NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is moving to ease COVID-19 restrictions as the key summer tourist season approaches, abolishing the outdoor facemask mandate and the obligation to show a recovery or inoculation certificate for work and shopping. Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said Thursday that outdoor mask wearing will no longer be compulsory as of Apr.
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By Mostafa Salem and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Yemen‘s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has been replaced by a newly formed presidential council in a bid to support UN efforts to end the country’s seven-year civil war. Analysts have called the announcement a “big deal” in the bitter conflict which has been described as the world’s worst
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer ConAgra is cutting its outlook for the year with inflation outpacing the price hikes put into place by the major food producer. The cost of goods increased 10.1%. during the quarter and the Chicago company said it expects full-year gross inflation to be approximately 16% compared with its previous
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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods will put his surgically repaired right leg to the test as he begins his pursuit of a sixth green jacket. The 46-year-old Woods is competing for the first time since severely injuring his leg in a car accident in February
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — La invasión rusa de Ucrania se está transformando en una guerra de desgaste que presagia meses de más carnicerÃa humana y transmitirá las ondas de choque de la embestida de Vladimir Putin a millones de personas en todo el mundo. La rápida reevaluación de la duración, el carácter y los costes
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bruce Willis and wife Emma Heming Willis got back to nature recently. Heming Willis shared a video Tuesday on her Instagram Stories of her husband walking near a river with her and their 10-year-old daughter Mabel. She also posted photos on her verified Instagram of her and a smiling Willis
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Chief Justice John Roberts turned heads this week when he criticized how the Supreme Court’s conservatives used the emergency docket, referred to by some as the shadow docket. The shadow docket is simply the nickname for emergency actions taken by the court that do not go through the full briefing and
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since inflation began bursting higher last year, big U.S. companies found a simple way to keep making record profits: Pass all those price increases along to their customers. But the formula may be showing signs of reaching its limit, which adds drama to this upcoming
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday filed a lawsuit against several county prosecutors in her state and asked the state’s Supreme Court to issue a decision on the constitutionality of abortion, telling CNN+’s Kasie Hunt she’s tackling “a real and present danger” to abortion rights. Whitmer filed the lawsuit Thursday morning
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business With the GMC Hummer EV, General Motors designers and executives wanted to create a vehicle that would destroy stereotypes about electric vehicles and what they’re capable of doing. On that count, the GMC Hummer EV is a remarkable success. It is unlike any EV — or really, any vehicle with
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google wants to make it easier to search for things that are hard to describe with just a few words or an image. On Thursday, Google rolled out a new search option that lets you combine text and images in a single query. With this feature, you could search for
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google wants to make it easier to search for things that are hard to describe with just a few words or an image. On Thursday, Google rolled out a new search option that lets you combine text and images in a single query. With this feature, you could search for
Continue Reading HELSINKI (AP) — Finland and Estonia say they are jointly planning to rent a floating liquefied natural gas, or LNG, terminal to ensure gas supply in the two countries in efforts to break energy dependence on neighboring Russia. Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintila and his Estonian counterpart Taavi Aas said in a statement
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — Texas enviará autobuses llenos de inmigrantes indocumentados a los escalones del Capitolio de Estados Unidos, anunció este miércoles el gobernador Greg Abbott, en respuesta a que la administración Biden puso fin a una orden de salud de la era de la pandemia que bloqueaba efectivamente el ingreso de inmigrantes a EE.UU. El
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart workers who once unloaded trucks now have a chance to drive them. The nation’s largest retailer has launched a training program for employees who work in its distribution or fulfillment centers. They’ll get a chance to become certified Walmart truck drivers through a 12-week
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BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died after being pulled from a burning home in suburban Kansas City this week. The Kansas City Star reports that the 70-year-old woman died Wednesday, two days after firefighters were called to a fire at a duplex in Blue Springs and found her in the
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remain at historically low levels. Jobless claims fell by 5,000 to 166,000for the week ending April 2, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The previous week’s number was revised down a whopping 31,000 claims. First-time applications for
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Gunmen in Myanmar’s largest city have shot a deputy governor of the central bank less than a week after tough currency controls were ordered in the military-ruled nation. There were conflicting accounts of whether Than Than Swe, appointed to her post after the military seized power last
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By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Starting in May, MSNBC’s highest-rated star Rachel Maddow will be hosting her 9 p.m. Eastern show just one day a week — on Mondays — while she pivots to other projects for parent company NBCUniversal. The new schedule has an end-of-an-era feel for MSNBC, since so much of the channel
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Bogart Click here for updates on this story Canmore, Alta. (CTV Network) — The latest round of U.S. sanctions laid against Russia has cast a spotlight on President Vladimir Putin’s family—one that has long been shrouded in secrecy. Putin’s adult daughters, 36-year-old Mariya Putina and 35-year-old Katerina Tikhonova, were named in the latest
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