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Month: June 2024

Expect the cost of your airfare to continue to rise, an aviation trade group and industry heads warn

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The cost of your next flight is likely to go up. That’s the word from the International Air Transport Association, which held its annual meeting Monday in Dubai, home to the long-haul carrier Emirates. While carriers recover from the groundings worldwide from the coronavirus

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‘Sorry for throwing grenades in your cellar.’ The unusual fate of the first house liberated in D-Day beach landings

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Bernieres-sur-Mer, France (CNN) — Their target was an elegant, two-story villa sitting solitary on a misty beach. No houses stood nearby, just minefields, military pillboxes and enemy machine gun posts. It was D-Day, and on that overcast morning on June 6, 1944, 10 boats filled with Canadian troops crossed the English

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Iran’s acting top diplomat dismisses US-proposed Gaza cease-fire deal in visit to Lebanon

BY ABBY SEWELL AND KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s acting foreign minister has dismissed a Gaza cease-fire deal proposed by United States President Joe Biden and warned Israel against launching an all-out war against Lebanon during a visit to Beirut, his first official diplomatic visit since his predecessor died last month. Ali

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France’s far right may win big in the EU elections. That’s worrying for migrants, Macron and Ukraine

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is likely to emerge as a big winner at the weekend’s European Parliament elections even though she isn’t even on the ballot. Polls expect her National Rally party to be the top vote-getter in France, trouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s moderate pro-business

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‘Lifting trophies?’ I’m a winner. That’s the ambition’: Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on the ‘painful’ chase of Manchester City

By Amanda Davies and Aleks Klosok, CNN Sardinia, Italy (CNN) — The fate of soccer players, managers and clubs can sometimes be determined by the finest of fine margins. The width of a goalpost. A dubious Video Assistant Referee (VAR) decision. An unexpected dropped point. Just ask Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. In two successive years

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An Iraqi man herds his water buffalos on the Shatt al-Arab river next to the Nahr Bin Omar oil field and facility near Iraq's southern port city of Basra on April 4

OPEC+ extends oil output cuts into 2025

CNN By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies — a group of leading oil producers known as OPEC+ — agreed Sunday to extend production cuts announced last year into 2025. The group said in a statement it would extend a cut of 1.65 million barrels per

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A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s next president and its first woman leader in more than 200 years of independence, captured the post by promising continuity. The 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist ran a disciplined campaign capitalizing on her predecessor’s popularity. But Mexicans will look to

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