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Credit Suisse chairman resigns after internal investigation

January 17, 2022 6:42 AM Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse says its chairman has resigned following an internal investigation that reportedly turned up that he had violated quarantine rules intended to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The resignation of Antonio Horta-Osorio, a British-Portuguese national who took the job barely eight months ago, was announced Monday. It’s the latest upheaval at the

Credit Suisse chairman resigns after internal investigation

January 17, 2022 6:42 AM Associated Press

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse says its chairman has resigned following an internal investigation that reportedly turned up that he had violated quarantine rules intended to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The resignation of Antonio Horta-Osorio, a British-Portuguese national who took the job barely eight months ago, was announced Monday. It’s

Se espera que las hospitalizaciones por covid-19 en EE.UU. aumenten sustancialmente a partir de un nivel ya récord en las próximas semanas, según un experto

January 17, 2022 6:32 AM CNN Newsource

Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — A medida que los hospitales de todo Estados Unidos gestionan el récord de hospitalizaciones por el covid-19, a punto de cumplirse dos años de la pandemia, la escasez de personal se amplía en un momento en que los empleados sanitarios se enfrentan a riesgos prolongados de exposición. Con la disminución

Daily virus cases in Russia double as omicron spreads

January 17, 2022 6:27 AM Associated Press

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have reported a sharp spike in new coronavirus cases apparently driven by the rapid spread of the omicron variant health officials warned about last week. The country’s state coronavirus task force on Monday registered 30,726 new infections. That’s twice as many as 15,830 just a

Daily virus cases in Russia double as omicron spreads

January 17, 2022 6:27 AM Associated Press

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have reported a sharp spike in new coronavirus cases apparently driven by the rapid spread of the omicron variant health officials warned about last week. The country’s state coronavirus task force on Monday registered 30,726 new infections. That’s twice as many as 15,830 just a

Liz Weston: How to get more joy while giving to good causes

January 17, 2022 6:13 AM Associated Press

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet We may think spending money on ourselves will make us happier than spending it on someone else. But research shows that spending money on others is more likely to make us happy. To maximize your happiness while helping others, include a social connection such as taking someone out to dinner

Liz Weston: How to get more joy while giving to good causes

January 17, 2022 6:13 AM Associated Press

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet We may think spending money on ourselves will make us happier than spending it on someone else. But research shows that spending money on others is more likely to make us happy. To maximize your happiness while helping others, include a social connection such as taking someone out to dinner

SWAT team members deploy near the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville

Jewish communities across the US are on heightened alert after the Texas standoff: ‘Is our community under attack again?’

January 17, 2022 6:04 AM CNN Newsource

By Dakin Andone, CNN Jewish communities across the United States once again find themselves on edge in the wake of another attack on worshippers at a synagogue, this time at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, where a man interrupted Saturday’s Shabbat service and held four people hostage for hours. No hostages were killed and

German journalist acquitted of terror charges in Turkey

January 17, 2022 6:02 AM Associated Press

ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has acquitted German journalist Mesale Tolu after years on trial for terror-related charges. She was accused of engaging in terror propaganda and being a member of a banned left-wing group — the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. The 38-year-old German citizen was placed in pre-trial detention for eight months in 2017.

Turkey’s Erdogan in Albania to boost bilateral ties

January 17, 2022 5:54 AM Associated Press

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Albania to talk with Prime Minister Edi Rama on strengthening bilateral ties and also inaugurate new apartments funded by Turkey for Albanians left homeless by the 2019 earthquake. Upon landing Erdogan immediately headed to the northwestern town of Lac,

Palestinian family protests east Jerusalem home eviction

January 17, 2022 5:50 AM Associated Press

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian residents of a flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood are locked in a tense standoff with Israeli authorities after police came to evict them from a disputed property. Several residents of a home in Sheikh Jarrah climbed onto the roof of the building on Monday with gas