By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials as the regional powers seek to mend their frayed ties after years of tensions. Mevlut Cavusoglu is the highest-ranking Turkish official to visit the Arab World’s most populous nation in over a decade. An Egyptian spokesman
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — A spattering of protests were planned to continue in France over the weekend against President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform, as garbage continued to reek in the streets of Paris and beyond owing to continuing action by refuse collectors. An eerie calm, returned to Paris Saturday after two nights of thousands-strong protests
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Security guards at London’s Heathrow Airport will walk off their jobs for 10 days over the Easter break, the latest in a wave of strike action to affect the U.K. The union Unite said Friday more than 1,400 security guards employed by Heathrow Airport, one of Europe’s
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Kristen Rogers, CNN A giant blob of seaweed twice the width of the continental United States is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and possibly harmful piles across beaches and dampening tourism season. Sargassum — the specific variety of
Continue Reading By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Voters in Kazakhstan will cast ballots Sunday after a short but active campaign for seats in the lower house of parliament that is being reconfigured in the wake of deadly unrest that gripped the resource-rich Central Asian nation a year ago. The snap election comes on the
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was lauded by former clerks and colleagues at a memorial ceremony held at the Supreme Court on Friday — an institution she’d scarcely recognize if she were still on the bench. During the special session of the court, delayed because of
Continue Reading KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Widespread Russian attacks have continued in Ukraine following the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights. Drone attacks targeted, among other places, the capital, Kyiv and the western Lviv province. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 11 out
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are holding the first round of government consultations in Tokyo as they seek to strengthen economic and defense ties. Scholz brought six of his ministers for talks with Japanese counterparts to deepen cooperation in the economy and
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Eggs have gotten too expensive for Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree, which sells most products for $1.25 and a small selection of items for $3 or $5, will stop selling eggs at stores because the company can’t make money offering them at flat prices. Egg prices have surged, fueled by short supply
Continue Reading By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Islamabad (AP) — Police in Pakistan have stormed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s residence in the eastern city of Lahore and arrested 30 people. The action Saturday came amid tear gas shelling after someone opened fire from the roof of the building. Police say they moved in to remove
Continue Reading By FLORENT BAJRAMI Associated Press OHRID, North Macedonia (AP) — Western officials are hoping for progress this weekend in EU-mediated talks between Serbian and Kosovo leaders. These represent another attempt to defuse decades of tensions between the Balkan neighbors and wartime foes. Serbia’s president and Kosovo’s prime minister are meeting on Saturday at North Macedonia’s
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week in travel news: the top airports of 2023, new travel rules around the world and the man who visited Disneyland nearly 3,000 days in a row. The world’s best airports There was one commonly heard refrain, Port Authority’s Executive Director Rick Cotton tells CNN, that spurred on the multibillion
Continue Reading CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — A California military base has been put in lockdown after a vehicle went through the facility’s main gate without stopping. Naval Base Coronado spokesperson Kevin Dixon says the driver was taken into custody by base guards after the “gate runner” drove Friday night through the entrance of Naval Air Station North
Continue ReadingBy John Blake, CNN Few scholars have experienced the fickle nature of fame as dramatically as Ibram X. Kendi in the past three years. Kendi, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, “How to Be an Antiracist,” became an intellectual celebrity in the summer of 2020 after his books became a go-to source for
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Millions of Nigerians are heading back to the polls for gubernatorial elections after last month’s disputed presidential vote. Saturday’s elections are being held amid political tensions and reported attacks in battleground states including in the economic hub of Lagos. The incumbent party is seeking to win
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN The world’s top men’s tennis player Novak Djokovic will miss the Miami Open next week, after being denied entry to the United States because he is unvaccinated against Covid-19, tournament director James Blake announced on Friday. The United States still requires international visitors to be vaccinated against Covid-19, and
Continue ReadingBy Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Chilling details of the chaotic and bloody aftermath of the Uvalde school massacre show how emergency medics desperately treated multiple victims wherever they could and with whatever equipment they had, according to never-before-heard interviews. Some came from off-duty or far away to back up their
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN Two people on board a single-engine plane were injured Friday after a collision with another plane during an aerial demonstration in Mesa, Arizona, officials said. The collision, which happened at Falcon Field Airport before 1 p.m. local time, left the two injured people trapped after returning to the runway in a
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN No, this isn’t a sequel to “Cocaine Bear” — it’s the real-life story of a wild cat rescued in Cincinnati that had been exposed to cocaine. The exotic cat — known as a serval — tested positive for cocaine after being rescued in Cincinnati, according to animal control officials. Servals are
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Asspcoated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States, its Western allies and experts shone a spotlight on the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea at a U.N. meeting. China and Russia denounced Friday’s meeting as a politicized move likely to further escalate tensions on the Korean
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