By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The college football coaching carousel is spinning faster than ever. It is being pushed by the early signing period for recruits, increased freedom for transfers and impatient fans. Making a coaching change well before the end of the season has gone from rarity to a fairly common
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Concerns are growing that China’s men’s hockey team could get embarrassed on home ice in Beijing at the 2022 Olympics. The games will feature NHL players for the first time since 2014. China is set to face the United States, Canada and Germany. The International Ice Hockey Federation does
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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Concerns are growing that China’s men’s hockey team could get embarrassed on home ice in Beijing at the 2022 Olympics. The games will feature NHL players for the first time since 2014. China is set to face the United States, Canada and Germany. The International Ice Hockey Federation does
Continue Reading By NICK PERRY and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Pacific Rim leaders are expected to find common ground on improving access to coronavirus vaccines and reducing fossil fuel subsidies in their annual summit, being held virtually with New Zealand as host. The pledges are among those likely to be included in
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By NICK PERRY and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Pacific Rim leaders are expected to find common ground on improving access to coronavirus vaccines and reducing fossil fuel subsidies in their annual summit, being held virtually with New Zealand as host. The pledges are among those likely to be included in
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This is the official new draft of the COP26 Glasgow Agreement that has been published on Friday. Read CNN’s analysis of the text here. Draft COP decision proposed by the President The Conference of the Parties, Noting decisions 1/CMP.16 and 1/CMA.3, Recognizing the role of multilateralism and the Convention, including its processes and principles, and
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By Angela Dewan and Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN There were few memorable moments at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow earlier this month, but a video address by the foreign minister of Tuvalu, speaking in a suit while knee-deep in tropical waters, is a hard one to forget. It was simple but strong message — while
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By Kara Fox, CNN Thousands of people are stranded at the border between Poland and Belarus in terrible conditions, trapped at the center of an intensifying geopolitical dispute. The migrants — most of whom are from the Middle East and Asia, and who are hoping to travel on from Poland deeper into Europe — have
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Top U.K. and European Union officials are meeting Friday to try to resolve their intractable Northern Ireland trade spat. David Frost for Britain and Maros Sefcovic for the EU are meeting in London after four weeks of negotiations failed to bridge gaps over Northern Ireland trade. Alarm
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Top U.K. and European Union officials are meeting Friday to try to resolve their intractable Northern Ireland trade spat. David Frost for Britain and Maros Sefcovic for the EU are meeting in London after four weeks of negotiations failed to bridge gaps over Northern Ireland trade. Alarm
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese technology conglomerate Toshiba is restructuring to improve its competitiveness, spinning off its energy infrastructure and computer devices businesses. Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. said Friday it is separating its nuclear power business, including the decommissioning of the nuclear plant in Fukushima that suffered meltdowns in 2011,
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese technology conglomerate Toshiba is restructuring to improve its competitiveness, spinning off its energy infrastructure and computer devices businesses. Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. said Friday it is separating its nuclear power business, including the decommissioning of the nuclear plant in Fukushima that suffered meltdowns in 2011,
Continue Reading By LAETITIA BEZAIN Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — International agencies warn that more than 1.1 million people in southern Madagascar urgently need food aid. The World Food Program says that about 700,000 people are already receiving food aid and increased emergency assistance is needed. WFP is working with the Malagasy government and other humanitarian
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has reintroduced its digital pass and is once again considering COVID-19 to be “a socially critical disease” because the Scandinavian country is seeing an increase in cases. The pass must be used for a month to enter nightclubs, cafes, party buses and to be seated indoors in restaurants. It was
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By Ray Sanchez, Rosa Flores and Ed Lavandera, CNN The signs of trouble were evident hours before the deadly crowd surge at the Astroworld Music Festival one week ago, according to Houston Fire Department logs. Shortly after the 9 a.m. start of the November 5 festival, spectators had already breached the main gate, the handwritten
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government is widely expected to announce a partial lockdown amid soaring COVID-19 cases that are putting the country’s health care sector under renewed strain. The move comes amid a surge in coronavirus infections across Europe in recent weeks. Dutch broadcaster NOS, citing unnamed
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Un tribunal de Venezuela concedió una audiencia de apelación para cinco ciudadanos estadounidenses y un residente permanente que fueron condenados por malversación de fondos en noviembre de 2020. Los hombres fueron aprehendidos en Venezuela en 2017 y han estado detenidos en el país desde entonces. El abogado Jesús Loretto confirmó a
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A former German environment minister has announced his second run for the leadership of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party as the race to lead it in opposition starts to take shape. The Christian Democratic Union has decided to hold a ballot of its entire roughly 400,000-strong
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lisa Murkowski has announced that she will run for reelection. The U.S. senator for Alaska who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump made the announcement Friday. Trump has focused his political efforts on punishing his political opponents and in June endorsed a leading opponent of Murkowski. Kelly Tshibaka was commissioner
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HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) — A ferry that connects Kentucky and Missouri remains closed because of a mechanical problem with one of the barge landing ramps. The Dorena-Hickman Ferry has been closed since last Friday night. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says parts were expected to arrive in a few days, but it was determined that additional
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