadas por el vínculo y hurto contra su expareja Cecilia Torres Mana. Carlos Hairabedian, abogado defensor de Cabrera, adelantó a
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business The European Central Bank has unveiled a new strategy following an 18-month review that could provide policymakers with justification to continue to provide stimulus for years to come. The central bank said in a statement on Thursday that it has abandoned its old policy of targeting inflation of “below, but
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An 87-year-old man is dead after a crash involving a lawnmower near Holts Summit, Missouri. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports, around 7:15 Wednesday night Leland Schweiss was backing up the lawnmower when it started to slide down a hill and overturned. The report said Schweiss was thrown from
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Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is recovering from serious injuries after crashing his scooter on Interstate 70. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, Dannie Rice, 55, was riding the scooter westbound down the shoulder near the Rocheport Bridge when he hit some debris and overturned. Troopers said he was not wearing
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