By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Brazil’s impressive end to its World Cup preparation was overshadowed by racist abuse as forward Richarlison had a banana thrown at him by a fan during the 5-1 victory over Tunisia in Paris on Tuesday. The Tottenham Hotspur star scored Brazil’s second goal but as he celebrated a banana was thrown
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter After a three-month respite from last term’s divisive decisions, Supreme Court justices will return to Washington on Wednesday for the first closed-door conference of the new term. The justices have a lot to discuss, from new cases to consider, to how to re-open the court amid Covid-19
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has joined an institution of isolated chambers and archaic procedures. It is also a place that has lost the public’s trust. So, as she navigates the cloistered corridors, she’ll also have to watch her footing in the ongoing debate over the institution’s legitimacy. In some
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By SALAR SALIM Associated Press KOYA, Iraq (AP) — An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq has killed at least seven and wounded 28 others. The Kurdish Regional Government’s Health Ministry said the strikes Wednesday came as demonstrations continued to engulf the Islamic Republic after the
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Las aerolíneas, los aeropuertos y el gobierno federal se están preparando ante la posibilidad de que la infraestructura de aviación reciba un gran golpe del huracán Ian. Las cancelaciones y los cierres ya se están acumulando en toda la península de Florida. Se pronostica que la tormenta tocará tierra el miércoles por
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TODAY: Wednesday is yet another crisp and cool day, with temperatures a bit cooler than Tuesday. We’ll still have a north wind here at the surface, but thanks to a change in wind flow at the low levels of the atmosphere, and high pressure building in from the north, temperatures won’t be able to climb
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has urged the U.K. government to “reevaluate” a package of unfunded tax cuts that it says may fuel inflation and are likely to increase economic inequality. The value of the pound sagged Wednesday morning after the rare IMF warning to
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Barry Neild, CNN When Salam Almazrouei was a boy, he and his friends would play a game out in the desert that most people would find terrifying. In the dead of night, despite being too young to drive in most countries, they would take cars out into the huge sea of sand dunes stretching from
Continue Readingolivertapia Esta cobertura terminó. Sigue aquí la última hora del huracán Ian en Florida. 🌀 Sigue en vivo el recorrido de Ian The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union suspects that damage to two underwater natural gas pipelines was sabotage and is warning of retaliation for any attack on Europe’s energy networks, a senior official said Wednesday. “All available information indicates those leaks are the result of a deliberate act,” EU foreign policy
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Authorities say a restaurant fire has killed 17 people in the city of Changchun in northeastern China. The fire was reported shortly after noon on Wednesday in a high-tech section of the Changchun New Area industrial zone. The zone’s management committee says three other people were injured and taken to a hospital
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Swept away by Italian elections that are expected to see Giorgia Meloni soon form the nation’s first far-right-led government since World War II were veterans of successful battles for civil rights, including divorce and abortion, as well as lawmakers still struggling for freedoms like
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By Ben Morse, CNN It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about. On Monday, Carlsen explicitly accused fellow grandmaster and rival Hans Niemann of cheating for the first time in
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s yuan has fallen to a 14-year low against the dollar despite central bank efforts to stem the slide. U.S. interest rate hikes had prompted traders to convert money into dollars in search of higher returns. A weaker yuan helps Chinese exporters by making their goods
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By Jessie Yeung and Chris Liakos, CNN Leaders of several Western countries have said leaks in two Russian gas pipelines are likely the result of sabotage, vowing a strong response as investigations continue. Swedish authorities sounded the alarm on Tuesday about leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines — both of
Continue Reading HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Noru has weakened into a tropical storm over central Vietnam, causing blackouts and blowing off roofs and billboards with strong winds and putting Thailand on alert for more floods and downpours. There are no immediate reports of casualties after Noru made landfall south of Da Nang and quickly moved inland.
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-installed officials in occupied regions of Ukraine said Wednesday they would ask President Vladimir Putin to incorporate them into Russia, a day after claiming that their residents overwhelmingly supported such a move in Kremlin-orchestrated votes widely viewed as illegitimate. The preordained outcome sets the stage for
Continue Reading BY ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba remained in the dark early Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out its power grid and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip as a major storm. Authorities were working overnight to gradually restore service to the country’s
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Hurricane Ian is expected to make landfall in Florida late Wednesday into early Thursday.
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s federal and state governments have called for Optus to pay for replacing passports and driver’s licenses after 9.8 million of the telecommunications company’s customers had personal data stolen by computer hackers. The Australian government has blamed lax cybersecurity at Optus for last week’s unprecedented breach
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