By LORNE COOK and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are pressing Russia to enter peace talks with Ukraine. At the same time, they are renewing a threat to impose unprecedented sanctions should Moscow send its troops over the border. Ukraine’s president is pleading for more sanctions to be imposed before
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By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says human resources and upper management wouldn’t deal with her accusation of sexual assault. So she went into the busy cafeteria at the headquarters of the Chinese e-commerce giant and screamed out her plight. Now she is paying
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says human resources and upper management wouldn’t deal with her accusation of sexual assault. So she went into the busy cafeteria at the headquarters of the Chinese e-commerce giant and screamed out her plight. Now she is paying
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olivertapia (CNN Español) — Se encendieron las alertas en las fuerzas de seguridad de Ecuador tras la declaración del embajador de Estados Unidos, Michael Fitzpatrick, sobre la supuesta existencia de altos mandos de las fuerzas de seguridad ecuatorianas vinculados al narcotráfico. Durante una entrevista con el medio local Primicias, Fitzpatrick calificó a estas personas, a
Continue Reading By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Some former vaccine skeptics in Eastern Europe are shifting over to the other side. Fata Keco was afraid of possible adverse side effects when she rolled up her sleeve in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to take her first COVID-19 vaccine shot. but the worst she
Continue Reading By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Some former vaccine skeptics in Eastern Europe are shifting over to the other side. Fata Keco was afraid of possible adverse side effects when she rolled up her sleeve in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to take her first COVID-19 vaccine shot. but the worst she
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia after technology companies led Wall Street benchmarks lower. Investors are weighing the implications of higher interest rates, surging coronavirus cases and tensions between Beijing and Washington. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul declined while Sydney was higher. U.S. shares dropped a
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia after technology companies led Wall Street benchmarks lower. Investors are weighing the implications of higher interest rates, surging coronavirus cases and tensions between Beijing and Washington. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul declined while Sydney was higher. U.S. shares dropped a
Continue Reading By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows that millennials and Generation Z Americans say they are more likely to be optimistic about the future and their ability to create change, compared with the older Generation X. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds that despite the challenges
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jurors in the case of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Thursday heard starkly different interpretations of her motives and actions as her long-running criminal trial nears the finish line. A federal prosecutor cast Holmes as a desperate con artist who brazenly lied to
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jurors in the case of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Thursday heard starkly different interpretations of her motives and actions as her long-running criminal trial nears the finish line. A federal prosecutor cast Holmes as a desperate con artist who brazenly lied to
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By Travis Caldwell and Joe Sutton, CNN “The Boss” may have just made a cool half-billion dollars. Bruce Springsteen has sold the rights to his music catalog to Sony Music Entertainment, according to a statement from Sony. Through two separate agreements, the sale would include Springsteen’s work at Sony-owned Columbia Records as both a singer
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By Jill Disis and Nectar Gan, CNN Business The longtime editor of one of China’s most outspoken and nationalistic state media outlets says he’s stepping down. Hu Xijin said Thursday that he has retired and is no longer serving as the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, according to a post on his verified Weibo account.
Continue Reading CNN By Jill Disis and Nectar Gan, CNN Business The longtime editor of one of China’s most outspoken and nationalistic state media outlets says he’s stepping down. Hu Xijin said Thursday that he has retired and is no longer serving as the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, according to a post on his verified Weibo
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Decenas de miles de personas evacuaron sus hogares en Filipinas mientras el archipiélago se preparaba para el supertifón Rai, conocido localmente como Odette, que tocó tierra en la costa este del país el jueves por la tarde, hora local. La tormenta se intensificó rápidamente el jueves por la mañana y pasó de
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By Ryan Young, Maria Cartaya, Alta Spells and Tina Burnside, CNN A judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, is taking a leave of absence and facing calls for her resignation after a video with racist language recorded at her home surfaced. A lawyer for City Court Judge Michelle M. Odinet told the Acadiana Advocate she feels “humiliated,
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Continue Reading A judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, is taking a leave of absence and facing calls for her resignation after a video with racist language recorded at her home surfaced. CNN’s Ryan Young reports.
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says it has rescued five Iranians suspected of smuggling drugs after they apparently set fire to their stash on board a traditional sailing vessel off the coast of Oman. One additional Iranian from the vessel remains missing. The Navy released aerial surveillance footage showing the traditional
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By Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna and Brandon Miller, CNN Intense storms delivered a destructive and record-setting spate of winds Wednesday from the Rockies to the Great Lakes, tearing off roofs, overturning trucks, shutting down a stretch of an interstate highway and even forcing evacuation of some air traffic controllers. At least 55 reports of hurricane-force
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By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — If there was a decade when the NBA nearly disintegrated under the weight of its own problems, the 1970s was that decade. It was a fight-filled, drug-addled operation that had made Black players an integral part of the show, only to be left wondering if
Continue Reading By INNA VARENYTSIA and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press NEVELSKE, Ukraine (AP) — The 7-year-old conflict in eastern Ukraine has all but emptied the village of Nevelske located near the line of contact between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. Only five people still live in the village. That’s down from a population of 286 in 2014.
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image. But she said intense backlash to her work shows the nation is in “a very frightening time.”
Continue Reading SYDNEY (AP) — Five children have died and four others are in critical condition after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 33 feet into the air by a gust of wind at a school on Australia’s island state of Tasmania. The school was holding a celebration to mark the end of the school
Continue Reading By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called on people and government officials to refrain from traveling abroad after the country detected its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in a hospital cleaning worker. The patient has no symptoms and is being quarantined at the
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Beijing Winter Olympics organizers say measures to prevent cross-infections between athletes and the outside world are being extended to holding their garbage inside the bubble dividing the two. Officials say that a team of special workers will be deployed to collect and transfer garbage inside the bubbles to prevent the risk of
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Beijing Winter Olympics organizers say measures to prevent cross-infections between athletes and the outside world are being extended to holding their garbage inside the bubble dividing the two. Officials say that a team of special workers will be deployed to collect and transfer garbage inside the bubbles to prevent the risk of
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PULLMAN, Washington – Jabari Rice scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half as the New Mexico State men steadily eroded a double-digit Washington State lead to come away with a 64-61 victory on Wednesday night. The Aggies (9-2) trailed by 18 after Washington State opened the second half with three straight three-pointers.
Continue Reading By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The largest mosque in the disputed region of Kashmir dominates its neighborhood with an imposing main gate and massive turrets. It can hold 33,000 worshippers. But Indian authorities see the mosque as a trouble spot — a nerve center for protests and clashes that challenge India’s
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former office worker for financier Jeffrey Epstein has testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial that she didn’t witness misconduct by Maxwell during the six years she worked with her. The testimony by the first defense witness on Thursday came after a
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