By Donald Judd, CNN US Trade Representative Katherine Tai is expected to condemn China’s “unfair trade practices” during remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, on Monday, according to a senior administration official. Tai will cite examples of how practices have allegedly “hurt our workers and our industries” and “given
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MADRID (AP) — More earthquakes are rattling the Spanish island of La Palma, as the lava flow from an erupting volcano surged after part of the crater collapsed. Officials say they don’t expect to evacuate any more people, because the fiery molten rock is following the same route to the sea as earlier flows. Spain’s
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El volcán Cumbre Vieja en la isla española de La Palma ahora está entrando en erupción de manera aún más agresiva después de semanas de lanzar chorros de lava, dijo el domingo el Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) de España. La actividad del volcán “sigue siendo intensa” y el sábado se descubrió un
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Brexit minister has threatened to trigger a contentious break clause in the U.K.’s divorce deal with the European Union. Such a move that would send the U.K.’s already chilly relations with its huge neighbor into a deep freeze. David Frost told a gathering of the U.K.’s governing Conservative Party on
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Brexit minister has threatened to trigger a contentious break clause in the U.K.’s divorce deal with the European Union. Such a move that would send the U.K.’s already chilly relations with its huge neighbor into a deep freeze. David Frost told a gathering of the
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By Manveena Suri, CNN At least eight people were killed when violence broke out in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on Sunday after a car linked to a federal minister ran over two farmers taking part in a protest against controversial farm laws. A farmers’ union spokesperson said Sunday the deaths happened after a convoy of
Continue Reading ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been sworn in for a second five-year term running a country in the grip of a nearly year-long war. Abiy’s Prosperity Party was declared the winner of parliamentary elections earlier this year in a vote criticized and at times boycotted by opposition parties but
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian authorities have suspended internet services and barred political leaders from entering a northern town after nine people were killed in a deadly escalation of protests against agriculture laws. Officials and farm leaders say four farmers died when a car owned by India’s junior home minister
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police say Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body brought death threats, has died in a traffic accident. He was 75. Vilks and two plainclothes police bodyguards were killed in a head-on crash with a truck on
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By George Ramsay, CNN Video produced by Finn McSkimming When Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi mulls his next move on a chessboard, his instinct is to pile pressure on his opponent. “I’m aggressive, I like to attack,” he tells CNN Sport of his playing style. “It’s just the way I think in general: I want to checkmate
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Quedarte dormido cuando tu cabeza toca la almohada… ¿es eso uno de tus más grandes sueños? Una vía rápida a la tierra de los sueños podría parecer el nirvana, pero no precisamente significa que sea sano. “La persona que ha descansado bien no se duerme de inmediato”, dijo la especialista en sueño
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Global stocks have fallen, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down more than 2% after troubled property developer China Evergrande’s shares were suspended from trading. Shares fell in Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo. U.S. futures also declined. A Chinese financial news service said another developer planned to acquire Evergrande’s property management unit.
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Global stocks have fallen, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down more than 2% after troubled property developer China Evergrande’s shares were suspended from trading. Shares fell in Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo. U.S. futures also declined. A Chinese financial news service said another developer planned to acquire Evergrande’s property management unit.
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By Alta Spells, Holly Yan and Amir Vera, CNN A swath of the Southern California coast is covered with oil after 3,000 barrels’ worth gushed into the Pacific Ocean — devastating some of the local wildlife, officials said. A pipeline breach occurred about 5 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach, Orange County Supervisor Katrina
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — A United Nations tally obtained by the Associated Press on Monday shows that the number of migrants rounded up in Libya’s unprecedented crackdown has exceeded 5,000 people. That includes 215 children and over 540 women. The U.N. says at least 30 of those detainees were
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian authorities have suspended internet services and barred political leaders from entering a northern town after eight people were killed in a deadly escalation of protests against contentious agriculture laws. Officials and farm leaders say four farmers died when a car owned by India’s junior home
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — The first of the 2021 Nobel Prizes is announced Monday with the naming of the winner, or winners, in the field of physiology or medicine. A panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm will announce the recipient after 0930 GMT. Last year’s prize went to three scientists who discovered the liver-ravaging hepatitis
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son Perry says in a statement that his father died late Sunday at age 74 from cancer. Akin’s comment in 2012 that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape”
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By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son Perry says in a statement that his father died late Sunday at age 74 from cancer. Akin’s comment in 2012 that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape”
Continue Reading WILDWOOD, Mo. (AP) — Ex-US Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who sunk a Senate bid with a comment about ‘legitimate rape,’ is dead at age 74.
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