By Lilit Marcus, CNN As multiple Southeast Asia countries begin to ease travel restrictions, Myanmar, which boasts some of the region’s most spectacular destinations, has announced that it hopes to begin welcoming international tourists in early 2022. While this might seem like great news for travelers planning their post-lockdown trips, in Myanmar, it’s complicated. Most
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top prosecutor in the United Arab Emirates has called for the detention of the chairman of Dubai-based real estate developer Union Properties, pending an investigation into the company. A company disclosure posted on the Dubai Financial Market stock exchange website late Monday included the Arabic letter from the
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top prosecutor in the United Arab Emirates has called for the detention of the chairman of Dubai-based real estate developer Union Properties, pending an investigation into the company. A company disclosure posted on the Dubai Financial Market stock exchange website late Monday included the Arabic letter from the
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has marked the 83rd anniversary of the anti-Jewish pogrom that was labeled “Kristallnacht” — the “Night of Broken Glass” — when Nazis, among them many ordinary Germans, terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria. In a speech on Tuesday, Steinmeier talked about Nov. 9,
Continue Reading By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have named a prominent LGBT rights group and several lawyers as “foreign agents.” The Justice Ministry added the Russian LGBT Network, prominent lawyer Ivan Pavlov and four of his former colleagues to its registry of “foreign agents” on Monday night. The designation implies additional government
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Researchers say they have found more than a dozen vulnerabilities in software used in medical devices and machinery used in other industries that, if exploited by a hacker, could cause critical equipment such as patient monitors to crash. The research, shared exclusively with CNN, points to the challenges that hospitals
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Researchers say they have found more than a dozen vulnerabilities in software used in medical devices and machinery used in other industries that, if exploited by a hacker, could cause critical equipment such as patient monitors to crash. The research, shared exclusively with CNN, points to the challenges that hospitals
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer General Electric is splitting itself into three public companies that concentrate on aviation, healthcare and energy. The company said Tuesday that it plans a spinoff of its healthcare business in early 2023 and of its energy segment in early 2024. GE anticipates keeping a 19.9% stake in the healthcare
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By Paul R. La Monica and Chris Isidore, CNN Business General Electric, the industrial conglomerate founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, is breaking up. GE announced plans Tuesday to split into three separate companies. GE will become separate, publicly traded companies for its aviation, healthcare and energy businesses. The company said it hopes to spin
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AND ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writers GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Large rifts remain as United Nations climate talks tick down to a Friday deadline. A lot of the divide comes down to money, which nations have it and which do not. So it’s time for high-level diplomats. Democratic Congress members also joined
Continue Reading By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Highly targeted advertising on social media sites like Instagram and Facebook makes it easier than ever for brands to get in front of their target market. But these ads also make it easier for shady brands to dupe shoppers. Before you buy, take some time to vet the company. Search
Continue Reading By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Highly targeted advertising on social media sites like Instagram and Facebook makes it easier than ever for brands to get in front of their target market. But these ads also make it easier for shady brands to dupe shoppers. Before you buy, take some time to vet the company. Search
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El debate sobre la vacuna contra el covid-19 se está volviendo extraño. En Twitter, el senador republicano de Texas, Ted Cruz, acusó a Big Bird de promover “propaganda gubernamental… ¡para su hijo de 5 años!”, después de que el Muppet tuiteara sobre la aplicación de la vacuna en su ala.
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By Jack Guy, CNN Business One of Apple’s first computers is up for auction and it could sell for as much as $600,000. The Apple-1 that is going under the hammer on Tuesday is one of the few surviving examples of Apple’s first computer in the world, according to John Moran Auctioneers. The lot includes
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has ordered 12 men to be held without bail on suspicion they faked a medical emergency to make a plane land in Mallorca so they could try to enter Europe illegally. The court also alleges the group menaced the flight crew. Authorities are investigating events surrounding the unscheduled landing
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By David Culver, Yong Xiong and Nectar Gan, CNN China is ready to manage differences with the United States, the country’s leader Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, ahead of a planned virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden. The meeting, the first since Biden became President earlier this year, will be held as early as
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has landed in Paris at the start of a four-day visit and charm offensive aimed at shoring up the U.S. relationship with France, America’s oldest ally. Washington’s relations with Paris hit a historic low this year after a U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia scuttled a French deal
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hospitals in the southern Dutch province of Limburg are warning the national government that they can no longer cope with new COVID-19 patients. The warning Tuesday comes amid soaring rates of coronavirus infections. Five hospitals in the province that borders both Belgium and Germany raised
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By Jen Christensen, CNN When Perrysburg School Superintendent Thomas Hosler sent a survey to parents in his Toledo-area district to see how many wanted to get their children vaccinated against Covid-19, he got more than 20,000 “no” responses. His district only has 5,700 students in it. “Clearly someone spent a lot of time in their
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