Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — World markets and U.S. futures have fallen as investors cautiously weigh how much damage the new omicron coronavirus variant may unleash on the global economy. Shares fell in Frankfurt, London and Paris after sinking in most Asian markets. Analysts say a serious economic downturn likely can be averted because
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By Amanda Davies and George Ramsay, CNN With less than a year to go before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, questions surrounding host nation Qatar’s handling of humanitarian issues show few signs of abating — specifically concerning the state’s anti-homosexuality laws. Nasser Al Khater, the chief executive of the tournament’s organizing committee,
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By Laura He, CNN Business China’s economy is finally getting some good news: Its big factories are staging a recovery as a power crunch that held back production starts to ease because of a big jump in coal supply. A government survey of manufacturing activity increased to 50.1 in November from 49.2 in October, according
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By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish officials say a fire in part of a building occupied by squatters in central Barcelona has killed four members of the same family including two children ages 1 and 3. Firefighters managed to put out the fire after rescuing four more people who are being treated
Continue Reading KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Several prominent Kuwaiti opposition figures have returned home from a decade of self-exile after getting amnesty from the ruling emir. The long-awaited move celebrated Tuesday is aimed at ending a political paralysis that has burned a hole in public finances. Faisal al-Muslim was the latest to be greeted by screams of
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has rejected complaints against curfews and other restrictions imposed by federal legislation earlier this year in areas where the coronavirus was spreading quickly. Tuesday’s decision could help the country’s leaders as they struggle to tackle a sharp rise in infections. The ruling from the
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has rejected complaints against curfews and other restrictions imposed by federal legislation earlier this year in areas where the coronavirus was spreading quickly. Tuesday’s decision could help the country’s leaders as they struggle to tackle a sharp rise in infections. The ruling from the
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By Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, just like the 2020 season, was one for the record books — but for different reasons. The biggest similarity was the high number of named storms. The 2021 season became only the third in history to use all of the names on
Continue Reading PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has barred entry to travelers from 10 African countries, citing the threat from the new omicron coronavirus variant. The move, announced in a Health Ministry statement issued late Monday, came just two weeks after Cambodia reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers. The Health Ministry said the entry ban
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have arrested a prominent member of an opposition party over accusations that he engaged in “political and military espionage.” Anadolu Agency said late Monday that a court in Ankara ordered Metin Gurcan, a retired army officer and founding member of the opposition Democracy and Progress
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A court in Frankfurt is expected to issue a verdict Tuesday in the trial of a former Islamic State member accused of killing a 5-year-old girl he had purchased as a slave, by chaining her in the hot sun. The defendant, an Iraqi citizen, is the first person to go on trial
Continue Reading By LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Human Rights Watch says that Afghanistan’s Taliban fighters have killed or forcibly “disappeared” more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in mid-August. A new report from the group points to continuing retaliation against members of the former armed forces, despite an announced amnesty.
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Japan and France confirmed their first cases of the new variant of the coronavirus on Tuesday. Countries around the world are scrambling to close their doors or find ways to limit its spread while scientists study how damaging it might be. The World Health Organization says the global risk from the omicron
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By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Health experts are doubling down on pleas for all eligible American to get vaccinated — and boosted — against Covid-19 as the Omicron and Delta variants spread. Less than two weeks after Omicron was first identified by South African scientists, it’s already become the dominant variant in that
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By Jill Disis, CNN Business Global stocks and oil prices fell again Tuesday after a brief respite from the heavy sell-off triggered by the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant. Stocks in Asia Pacific and Europe slid, while Wall Street opened weaker. Oil prices fell about 3% as more countries reported cases of the variant
Continue Reading By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A fire in part of a building occupied by squatters in central Barcelona has killed four members of the same family, including two children aged 1 and 3, in the early hours of Tuesday. Firefighters managed to put out the fire after rescuing four more people, who
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Dos astronautas recién llegados de la NASA saldrán de la Estación Espacial Internacional el martes para realizar una caminata espacial con el fin de reemplazar una antena de comunicaciones que funciona mal. El Dr. Thomas Marshburn y Kayla Barron están programados para comenzar su caminata espacial a las 7:10 am ET, y
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President Joe Biden addressed the coronavirus news Monday, urging the public to be careful but not to panic. Scientists say omicron’s mutations concern them but it’s too early to tell if the variant will spread more easily or cause more severe illness than previous iterations of the virus.
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has inducted U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon. She is the first Black woman to receive the nation’s highest honor. French President Emmanuel Macron presided over an elaborate ceremony Tuesday at the domed Pantheon monument in
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By SYLVIE CORBET and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has inducted U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon. She is the first Black woman to receive the nation’s highest honor. French President Emmanuel Macron presided over an elaborate ceremony Tuesday at the domed Pantheon monument in
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