By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly rose Tuesday, after Wall Street closed higher on a late flurry of buying as investors awaited another interest rate increase by the U.S. Federal Reserve. France’s CAC 40 slipped 0.5% in early trading to 6,034.21. Germany’s DAX lost 0.3% to 12,763.74. Britain’s FTSE
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TODAY: After Monday’s record breaking heat, we’ll have the opportunity to break records again Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures are forecast in the upper 90s, with the record to break sitting at 98. Overall Tuesday is sunny and hot, with dewpoints just high enough to make it feel like a degree or two warmer. TONIGHT: Skies will
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Exactamente cinco años después de que el huracán María devastara Puerto Rico, otra tormenta catastrófica está poniendo a prueba la capacidad del gobierno federal para montar una respuesta rápida en una isla expuesta por su infraestructura rudimentaria y su vulnerabilidad al cambio climático. La Casa Blanca de Biden está movilizando una oleada
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang, CNN The Chinese government on Monday, September 19, issued draft regulations that aim to bolster tourism along its border and make it easier for some foreigners to enter China. According to a draft policy document released by China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Monday, tour groups organized by travel agencies in
Continue Reading NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot authorities say they have assisted in the rescue of a small wooden boat crammed with more than 300 migrants that was adrift 203 kilometers (126 miles) west of the island nation. Cyprus Joint Rescue Coordination Center commander Andreas Charalambides told The Associated Press Tuesday that the captain of the 18-meter
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PARIS (AP) — A host of injuries have struck France in the leadup to a pair of Nations League matches later this week. The French football federation has added Aston Villa defender Lucas Digne to a long list of injured players ahead of matches against Austria and Denmark. France coach Didier Deschamps has called up
Continue Reading By LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The school was a shattered mess. Its six-month life as a Russian base and mechanic shop ended in August with a Ukrainian missile strike. Its years educating Izium’s youth were over, but it had one last gift for the residents who needed so
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — The French football federation and Kylian Mbappé have toned down their dispute over the use of image rights. After the Paris Saint-Germain star said he would boycott a photo session with his teammates, the federation has agreed to “revise, as soon as possible, the agreement on image rights that binds it to
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President Joe Biden told “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Christina Maxouris, Jason Hanna and Melissa Alonso, CNN Hurricane Fiona battered the Turks and Caicos islands most of Tuesday with hurricane-force winds, torrential rain and several feet of storm surge, prompting officials to urge residents to stay indoors. In its devastating path of destruction, the storm has killed at least five people
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — Seventh-seeded Karolina Pliskova has cruised past Isabella Shinikova 6-2, 6-1 in the first round of the Pan Pacific Open. In other early matches played under a closed roof as the tail end of Typhoon Nanmadol passed through Tokyo, Mexican qualifier Fernanda Contreras Gomez overcame 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin 7-6 (7),
Continue Reading By AYA BATRAWY AP Business Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Germany’s climate envoy says the country remains committed to phasing out coal as a source of power by 2030 even as it reactivates coal-fired power plants. The country says it has taken this step to get through the coming winter amid energy shortages as a
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By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN Angelina Jolie is set to visit flood-ravaged Pakistan, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a statement Monday, in a trip intended to draw international attention to the country’s unfolding humanitarian crisis. Floods caused by record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountain regions have submerged
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Brittney Griner’s highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country’s invasion of Ukraine has the top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason. For the past few decades, Russia has been the preferred offseason destination for WNBA players to compete because of
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Brittney Griner’s highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country’s invasion of Ukraine has the top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason. For the past few decades, Russia has been the preferred offseason destination for WNBA players to compete because of
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is now deploying captured Russian tanks to solidify its gains in the northeast amid an ongoing counteroffensive, a Washington-based think tank said Tuesday, as Kyiv vowed to push further into territories occupied by Moscow. The Institute for the Study of War, citing a Russian claim,
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — No. 8 seed J.J. Wolf beat fellow American Stefan Kozlov 6-2, 7-6 (6) in the opening round of the San Diego Open ATP 250. They had met seven times before in Challenger and Futures events but this was their first encounter at the tour level. Seventh seed James Duckworth claimed an
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, after Wall Street closed higher on a late buying spree following recent losses as investors await another interest rate increase by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Markets have been jittery over whether the Fed’s plan to cool the hottest U.S. inflation in
Continue Reading By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — There’s a fine line between a Tom Brady and a Gale Sayers. Whether a player is a seven-time Super Bowl champion who plays well into his 40s like Brady or an all-time great running back knocked out of football during his prime like Sayers there’s
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss says the death of Queen Elizabeth II is a “very difficult moment” for the country,” and dealing with it has been a challenge for her untested new government. Truss took office just two days before the queen died on Sept. 8,
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