In a typical year, more than half of Alaska’s visitors arrive by cruise ship — 1.4 million in 2019. But not this year, and you can blame the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control-ordered shutdown of the cruise industry, coupled with Canada’s port closures, means Alaska’s summer cruise season looks to be canceled for a […]
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Munich hits back at rival ‘Oktoberfest’ event in Dubai Rob Picheta and Rob Iddiols, CNN • Updated 2nd May 2021 Facebook Twitter Email (CNN) — The organizers of Oktoberfest, Munich’s heralded and raucous annual beer festival, have criticized plans to create a rival event in Dubai and sought to reassure Germans that the original won’t […]
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VIDEO 1:18:35 01:18:35 Finding your financial success Invest in You: Ready. Set. Grow. During CNBC Invest in You’s recent virtual event, Finding your financial success , Caleb Kuberiet, a senior English major at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., asked panelists, “What is a book you recommend to everybody about personal finance and what is […]
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“H e mentioned in his bio that he liked Virginia Woolf and I was like, ‘Ah! The dream boy,” says Francesca, 34, who met her boyfriend Andy on Tinder . They spent two years as friends, exchanging books and chatting about Mrs Dalloway, until one day Francesca had a revelation during lockdown: “I was like, […]
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On Location: April 30, 2021 Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. The Associated Press GILBERT, Ariz. — A felon in a stolen car struck and killed one police officer and critically injured another during a wild chase that temporarily shut down a municipal airport in one Phoenix suburb before ending at a car […]
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PUTRAJAYA: Interstate travel is still not allowed as many cases of Covid-19 have resulted from it, says Senior Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob ( pic ). He said the National Security Council special meeting supported statements on the matter issued by Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba and Deputy Inspector-General of Police […]
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Continue ReadingThe perception that self-driving cars can really operate themselves without driver involvement is worrying automotive watchdogs, who say that some Americans have grown dangerously confident in the capabilities of semi-autonomous vehicles. Their comments come as electric vehicle maker Tesla’s so-called Autopilot system is under scrutiny once again following a crash that killed two passengers in […]
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Concerns about the security of a car stopped by police on the M20 saw the motorway closed and bomb disposal experts called in, a force has said. Kent Police brought the car to a halt earlier using “tactical contact” near Junction 9, after it refused to stop. A spokesman said an Army team attended “as […]
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With dozens of flights still landing at Vancouver’s international airport every day, a researcher studying how borders are managed during pandemics says the latest measures put in place to limit non-essential travel in B.C. don’t go far enough.
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