By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two airstrikes have hit the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, killing 10 people, according to the director of a hospital. He told The Associated Press that three of the victims need urgent major surgery but there is a shortage of medicines. He said the fatalities occurred
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Arsenal’s postponed Europa League game against PSV Eindhoven has been rescheduled for next month after the Premier League agreed to push back the London club’s midweek match against Manchester City. UEFA says the Arsenal-PSV game will go ahead Oct. 20 after being postponed from Thursday. The reason was police did not have resources in London
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — A minibus has tumbled into a deep gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing 11 people and injuring 29 others. The Press Trust of India news agency quoted officials as saying that at least 36 people were on board the bus when the accident took place Wednesday near Sawjian. They say rescue efforts
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By Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration has worked with Switzerland and Afghan economists to set up a new fund to put billions of dollars in frozen Afghan money to use to promote economic stability in the country, according to two senior US officials. The US is moving $3.5 billion to the new “Afghan Fund,”
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By Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Central Asia in his first foreign trip in almost 1,000 days, returning to the world stage in an attempt to reassert Beijing’s global influence during a time of increased friction with the West. The trip will see Xi make a state
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By Matt Foster, CNN Oleksandr Usyk has shared photos of himself at his family home in Ukraine — the first time the boxing world champion has explicitly posted from Vorzel, near Bucha, since the house was taken by Russian forces earlier this year. Usyk posted photos of himself in front of the house on his
Continue Reading By Nikki Carvajal and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Detroit on Wednesday announcing the approval of the first $900 million for electric vehicle chargers across the country, which he says will help build charging stations across 35 states. “It used to be that to buy an electric car, you had
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TODAY: Starting clear and cool again on Wednesday morning, the day starts slightly warmer than Tuesday. Expect sunshine and a south to southeast breeze to yield temperatures in the mid-to-upper 80s, slightly warmer than Tuesday. TONIGHT: Overnight, skies will continue to be clear, with light southeast winds. Temperatures drop into the low 60s. EXTENDED: On
Continue Reading NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has started his first foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic. Xi’s stop in Kazakhstan comes ahead of a summit with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group. Xi’s trip underlines the importance Beijing places on ties with Russia and
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to London’s medieval Westminster Hall from Wednesday to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, whose coffin will lie in state for four days until her funeral on Monday. People who want to view the queen’s coffin can
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — With monkeypox cases subsiding in Europe and parts of North America, many scientists say now is the time to prioritize stopping the virus in Africa. In July, the U.N. health agency designated monkeypox as a global emergency and appealed to the world to
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, CNN For eight seasons, Bayern Munich fans had become accustomed to watching Robert Lewandowski find the back of the net on almost a weekly basis. The Polish striker, one of the greatest forwards in the club’s history, returned to the Allianz Arena on Tuesday for the first time since swapping Bavaria for
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld a huge fine issued to Google by the bloc’s antitrust enforcers in 2018 over its Android mobile operating system. The European Court of Justice’s General Court on Wednesday mostly confirmed a European Commission decision to slap Google with a fine of more
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By Dana Santas, CNN Too often, after fruitless searches for a single magic bullet to eradicate chronic back pain, people decide that living with discomfort is a normal fact of life. But living with back pain is not normal, nor is it necessary. This last installment in our back pain series will empower you to
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will leave Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday as it is taken amid somber pageantry on a horse-drawn gun carriage past crowds of mourners to the Houses of Parliament, where the late monarch will lie in state for four
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two airstrikes have hit the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, killing 10 people, according to the director of a hospital. He told The Associated Press that three of the victims need urgent major surgery but there is a shortage of medicines. A second doctor told the
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to cap the revenues of electricity producing companies that are making extraordinary profits due to the war in Ukraine and climate change. She says the proposal could raise $140 billion to help people in the European Union hit
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen has announced she will visit Kyiv later Wednesday to show the bloc’s support for Ukraine as it fights back against the Russian invasion. Dressed in the colors of Ukraine, von der Leyen said in her State of the European
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won ($72 million) for tracking consumers’ online behavior without their consent and using their data for targeted advertisements. South Korea’s Personal Information and Protection Commission said it fined Google 69.2 billion won
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer World markets slipped Wednesday after Wall Street fell the most since June 2020 as a report showed inflation has kept a surprisingly strong grip on the U.S. economy. European benchmarks were marginally lower while Asia saw bigger losses. U.S. futures edged higher, with the contracts for the Dow industrials
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