By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares have advanced in Europe and Asia ahead of virtual talks between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The talks were to take place late Monday U.S. time. Benchmarks rose in Paris, Tokyo and Frankfurt but fell in Shanghai. Plans for stimulus in Japan overshadowed news that
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BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson says American journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. Richardson said in a statement Monday that Fenster had been released from prison and handed over to him in Myanmar and would be soon on his way home via Qatar. Fenster, the
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say they have arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell from “a great height” and one of them died. Those arrested are a man and a woman, police said. The children who were reportedly were siblings and both under the age of 10, were rushed
Continue ReadingCNN en Español (CNN Español) — El presidente del Comité Por Santa Cruz, Rómulo Calvo, junto a los sectores gremiales y del transporte, anunció este domingo frente a una masiva concentración de ciudadanos que no levantará el paro indefinido iniciado el lunes 8 en Bolivia. Esto hasta que el gobierno promulgue la ley que abrogue
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MONDAY: After starting in the mid-30s, expect a nice warm up today. Abundant sunshine, and warmer more of a southerly wind at the surface will bring highs back into the 60’s this afternoon. We’ll see some clouds through the morning, but mostly sunny skies return this afternoon. TONIGHT: Temperatures will drop to a modest middle
Continue Reading By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb has exploded on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul, wounding two people. Witnesses say the blast went off as a taxi passed by in the Kota-e Sangi district of western Kabul, injuring a man in the street and a
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team from the U.N. nuclear agency has arrived in Japan to assess preparations for the release into the ocean of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. Japanese officials say the experts are to meet with Japanese officials and visit the Fukushima Daiichi plant
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By Laura He, CNN Business The Beijing Stock Exchange, President Xi Jinping‘s new financial baby, is finally here. The bourse was first announced by the Chinese Communist Party leader in September, and is intended to help small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital. The first batch of 81 firms started trading on Monday, including 10 initial
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A nationwide lockdown has gone into effect in Austria for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19, and officials have signaled that further measures may follow amid soaring infection rates. The move, which took effect at midnight, prohibits people 12 and older who haven’t been vaccinated or recently recovered from leaving their
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NORWICH, England (AP) — Norwich has hired Dean Smith as coach a week after he was fired by Aston Villa. Norwich says Smith signed a 2 1/2-year contract. Norwich is in last place in the Premier League. Smith says “it’s great to get straight back in with a club that are determined to be progressive.”
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British police and intelligence services are working to determine whether a taxi explosion outside a Liverpool hospital was a deliberate attack. The city’s mayor said the cab driver’s quick actions averted a potential disaster. The male occupant of a taxi was killed and its driver injured when the vehicle burst into flames
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Hay políticos demócratas y republicanos gobernando, y nos referimos a ellos como demócratas y republicanos en este texto porque así es como votan. Pero esas palabras no pintan el cuadro completo. En la izquierda, hay demócratas como Joe Manchin, preocupados por la deuda; demócratas como Joe Biden que buscan cimentar un legado;
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — Neymar, el crack brasileño del Paris Saint Germain, continúa siendo una de las luminarias más importantes del fútbol. Su destreza con el balón, sus desplazamientos y lectura de juego siguen atrayendo a propios y extraños. Sin embargo, en el partido disputado ante Colombia este jueves en el estadio Neo Química Arena
Continue Reading By JIM LITKE AP Sports Columnist Those who wanted to see Aaron Rodgers laid low for misleading most everyone about his vaccination status will have to bide their time. Ditto for those who hoped he’d emerge from a 10-day quarantine after a positive COVID-19 test like some avenging superhero. The only thing we learned after
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to expand sanctions against Belarus to include airlines, travel agents and individuals accused of helping to lure migrants to Europe as part of a “hybrid attack” against the bloc by President Alexander Lukashenko. The 27-country EU has already slapped a series of sanctions on Lukashenko and senior
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Austria implementará medidas de confinamiento para todos los mayores de 12 años que no estén completamente vacunados contra el covid-19 a partir del lunes, anunció el canciller, Alexander Schallenberg. Aproximadamente el 65% de la población de Austria está completamente vacunada contra el covid-19, una de las tasas más bajas en la
Continue Reading By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press CHIOS, Greece (AP) — Among the inmates of Chios prison, nestled in the warren of narrow streets of this Greek island’s main town, three young men from Afghanistan and Somalia are serving dramatically long sentences: 50 years for two of them, a staggering 142 for the third. But these are
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer Every quarterback on every NFL team readily acknowledges the importance of teamwork. So would every entertainer. While singer/songwriter Darius Rucker notes that pretty much all athletes “want to be singers and all singers want to be sports guys,” the biggest similarity is how they all need to mesh
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A groom at his wedding, a construction worker and father of four, an ambulance driver: All three are among the thousands who have died in Ethiopia’s brutal year-long war that began in Tigray. The death toll is one of the biggest unknowns of the war. But
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA, DAVID KEYTON and NAT CASTANEDA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ethiopia’s war is now one year old. Its dead are in the handwritten lists of names smuggled out of a region cut off from the world. They’re in images of people shot and tossed off a cliff, tortured and pushed into a
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