PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Prosecutors have brought terror charges against an ethnic Albanian man from Kosovo who allegedly joined an extremist group in Syria and brought his family there. The prosecutor’s office in Kosovo said Friday that the suspect joined the Jabhat al-Nusra group along his son. Authorities allege he participated in attacks in Syria.
Continue Reading ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The Council of Europe’s committee on torture has harshly criticized Croatia over “severe ill-treatment” of migrants entering the country, and urged authorities to take immediate action to stop the practice. The report published Friday says the committee’s delegation encountered problems in cooperation and obstruction during a visit in Aug. 2020. Croatia
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CNN By Arlette Saenz, CNN White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeffrey Zients is set to announce the Biden administration is shipping 11 million vaccines doses abroad on Friday, with 9 million going to Africa and another 2 million to other countries around the world, according to remarks obtained by CNN. The move follows President Joe
Continue Reading By Arlette Saenz, CNN White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeffrey Zients is set to announce the Biden administration is shipping 11 million vaccines doses abroad on Friday, with 9 million going to Africa and another 2 million to other countries around the world, according to remarks obtained by CNN. The move follows President Joe Biden’s
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By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — The last surviving member of West Germany’s 1954 World Cup-winning team has died. Horst Eckel was 89. The German soccer federation says Eckel died Friday. It did not give a cause of death. Eckel was one of only two West German players to play in every
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By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden has spoken regularly about the economy in the past month — trying at once to reassure Americans about inflation, draw attention to job growth and earn support for his signature infrastructure and social spending proposals. But some of Biden’s economic claims aren’t true. And some of them are
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ralf Rangnick turned down an offer to coach Chelsea on an interim basis last season but he couldn’t say no to Manchester United. The 63-year-old German held his first news conference as interim manager. His contract calls for him to take up a consultancy role for two years after managing United
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Lewis Hamilton has said he is “not comfortable” racing in Saudi Arabia ahead of the penultimate race of the Formula One season, which takes place in Jeddah on Sunday. “Do I feel comfortable here? I wouldn’t say I do,” Hamilton told reporters on Thursday. “But this was not my choice. Our
Continue Reading By ABDOULIE JOHN and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambians are getting ready to vote in a historic election that won’t have former dictator Yahya Jammeh on the ballot. While the 2016 elections that removed Jammeh from power after 22 years saw Gambians go from fear to elation, many are still not
Continue Reading PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida teenager is accused of making a school shooting threat against Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The school in Parkland, Florida has been a focus of national debate and activism over gun violence since a former student killed 17 people there on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Broward Sheriff’s officials
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EL PASO, Texas — Even though El Paso hasn’t had it’s first freeze just yet, it’s still getting very cold overnight across the Borderland. Space heaters are a great way stay warm, but they can be dangerous, which is why the El Paso Fire Department is asking you to stay cautious to prevent a fire in
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dozens of flag-waving demonstrators from a Kurdish organization have broken into the grounds of the global chemical weapons watchdog to protest what they allege is the use of chemical weapons by Turkey’s armed forces. Police arrested about 50 protesters on Friday after they managed to get past security, including a
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By Zahra Ullah, CNN The International Space Station had to adjust its orbit to avoid collision with a piece of debris from a US rocket, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Friday, according to state news agency TASS. “Five minutes ago, the ISS avoided a conjunction with the US space
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British study has found that Black and other members or racial and ethnic minorities in the U.K are dying with the coronavirus at higher rates than white residents. A government-commissioned report released Friday said COVID-19 death rates have fallen sharply for all ethnicities because of vaccination.
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Jay Croft and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Hours after a prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school, authorities said Friday that the parents are missing. A vehicle matching the description of the black Kia Seltos connected
Continue Reading Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald shares the timeline that led her to charge the parents of 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley with four counts of involuntary manslaughter following the Oxford High School shooting in Oakland County, Michigan.
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The era of big Chinese companies heading to the United States to raise money may have just come to an end. What’s happening: China’s Didi announced Friday that it will “immediately” start the process of delisting from the New York Stock Exchange and pivot to Hong Kong. Coming just months
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The era of big Chinese companies heading to the United States to raise money may have just come to an end. What’s happening: China’s Didi announced Friday that it will “immediately” start the process of delisting from the New York Stock Exchange and pivot to Hong Kong. Coming
Continue Reading By Gabe Cohen, CNN As Michael Lundy cradles her newborn son, she’s mentally preparing to pack up and leave her Detroit home again. She just got a shutoff notice from the power company, owes more than $2,400 and her debt has grown throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. And she’s been trying to stay afloat after being
Continue Reading Millions of Americans can’t afford to pay their utility bills.
Continue Reading Thousands of Americans could be without heat this winter as mounting utility debt during the pandemic has led to some companies shutting off the power. CNN’s Gabe Cohen reports.
Continue Reading SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s new parliament has convened for its first session following the country’s third parliamentary election of the year. A new anti-corruption party led by two Harvard University graduates emerged as the surprise winner of last month’s snap election, edging out the GERB party of three-time prime minister Boyko Borissov. Under the
Continue Reading CNN By Barbara Starr and Gregory Wallace, CNN The US military and the Federal Aviation Administration are reviewing a flyover of an NFL game last month to determine if the military helicopters flew too low over civilians in violation of aviation regulations. A military inquiry is underway by the 101st Airborne Division to determine if
Continue Reading By Ben Church, CNN Human rights activist Peter Dahlin says the International Olympic Committee’s calls with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai are putting her at “greater risk” and that they are “obviously staged.” One of China’s most recognizable sports stars, Peng publicly accused a former top Communist Party official, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, of coercing
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John Malathronas, CNN Postojna Cave, situated one hour’s drive southwest of Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, is so vast, it has its own railway. And yet, one of the cave’s main attractions is something at the other end of the size spectrum — and completely unique to Postojna. Baby dragons! Postojna is, during normal travel times, one
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle says it is suspending four employees and one freelancer during an investigation into allegations that they expressed anti-Israel and antisemitic views. Munich daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung this week quoted social media comments allegedly made by members of DW’s Arabic service that appeared to downplay the Holocaust or
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban have decreed they are banning forced marriage of women in Afghanistan, a move likely meant to address criteria the international community consider a precondition to recognizing their government and restoring aid. The move announced on Friday by the reclusive Taliban chief comes as poverty is surging in Afghanistan, following the
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Kevin Liptak, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s positive Covid test in September 2020, three days before the first presidential debate, is raising new questions about whether Trump’s physician at the time, Dr. Sean Conley, had a duty to inform the public — and Joe Biden — about Trump’s positive result. The
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Washington (CNN) — El ejército de EE.UU. y la Administración Federal de Aviación están revisando un sobrevuelo de un partido de la NFL el mes pasado para determinar si los helicópteros militares volaron demasiado bajo sobre los civiles en violación de las normas de aviación. La 101ª División Aerotransportada está llevando a
Continue Reading BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Coronavirus cases in Slovakia have hit a daily record despite the country entering a national lockdown last week. The Health Ministry reported that Slovakia confirmed 15,278 new cases on Thursday, almost 5,000 more than the previous record. The government ordered a two-week lockdown that started Nov. 25. However, the ministry attributed
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