By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has implored Israel not “to lose sight” of the need to establish a Palestinian state. Merkel spoke Monday at a Tel Aviv think tank as she wrapped up a two-day farewell visit to Israel. It was one of the few areas of disagreement
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By Gregory Lemos and Melissa Alonso, CNN The Boynton Beach City Commission will meet this week to discuss a lawsuit filed on behalf of the city’s first Black female firefighter over a mural where she was inaccurately depicted with a White face. “The City Commission will meet in a closed-door session to discuss the litigation.
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Austria is getting a new chancellor two days after Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned amid corruption allegations. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen is set to swear in Alexander Schallenberg, currently the foreign minister, as chancellor on Monday. Career diplomat Michael Linhart will become the country’s new foreign minister, Austrian news agency APA
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s electoral committee says preliminary results show turnout from Sunday’s election was 41 percent. That’s a record low in the post-Saddam Hussein era and down from 44 percent in the 2018 election. The result signals widespread dissatisfaction and distrust in the vote. The election was held months
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British police will not be taking any further action against Prince Andrew after a review prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that he sexually assaulted her. Virginia Giuffre, who is suing Queen Elizabeth’s second son, claims she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Andrew in London when she
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — The winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for outstanding work in the field of economics will be announced Monday. Unlike the other Nobel prizes, the economics award wasn’t established in the will of Alfred Nobel. It was set up by the Swedish central bank in his memory in 1968, with the first
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for outstanding work in the field of economics will be announced Monday. Unlike the other Nobel prizes, the economics award wasn’t established in the will of Alfred Nobel. It was set up by the Swedish central bank in his memory in 1968, with the first
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TODAY: Scattered showers and storms will be moving through this morning. Most, if not all, of these should behave but pockets of heavy rain and lightning will be expected. These will stay with us through mid-morning before tapering off into the early afternoon hours. Highs today will be stuck in the 60’s, with a breezy
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — El fin de semana largo se alargó un poco más para los clientes de Southwest luego de que la aerolínea cancelara más de 1.000 vuelos el domingo. Eso es aproximadamente el 27% de sus operaciones diarias. Es el segundo día de cancelaciones masivas por parte de la aerolínea de
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A bus has fallen into a river in northern China, leaving at least three people dead and 11 others missing after flooding from heavy rains destroyed homes and covered farmland. Video posted online showed people on top of an almost submerged bus in a rushing river in Hebei province. Authorities say 37
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq says it has detained a top leader of the Islamic State group and a longtime al-Qaida operative in a cross-border operation. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi identified the man in a tweet as Sami Jasim. He says Jasim oversaw the Islamic State group’s financial operations and
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN) — En muchas partes de Estados Unidos, lo que tradicionalmente se conocía como Día de Colón (Columbus Day en inglés) ahora se celebra como el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas. Pero sigue siendo un feriado federal, por lo que algunas empresas estarán cerradas. El presidente Biden emitió una proclamación el viernes
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — At 8 years old, Laurent Martinez was sexually abused by a priest. Forty years later, he has chosen to make his story into a play, to show the devastating consequences and how speaking out can help victims heal and rebuild. The play called “Pardon?” is drawn from
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By Katia Hetter, CNN On International Day of the Girl Child, the second in a pandemic, I am grateful for this United Nations-designated day. It’s given us a moment to step back to consider what we can do to parent our girls — and really, all our children — in the middle of a pandemic,
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By Katia Hetter, CNN On International Day of the Girl Child, the second in a pandemic, I am grateful for this United Nations-designated day. It’s given us a moment to step back to consider what we can do to parent our girls — and really, all our children — in the middle of a pandemic,
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By Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan will not bow to pressure and nobody can force it to accept the path China has laid out for the self-governing democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday as the island celebrated its National Day amid heightened tensions with Beijing. During her speech in front of the presidential office in the
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By Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan will not bow to pressure and nobody can force it to accept the path China has laid out for the self-governing democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday as the island celebrated its National Day amid heightened tensions with Beijing. During her speech in front of the presidential office in the
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Un hombre murió después de conducir hacia una acera en un intento de atropellar a los peatones antes de que transeúntes lo sacaran del automóvil y supuestamente lo atacaran en California el sábado. El conductor estuvo involucrado en un altercado verbal alrededor de la medianoche dentro de un negocio en Hawthorne, después
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COWETA, Okla. (AP) — Severe storms brought suspected tornadoes and baseball-sized hail to parts of Oklahoma, but there were no reports of deaths or injuries. The severe weather system that hit Oklahoma late Sunday also brought heavy rain, lightning and wind to parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Texas, and more stormy weather is predicted
Continue Reading COWETA, Okla. (AP) — Severe storms brought suspected tornadoes and baseball-sized hail to parts of Oklahoma, but there were no reports of deaths or injuries. The severe weather system that hit Oklahoma late Sunday also brought heavy rain, lightning and wind to parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Texas, and more stormy weather is predicted
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