By AJ Willingham, CNN Do you have a boss who calls you outside your work hours? Maybe someone should tell them such behavior is now illegal in Portugal. Just some food for thought! Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has sent paratroopers to Belarus in a show of support for its ally amid the tensions over an influx of migrants on the Belarus-Poland border. The Russian Defense Ministry said that as part of joint war games about 250 Russian paratroopers parachuted from Il-76 transport planes
Continue Reading By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government is requiring children to get tested for COVID-19 as part of efforts to curtail a recent steep rise in cases. The education minister said all elementary and high schools are required to test the country’s 1.4 million students in two waves on Nov. 22
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By Helen Regan and Cape Diamond, CNN Business A military court in Myanmar has sentenced American journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison, his lawyer said on Friday. Fenster, a 37-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, has been detained in Myanmar for more than five months. He has been denied bail and held in Insein Prison,
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — En la semana transcurrida desde que el festival de música de Houston Astroworld se volvió mortal, han surgido preguntas sobre quién debe ser responsable de las nueve personas que murieron y los cientos que resultaron heridos. Los miembros del público en el Festival de Música Astroworld de Travis Scott describieron
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Ingenuity helicopter has captured a unique bird’s-eye perspective of the gear that helped land the Perseverance rover on Mars. During its one-year anniversary flight on April 19, the little chopper took photos of the striped parachute used during Perseverance’s landing — often referred to as “7 minutes of terror” because
Continue Reading By ALESSANDRA TARANTINO and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis is visiting the hilltop town of his namesake for the fifth time of his pontificate, to mark the Catholic Church’s world day of the poor. The Friday visit is one of his first outings since the coronavirus pandemic. Francis took his
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By Simone Pathe, CNN “A lot happens in a year.” It’s a favorite phrase for politicos who don’t like the way the winds are blowing. A year ago, it was Republicans saying that. Democrats had just celebrated winning the White House and holding the House, albeit with a slimmer majority than anyone had expected. (Securing
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Una nueva versión del borrador del acuerdo COP26 se publicó temprano el viernes y mantiene una referencia a los combustibles fósiles, a pesar de una feroz campaña de los principales productores de carbón, petróleo y gas para eliminarla. Pero el contenido de este borrador es más débil que el anterior, utilizando
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — The Paris Mosque is marking the sixth anniversary of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall that killed 90 people in the French capital. Muslim leaders laid a wreath at the venue one day before a broader commemoration is due to take place. The mosque is holding its commemoration early to fall
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser on Sunday cited rising inflation in the US as a reason for Congress to pass the President’s massive economic package, arguing the legislation will help stymie rapidly rising prices of consumer goods. “Well, inflation is high right now, and it is affecting consumers in their
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By Kevin Liptak and Matt Egan, CNN Soaring inflation has become a political liability for President Joe Biden, who has shifted his public message to acknowledging the problem and commiserating with Americans over higher prices. On Wednesday, a government report showed a key measure of inflation climbed to a level not seen since June 1982.
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Turkey has halted airline ticket sales to Iraqi, Syrian and Yemeni citizens wanting to travel to Belarus, which in recent months has became a key step for migrants and refugees trying to illegally enter the European Union. Friday’s move, announced by Turkey’s Civil Aviation Authority,
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By Rob Picheta and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Austria is days away from ordering millions of unvaccinated people to stay at home, its chancellor has said, in a rare move that underscores the increasing exasperation of European leaders towards those who have not yet been inoculated against Covid-19. Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg told reporters on Friday that
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By Ehsan Popalzai, CNN An explosion took place during Friday prayers inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, a local journalist told CNN on Friday. Security officials said at least 15 people including the mullah of the mosque were wounded in the blast, which occurred in the Spin Ghar district of Nangarhar province, the journalist said.
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca says it will start to book a modest profit from its coronavirus vaccine as it moves away from the nonprofit model it’s operated during the pandemic. In a third-quarter update Friday, the company said profits from the vaccine in the fourth quarter will
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s main opposition presidential candidate says he will strengthen military cooperation with the United States and Japan if elected to better cope with North Korea’s nuclear threat. Yoon Suk Yeol also says he will strive to make North Korea a leading foreign policy priority
Continue Reading KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban provincial spokesman says a bomb exploded in a mosque during Friday prayers, wounding at least 15 people in eastern Afghanistan, where Islamic State group militants have been waging a campaign of violence. Qari Hanif, the government spokesman for Nangarhar Province, said the bomb appeared to have been planted inside
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Se produjo una explosión durante las oraciones del viernes dentro de una mezquita en el este de Afganistán, dijo un periodista local a CNN el viernes. Funcionarios de seguridad dijeron que al menos 15 personas, incluido el mullah de la mezquita, resultaron heridas en la explosión, que ocurrió en el distrito de
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter It’s not just Republican-led states and private businesses that are racing to court to challenge the Biden administration’s new vaccine mandate. Labor unions are also filing legal challenges, arguing in some instances that the mandate doesn’t go far enough to protect workers. The legal filings from the
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