By Walé Azeez, CNN Business Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, predicts that global supply chain chaos will continue into next year. That could benefit the company, which just reported its best quarter in 117 years. The surging cost of shipping propelled Maersk’s profit before taxes and interest to $5.9 billion and sales to
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BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is turning to a ballot of its entire membership to choose a new leader after crashing to defeat and its worst-ever national election result in September. It expects to have a new leader by late January. It will be the first time that the Christian
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BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is turning to a ballot of its entire membership to choose a new leader after crashing to defeat and its worst-ever national election result in September. It expects to have a new leader by late January. It will be the first time that the Christian
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business If communities across America were to become more racially integrated, it would be an “economic game changer,” boosting gross domestic product growth by an estimated 0.3 percentage points in the span of a decade, Moody’s Analytics has found. Deeply entrenched racial bias and segregation, however, are limiting the nation’s potential
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By Stephanie Busari and Sheena McKenzie, CNN It had been advertised as “Luxury in the Sky,” a glamorous residential high-rise in an upmarket area of Lagos, where apartments started at $1.2 million a unit. But on Monday, this more than 20 storey half-constructed building in Nigeria’s economic hub became the scene of tragedy, after the
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Chipotle is testing pollo asado in two US cities, marking the first time in nearly 30 years the chain has experimented with a new chicken recipe. The limited-time offering launched Tuesday in 95 restaurants across Cincinnati, Ohio, and Sacramento, California. In a statement, Chipotle said the chicken is seasoned with
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Juan Pablo Elverdin El expresidente de la FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) Joseph Blatter y el expresidente de la UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Michel Platini han sido acusados en Suiza de presunto fraude. El fiscal general suizo acusa a ambos de haber gestionado ilegalmente el pago de dos millones de francos suizos
Continue Reading ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — The bloom of a giant and stinky Sumatran flower nicknamed a “corpse plant” because it smells like a dead body is huge drawing crowds to a Southern California botanical garden. The bloom of the Amorphophallus titanum plant started Sunday afternoon at the San Diego Botanic Gardens in Encinitas. By Monday morning,
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is rolling out a new initiative aimed at reducing suicides by gun and combating the significant increases in suicides by members of the military and veterans. The White House is announcing the new plan Tuesday. Officials say it is an unprecedented focus by the
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Amazon is lifting a mask mandate for fully vaccinated warehouse workers beginning Tuesday. Vaccinated Amazon workers will no longer have to wear a face covering in the warehouse unless a federal, state or local law requires it. In a statement, Amazon said it continues to evaluate Covid-19 safety measures and
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — El presidente de Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, informó la decisión de su gobierno de ampliar el espacio de la reserva marina de las islas Galápagos, pasando de 133.000 kilómetros cuadrados a 193.000 kilómetros cuadrados. El histórico anuncio se dio durante la Conferencia sobre Cambio Climático de las Naciones Unidas que
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with fraud and other offenses by Swiss prosecutors after a six-year investigation into a controversial $2 million payment. The 85-year-old Blatter and 66-year-old Platini now face a trial within months at federal criminal court in
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Justin Bieber says he could cry thinking about how his wife Hailey has loved him through the hard times. During an appearance on on the podcast “In Good Faith with Chelsea & Judah Smith,” which released Monday, the couple talked about some of rough patches in their relationship. Hailey Bieber
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with fraud and other offenses by Swiss prosecutors after a six-year investigation into a controversial $2 million payment. The 85-year-old Blatter and 66-year-old Platini now face a trial within months at federal criminal court in
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers US health officials have given the final OK to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 5. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the go-ahead Tuesday night. The announcement came only hours after a CDC advisory panel unanimously decided Pfizer’s
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers US health officials have given the final OK to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 5. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the go-ahead Tuesday night. The announcement came only hours after a CDC advisory panel unanimously decided Pfizer’s
Continue Reading Opinion by Karin Kimbrough for CNN Business Perspectives The US is experiencing a historically tight labor market. The speed of the current recovery is far outpacing the last recession, and the supply of available jobs is still well above the demand from job seekers. Open roles posted on LinkedIn have nearly doubled since the beginning
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The PGA Tour goes from one vacation destination in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to another one in Mexico along the Gulf of Mexico. The difference between Bermuda and Mayakoba is the strength of field. The World Wide Technology Championship has its strongest field since it began in 2007. That
Continue Reading MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann will return to the bench against Benfica in the Champions League after missing four games with the coronavirus. Bayern says Nagelsmann has taken charge of a training session nearly two weeks after he had to step aside hours before the team’s last Champions League game. Bayern initially
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Halloween may be over but “Hocus Pocus 2” is well underway. Disney+ announced new details for the highly anticipated sequel on Twitter Monday, with production underway in Rhode Island. The movie will feature the 1993 film’s original stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. In this new film, the
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — Los asesores independientes de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC) aprobaron recomendar la vacuna de Pfizer contra el covid-19 para los niños de 5 a 11 años. El Comité Asesor sobre Prácticas de Inmunización (ACIP, por sus siglas en inglés), el grupo independiente de
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish hospital says doctors and midwives did everything they could to save the lives of a pregnant woman and her fetus in a case that has put the spotlight on new restrictions on Poland’s abortion law. The 30-year-old woman died of septic shock in her 22nd week of pregnancy. Doctors
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The Asian Development Bank says it has won commitments of $665 million to support climate-related projects in Southeast Asia. The Manila, Philippines-based lender manages a regional platform that has targeted a total of $7 billion for such spending. It says the new funding announced at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow,
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The Asian Development Bank says it has won commitments of $665 million to support climate-related projects in Southeast Asia. The Manila, Philippines-based lender manages a regional platform that has targeted a total of $7 billion for such spending. It says the new funding announced at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow,
Continue Reading By Moira Ritter, CNN Business The director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme is still pleading with the world’s richest individuals to help in the fight against the world hunger crisis. On CNN’s “New Day” Tuesday, UN Food Programme Director David Beasley acknowledged the controversy he found himself in last week when he chastised
Continue Reading CNN By Moira Ritter, CNN Business The director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme is still pleading with the world’s richest individuals to help in the fight against the world hunger crisis. On CNN’s “New Day” Tuesday, UN Food Programme Director David Beasley acknowledged the controversy he found himself in last week when he
Continue Reading NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Former No. 1-ranked doubles player Cara Black has gained the highest tally in the fan vote for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022. Black will get a boost to her support from the official voting group. Black is from Zimbabwe and is the first African-born woman nominated for
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Ethiopia will lose access to a lucrative US trade program due to human rights violations unless it take significant steps toward ending the ongoing conflict and alleviating the humanitarian crisis by the start of 2022, senior administration officials said Tuesday. President Joe Biden has determined that Ethiopia is out of compliance
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN Families are spreading bulks of marigold petals, lighting up candles for their loved ones and some are even wearing colorful skull makeup. It’s Día de los Muertos. The Mexican holiday, also known as Day of the Dead, extends over the first two days of November and has nothing to do with
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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson, on a humanitarian mission to strife-torn Myanmar, has met with the head of the Southeast Asian nation’s military-installed government. Myanmar’s Information Ministry says Richardson held discussions about prevention and control of COVID-19. His mission was announced Sunday by his
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