Germán Padinger Nueva York (CNN Business) — Más de 2.800 vuelos han sido cancelados este lunes en todo el mundo debido al avance de la variante ómicron del coronavirus. Según el sitio web de seguimiento FlightAware, cerca de 1.000 de los vuelos cancelados tenían destinos dentro, hacia o desde Estados Unidos. Además, más de 11.000
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — Dipali Roy no podía permitirse comer. Ella y su marido, Pradip Roy, eran trabajadores en la industria textil en Bangladesh cuando la pandemia de covid-19 golpeó la pasada primavera, provocando despidos masivos en su fábrica. Como millones de personas en todo el mundo, ambos perdieron sus empleos en la capital, Dhaka,
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By GREG BUCKLE Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — England fast bowler James Anderson is urging officials to continue with the Ashes cricket series against Australia despite a COVID-19 drama which unfolded at the team’s hotel on Monday and delayed the start of the second day of the third test. Like other sporting events around
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By MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees. Their first stop is the currency exchange and then it’s off to the markets and grocery stores in the northwestern city
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By MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees. Their first stop is the currency exchange and then it’s off to the markets and grocery stores in the northwestern city
Continue Reading By ALEX SCHULLER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators from Iran and five world powers have resumed negotiations on restoring Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal, with Iran insisting that the United States and its allies promise to allow it to export its crude oil. The latest round of talks in Vienna opened
Continue Reading By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s legacy is reverberating among young South Africans, many of whom were not born when the clergyman battled apartheid and sought full rights for the nation’s Black majority. South Africa is holding a week of mourning for Tutu, who died Sunday at
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In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Dr. Anthony Fauci praised Donald Trump for promoting vaccines and expressed dismay over a crowd booing the former president when he announced that he’d received his Covid-19 booster shot.
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Covid-19 numbers keep soaring as travelers scatter back across the country after Christmas and Americans prepare for another holiday weekend. The US is now averaging 198,404 new Covid-19 cases each day, according to Sunday data from Johns Hopkins University. That’s 47% higher than a week ago and the
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN Acclaimed film director Jean-Marc Vallée — who helmed the 2013 drama “Dallas Buyers Club” — died Sunday near Quebec City, Canada, his production company’s publicist told CNN. He was 58 years old. “He was a friend, creative partner and an older brother to me,” Nathan Ross, a partner in Vallée’s production
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Delta Air Lines says new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair. The move prompted a protest from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. An emailed statement from Delta says the new mandates at Shanghai Pudong International Airport require
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Delta Air Lines says new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair. The move prompted a protest from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. An emailed statement from Delta says the new mandates at Shanghai Pudong International Airport require
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By Jill Disis, CNN Business China is planning to tighten restrictions for Chinese companies that want to list overseas. And while Beijing won’t ban them from trading abroad altogether, life might be getting a lot tougher for firms hoping to score more foreign investment. China’s securities regulator proposed late Friday that any firm that wants
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Diksha Madhok and Jill Disis, CNN Business Chinese tech stocks got a big boost in Hong Kong on the last day of the year, but it’s far from enough to make up for what has been a historically tumultuous time for the sector. Shares in tech and internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, Raja Razek and Amir Vera, CNN A 14-year-old was arrested Monday in connection with a convenience store shooting in Garland, Texas, that left three people dead and one in critical condition, Garland Police Chief Jeff Bryan said during a news conference. The three victims from the Sunday shooting were all teenage boys
Continue Reading By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has postponed its verdicts on two charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in which she is accused of importing and possessing walkie-talkies without following official procedures. A legal official familiar with the case says the court gave no reason for
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are trading mixed, as optimism set off by a rally on Wall Street was dampened by concerns about the potential impact of the omicron coronavirus variant. Benchmarks rose in Japan and South Korea, but fell in China. Markets were closed in Australia for a
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are trading mixed, as optimism set off by a rally on Wall Street was dampened by concerns about the potential impact of the omicron coronavirus variant. Benchmarks rose in Japan and South Korea, but fell in China. Markets were closed in Australia for a
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes completed a fourth day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict. Holmes is facing 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes completed a fourth day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict. Holmes is facing 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical
Continue Reading HOBART, Australia (AP) — Super maxis Black Jack and LawConnect traded the lead several times in the Sydney to Hobart race as the yachts approached the island state of Tasmania nearly two days into the race. The Monaco Yacht Club-based Black Jack and the 100-footer LawConnect, a previous winner as Perpetual Loyal in 2016 and
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Continue Reading Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy tells CNN’s Dana Bash that one of the most important things parents can do to help their children is “to let them know it’s okay if you struggle.”
Continue Reading HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In a story published Dec. 27, 2021, about an overview of Pennsylvania’s roadside historical markers, The Associated Press erroneously spelled the name of one of the counties. It is Juniata County, not Juniana County.
Continue Reading Dr. Chris Pernell shares a tweet from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health that uses a classic Christmas movie to emphasize how vaccines help fight Covid-19.
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Continue Reading The Los Angeles Police Department has released an edited package of surveillance camera footage and police-worn body camera videos showing the events that led to the shooting death of a teenage girl by an officer firing at an assault suspect.
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, Sarah Moon and Topher Gauk-Roger, CNN Valentina Orellana-Peralta and her mother were holding one another and praying in the dressing room of a Los Angeles clothing store when a police officer’s bullet ripped through a wall and fatally wounded the 14-year-old, according to relatives. “The girl’s American dream has been taken from
Continue Reading The Associated Press S&P issues its latest monthly CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price index Tuesday. The Commerce Department reports its November snapshot of U.S. wholesale inventories Wednesday. The Labor Department delivers its weekly tally of applications for unemployment benefits Thursday.
Continue Reading By RYAN PEARSON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Director and producer Jean-Marc Vallée, who won an Emmy for directing the hit HBO series “Big Little Lies” and whose 2013 drama “Dallas Buyers Club” earned six Oscar nominations, has died. He was 58. His representative Bumble Ward says Vallée died in his cabin outside
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