PRAGUE (AP) — The international film festival has returned to the Czech spa of Karlovy Vary after it was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The 55th edition of the festival will honor Oscar-winning British actor Michael Caine for his outstanding contribution to world cinema at its start on Friday night. Caine won two Academy Awards
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By Kay Jones and Andy Rose, CNN The Supreme Court of Texas refused Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to intervene Thursday in the case of mask mandates established by several local jurisdictions. As a result, the lower court ruling allowing school districts to require masks in their schools still stands. The decision is the latest in
Continue Reading By Kay Jones and Andy Rose, CNN The Supreme Court of Texas refused Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to intervene Thursday in the case of mask mandates established by several local jurisdictions. As a result, the lower court ruling allowing school districts to require masks in their schools still stands. The decision is the latest in
Continue Reading SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has rejected the president’s offer to form a government after last month’s inconclusive vote, pushing the country a step closer to a third election this year. The party returned the mandate to form a Cabinet without even holding talks with other
Continue Reading TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A court in Albania has refused to extradite an Egyptian man who faces a death sentence in his country. A judge in Tirana canceled the extradition of Mohamed Rageh after Egyptian authorities did not give assurance he would not be executed. An Egyptian court sentenced Rageh to death for a November
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States is warning that food aid will run out this week for millions of hungry people under a blockade imposed by Ethiopia’s government on the embattled Tigray region. Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, says less than 7% of
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By Angela Dewan and Radina Gigova, CNN Almost half of the world’s 2.2 billion children are living in countries that face an extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis, including environmental shocks such as cyclones and heatwaves, according to an index published Friday by UNICEF, the UN children’s agency. Among the 33
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan and Radina Gigova, CNN Almost half of the world’s 2.2 billion children are living in countries that face an extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis, including environmental shocks such as cyclones and heatwaves, according to an index published Friday by UNICEF, the UN children’s agency. Among the 33
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By Nadine Schmidt, CNN Business Taliban fighters searching for a Deutsche Welle journalist in Afghanistan shot dead a member of his family and seriously injured another, Germany’s international public broadcaster reported. Deutsche Welle said that other relatives of the journalist were able to escape and are on the run. The Deutsche Welle journalist the fighters
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By Nadine Schmidt, CNN Business Taliban fighters searching for a Deutsche Welle journalist in Afghanistan shot dead a member of his family and seriously injured another, Germany’s international public broadcaster reported. Deutsche Welle said that other relatives of the journalist were able to escape and are on the run. The Deutsche Welle journalist the fighters
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Grace weakened to a tropical storm as it slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. But it’s still predicted to strengthen into a hurricane again as it makes a second landfall along the country’s Gulf coast. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Grace weakened to a tropical storm as it slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. But it’s still predicted to strengthen into a hurricane again as it makes a second landfall along the country’s Gulf coast. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Grace weakened to a tropical storm as it slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. But it’s still predicted to strengthen into a hurricane again as it makes a second landfall along the country’s Gulf coast. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Desde que los talibanes subieron al poder en Afganistán y se apoderaron de las capitales de provincia a la velocidad del rayo, ha sido difÃcil hacerse una idea de cómo es la vida de los afganos fuera de la capital, Kabul. Especialmente para las mujeres. El jueves, CNN se comunicó con
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Britney Spears fue acusada de agresión por un empleado luego de una disputa en la casa de la cantante en California el lunes, dijo a CNN un portavoz del Departamento del Sheriff del condado de Ventura. El miembro del personal alega que fue golpeado por Spears, según los investigadores que siguen revisando
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By Paul P. Murphy, CNN The scene at the Jacksonville main public library was haunting, Louis Lopez recalled. As he waited for a Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, he saw people so sick they couldn’t even stand. “These people were in bad, bad shape,” he said. His experience Wednesday at the library, set up by the
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MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says he will not play tennis again this year because of a nagging injury to his left foot. The Spaniard joins Roger Federer in sitting out the year’s last major tennis tournament. Nadal skipped Wimbledon and the Olympics because of fatigue after
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A police boat and divers have joined the search for some 30 people still missing more than a week after severe floods devastated parts of Turkey’s Black Sea coast. The Turkish disaster management agency, meanwhile, raised the death toll from the disaster to 81. Torrential rains pounded the Black Sea provinces
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business At Kevin Smith’s home health care agency in Massachusetts, only 52% of his 400 staff members have been vaccinated. He’d like to order them all to get the shot, but he says he can’t risk a mass exodus. It’s a legitimate fear. The labor market is very tight, with a
Continue Reading By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says a woman who was the only person pulled from a sinking dinghy in the Atlantic Ocean told her rescuers that the boat had left Africa a week earlier carrying 53 migrants. A merchant ship spotted the inflatable dinghy 255 kilometers (158
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