By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has ousted the management of the Vatican’s vast, international charitable organization Caritas Internationalis after an external review found management and morale problems at its head office.A Vatican statement Tuesday stressed that the review found no evidence of financial mismanagement or sexual impropriety. But it said
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AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Christian Eriksen is back playing a major tournament less than a year and a half after his cardiac arrest at the European Championship. Eriksen started in his customary playmaker position for Denmark’s opening game at the World Cup against Tunisia in Group D and played the full 90 minutes of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men charged in a hazing incident at the University of Missouri could appear in court this week. The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office charges Alec Wetzler with misdemeanor counts of supplying alcohol to a minor and purchasing or possessing alcohol by a minor. Wetzler could appear for a case review Tuesday at
Continue Reading By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria will allow a Black Sea refinery owned by a Russian oil company to keep operating and exporting oil products to the European Union until the end of 2024 despite warnings by Brussels that it is against the bloc’s sanctions. Government estimates say the deal between
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By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business Global growth will slow further in the coming year but the world will likely avoid a recession thanks to Asia’s biggest economies. Global GDP is projected to grow by 3.1% this year, and by just 2.2% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
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By Ben Church, CNN Saudi Arabia produced one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history Tuesday, beating Lionel Messi’s Argentina 2-1 in an astonishing Group C match. Many had expected the South American team, ranked third in the world, unbeaten for three years and among the favorites to win the tournament, to sweep aside
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to London on Tuesday for the first state visit of his reign, which will include a formal banquet as well as talks with government leaders focused on investment and green energy. Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, greeted
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE and GRAHAM DUNBAR Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Hundreds of soccer fans in Doha are struggling to retrieve their digital World Cup tickets for a second day as problems with FIFA’s mobile application stoke confusion and frustration at the tournament. A line of distressed fans snaked outside the main ticketing help
Continue Reading DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Hundreds of soccer fans in Doha are struggling to retrieve their digital World Cup tickets for a second day as problems with FIFA’s mobile application stoke confusion and frustration at the tournament. A line of distressed fans snaked outside the main ticketing help desk in Doha on Tuesday, with many reporting
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By Elle Reeve, CNN Back in the late 1980s, when Beau James started pro wrestling, the crowds came for a show between good and evil, to see a story about heroes and villains, to enjoy the bouts and then go home. James enjoyed being the hero but it was nothing compared to playing the bad
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — France, Germany and Italy have announced an agreement for a new-generation European space launcher project. It’s part of apparent efforts to better compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other rocket programs in the U.S. and China. A statement from the three governments announced an unspecified amount of public funding for the plan.
Continue Reading By ANDI JATMIKO and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers used jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands Tuesday to shift the rubble of flattened buildings as they searched for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 268 people. With many missing, some remote areas still
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Moving the World Cup from its usual June/July slot to November/December likely caused some American fans to skip the trip to Qatar. Some didn’t want to miss Thanksgiving. Others used to making summer vacation a soccer trip were unable to make the trek because school
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Rivian CEO Robert Joseph Scaringe, better known as RJ, is living his lifelong dream. Getting here though has required dedication to a vision that once seemed nearly impossible. Even now, as the company’s assembly lines have started churning out its electric vehicles, success still isn’t assured. Rivian’s off-road-capable trucks and
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Rivian CEO Robert Joseph Scaringe, better known as RJ, is living his lifelong dream. Getting here though has required dedication to a vision that once seemed nearly impossible. Even now, as the company’s assembly lines have started churning out its electric vehicles, success still isn’t assured. Rivian’s off-road-capable trucks and
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Tara Subramaniam, CNN and Oscar Holland, CNN Christie’s has withdrawn a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from sale, with just days to go until the historic auction, after a paleontologist said the fossil largely comprises copyrighted replica bones from another specimen. In a statement provided to CNN on Monday, the British auction house said the unidentified seller
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lionel Messi stood with his hands on his hips near the center circle, looking stone-faced as Saudi Arabia’s jubilant players ran in all directions around him after pulling off one of the biggest World Cup upsets ever against Argentina. The South American champions and one
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — America’s top diplomat on Tuesday criticized a decision by FIFA to threaten players at the World Cup with yellow cards if they wear armbands supporting inclusion and diversity. Speaking alongside his Qatari counterpart at a news conference, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court has backed a Russian who is seeking to stay in the Netherlands because he needs a medicinal cannabis treatment which is outlawed in his home country. The Court of Justice said Tuesday that the man should not be sent back home even though the Netherlands rejected his
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Consumers and businesses in Germany will receive subsidies to soften the blow of higher gas and electricity prices starting in January, two months earlier than originally planned. Officials made the announcement Tuesday as part of an larger pot of almost 300 billion euros in subsidies that the German government is cooking up
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