South Korea is monitoring the Russia-Ukraine crisis closely to assess its impact on energy prices, or possible disruptions to supply chains, its trade minister told CNBC. “I think first, we are closely monitoring a spike in the energy prices,” Yeo Han-koo said, adding that as much as 92% of South Korea’s needs are being met
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CNN’s Jim Acosta talks to Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg, about Republican Arizona Senate candidate Jim Lamon’s campaign ad depicting him in a gunslinging “showdown” with various Democrats. ‘We’re not asking for magical things’: Anti-gun violence groups launch campaign to pressure Biden four years after Parkland https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/parkland-anniversary-gun-violence-prevention-biden/index.html Los Angeles County DA attempts
Britain is currently in the grips of its worst storm in nearly 30 years, with rare red warnings issued for large swathes of the country. Schools have been closed, and at least 80,000 homes are without power. So what can you do if Storm Eunice directly impacts you? Will my insurance cover damage to my
In this article ROKU People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, that held it’s IPO at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Roku shares dropped as much as 25% on Friday after the streaming company reported fourth-quarter revenue
A former boss of Amazon UK is being lined up as the next president of the CBI, Britain’s most influential employers’ group. Sky News has learnt that the CBI was due to ratify Brian McBride’s appointment as Lord Bilimoria’s successor at a board meeting on Friday afternoon. Mr McBride, who chairs the rail ticket booking
An RAF aircraft flew hundreds of miles from a base in Scotland for a photoshoot with Boris Johnson before flying back. Images of the prime minister with two RAF aircraft featured on a number of newspaper front pages on Friday after his visit to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire the previous day. An RAF P-8A Poseidon,
7:00 AM ET After ranking the top 100 prospects heading into the 2022 MLB season, it’s time to turn our attention to each team’s farm system as a whole. I’ve always found it both overwhelming and too subjective to line up 30 lists of players and say this list is better than that one with
Retail sales rebounded in January after falling in December, posting their biggest monthly rise since the shops reopened last spring. Despite rising prices due to inflation, volumes jumped by 1.9% last month following a drop of 4% in December, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), triggered by surging rates of Covid-19. The figures
Russian military drills are “purely defensive” and “not a threat to any other country”, Vladimir Putin has said. The Russian president denied he was going to invade Ukraine following Western leaders warning an incursion is imminent as Moscow amasses more than 150,000 troops at the border. Talking at a news conference with Belarus President Alexander
A new Charlie Chaplin documentary paints a “more rounded portrait” of the silent film star’s “complicated” life – including fractious relationships with his teenage wives. Granted access to unseen archive material from the Chaplin estate, filmmakers Peter Middleton and James Spinney attempt to get to know the man behind the toothbrush moustache in The Real
7:32 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — While the main conversation at Daytona International Speedway this week has revolved around NASCAR’s new Next Gen race car, and rightfully so, another next generational movement is taking place behind the wheel of that car. With all due respect to the machines the sanctioning body has touted as
A man has been killed and another person was seriously injured in separate incidents as Storm Eunice struck across the UK and Ireland, bringing widespread damage, destruction and record-breaking winds. Millions of people had been urged to stay indoors on Friday as a result of the extreme weather sparking safety fears. A council worker aged
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said she wants police to “shoot your terrorists and ask questions second”. Ms Rayner told Matt Forde’s Political Party podcast she was “quite hardline” on law and order and said she would encourage police to “antagonise” criminals. “On things like law and order, I am quite hardline. I am
Brad Pitt is suing ex-wife Angelina Jolie for selling her stake in their co-owned French vineyard, where they were married in 2014, to a Russian oligarch. The Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns, in southeastern France, and was bought by the A-list former couple for about €25m (about £20.8m) in 2008. According
Donald Trump and his two eldest children have been ordered to testify under oath as part of an investigation into alleged fraudulent business practices. The former US president looks set to appeal the court ruling, which he branded a “continuation of the greatest witch-hunt in history”. New York judge Arthur Engoron found in favour of
Tesla has updated their smartphone app to version 4.6 adding some useful new features including actionable notifications and charging stats, and data-miners have found plans for an upcoming cheaper annual subscription to their Full Self-Driving and Premium Connectivity services. But even with this upcoming cheaper subscription scheme, Tesla has so far shown no interest in
Steam rises from a cooling tower on September 7, 2007 at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City, Tennessee, 50 miles south of Knoxville. Chris Baltimore | Reuters The government is going to spend billions of dollars to keep nuclear power plants open in the United States because they’re losing too
The race for space exploration is unfolding at an unprecedented speed. Private companies have forayed into this sector with commercial ventures, and the US and China have set their eyes on landing humans on Mars by the next decade. While this ambition is laudable, it presents significant technological and logistical challenges. For instance, a mission
Invading Ukraine will lead to ‘far reaching damage’ for Russia- and the world. This warning followed a call between Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, who said Russia would face a ‘protracted crisis’. In Kyiv President Zelenskyy has called for a ‘day of unity’ on Wednesday, when the US had warned Russia might invade. SUBSCRIBE to
CNN’s John Berman and George Conway discuss possible implications of former President Donald Trump’s long-time accounting firm informing the Trump Organization that it should no longer rely on nearly 10 years’ worth of financial statements and that they would no longer be their accountants, citing a conflict of interest. #CNN #News