By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says the world and especially urban areas experienced a brief and sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year. It happened during lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic. The World Meteorological Organization released its first
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By DANIEL COLE, SYLVIE CORBET and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron opened a global summit on biodiversity calling for better protection of the high seas, which largely don’t fall under any national jurisdiction but are threatened by fishing and other human activities. Speaking Friday at the summit in
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Julia Buckley, CNN When Jordan Milano Hazrati was offered a job as a flight attendant with Virgin Atlantic, it was a dream come true. “It was everything I’d ever wanted — I still can’t believe I did it,” she says. “I was sitting in the flight deck landing at Heathrow on my first flight, and
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Los cosmonautas rusos Oleg Novitskiy y Pyotr Dubrov realizarán una caminata espacial el viernes para preparar el nuevo módulo Nauka para las operaciones en la Estación Espacial Internacional. La caminata espacial comenzará a las 10:35 am ET y se espera que dure casi siete horas. La cobertura en vivo se compartirá en
Continue Reading By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press SANGEH, Indonesia (AP) — Deprived of their preferred food source — the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus — hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers’ homes in their search for something
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca say they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company’s COVID-19 vaccines. The European Commission said Friday that AstraZeneca made a “firm commitment” to deliver a total of 300 million vaccine
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca say they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company’s COVID-19 vaccines. The European Commission said Friday that AstraZeneca made a “firm commitment” to deliver a total of 300 million vaccine
Continue Readingolivertapia Tokio (CNN) — El primer ministro de Japón, Yoshihide Suga, dijo el viernes que no se postulará en las próximas elecciones por el liderazgo de su partido, con lo que cederá el cargo de primer ministro y abre la carrera a otros candidatos después de un período turbulento de menos de un año. Suga,
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By Emiko Jozuka, Chie Kobayashi and Selina Wang, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday said he will not run in his party’s forthcoming leadership election, effectively ceding the premiership and opening the race to other candidates after a turbulent term of less than a year. Suga, who assumed the top role last September
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By Emiko Jozuka, Chie Kobayashi and Selina Wang, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday said he will not run in his party’s forthcoming leadership election, effectively ceding the premiership and opening the race to other candidates after a turbulent term of less than a year. Suga, who assumed the top role last September
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TODAY: Scattered showers and storms this morning, clearing out late afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Another round of storms pop up by dinnertime, with more rain overnight. TOMORROW: The heaviest rain will be moving through early on Saturday morning, but showers could last until the early afternoon. Showers and storms will slowly work south
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN en Español) — Este jueves, el presidente de Guatemala, Alejando Giammattei, anunció en televisión nacional que enviará a primeras horas del viernes una solicitud al Congreso con nuevas medidas por la pandemia de covid-19 y dijo que espera que las apruebe en los próximos tres días. (Photo by ORLANDO ESTRADA/AFP via Getty Images)
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By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A former nurse pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting an intellectually disabled woman in an Arizona long-term health care facility. Nathan Sutherland also pleaded guilty to abusing a vulnerable adult, court records show, at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, where the victim had been living for years.
Continue Reading DEBARK, Ethiopia (AP) — As they bring war to other parts of Ethiopia, resurgent Tigray fighters face growing allegations that they are retaliating for the abuses their people suffered back home. In interviews with The Associated Press, more than a dozen witnesses offered the most widespread descriptions yet of Tigray forces striking communities and a
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN en Español) — Panamá se sometió a dos pruebas la noche del jueves. En la primera terminó con un empate ante Costa Rica con marcador de 0-0, luego del encuentro de fútbol en las eliminatorias para el mundial de Qatar 2022. En su segunda prueba, los resultados podría tenerlos en dos semanas, cuando
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The center-right Union bloc’s candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor in Germany’s election this month is struggling to reverse a sustained downward trend in the polls. The bloc’s candidate for the chancellorship, Armin Laschet, on Friday named named eight experts to advise him
Continue Reading The Associated Press The United Nations chief will convene a ministerial meeting in Geneva on Sept. 13 to seek a swift scale-up in funding to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where nearly half the country’s 38 million people need assistance. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will also appeal “for full
Continue Reading The Associated Press The United Nations chief will convene a ministerial meeting in Geneva on Sept. 13 to seek a swift scale-up in funding to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where nearly half the country’s 38 million people need assistance. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will also appeal “for full
Continue Reading By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian authorities are enforcing a security lockdown and a near-total communications blackout for a second day in disputed Kashmir after the death of a top resistance leader. Syed Ali Geelani’s death at age 91 and the ensuing crackdown by Indian authorities highlight the turmoil seething just
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have become obsessed with collectibles, bidding up prices for trading cards, video games and other mementos of their youth. These include copies of trading cards such as Pokemon’s Charizard and Magic: The Gathering’s Black Lotus as well as Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. game cartridges.
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