BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona says forward Martin Braithwaite will need surgery on his left knee. The club says the Danish player has not responded well to conservative treatment and will undergo surgery in the coming days. Barcelona did not say how long Braithwaite is expected to be sidelined. He had made three appearances in
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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — An Israeli-French-American Holocaust survivor and historian and a U.S. scientist specializing in gut bacteria were among the recipients this year’s Balzan Prizes, recognizing scholarly and scientific achievements. The prizes were announced on Monday. Saul Friedlander, was awarded the prize for Holocaust and Genocide Studies for his work
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City are investigating the city’s latest homicide after security guards found a man fatally shot in the city’s Old Westport neighborhood. Police say in a news release that the guards heard gunshots around 3 a.m. Sunday in the area of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard. When they
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Two Grammy-winning artists walk into a bar and … apparently they just drank. That’s according to Ed Sheeran, who says he took his friend Taylor Swift to a pub and no one noticed. Sheeran, who was a nominee and performer Sunday night at the 2021 MTV VMAs, shared the story
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The latest novels from Colson Whitehead and Joy Williams, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ debut work “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” are among this year’s finalists for the Kirkus Prize. The $50,000 awards are presented by the trade publication. Whitehead’s crime story “Harlem Shuffle” is his first novel since the
Continue Reading By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Climate change could push more than 200 million people to move within their own countries in the next three decades and create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken in the coming years to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report
Continue Reading By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new government has held its first meeting with a call by the president to resume talks with the International Monetary Fund. Michel Aoun said Monday he wants to work on getting the small nation out of one of the world’s worst economic crises in more than
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press A new study says up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense contractors. While much of this money went to weapons suppliers, the research is the latest to point to the dependence on contractors for war-zone duties as contributing to mission
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press A new study says up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense contractors. While much of this money went to weapons suppliers, the research points to the dependence on contractors as contributing to mission failures in Afghanistan in particular. In the
Continue Reading By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say the country’s elite counterterrorism squad has arrested a convicted militant and suspected leader of an al-Qaida-linked group that has been blamed for a string of past bombings and attacks. A police spokesman said Monday that Abu Rusdan has been seized late Friday near
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The Norwegian Refugee Council said Burkina Faso’s slow and insufficient humanitarian response to the country’s escalating attacks is forcing people to choose between violence or hunger. Surging violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the war-weakened West African nation has forced more than
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By Randi Kaye, Dan Shepherd and Travis Caldwell, CNN A woman in a Florida hospital is struggling to breathe. Surrounded by medical equipment and personnel working to keep her alive, she is gasping for air as doctors and nurses prepare for a procedure that has become all too common in the last 18 months: intubation.
Continue Reading By Randi Kaye, Dan Shepherd and Travis Caldwell, CNN A woman in a Florida hospital is struggling to breathe. Surrounded by medical equipment and personnel working to keep her alive, she is gasping for air as doctors and nurses prepare for a procedure that has become all too common in the last 18 months: intubation.
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — El segundo nido de “avispones asesinos” de 2021 ha sido erradicado en el estado de Washington y el tercer nido se ha localizado en la misma área, según un tuit del Departamento de Agricultura del Estado de Washington (WSDA). El primer nido del año fue erradicado a fines del mes pasado
Continue Reading By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Vinícius Júnior is quickly helping the Real Madrid faithful to forget about Kylian Mbappé. Madrid fans were frustrated with the failed negotiations to bring in Mbappé at the transfer deadline last month but a few matches into the new season they have found that they can
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business After notching heady gains this year, US stocks could be in for a back-to-school reality check. What’s happening: The S&P 500 has been in the red for five consecutive trading sessions, its longest losing streak since February. Declines have been modest. But uncertainty about the state of the market rally
Continue Reading By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The leaders of Egypt and Israel have met as part of the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to Egypt in more than a decade. Rising tensions between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza were at the top of the agenda. Gaza is sandwiched between Israel and
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Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police are investigating after a woman was killed at a Des Moines home. Police say in a news release that someone called police around 8:30 p.m. Sunday to report a disturbance at the home and expressed concerns about a woman at the residence. Arriving officers found the body of 42-year-old
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Americans have grown more supportive of coronavirus vaccine mandates for workers, students, and in everyday public life, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift comes amid renewed worries about the pandemic and a continued partisan divide over the efforts to combat it. The public
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