ROME (AP) — Lazio tightened its grip on second place in Serie A with a 2-0 win at Silvio Berlusconi’s Monza. Lazio extended its unbeaten streak in the Italian league to six matches after beating runaway leader Napoli and Roma in the derby before the international break. Lazio moved five points ahead of Inter Milan
Continue Reading COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Cologne has held local rival Borussia Mönchengladbach to a 0-0 draw in the Bundesliga in the first game for Cologne since it emerged the club was facing a transfer ban. Dropping points further dents 10th-place Gladbach’s already-slim hopes of qualifying for European competition. A point helps 13th-place Cologne edge away from
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone call between the diplomats since the Ukraine war, to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last week as well as another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan, the State
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By Niamh Kennedy, CNN French government minister Marlene Schiappa has come under fire from members of her own party after appearing on the front cover of Playboy magazine. Schiappa, who has been a government minister since 2017, appeared on the cover of the magazine to accompany a 12-page interview she did on women’s and LGBT
Continue Reading AUDENARDE, Belgium (AP) — Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar has joked that he can now retire happy from cycling after winning the Tour of Flanders classic for the first time. Pogacar became only the third cyclist to win both races after Frenchman Louison Bobet and Belgian great Eddy Merckx. The 24-year-old Slovenian clinched
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By YURI KAGEYAMA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Sakamoto, a world-renowned Japanese musician and actor who composed for Hollywood hits such as “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant,” has died. He was 71. Japan’s recording company Avex said in a statement Sunday that Sakamoto died on March 28 while undergoing treatment
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El vigente campeón del mundo Max Verstappen ganó el Gran Premio de Australia y Lewis Hamilton terminó segundo en una carrera repleta de incidentes este domingo en Melbourne. En una carrera caótica en la que hubo tres banderas rojas, el GP de Australia terminó bajo un auto de seguridad y en medio
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: This post has been changed to have the correct names. Three people were hurt Saturday evening in an ATV rollover crash in Camden County. The crash happened on Bollinger Creek Road north of Mimosa Beach drive at 6:55 p.m. Troopers say four people were riding on the ATV when
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day from May until the end of 2023. The Energy Ministry said Sunday that the cuts would be made in coordination with some OPEC and non-OPEC members, without naming them, and were in addition to a reduction
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MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. citizen who moved his family to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Court records show that Emraan Ali, a 55-year-old U.S. citizen born in Trinidad and Tobago, was sentenced Tuesday in Miami federal court. He pleaded guilty in November
Continue Reading By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign says the former president will deliver remarks Tuesday night in Florida after his scheduled arraignment in New York earlier that day on charges related to hush money payments. Trump is set to deliver remarks at his Mar-a-Lago club after returning
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has given preliminary approval for the establishment of a national guard overseen by an ultranationalist Cabinet minister with a long record of anti-Arab rhetoric and stunts. The Cabinet approved the formation of the force on Sunday after Netanyahu agreed
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Starbucks has fired a Buffalo, New York, worker who “ignited a movement” from one of the first stores in the coffee chain to unionize, Starbucks Workers United said Friday. The firing came the same week that former CEO Howard Schultz testified before Congress, where he was grilled by lawmakers for the
Continue Reading ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algiers sentenced a prominent journalist to five years in prison with two years suspended on Sunday. Ihsane El-Kadi, who was active in Algeria’s Hirak pro-democracy protest movement in 2019, appears to be the latest target of a crackdown on dissenting voices in the North African country. The court
Continue Reading By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Asa Hutchinson, who recently completed two terms as Arkansas governor, said Sunday he will seek the Republican presidential nomination, positioning himself as an alternative to Donald Trump just days after the former president was indicted by a grand jury in New York. Hutchinson said Trump
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By Jennifer Hansler and Betsy Klein, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and called for the “immediate release” of detained Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, according to the US State Department. “Secretary Blinken conveyed the United States’ grave concern over Russia’s unacceptable detention of a
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Radina Gigova, CNN and Amarachi Orie, CNN | Oscar Holland, CNN The Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto — who wrote the haunting score to “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and won an Oscar for 1987’s “The Last Emperor” — has died aged 71. His management team announced that he died on March 28. He had been treated
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The US National Institute on Aging is moving forward with efforts to build a real-world Alzheimer’s disease database as part of its aim to improve, support and conduct more dementia research. Last month, the agency, part of the National Institutes of Health, posted a notice of the grant for the six-year
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN There is something exciting about a walk with my dog down my street — even though everything we see and do along the way is entirely predictable. I know we will wave hello to my retired neighbor tending his garden. We will pass teens at the basketball courts and younger kids
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — West Ham has climbed out of the Premier League’s relegation zone and left Southampton in last place with a tense 1-0 win. Morocco defender Nayef Aguerd’s 25th-minute header settled a tight, nervy match at the London Stadium between teams who started the day as the bottom two in one of the tightest
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