By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, has celebrated their elder daughter’s birthday with a trip down memory lane. Mabel Willis turned 11 on Sunday, and her proud mom marked the occasion by sharing a montage of family photos and videos taken over the years, set to the song “Pictures Of You”
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By The Associated Press Russia’s top counterterrorism agency said Monday that the bombing attack that killed a well-known Russian military blogger was staged by Ukrainian security agencies. Russian officials said Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was killed Sunday as he was leading a discussion at a cafe on the banks of the Neva River in the historic
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to tour a clean energy technology manufacturer in Minneapolis as part of his effort to highlight his investment agenda before an expected reelection campaign. The Democratic president plans to highlight job growth and investments nationwide while pushing clean energy and manufacturing
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Kosovo’s former president has pleaded not guilty to charges including murder, torture and persecution as he went on trial with three other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Hashim Thaci resigned from office in 2020 to defend himself against the charges of crimes against
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices soared nearly 6% on Monday after Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers said they will cut production by 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year. Shares in Asia were mixed. U.S. benchmark crude oil rose $4.24 to
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss attorney general’s office says it has opened a probe into the events surrounding embattled bank Credit Suisse, which is to be taken over by rival UBS. Switzerland’s government and financial regulators helped engineer the hastily arranged, $3.25 billion agreement that will leave the country with a single huge global bank.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British passport office workers have kicked off a five-week strike, becoming the the latest group of civil servants to demand a pay raise in response to double-digit inflation. The action threatened to cause headaches for travelers ahead of the summer holiday season. The walkout by some 1,000 members of the Public and
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Some Supreme Court justices thought Donald Trump was setting them up. Two days after the official swearing-in of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in October 2018, the president arranged a televised ceremony at the White House and invited all the justices. Justices had declined to attend similar White House
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN Shares in Cineworld plunged more than 30% Monday, hitting their lowest level since late August, after the owner of Regal Cinemas said it planned to terminate efforts to sell its US, UK and Irish businesses. The world’s second-largest movie theater chain also announced a debt restructuring plan with lenders to help
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El Comité de Investigación de Rusia detuvo a Daria Trepova “bajo sospecha de estar implicada en la explosión de una cafeterÃa en San Petersburgo”. Daria Trepova, que fue incluida en la lista de personas buscadas en relación con la explosión de la cafeterÃa de San Petersburgo en la que murió el
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Los precios del petróleo subieron este lunes en los mercados asiáticos después de que los productores de la OPEP+ anunciaran por sorpresa un recorte de la producción. El crudo Brent, de referencia mundial, subió un 4,8%, hasta US$ 83,73 el barril, mientras que el WTI, de referencia en Estados Unidos, subió
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say four people have been seriously hurt in an overnight fire at a hospital in Berlin, including a patient who sustained life-threatening injuries. A man was arrested on suspicion of starting the blaze. The fire service said that the fire on the third floor of the Klinikum am Urban in the
Continue Reading Russian police on Monday were searching for a woman suspected of delivering a bomb that killed a well-known military blogger who fervently supported Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Russian officials said Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was killed Sunday as he was leading a discussion at a cafe on the banks of the Neva River in the historic
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli troops in an army raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. The incident on Monday was the latest in a year-long surge of Israeli-Palestinian violence that shows no sign of abating. The Israeli military said troops arrested two people
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s presidential office has announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will pay a visit to Warsaw this week. The visit is scheduled for Wednesday and will begin with talks between Zelenskyy and his host, Polish President Andrzej Duda. It will be followed by a meeting with the public, according to the
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Cruising at a depth of 8,336 meters (over 27,000 feet) just above the seabed, a young snailfish has become the deepest fish ever filmed by scientists during a probe into the abyss of the northern Pacific Ocean. Scientists from University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The former principal of a Jewish girls school in Australia was found guilty of sexually abusing two students. Malka Leifer was convicted on 18 counts and acquitted of nine other charges, including five that related to a third student. The three students were all sisters. Leifer sat with her head tilted
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Pretty much everyone across Mid-Missouri will see at least one sales tax on recreational marijuana on their ballot. They’ll also see crowded races for school boards and city councils.
Continue ReadingBy Katharina Krebs, Anna Chernova and Tim Lister, CNN Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg on Sunday, was one of Russia’s most outspoken and ultranationalist military bloggers, known for his ardent pro-war commentary and occasional criticism of Moscow’s battlefield failures. Born in the town of Makiivka in
Continue Reading By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities see the police as protectors who are ensuring that citizens can peacefully protest President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious retirement age increase. But to human rights advocates and demonstrators who were clubbed or tear-gassed, officers have overstepped their mission. In the months since mass protests against the
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