COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden is recommending that everyone between the ages of 18 and 65 should get a booster shot against COVID-19 six months after having gotten the second jab. Swedish Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren said Wednesday about 7 million people in Sweden out of a total population of 10 million have had
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden is recommending that everyone between the ages of 18 and 65 should get a booster shot against COVID-19 six months after having gotten the second jab. Swedish Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren said Wednesday about 7 million people in Sweden out of a total population of 10 million have had
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By Yoonjung Seo, CNN Business Samsung is planning to build a $17 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas as part of efforts to tackle a global shortage of chips. Announcing its largest ever investment in the United States, the South Korean electronics giant said Tuesday that the factory would create 2,000 high-tech jobs directly, and
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Mariana Toro Londres (CNN Business) — Un resurgimiento de casos de covid-19 en Europa alimenta los temores de que la fuerte recuperación económica de la región pueda verse amenazada por otro invierno duro. Hasta ahora, la nueva ola de covid-19 solo tiene un impacto limitado en la actividad empresarial de los 19 países que utilizan
Continue Reading By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business India is flirting with a ban on cryptocurrencies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Tuesday said that it is preparing to introduce a bill that would regulate digital currencies. There’s still much that’s unknown about the proposal. A cryptically worded description of the bill posted on the Indian parliament website
Continue Reading olivertapia Santiago de Chile (CNN) -– El recién electo diputado Johannes Kaiser, del ultraderechista Partido Republicano de Chile, protagonizó una polémica este martes luego de circular en las redes sociales un extracto de video sin fecha en el que cuestiona el derecho al voto femenino y se refiere a los inmigrantes como violadores. En las
Continue Reading olivertapia París (CNN) — La estrella del fútbol Karim Benzema recibió una sentencia de prisión en suspenso de un año y una multa de 75.000 euros (84.000 dólares) por su participación en el intento de chantaje contra su excompañero de la selección francesa Mathieu Valbuena con un video sexual, confirmó a CNN el abogado del
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Magdalena Andersson has resigned as Sweden’s prime minister hours after being appointed as the country’s first female prime minister. She did so after suffering a budget defeat in parliament Wednesday and her coalition partner the Greens left the two-party minority government. The government’s own budget
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Skylar Mitchell, CNN In September, when the New York fashion scene converged for the city’s full return to live runway shows since the Covid-19 pandemic, one highly-anticipated brand was visibly absent from the runway. Months after being awarded a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund grant for emerging designers, Anifa Mvuemba, founder of women’s apparel label Hanifa, opted
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — Coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic have soared to a new record high, reaching almost 26,000 daily cases. The Health Ministry said Wednesday that the daily tally hit 25,864 on Tuesday, about 3,000 more than the previous record registered on Friday. The country’s infection rate has risen to 1,061 new cases per
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By Ben Church, Xiaofei Xu and Meredith Ruleman CNN Soccer star Karim Benzema has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and fined 75,000 euros ($84,000) over his involvement in the attempted blackmail against former French national teammate Mathieu Valbuena with a sex tape, the Olympiacos player’s lawyer confirmed to CNN. The court went further
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government says Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to the battlefront after the leader said martyrdom might be necessary in the yearlong war with rival fighters approaching the capital. A government spokesman told reporters the prime minister arrived at the front on
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has tested negative for COVID-19 after his French counterpart, whom he met early in the week, became infected with the coronavirus. De Croo’s office said Wednesday that he will do an important part of his work remotely in line with restrictive measures that the government as
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New Zealand’s PM kid interrupts Facebook live briefing
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Aliyah Boston spent the offseason working on her fitness to be able to excel late in games. It’s already paid off for South Carolina’s star post player, who was dominant in the final quarter of the No. 1 Gamecocks’ victory over UConn on Monday.
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Rising unemployment, endemic corruption and a recent economic crisis that slashed state salaries have pushed Iraqi Kurds to sell their homes, cars and other belongings to pay off smugglers with the hope of reaching the European Union from the Belarusian capital of Minsk. Most of the
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Injuries and COVID-19 protocol absences have muddled the NHL standings throughout the first quarter of the season. The traditional Thanksgiving benchmark is not necessarily an indicator of who will make the playoffs. The season also started a week later than usual. Recent seasons have also begun to crack the
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Injuries and COVID-19 protocol absences have muddled the NHL standings throughout the first quarter of the season. The traditional Thanksgiving benchmark is not necessarily an indicator of who will make the playoffs. The season also started a week later than usual. Recent seasons have also begun to crack the
Continue Reading Mariana Toro Nueva York (CNN Business) — Durante meses, la Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo (OPEP) y sus aliados rechazaron las súplicas de Washington y otras capitales mundiales de bombear más petróleo. Ahora, una coalición de países consumidores liderada por Estados Unidos se está uniendo para decir efectivamente: Bien, si no actúan, nosotros sí.
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says coronavirus cases jumped by 11% in Europe in the last week, the only region in the world where COVID-19 has continued to increase since mid-October. In its weekly assessment of the pandemic released on Tuesday, the U.N. health agency said cases and deaths globally have risen by
Continue Reading CA: NASA launches Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission
Continue Reading NASA launches rocket with goal of crashing it into an asteroid to see if it can change its course.
Continue Reading By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Israel and Morocco have signed a landmark agreement that lays the foundation for security cooperation, intelligence sharing, and future arms sales. The memorandum of understanding is the centerpiece of a visit this week by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz to Morocco. Morocco and Israel established
Continue Reading CNN’s Chris Cuomo presses defense attorney Kevin Gough over his attempt to ban Black pastors from the courtroom during the trial for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
Continue Reading CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig analyzes the prosecutor’s rebuttal about the self-defense claim made in the Ahmaud Arbery trial.
Continue Reading By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Steve Almasy, CNN A jury Wednesday found three White men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, guilty on multiple murder counts, as well as other charges. The verdict, delivered by nine White women, two White men and one Black man, came after more than 11
Continue Reading A jury has found Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020.
Continue Reading Wanda Cooper Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery, reacts to the moment when a jury found Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. guilty for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020.
Continue Reading By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press VERSAILLES, France (AP) — France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has been given a one-year suspended jail sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros ($84,000) in a sex-tape case that rocked French soccer. Benzema was found guilty of being involved in an attempt in 2015 to blackmail France teammate
Continue Reading By CNN Sport Staff Famous college basketball announcer Dick Vitale could not hold back the emotion as he returned to commentating on Tuesday night. Last month, Vitale announced that he has lymphoma and would undergo six months of chemotherapy. And on Tuesday night, an emotional Vitale returned to the commentary booth for ESPN’s coverage of
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