CNN — The return of China’s top basketball league to its normal season format after years of Covid disruption has been marred by controversy after an abrupt no-show by one of its former championship-winning teams amid accusations of ill-treatment by his star player. The row has sparked a headache for Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) boss … Read more
new York CNN — As sales of canned cocktails and tequila skyrocket, High Noon is looking to capitalize on this combo. The best-selling adult drink is introducing a tequila seltzer to its portfolio, marking the brand’s first four-year expansion beyond its popular vodka line. High Noon Tequila Seltzer arrives in the United States on Wednesday … Read more
CNN — Americans on the West Coast and Northeast face heavy snowfall, high winds, power outages and treacherous road conditions as a series of storms hit opposite sides of the United States. United. Nearly 50 million people in the northeast are under winter weather alert as a storm that has brought tornadoes, damaging winds and … Read more
CNN — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday dismissed concerns over his plan to cut the country’s electoral watchdog, accusing protesters of links to drug traffickers. Footage from a mass protest in Mexico City on Sunday showed tens of thousands of people dressed in pink – the color of the National Electoral Institute … Read more
CNN — A derecho is a large and potentially destructive weather event that is characterized by extended, long-lasting, linear winds associated with a cluster of fast-moving, severe thunderstorms. Here’s what you need to know about derechos: A derecho is classified by a swath of wind damage stretching more than 240 miles with wind gusts of … Read more
CNN — While high winds have caused reports of tornadoes overnight in parts of the central United States, another series of storms bringing snow, rain and high winds are expected to spread from the state of Washington to southern California and across the Great Lakes region on Monday, hitting areas where hundreds of thousands are … Read more
Istanbul, Turkey CNN — Nearly 200 people have been arrested for suspected poor construction following the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey earlier this month, Turkey’s Justice Ministry said. About 50,000 people were killed in Turkey and Syria after the February 6 earthquake. The ministry said 626 people were “suspicious” after buildings completely collapsed or were … Read more
CNN — The storm system that brought blizzard warnings to southern California on Friday and Saturday will produce a major damaging wind event across the central United States on Sunday. In total, more than 15 million people are under threat from severe storms Sunday from western Texas to Illinois, including Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City, … Read more
CNN — Duncan Enright never imagined he would receive death threats over a plan to reduce crushing city traffic. But that’s exactly what happened to the local politician in the UK, who found himself inundated with abusive messages on social media and by email about his involvement in a proposed trial of traffic filtering. in … Read more
New Delhi CNN — When dozens of security personnel gathered on the runway at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport on Thursday, it was not to capture a terrorist or a fugitive criminal mastermind, or even to apprehend an unruly passenger. It was to arrest an opposition politician who allegedly “disturbed the harmony” – by misrepresenting … Read more