MADRID (AP) — Spain has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Spain’s Defense Ministry says Sunday it is working with the Foreign Affairs Ministry on a new evacuation mission. Spain’s foreign affairs minister visited both Pakistan and Qatar last month to
Continue ReadingBy John Duffy, CNN On this World Mental Health Day, the second of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is clear that people — most people — are struggling. Across cultures, we were experiencing plenty of mental health issues well before the pandemic, including — but not limited to — undue stress and anxiety, poor self-esteem, eating
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By ADAM GELLER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press When a 37-year-old data scientist went before Congress to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit over safety, it was likely the most consequential choice of her life. The idealism Frances Haugen and countless others had invested in promises by the world’s biggest social network to fix itself had
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By ADAM GELLER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press When a 37-year-old data scientist went before Congress to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit over safety, it was likely the most consequential choice of her life. The idealism Frances Haugen and countless others had invested in promises by the world’s biggest social network to fix itself had
Continue Reading By ADAM GELLER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press When a 37-year-old data scientist went before Congress to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit over safety, it was likely the most consequential choice of her life. The idealism Frances Haugen and countless others had invested in promises by the world’s biggest social network to fix itself had
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — A plane carrying skydivers has crashed shortly after takeoff in central Russia, killing 15 of the 22 people aboard. The L-410, a Czech-made twin-engine turboprop, crashed near Menzelinsk, about 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow, on Sunday. The Emergencies Ministry said seven people were extracted from the wreckage alive, at least
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Opposition voters in Hungary are choosing between two opposition politicians hoping to unseat right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an election next spring. The two contenders, center-left lawyer Klara Dobrev and moderate conservative mayor Peter Marki-Zay, have differing platforms but are both members of an
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Social media can be difficult to understand, but luckily for Congress they had the Facebook whistleblower walk them through it on “Saturday Night Live.” The NBC variety show opened up on Saturday with Frances Haugen, played by Heidi Gardner, giving testimony on Capitol Hill about the internal workings of Facebook.
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Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Olivier Rousteing, the creative director of French luxury fashion house Balmain, has revealed he sustained serious injuries after a fireplace exploded at his home in Paris last year. Writing on Instagram Saturday, the 36-year-old said he had been “hiding this for too long” but was “finally ready to share” his experience, adding
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has vowed to defend the island from China’s rising pressure for reunification, after a week of tensions with Beijing. President Tsai Ing-wen was speaking Sunday at Taiwan’s National Day celebrations. The leader’s promise to resist Chinese military threats was underlined by a rare show
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Vincent Chin was celebrating his bachelor party at the Fancy Pants strip club in Detroit when he and another patron got into a fight. “It’s because of you little motherf****** that we’re out of work,” a White autoworker named Ronald Ebens yelled at the 27-year-old Chinese American, as a dancer who
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say an actor has died in an accident during a scene change at Moscow’s Bolshoi theater. The reports cited witnesses as saying that the actor appeared to have exited the stage on the wrong side during a Saturday evening performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “Sadko” and was struck by
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Germany’s lame-duck chancellor, Angela Merkel, has paid a final official visit to Israel. She says she’s been fortunate to play a key role in strengthening relations between the two countries after the horrors of the Holocaust during World War II. The visit Sunday caps Merkel’s 16 years
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, CNN While the rate of Covid-19 infections nationwide is slowing, health care systems in some parts of the country are struggling with hospital wings still packed with patients. Montana, for instance, is facing new highs this week in coronavirus hospitalizations, with 533 Covid-19 patients in hospitals as of Wednesday, according to the
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — FaceTime calls seem to be working in the United Arab Emirates, an apparent loosening of long-standing restrictions on the Apple program in the federation of seven sheikhdoms. There was no official announcement on the matter. The UAE’s telecom authority did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Apple
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN His messages are a mix of uncertainty and terror — with glimmers of hope. He is gay, a convert to Christianity and a member of the Hazara ethnic minority — three groups that have been historically persecuted by the Taliban. The 32-year-old man went into hiding after the Taliban seized control
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s nuclear chief says the Islamic Republic has produced more than 120 kilograms (265 pounds) of 20% enriched uranium. That’s far more than what the U.N. nuclear watchdog reported last month. The nuclear chief says that under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers the other signatories were to provide Iran
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By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN The big picture for Covid-19 in the US is looking a little brighter as new infections and hospitalizations decline. “That’s the good news. And hopefully it’s going to continue to go in that trajectory downward,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
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By Sophia Saifi, CNN Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, has died in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, according to the country’s Ministry of Information. He was 85 years old. Khan was given a state funeral at Islamabad’s Faisal Mosque on Sunday. The funeral, attended by thousands of
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By John Sinnott, CNN In a fight that is being talked about as one of the all-time great heavyweight bouts, Tyson Fury retained his WBC title after knocking out Deontay Wilder at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday. “I’ve been in this business 57 years promoting fights and I truly have to say
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