By Wayne Chang and Teele Rebane, CNN Business Hong Kong police have arrested and charged two former Cathay Pacific staffers for violating the city’s quarantine rules, underscoring the challenges the city’s flagship airline and its staff face under some of the world’s most restrictive anti-pandemic policies. The government on Monday confirmed the arrests of two
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for an overnight gun attack on police in the capital of Islamabad that killed an officer and both of the assailants. The Monday night attack has raised fears that insurgents had a presence in Islamabad. On Tuesday, Mohammad Khurasani, the spokesman for the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan,
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By Matias Grez, CNN Ksenia Efremova hadn’t even turned three years old and her mother already had the feeling her daughter was destined to become a star. One afternoon when her older brother was practicing on the tennis court, Efremova picked up one of his rackets — as she would often do — and began
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, CNN Ksenia Efremova hadn’t even turned three years old and her mother already had the feeling her daughter was destined to become a star. One afternoon when her older brother was practicing on the tennis court, Efremova picked up one of his rackets — as she would often do — and began
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are mostly lower while oil prices surged following an attack on an oil facility in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Stocks in France, Germany and Britain are lower in early trading. Markets finished lower in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney. U.S.
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are mostly lower while oil prices surged following an attack on an oil facility in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Stocks in France, Germany and Britain are lower in early trading. Markets finished lower in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney. U.S.
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By Hadas Gold, Andrew Carey and Amir Tal, CNN For years, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called his ongoing corruption trial a “witch hunt” and an “attempted coup.” Although his denunciations of the case echoed words often heard from his once-close ally Donald Trump, Netanyahu is now deviating from the former US president’s
Continue Reading By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — South Korea’s leader has landed in Saudi Arabia, where he was greeted in Riyadh by the kingdom’s crown prince and an honor guard marching band. Tuesday’s stop was the second in the Mideast for South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his wife,
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By Ben Morse, CNN NFL veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford got his first career playoff victory on Monday night as the Los Angeles Rams comfortably beat the Arizona Cardinals 34-11. Stafford, who is in his first season with the Rams after spending his first 12 with the Detroit Lions, threw for 202 yards and two touchdowns
Continue Reading By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press SKIEN, Norway (AP) — Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in bomb-and-gun massacres in Norway’s worst peacetime slaughter in 2011, appeared Tuesday before a court for a parole hearing. A southern Norwegian court must rule whether Breivik is still so dangerous that
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities say that they will cull some 2,000 hamsters after several of the rodents tested positive for the virus at a pet store where an infected employee was working. Officials said Tuesday they would also stop the sale and import of the rodents in
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities say that they will cull some 2,000 hamsters after several of the rodents tested positive for the virus at a pet store where an infected employee was working. Officials said Tuesday they would also stop the sale and import of the rodents in
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say parcels mailed from overseas may have spread the coronavirus in Beijing and elsewhere, despite doubts among overseas health experts that the virus can be transmitted via packaging. The State Post Bureau says it has ordered stronger measures to ventilate and disinfect sites where items mailed from overseas are
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say parcels mailed from overseas may have spread the coronavirus in Beijing and elsewhere, despite doubts among overseas health experts that the virus can be transmitted via packaging. The State Post Bureau says it has ordered stronger measures to ventilate and disinfect sites where items mailed from overseas are
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By Laura He, CNN Business China is urging central banks in the West not to hike interest rates too fast to fight inflation as it goes in the other direction to battle a sharp economic slowdown. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on major world economies to spur growth by coordinating their policies as
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s leader has promised human rights reforms and justice for people missing from the country’s civil war, after years of resisting calls for such measures. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was speaking before a new session of Parliament as the government looks for international support in
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olivertapia (CNN) — Una gruesa capa de ceniza que cubre comunidades enteras se puede ver en las primeras imágenes de la devastada Tonga que emergen después de lo que los expertos creen que es la erupción volcánica más grande del mundo en más de 30 años. ¿Cómo es y dónde queda Tonga, el país afectado
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By Amy Simonson, CNN The death of an LGBTQ advocate and brother of a former Miami mayor is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said, after his body was discovered in a Florida landfill. Jorge Diaz-Johnston, a plaintiff in a historic same-sex marriage lawsuit against Miami-Dade County in 2014, was found dead at a Jackson
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By Josh Campbell, Amir Vera, Dan Przygoda, Jason Hanna, Nick Paton Walsh and Kelly McCleary, CNN About 10 days before taking four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in north Texas, Malik Faisal Akram had a heated exchange with officials at the Islamic Center of Irving and was eventually escorted from the property, according
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By John Sinnott, CNN The organizer of the Australian Open says the organization deeply regrets the impact that the Novak Djokovic saga has had on players competing in the first grand slam of the tennis season. Djokovic arrived back in Serbia’s capital Belgrade on Monday after his deportation from Australia ended the world No. 1
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