By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON and PATRICK QUINN Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Thailand has decided to immediately reimpose a mandatory quarantine for visitors and suspend a “test-and-go” scheme for fully vaccinated arrivals as concerns grow over the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The decision is a blow to efforts to revive Thailand’s
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By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON and PATRICK QUINN Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Thailand has decided to immediately reimpose a mandatory quarantine for visitors and suspend a “test-and-go” scheme for fully vaccinated arrivals as concerns grow over the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The decision is a blow to efforts to revive Thailand’s
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CNNEspañol sjv EE.UU. aumentará número de visas para trabajadores visitantes. Ómicron ahora causa más del 73% de los casos nuevos de covid-19 y deja un muerto en EE.UU. (no vacunado). Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 EE.UU. podría tener un “sombrío comienzo” del nuevo año Con las
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Franziska Giffey has become Berlin’s new mayor as the leader of a three-party left-wing governing coalition. She is a former federal minister who quit Germany’s national government earlier this year. Giffey was elected by the state legislature on Tuesday nearly three months after a regional election in which she led her center-left
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Franziska Giffey has become Berlin’s new mayor as the leader of a three-party left-wing governing coalition. She is a former federal minister who quit Germany’s national government earlier this year. Giffey was elected by the state legislature on Tuesday nearly three months after a regional election in which she led her center-left
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN In nearly two years of the coronavirus pandemic, the US Secret Service has seized more than $1.2 billion in relief funds obtained by fraudsters. Now, the agency is stepping up its efforts to claw back the billions more that Covid-19-related fraud has cost the economy by tapping a senior official to
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to increase support for hospitals, improve access to COVID-19 tests and expand the availability of vaccines that can reduce the risks from the omicron variant. The government will purchase 500 million rapid at-home tests to be delivered for free to Americans who request
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, quiso tranquilizar a los estadounidenses al asegurar que, si se vacunan, pueden continuar con sus planes de vacaciones sin temor a enfermarse gravemente. “Sé que algunos estadounidenses se preguntan si pueden celebrar las fiestas de manera segura con su familia y amigos. La respuesta es,
Continue Reading BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A United Nations official says more than 160 migrants drowned in two separate shipwrecks off Libya over the past week. The fatalities were the latest disasters in the Mediterranean Sea involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe. The deaths have brought the tally in the central
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant says it has applied for approval from safety authorities to construct an undersea tunnel and other facilities needed for the planned release of large amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea. The operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings,
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military has tested a home-grown Babur cruise missile that has a range of more than 900 kilometers (560 miles), twice the distance of an earlier missile of the same model . The missile’s extended range further enhances nuclear-armed Pakistan’s military capability. Pakistan and neighbor India, which is also nuclear armed, have
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — The French army says it has “neutralized” a regional Islamic State group leader wanted in connection with the killing of seven aid workers, mostly French citizens, and a leading guide in a Niger giraffe park in August 2020. France’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that, in cooperation with Nigerien authorities, operatives from France’s
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business China Mobile is ending the year with a bang. The Chinese telecom giant announced Tuesday that it wants to raise as much as 56 billion yuan ($8.8 billion) on the Shanghai stock exchange after it was forced to quit Wall Street in January. In a filing to the Hong Kong
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By Kevin Liptak, Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden aimed to reassure vaccinated Americans that they can still proceed with their holiday plans without fear of becoming seriously ill, announcing a number of new efforts to combat a surge of Covid-19 cases in the United States. “I know some Americans
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares have bounced back from selloff spurred by worries about how badly the omicron variant, inflation and other forces will hit the global economy. Shares in Europe and Asia rose and U.S. futures were higher. Oil prices also advanced. On Monday, the S&P 500 fell
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares have bounced back from selloff spurred by worries about how badly the omicron variant, inflation and other forces will hit the global economy. Shares in Europe and Asia rose and U.S. futures were higher. Oil prices also advanced. On Monday, the S&P 500 fell
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By Susannah Cullinane, CNN The impact of the Omicron coronavirus variant on a largely unboosted US population going into the holiday season will create a “perfect storm” that will challenge health care systems from coast to coast, an expert said Monday. Omicron is now the country’s most dominant strain less than three weeks after the
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By Ivana Kottasová and Virginia Langmaid, CNN It might be time to rethink your festive plans, the World Health Organization has warned amid a rising number of cases of the coronavirus caused by the Omicron variant. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the pandemic might mean canceling in-person events over the holiday period,
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — El líder de la oposición venezolana Juan Guaidó está un paso más cerca de asegurar el control de más de mil millones de dólares en reservas de oro almacenadas en el Banco de Inglaterra, luego de que la Corte Suprema británica lo reconociera inequívocamente como presidente de Venezuela el lunes por la
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s former military intelligence chief says that Israel was involved in the American airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. Maj. Gen. Tamir Heyman, the now-retired general who headed military intelligence until October, appears to be the first official to confirm Israel’s involvement in an interview published in the
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