No vaccine? No cafe, according to new French virus law
PARIS (AP) — France’s parliament has approved a law that will exclude unvaccinated people from restaurants, sports arenas and other venues.…
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Rising costs add to pandemic pain for small businesses
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sharply higher costs are yet another challenge thrown at business owners by the global pandemic.…
Continue Reading Double dealing: Legal, illicit blur in California pot market
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As California enters its fifth year of broad legal marijuana sales, industry insiders say…
Continue Reading ‘Scream’ dethrones ‘Spider-Man’ with a solid box office debut
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Even Spider-Man isn’t safe from Ghostface. Paramount’s “Scream” — the fifth installment in…
Continue Reading Mali’s ex-President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita dies at 76
By BABA AHMED and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has died nearly 18 months…
Continue Reading At many churches, pandemic hits collection plates, budgets
By HOLLY MEYER and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale. Already financially…
Continue Reading Ukraine says Russia behind cyberattack in ‘hybrid war’ move
By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced government websites and it…
Continue Reading MLK Jr. Day 2022: What’s open and closed
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 17, is a national holiday — which means some institutions and…
Continue Reading Republicans are much more worried about inflation than Democrats. Why that matters
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Do you think inflation is going to moderate over the next year or remain elevated? The answer may depend in part on…
Continue Reading Austria tweaks vaccine mandate plan, to come in next month
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has presented revised plans for its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate.…
Continue Reading Serbia votes in referendum on constitutional changes
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has held a referendum on constitutional amendments that the populist government says are needed for the Balkan…
Continue Reading Denmark lifts COVID restrictions, opens many public venues
HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark has lifted a number of coronavirus restrictions and allowed the reopening of certain venues despite the spread of the…
Continue Reading COVID program delivers 1 billion doses to poorer countries
BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says a U.N.-backed program shipping coronavirus vaccines to many poor countries has now delivered 1…
Continue Reading Portugal’s election campaign begins under pandemic limits
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The official two-week campaigning period for Portugal’s Jan. 30 general election is kicking off. But there will be none…
Continue Reading Tesla inks deal to get key battery component outside China
By TOM BOWKER and TOM KRISHER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tesla is turning to Mozambique for a key component in its electric car batteries in…
Continue Reading Ethiopian diaspora torn by ethnic tensions in Tigray war
By HELINA SELEMON Associated Press Thousands of miles away from the Tigray war a lawsuit between trustees and clergy over the language of services is…
Continue Reading Omicron exposes inflexibility of Europe’s public hospitals
By LORI HINNANT Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The omicron variant of the pandemic is exposing the vulnerabilities of European public…
Continue Reading ‘Saturday Night Live’ returns from winter break with its Joe Biden blaming the surge of Omicron on Spider-Man
CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “We’re in the middle of a cold, dark winter,” James Austin Johnson as President Joe Biden said…
Continue Reading ‘Saturday Night Live’ returns from winter break with its Joe Biden blaming the surge of Omicron on Spider-Man
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “We’re in the middle of a cold, dark winter,” James Austin Johnson as President Joe Biden said…
Continue Reading ‘Saturday Night Live’ returns from winter break with its Joe Biden blaming the surge of Omicron on Spider-Man
CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “We’re in the middle of a cold, dark winter,” James Austin Johnson as President Joe Biden said…
Continue Reading Microsoft discloses malware attack on Ukraine govt networks
By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says dozens of computer systems at an unspecified number of Ukrainian government agencies…
Continue Reading DirecTV drops Trump-friendly One America News
By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — DirecTV says it plans to drop the right-wing TV channel One America News Network. The satellite…
Continue Reading 2,800 flights canceled Sunday as winter storm hits East Coast
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Airlines have so far canceled 2,800 flights Sunday as a powerful winter storm packing rain, sleet and snow is poised…
Continue Reading Italian menswear innovator Nino Cerruti dies at 91
By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Italian media say Nino Cerruti, the Italian fashion designer credited with revolutionizing menswear…
Continue Reading Fendi leads Milan trends with feminine silhouettes for men
By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan menswear designers seem to have decided on the answer, but the question remains: Have the…
Continue Reading GSK rejects $68b Unilever bid for consumer healthcare unit
LONDON (AP) — The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline says it has rejected an unsolicited 50 billion-pound ($68.4 billion) bid from Unilever for…
Continue Reading Hezbollah, ally end Cabinet boycott in crisis-hit Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group and its main Shiite ally say they are ending their boycott of Cabinet meetings after three…
Continue Reading Swine fever in wild boars worries Italy’s pork industry
ROME (AP) — The discovery of African swine fever in northern Italy has pork producers fearing significant damages to a major agricultural export,…
Continue Reading Serbian environmental protesters reject lithium mining plans
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Environmental protesters are once again demanding the cancelation of plans for lithium mining in western Serbia. They took…
Continue Reading Movie theaters reopened in 2021. In 2022 we’ll see if they can thrive
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Last year was a dress rehearsal for the future of movie theaters. This year will show if movies theaters are back for…
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