By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Witnesses say Tigrayans are being arrested in Addis Ababa in a wave of alleged ethnic targeting by authorities, after a year-long conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The detentions follow a dramatic escalation in the war last week, when the federal government declared a state
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CNN By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The United States has officially flung open its doors to vaccinated international travelers. For companies in the industry, that’s reason to cheer. What’s happening: Stocks in airlines have rallied this month in anticipation of the easing of restrictions, which investors hope will trigger a surge in bookings from people
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The United States has officially flung open its doors to vaccinated international travelers. For companies in the industry, that’s reason to cheer. What’s happening: Stocks in airlines have rallied this month in anticipation of the easing of restrictions, which investors hope will trigger a surge in bookings from people who
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Aaron Rodgers has been prominently featured in State Farm’s television ads for about a decade. This past weekend, he was almost nowhere to be found. The number of State Farm spots featuring the Green Bay Packers quarterback drastically decreased this weekend, following the revelation Rodgers is not vaccinated against Covid-19
Continue Reading CNN By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Aaron Rodgers has been prominently featured in State Farm’s television ads for about a decade. This past weekend, he was almost nowhere to be found. The number of State Farm spots featuring the Green Bay Packers quarterback drastically decreased this weekend, following the revelation Rodgers is not vaccinated against
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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Thousands of fans were at the Camp Nou for the official presentation of Xavi Hernández as Barcelona coach. The supporters are hoping he can turn the team’s fortunes around after a dismal start to its first season post-Lionel Messi. Club great Xavi wanted to return so
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The Uganda Red Cross says it is responding to a heavy influx of people fleeing fighting in a remote area of eastern Congo. A spokeswoman says hundreds are camping at the border post of Bunagana, seeking shelter in Uganda. Ugandan authorities didn’t immediately comment. Eastern Congo
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Juan Pablo Elverdin Nueva York, NY (CNN) — El Twitterverso ha hablado. ¿Obedecerá Elon Musk? Elon Musk tuiteó este sábado que dejaría que los usuarios de Twitter decidieran si debía vender el 10% de los 170,5 millones de acciones que tiene en Tesla, y el 58% de los más de 3,5 millones de votantes dijeron
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Two Iraqi politicians say a top Iranian general visited Baghdad after the assassination attempt against Iraq’s prime minister. He said Tehran and its allies had nothing to do with the drone attack that lightly injured the Iraqi leader. The two Shiite Muslim politicians Monday requested anonymity because
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A child sleeps in the ruins of a home eroded by rising sea levels on a beach in Togo. This haunting image, the work of Spanish photographer Antonio Aragón Renuncio, was intended to highlight a problem faced by many West African countries and has scooped the first prize in this year’s
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Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark striker Kasper Dolberg says he has been diagnosed with diabetes and will miss his national team’s upcoming World Cup qualifiers “to get used to the small treatment.” Dolberg also plays for French club Nice. He wrote on Instagram that he doesn’t think the disease will affect his playing career. Denmark
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN When the Czech Republic’s 200 newly-elected deputies gathered for the inaugural session of its new parliament on Monday, there wasn’t a single Communist party member there — for the first time in 76 years. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), the direct successor of the totalitarian Communist Party of
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By Jack Guy, CNN A cricket match in New Zealand was suspended when the pitch was invaded by some unusual visitors: a swarm of bees. Canterbury and Wellington were playing a Plunket Shield match at Basin Reserve in Wellington on Sunday when the insects descended. Photos of the incident show players and officials sitting and
Continue Reading CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Officials say the prosthetic-tailed dolphin that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies may be fighting a gastrointestinal infection. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium announced Sunday that staff members noticed a week earlier that Winter was acting abnormally and not eating. Initial bloodwork showed the possible infection. The aquarium’s care team has been
Continue Reading By Walé Azeez, CNN Business More than $30 billion was wiped off Tesla’s market value on Monday after millions of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers voted in favor of him selling 10% of his shares in the company. Tesla shares fell by about 3% in morning trading in New York, recovering slightly from a premarket drop
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Tesla shares closed Monday down nearly 5% after CEO Elon Musk said he would sell 10% of his holdings in the electric car maker — more than $20 billion worth by most calculations — based on the results of a poll he conducted on
Continue Reading By Esha Mitra, Hannah Ritchie and Manveena Suri, CNN India is accusing a guard branch of the Pakistan navy of murder, following the death of a 32-year-old fisherman at sea on Saturday, Indian police in the coastal state of Gujarat told CNN Monday. The incident occurred on a fishing boat called “JALPARI” which was allegedly
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CNN By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Suspected foreign hackers have breached nine organizations in the defense, energy, health care, technology and education sectors — and at least one of those organizations is in the US, according to findings that security firm Palo Alto Networks shared exclusively with CNN. With the help of the National Security Agency,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Social Democrats, the country’s main center-left party, is set to make the manager of its successful election campaign one of its leaders. The move comes amid ongoing coalition talks to anoint party candidate, Olaf Scholz as the successor to outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel. Top party officials proposed on Monday that party
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer Gymnastics star Simone Biles is ready for a bit of a break after wrapping up a post-Olympic tour. Biles headlined the “Gold Over America Tour” that recently wrapped up a 32-city sprint. The seven-time Olympic medalist says the tour was a breath of fresh air after a challenging appearance
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Barack Obama is expressing confidence that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress and says that bill will be “historic.” At the U.N. climate talks Monday, he also faulted China and Russia for what he
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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer Gymnastics star Simone Biles is ready for a bit of a break after wrapping up a post-Olympic tour. Biles headlined the “Gold Over America Tour” that recently wrapped up a 32-city sprint. The seven-time Olympic medalist says the tour was a breath of fresh air after a challenging appearance
Continue Reading By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Some people can’t wait to retire. Others are pushed into retirement due to illness, job loss or other factors beyond their control. And still others aren’t quite ready to leave the workforce behind. If you’re trying to make up your mind about when’s the right time to retire, experts say
Continue Reading By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Some people can’t wait to retire. Others are pushed into retirement due to illness, job loss or other factors beyond their control. And still others aren’t quite ready to leave the workforce behind. If you’re trying to make up your mind about when’s the right time to retire, experts say
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN en Español) — Xavi Hernández está de regreso: el exmediocampista y multicampeón con el FC Barcelona de España fue presentado este lunes como nuevo entrenador del club catalán, con el objetivo de enderezar una temporada que aparece como muy complicada. Con una verdadera fiesta montada en el Camp Nou, Xavi pisó
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — Two party coalitions that emerged as winners of the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election have signed a power-sharing deal to govern. A three-party, liberal-conservative coalition composed of the Civic Democratic Party, Christian Democrats and the TOP 09 party garnered 27.8% of votes in last month’s poll. That group has teamed up with the
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Covid-19 is here to stay. It’s highly unlikely that the United States, let alone the world, will be able to completely eliminate the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. But there will come a day when it’s no longer a pandemic, when cases are no longer out of control and hospitals aren’t at
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By Amanda Sealy, CNN Pfizer said Tuesday it signed a licensing agreement to allow broader global access to its experimental Covid-19 pill. The agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool, a United Nations-backed public health organization, would allow generic manufacturers to make the pill widely available in 95 low- and middle-income countries covering 53% of the
Continue Reading By Jim Sciutto and Natasha Bertrand, CNN CIA Director Bill Burns held a rare conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week, to convey “serious” US concerns about Russia’s military buildup along the Ukrainian border and to attempt to determine Russian intentions, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN. Putin’s spokesperson also confirmed
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