CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — Party delegates from Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, the senior partner in the country’s new coalition government, have elected three top officials. The developments Saturday came just days after its candidate, Olaf Scholz, became Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, opening up a new era for the European Union’s most populous nation
Continue Reading RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government declared a state of emergency in almost 50 cities in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais due to heavy rains that caused floods and killed at least three people. The decision, published in the official gazette on Friday night, affects 17 cities in Bahia, in the northeast
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Written by Judson Jones and graphics by John Keefe, CNN After all these years, Bing Crosby still spurs our dreams of a “White Christmas.” But a new data analysis suggests some of us are better off leaving that dream of snow on Christmas morning to the holiday classics. When meteorologists talk about “normal” or “average”
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MADRID (AP) — The coaches of Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid say Karim Benzema and Luis Suárez will be ready to face off in the Spanish capital derby despite doubts regarding their fitness. Both strikers had been forced out of recent games with leg injuries. Benzema leads the league with 12 goals, while Suárez leads
Continue Reading By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Alicia Keys hasn’t felt completely free for much of her career. And while that may sound surprising coming from the heralded musician, these days, she’s loving the makeup-free skin she’s in and is settled into a space of confidence and liberation which has manifested into
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Kanye West no ha perdido la esperanza de salvar su matrimonio. La estrella del hip-hop hizo un llamamiento público a su esposa Kim Kardashian, de quien está separado, para que “vuelva corriendo a mí” mientras actuaba junto a Drake en el concierto benéfico “Free Larry Hoover” el jueves por la noche.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Martin Odegaard scored for a third straight game as Arsenal eased to a 3-0 victory over Southampton in the English Premier League to end a run of two straight losses. Arsenal was without captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who was dropped from the squad for disciplinary reasons. But Alexandre Lacazette started in his place
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Jorginho converted his second penalty of the game in stoppage time to give Chelsea a 3-2 win over Leeds and put the team’s English Premier League title chase back on track. The Italy midfielder played through the pain of a continued back issue to ease the Blues’ midfield injury problems, with N’Golo
Continue Reading SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia have discovered 41 migrants, including five children, in a routine police check on a main highway and have arrested the van’s driver. Police said Saturday that their patrol have stopped the van late Friday in front of the toll station near the central town of Negotino.
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Steven Gerrard’s return to Anfield ended in disappointment as Mohamed Salah’s second-half penalty gave Liverpool a 1-0 win over as Aston Villa in the English Premier League. Gerrard was back at his boyhood club in a professional capacity for the first time since leaving in 2015 and was given a standing
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spanish tennis trailblazer Manuel “Manolo” Santana has died at the age of 83. The Madrid Open announced the death of its honorary president on Saturday. No cause of death was given. Santana was the Spaniard to win a Grand Slam singles title. He won four major singles championships: The French Championships in
Continue Reading By MATTIAS KAREN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The English Premier League’s top three have kept up the furious pace of their title race by picking up hard-fought wins, although all three needed second-half penalties to do so. Manchester City maintained its one-point lead after Raheem Sterling’s 100th league goal secured a 1-0 home win
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is drawing attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the abuses of power by mother superiors against nuns who have little recourse but to obey. Francis met Saturday with members of the Vatican’s congregation for religious orders. Francis cited a new
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Sana Noor Haq, CNN A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous painting, described in a statement by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) on Friday as “extremely
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By Ben Church, CNN Samuel Eto’o has been elected president of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) after winning a vote on Saturday. The former Cameroon international promised an array of reforms after receiving 43 votes from members of FECAFOOT’s general assembly. Eto’o enjoyed a glittering club career, playing for the likes of Barcelona, Inter Milan
Continue Reading By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer BOCHUM, Germany (AP) — Bayern Munich extended its lead in the Bundesliga to six points after Jamal Musiala scored in a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Mainz and Borussia Dortmund was held by local rival Bochum to 1-1. Bayern’s win restores a commanding lead in its pursuit of a 10th
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio and Phillipe Vieira, CNN South African authorities have arrested a convicted Portuguese banker that had fled from the country in mid-September. “We first want to thank South African police authorities,” Portugal’s Judiciary Police director Luís Neves said, as he announced that banker João Rendeiro had been captured, on Saturday morning. Neves said
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is returning to South Carolina, the state that played a pivotal role in his march to the Democratic presidential nomination and the White House. Biden is coming to Orangeburg on Friday as the featured speaker at the graduation ceremonies at a historically Black
Continue Reading By Ben Church, CNN Max Verstappen will start on pole position for his title showdown against Lewis Hamilton at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. The Red Bull driver was fastest in qualifying on Saturday with his Mercedes rival in second, meaning the pair will line up on the front row together for the
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN A New York family who came together by chance 21 years ago has now shared their remarkable story in a children’s book. Pete Mercurio was walking out the door to meet his then-partner (now husband) Danny Stewart for dinner in August 2000 when his phone rang. It was Stewart, calling to
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN )– El obispo de Noto en Sicilia sorprendió a los escolares la semana pasada cuando lanzó una bomba durante un festival de arte, diciéndoles que Santa Claus no era real. “No, Santa Claus no existe. De hecho, agregaría que el rojo del traje que lleva fue elegido por Coca Cola exclusivamente con
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EL PASO, Texas — ‘You Eat I Eat’ is the only independent northeast El Paso food pantry and the demand for their services have grown exponentially throughout the pandemic. The pantry that started back in 2015 used to help between 1,000 and 1,500 clients a month. That number has now skyrocketed to nearly 5,000 clients
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty streets have proliferated during the pandemic. The quality of life crimes and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing have given residents a sense the city is in
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty streets have proliferated during the pandemic. The quality of life crimes and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing have given residents a sense the city is in
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The man who directed Barcelona’s youth training academy until last week has been accused by over 60 former students at a public school where he also worked of alleged sexual abuse. Albert Benaiges is under investigation by Spanish authorities following the publication of the allegations in
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Astronauts need to be in unparalleled physical and mental shape to handle the rigors of space — writer Tom Wolfe famously described it as the “right stuff” in his 1979 book of the same name. NASA’s latest class of would-be space sailors is no exception. But increasingly, you don’t have to
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty streets have proliferated during the pandemic. The quality of life crimes and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing have given residents a sense the city is in
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty streets have proliferated during the pandemic. The quality of life crimes and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing have given residents a sense the city is in
Continue Reading STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Former Miami coach Manny Diaz has been hired as defensive coordinator at Penn State less than a week after he was fired by the Hurricanes. Diaz replaces Brent Pry, who left Penn State after eight seasons as coaching the defense to become Virginia Tech’s head coach. Diaz was a longtime
Continue Reading HELSINKI (AP) — A fire-ravaged German-owned cargo vessel has been towed to port in the western Swedish city of Goteborg after a week-long blaze that broke out on the North Sea when its timber cargo caught fire. The Swedish Coast Guard said that the Liberia-flagged Almirante Storni, built in 2012, was towed to the port
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