By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A cease-fire between Armenia and Azerbaijan is holding following two days of fighting that killed 176 soldiers on both sides. The secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, said the truce brokered thanks to international mediation took effect at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Armenia’s Defense Ministry said late Thursday
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Police in Italy and Belgium have arrested five people accused of smuggling migrants carrying fake diplomatic passports into Europe aboard luxury jets. Italian police said Thursday that migrants paid up to 10,000 euros (dollars) each to be flown from Turkey aboard jets fraudulently booked for diplomats between October and December 2020. The
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By Mayra Cuevas, CNN Nine years ago, cycling activist Marley Blonsky was heartbroken and reeling from a divorce, until she found herself on a bike. Today, Blonsky, a former environmental logistics manager, is the co-founder of All Bodies on Bikes and a trailblazer of the body-size inclusion movement within the cycling world. Blonsky works with
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By Chris Isidore, Vanessa Yurkevich and Jeremy Diamond, CNN Business Unions and management reached a tentative deal early Thursday, averting a freight railroad strike that had threatened to cripple US supply chains and push prices higher for many goods. The deal with unions representing more than 50,000 engineers and conductors was announced just after 5
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says Germany has agreed to pay approximately $1.2 billion (euros) for home care and compensation for Holocaust survivors living around the world in 2023. That brings the overall amount of compensation Germany has
Continue Readingolivertapia Washington (CNN Business) — Los sindicatos y las empresas llegaron a un acuerdo tentativo el jueves temprano para evitar una huelga de ferrocarriles de carga que había amenazado con paralizar las cadenas de suministro de EE.UU. y aumentar los precios de muchos productos. El acuerdo con los sindicatos que representan a más de 50.000
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Este seguimiento terminó. Mira las últimas noticias de la guerra aquí. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK, JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation’s freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections. President Joe Biden announced the deal,
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea and Japan are to meet next week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York in the countries’ first summit in nearly three years amid tensions over history. Seoul officials say the two sides have agreed on
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La tormenta tropical Fiona se formó en el Atlántico, convirtiéndose en la sexta tormenta con nombre de la temporada de huracanes del Atlántico de 2022, dijo el Centro Nacional de Huracanes. La tormenta, con vientos de 80 kilómetros por hora con ráfagas aún más fuertes, estaba a más de mil kilómetros al
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has handed in her resignation after a right-wing bloc that includes a nationalist, anti-immigration party won a narrow majority in Sweden’s parliament. Andersson met Thursday with the speaker of the 349-seat Riksdag to formally inform him of her
Continue Reading By Elissa Strauss, CNN One might hope that children’s capacity for boredom would be matched by an appetite for all things new — if only parenting were so easy. Trying new things is difficult for many children, whether a different food, activity or skill. They like what they know, and they know what they like.
Continue ReadingBy Robert Shackelford and Judson Jones, CNN Tropical Storm Fiona has formed in the Atlantic, becoming the sixth named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm, packing winds of 60 mph with even higher gusts, was about 495 miles east of the Leeward Islands late Thursday morning. The
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistani engineers backed by troops have reopened a key highway linking southwestern Baluchistan province to flood-devastated areas in the south. Clearing the highway Thursday will give aid workers a new route to speed badly-needed supplies to Pakistan’s homeless and others after floods killed 1,486 people.
Continue Reading By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America When a water crisis forced schools back online in Jackson, Mississippi, fifth-grade teacher Ryan Johnson saw reminders everywhere of pandemic times. Two and a half years after schools switched to remote learning for COVID-19, he once again logged into online learning to see kids lying in bed at
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from around the world and the debate over demands for some of them to be returned to their homelands. The east wing of the Humboldt Forum
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THIS MORNING: Clear and comfortable with lows in the lower 60s. THIS AFTERNOON: Mostly sunny with increasing clouds. Highs in the upper 80s. EXTENDED: Highs on Friday remain about 7-9 degrees above average as we flirt with 90 degrees. Clouds increase by Friday evening as a front sets up to our north across southern Iowa,
Continue Readingolivertapia Londres (CNN) — Dos hermanos reunidos en duelo. Los observadores reales se han sentido aliviados al ver al Príncipe de Gales y al Duque de Sussex de pie uno al lado del otro una vez más mientras lloran la muerte de su amada abuela. Han sido dos años turbulentos desde que Harry y Meghan
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By CNN Sport staff LeBron James and Chris Paul have criticized the NBA for the punishment handed down to Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, who this week was fined $10 million and suspended for a year after an independent investigation found he engaged in hostile, racially insensitive and inappropriate behavior. The report, commissioned by the
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer World shares were mostly higher on Thursday after a wobbly day of trading yielded modest gains on Wall Street. Germany’s DAX added 0.4% to 13,075.05 while the CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.1% higher to 6.230.03. Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.6% to 7,320.71. The futures for the S&P 500
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