By Michelle Toh, CNN Business For the first time in China, people will be able to get a taxi ride without anyone behind the wheel. Baidu and autonomous driving startup Pony.ai announced Thursday that they had won the country’s first permits to provide robotaxi ride-hailing services to the public. The permits do not require an
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By Darren Lewis and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Jarrod Bowen joined West Ham United in January 2020 and as he looks back over the last few years with the club it’s almost as if he can’t quite believe what has happened. West Ham finished the 2019/20 season five points shy of relegation, having lost half
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By INNA VARENYTSIA and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said Thursday that Russia’s offensive in the east picked up momentum, with several towns coming under intense attack as Moscow’s forces attempt to surround Ukrainian troops. In a reminder of the horrific toll the war has taken since it began Feb. 24,
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Swimming’s world governing body FINA says it won’t seek any extra punishment for a Russian swimmer who competed at the national championships while serving a ban for appearing at a rally in support of President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. FINA banned double Olympic backstroke gold medalist Evgeny Rylov
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El epicentro de la guerra en Ucrania ahora está en las ciudades calcinadas del este y el sur del país. Pero las repercusiones del conflicto se están ampliando de una manera que dejará intactas a pocas personas en la Tierra, desde las pequeñas ciudades de Estados Unidos hasta África, siempre
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By Matias Grez, CNN British tennis star Emma Raducanu says it was a “tough” decision to split with coach Torben Beltz after only five months together. The 19-year-old, who stunned the tennis world by winning the US Open as a qualifier last year, is now searching for a fourth coach in less than year. Raducanu’s
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By Ben Church, CNN Liverpool produced an impressive performance to beat Villarreal 2-0 in its Champions League semifinal first leg on Wednesday. Jurgen Klopp’s side was at its devastating best to take full control of the tie, striking twice in the second half to take a healthy advantage into the second leg in Spain next
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s central bank has raised a key interest rate, citing the highest inflation level since the 1990s. Riksbanken said Thursday that there had been “unusually large fluctuations in inflation in Sweden” and the rise last year “was largely due to rapid increases in energy prices.” The inflation figure for March was at
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La cantidad de titulares relativamente aterradores sobre la probabilidad de una recesión va en aumento. La economía de Estados Unidos vuelve a contraerse y aumentan los temores de recesión La palabra “recesión”, que generalmente se refiere a la recesión en un ciclo económico, suena feo. Obviamente, una economía en recesión
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By Donald Judd, CNN The Biden administration will release a report Thursday touting what it’s calling a “small business boom” under its watch, while hitting Republicans for policies it warns would “increase taxes on small businesses across the country.” The 23-page report, shared with CNN on Wednesday, touts encouraging figures on small business creation over
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — Chinese telecoms equipment and smartphone maker Huawei has reported its sales fell 14% in the last quarter from a year earlier, as the company continued to pump money into research and development while grappling with U.S. sanctions. Huawei Technologies said its revenue was 131 billion yuan
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TODAY: As clouds continue to overspread the region this morning, showers will start to develop and become more widespread. Rain chances increase through the morning hours before tapering off somewhat this afternoon. Shower chances will remain all day, but a relative lull in precipitation looks to precede our next round focused tonight into Friday morning.
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By Don Riddell, CNN Even though she says the images play out like a movie in her mind, it’s a scene she couldn’t possibly ever have imagined: The end of her world as she knew it, and quite possibly her own imminent demise. “They were beating our parents, our family members, our teammates,” Fatima, who
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN China has introduced lockdown measures in its two biggest cities, Beijing and Shanghai — the twin engines that power much of the nation’s economy — in an uncompromising bid to stamp out Covid-19 outbreaks. Shanghai is at the center of the latest outbreak, reporting upwards of 15,000 new cases a day.
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN China has introduced lockdown measures in its two biggest cities, Beijing and Shanghai — the twin engines that power much of the nation’s economy — in an uncompromising bid to stamp out Covid-19 outbreaks. Shanghai is at the center of the latest outbreak, reporting upwards of 15,000 new cases a day.
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The bridge over Bagnell Dam is opening up Friday, just in time for the tourism season to start at Lake of the Ozarks. The lake props up the economy of the area around it by drawing in large crowds throughout the summer, dumping millions into the local economy. But those who aren’t into large crowds
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan, which had been living mostly free of COVID-19, is now facing its worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic with over 11,000 new cases reported Thursday. Cases have been on the upswing since late March. In April, the island’s central authorities announced that they
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Two Russian cosmonauts gave the International Space Station’s new robotic arm a bit of a workout on Thursday. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev exited the space station at 10:58 a.m. ET to begin their spacewalk, which lasted for seven hours and 42 minutes. It ended at 6:40 p.m. ET.
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Global shares were mostly higher Thursday as the latest bout of turbulence on Wall Street abated. Benchmarks rose in all major markets and U.S. futures jumped. Oil prices fell back. European countries united in condemning a decision by Russia to cut natural gas shipments to Poland and Bulgaria as
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By Angela Dewan, CNN The area of tropical forest destroyed in 2021 was enough to cover the entire island of Cuba, and sent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as India does in an entire year from burning fossil fuels, according to an analysis published Thursday. Some 11.1 million hectares (around 43,000 square miles) of
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