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☆ CNN polling: Trump supporters drive lack of high confidence in election process in six battleground states
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Ariel Edwards-Levy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Most likely voters in six key battleground states express at least some confidence in their state’s election process, according to recent CNN polling conducted by SSRS. But far fewer of them have high confidence in the process, with that mistrust driven largely by voters who support former President Donald Trump. And sizable shares of Trump voters lack even modest confidence in the system. Harris supporters’ expressions of confidence in the election process come amid a campaign that many of her backers view as a referendum on democracy itself. By contrast, only 9% of Trump supporters, on average, say the same.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump’s, Kamala Harris, Trump, Harris Organizations: CNN, SSRS, Trump, Republican, ABC, Labor Locations: – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Wisconsin . Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Peach State, Arizona , Georgia

LONDON — It was often said that Queen Elizabeth II was the most photographed person in history, a face instantly recognizable to billions of people across her former empire and beyond. That’s exactly what’s happened with a bronze statue of the late monarch unveiled last week in Northern Ireland. The local government, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, claims it shows the queen in “a dignified pose, reflecting her grace, steadfastness and lifelong dedication to public service.”The statue has drawn unfavorable comparisons. via Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough CouncilThe scathing reviews beg to differ. “Looks more like Mrs. Doubtfire than our late queen ffs,” said one commenter, Mark Fee, on Facebook, referring to the character played by Robin Williams in the 1993 movie.

Persons: Queen Elizabeth II, steadfastness, ”, Mark Fee, Robin Williams, Craig Paddy Hogg, Richard Morris, “, hadn’t, Prince Philip Organizations: Facebook, NBC News, corgi Locations: Northern Ireland, Antrim, Newtownabbey, Newtownabbey Borough, British, Jan

☆ Ireland now needs to decide what it will do with 13 billion euros in back taxes from Apple
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA landmark ruling from the European Union's top court means Ireland will receive 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in unpaid taxes from Apple — a windfall that Dublin had spent several years fighting to avoid. In a decision the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said was final, the EU's top court on Tuesday ruled that Apple must pay Ireland billions of euros in back taxes. For years, Ireland consistently argued that the iPhone maker should not have to repay unpaid taxes to the country. The decision comes at a time when Ireland is in the unusual position of running a budget surplus of several billion euros, partly due to the strength of corporate tax receipts. Shoppers and staff are seen inside the Apple Store, with its sleek modern interior design and prominent Apple logo on September 10, 2024 in Chongqing, China.

Persons: ECJ, Margrethe Vestager, Apple, Johanna Geron, Aidan Regan, there's, Simon Harris, Sir Keir Starmer, Brian Lawless, Robert Dever, Dever, Alex Cobham, Cobham, Cheng Xin Organizations: Bloomberg, Getty, Apple, Court of Justice, European Union, Reuters, Irish, University College Dublin, CNBC, Ireland's Finance Ministry, Ireland, U.S, England, Masons, Tax Justice Network, UN, Shoppers Locations: Wicklow, Dublin, Ireland, Brussels, Belgium, Farmleigh, Republic of Ireland, Chongqing, China

☆ Vance says incendiary claim he spread against Haitian migrants could be false but urges followers to keep posting ‘cat memes’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Kit Maher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

It’s possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false,” Vance posted on X“Do you know what’s confirmed? The Times reported that city officials estimated an influx of as many as 20,000 Haitian immigrants to the town in recent years. In a follow-up post, Vance said, “In short, don’t let the crybabies in the media dissuade you, fellow patriots. Keep the cat memes flowing.”Vance promoted false claims on Monday that Haitian migrants in Ohio are killing and eating family pets, though his post on Tuesday made no mention of Haitians “eating” them. They spread widely on X, whose owner, Elon Musk, has embraced the false rumors and posted several memes that promoted them.

Persons: Vance, “, Springfield who’ve, ” Vance, Kamala Harris’s, ”, don’t, Kamala Harris, Elon Musk Organizations: CNN, Republican, The New York Times, Springfield News, The Times, Republican Party, City Locations: Springfield , Ohio, Springfield, Haitian, Ohio

The trial of the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students will be moved out of the county where the killings took place in late 2022, a judge ruled in a decision released Monday. Latah County District Judge John Judge heard arguments last month about whether the trial of Bryan Kohberger, tentatively set for next June, should be moved to Ada County, about 300 miles south and home to Idaho’s capital, Boise. Judge did not immediately specify the new location in granting a different venue, which he said was based on “presumed prejudice” if the trial remains in Latah County. A new judge is expected to be brought onto the case once it moves, although it’s unclear when the Idaho Supreme Court could decide on the judge and venue. Latah County prosecutors will remain on the case through the trial.

Persons: John Judge, Bryan Kohberger, Judge, ”, Anne Taylor, — Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin —, Goncalves, Judge's, Latah, Kohberger Organizations: University of Idaho, Kohberger, Prosecutors, Washington State University, U.S . Constitution Locations: Latah County, Ada County, Boise, Idaho, Latah, Nez Perce, Kootenai, Pullman, Washington, U.S ., Kohberger

CAIRO — The splendor of the Queen of the Nile is the star not of any Egyptian museum, but of the Neues Museum in the German capital, Berlin, where thousands admire the 3,400-year-old bust of Nefertiti every day in a domed hall. Therefore, the home of the bust should be the Grand Egyptian Museum. The Nefertiti bust on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. The Neues Museum did not respond to a request for comment. In July, the New York Museum of Metropolitan Museum of Art returned more than a dozen Cambodian artifacts.

Persons: Nefertiti, Zahi Hawass, ” Hawass, Hawass, Michael Sohn, Pharaoh Akhenaten, Akhenaten, — Hawass, Hitler, “, Mona Lisa, ’, Rosetta Stone, ”, Napoleon, Charlene Gubash, Mithil Organizations: Neues Museum, Egyptian Museum, “, El, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Associated Press, New York Museum of Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum Locations: CAIRO, Berlin, Germany, Egypt, Tell, Cairo, Nefertiti's, “ Egypt, London, Alexandria, Louvre, Paris, Hong Kong

☆ Trump campaign and JD Vance promote false rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Several prominent Republicans, including the party’s vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, promoted false claims on Monday that Haitian migrants in Ohio are killing and eating family pets. Those rumors were picked up by conservative media and then spread on X, where they gained widespread traction on Monday. “President Trump will deport migrants who eat pets,” a Trump campaign account posted to X. Make your choice, America.”Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posted a meme showing two kittens embracing. They spread widely on X, whose owner, Elon Musk, has embraced the false rumors and posted several memes that promoted them.

Persons: Sen, JD Vance, Kamala Harris, Trump, “ Kamala Harris, Texas Sen, Ted Cruz, don’t, ” Vance, Elon Musk, Sheila Cherfilus, McCormick, Vance, Cruz, ”, Cherfilus, “, JD, ” Spokespeople, Harris, Black, “ That’s, who’s, CNN’s Aaron Pellish, Kit Maher Organizations: CNN, Springfield Facebook, Springfield News, “, Trump, Republican Party, City, Democratic, Biden, Republican Locations: Ohio, Springfield, Caribbean, Haitian, Texas, Canton , Ohio, Haitian American, South Florida, Cuban, Springfield ”, stoke, Florida

☆ Could a $1.4M portrait found in a Maine attic be a long-lost Rembrandt?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The auction house believes this to be the highest sum ever paid for an artwork at a Maine auction. Thomaston Place Auction GallerieLost from the recordsRembrandt scholar Gary Schwartz said a potential buyer had earlier sought his opinion on the Maine portrait. 03:09 - Source: CNNArt historian Volker Manuth, who authored publisher Taschen’s 2019 monograph “Rembrandt: The Complete Paintings,” told CNN he was also approached by a potential buyer of the Maine portrait. But inclusion in a major catalog, or the backing of a big auction house, can increase a painting’s value manyfold. Schwartz suggested that, should the Maine portrait receive similar endorsement, it might be revalued at up to $5 million.

Persons: Kaja Veilleux, ”, Veilleux, Rembrandt —, Rembrandt, Kaja, Gary Schwartz, “, Schwartz, ” Schwartz, “ Rembrandt, Volker Manuth, Taschen’s, ’, reattributed, Rembrandt ”, Sotheby’s, Winter Organizations: CNN, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Radboud University, Research, Christie’s, New York Times Locations: Camden , Maine, Thomaston, Europe, Maine, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Netherlands, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, Vienna

☆ Google searches are becoming a bigger target of cybercriminals with the rise of 'malvertising'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Lowe's staff members were targeted via a Google ad for an employee portal claiming to be associated with the retailer. It's not a problem with Google, per se; malicious ads can also show up in queries using other search engines like Microsoft's Bing. "You see something appearing on a Google search, you kind of assume it is something valid," said Stuart Madnick, professor of information technology at MIT Sloan School of Management. Also avoid calling a telephone number listed in a sponsored ad because it could be a fake telephone number. Many privacy browsers have embedded ad blockers; consumers may still see sponsored ads, but they will see fewer of them, which minimizes the chances of malvertising.

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☆ Dialing In to Fox News, Trump Offers a Rambling Rebuttal to Harris’s Speech
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | Michael Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump was watching television on Thursday night and he did not like what he saw. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her allies were accusing him of groveling to dictators, imperiling democracy, and betraying American values. So Mr. Trump picked up the telephone and called Fox News. Several times, Mr. Trump ignored them. Mr. Trump kept talking.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris, groveling, Harris, —, Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Mr, Baier Organizations: Democratic, Fox News, Fox

An Arkansas police officer who was caught on video beating a handcuffed inmate in the back of a patrol car has been fired and his case has been referred to prosecutors, the police chief said. Jonesboro Police Chief Rick Elliott fired Joseph Harris on Friday, a day after he was caught on his patrol car video elbowing and punching the handcuffed man and then slamming the car door on his head after the man choked himself with a seatbelt. He was apprehended by Harris and was being returned to the county jail when the assault occurred, Elliott said. I will gather the facts after the fact.”Coram is being detained at the Craighead County Jail on an escape charge and is wanted for extradition to Mississippi, a jail official said. Harris is a defendant in an ongoing lawsuit filed in June over a man who died in the Craighead County Jail this year.

Persons: Rick Elliott, Joseph Harris, Elliott, Billy Lee Coram, Harris, Coram, hadn’t, Coram “, ”, “, ” Harris, Sonia Hagood, Hagood, Cody Brooks, I’m, Harold Copenhaver, “ I’m, ” Elliott Organizations: Jonesboro Police, YouTube, NAACP Locations: Arkansas, Greene, Craighead, Mississippi

☆ Fires Near Athens Leave a Path of Destruction
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Niki Kitsantonis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

One person dead. Homes and buildings charred. Huge tracts of forestland destroyed, the burned area leaving a thick scar covering nearly 25,000 acres northeast of Athens, the Greek capital, according to European satellite images. Although the Greek authorities said on Tuesday that the threat to Athens posed by major wildfires that tore through its northern suburbs a day earlier had diminished, the damage caused has been “massive,” Vasilios Vathrakogiannis, the country’s fire service spokesman, said in a telephone interview. And the true extent of the damage cannot be accurately assessed until the fires are completely doused, he said.

Persons: Vasilios Vathrakogiannis Locations: Athens

☆ Russia orders more evacuations as Ukraine’s incursion into its territory enters its seventh day
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Russian authorities were on Monday evacuating civilians from more areas along the Ukrainian border, a week into Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russian territory. Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Belgorod region in southern Russia, said people living in the Krasnoyaruzhsky district were being relocated to safer places. A photo provided by the Government of Kursk region of Russia shows people from the border districts of the region boarding evacuation buses. Russian authorities imposed a sweeping counter-terror operation in the three border regions, but stopped short of declaring the incursion an act of war. The counterterrorist regime officially gives Russian authorities wider powers, including the ability to monitor telephone conversations and restrict communications and limiting the movement of people.

Persons: Vyacheslav Gladkov, ”, Rybar, “, Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin Organizations: CNN, Telegram, Government, Government of, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Armed Forces, Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kremlin Locations: Ukrainian, Belgorod, Russia, Krasnoyaruzhsky, Kursk, Government of Kursk, Russian, Ukraine, Poroz, Moscow, US

☆ Should Soccer Make Space for Other Sports?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For almost half a century, the BBC’s broadcast schedule on a Saturday afternoon was both startlingly simple and comfortably unchanging. It amounted, in fact, to just a single word, one that somehow conveyed everything while telling viewers absolutely nothing. That word was Grandstand. From the moment it first appeared in 1958, it was a cornerstone of British broadcasting, a national institution, its bright, jolly theme song burned into the country’s consciousness. Its timings were consistent: “Grandstand” was on (almost) every Saturday, from midday until a little after 5 p.m.Its content, though, was not.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on Monday, the army chief said, a day after nearly 100 people were killed in clashes with the police as protesters demanded she step down. Video showed protesters carrying clothes and furniture out of the prime minister’s residence in Dhaka, the capital, which had been left unguarded. “All hail the 300 martyrs who died for our future.”Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on July 25. Sunday’s death toll was the highest since the protests began over a controversial preferential quota system for public sector jobs. “The shocking violence in Bangladesh must stop,” Volker Türk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement Sunday.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Zaman, Hasina, Bangladesh’s, jubilance, ”, Saqlain Rafi, Prothom Alo, Monorom, ” Volker Türk Organizations: South, AFP, Getty, Human Rights Locations: DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla

☆ Victor Moses: Police recruit who lost both legs in ‘barbaric hazing ritual’ sues Denver, paramedics and officers
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

He also said he had very low blood pressure and complained that his legs were cramping, according to the lawsuit. Nevertheless, paramedics cleared Moses to return to training, which the suit alleges was a decision made to support the police. “Safety and well-being is a top priority for Denver Health and its paramedics,” the hospital said in a statement. The recruit soon said he could not breathe, became unresponsive and was taken to the hospital, according to the lawsuit. “If this had been a football game or boxing match, the head injury and losses of consciousness would have ended any continued participation or fighting immediately,” Moses’ lawyers argue.

Persons: Victor Moses, ”, Moses, Ian Adams, ” Moses, David Zalubowski, Moses ’, John Holland, Darold Killmer, ” Holland, ” Moses ’, “ Organizations: Denver AP, University of South, Denver Police Department, Denver Health, “, Denver, Associated Press Locations: United States, University of South Carolina, Denver

The same Chinese brokers who were laundering fentanyl proceeds were now heavily involved in marijuana trafficking across the U.S. as well. Over the past decade, Chinese organized crime groups in the U.S. quietly became the dominant money launderers for Mexican cartels. Since 2023, federal prosecutors have charged at least 31 people linked to Chinese groups accused of laundering cartel drug money. In the ensuing months, the team began to understand for the first time how the Chinese became the Mexican cartels’ go-to money launderers. The Chinese money brokers then arrange for the cartels to receive the equivalent amount in pesos or cryptocurrency in Mexico.

Persons: Ray Donovan, Joaquin “ El Chapo ” Guzman, Guzman, Donovan, ”, Michael Mezner, ‘, I’ve, El Chapo, ” Donovan, “, Christopher Urben, “ They’ve, Dennis Wilder, ” Wilder, Urben, ” Urben, Bill Bodner, Vanda Felbab, Brown, ’, They’re, Xi Jinping Organizations: Attorney’s, Central, Central District of, U.S, Division, CIA, Ministry of State Security, U.S ., National Intelligence, National Security Council, Los, Singapore —, Brookings Institution, Operations Division, DEA, Citibank Locations: U.S, East, China, El, Sinaloa, Pasadena, Calif, Central District, Central District of California, Virginia, United States, CJNG, propping, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, Asia, Australia, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Miami, Mexico, Los Angeles County . U.S, Guangzhou, America

Some American warships already in the Mediterranean will move closer to the coast of Israel, according to a senior Pentagon official. The killing of the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in an explosion at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran on Wednesday, was a stunning breach of security in the Iranian capital. Iran arrested more than two dozen people, including senior intelligence officers, in response. The country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly for the killing, according to Iranian officials. “We will be bolstering our force protection in the region,” she said.

Persons: Lloyd J, Austin III, Ismail Haniyeh, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Sabrina Singh, Austin, Yoav Gallant, Austin “, ”, “, Mr, Haniyeh Organizations: . Defense, American, Pentagon Locations: Israel, Iran, Tehran, Qatar, Gaza, United States, Yemen, Iraq

☆ Tropical Storm Debby moving through Gulf toward Florida
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Marc Serota for ReutersA tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Debby north of Cuba on Saturday and was predicted to become a hurricane as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico on a collision course with the Florida coast. A hurricane warning was in effect for sections of the state's coast with tropical storm warnings for the Florida Keys. Debby is the fourth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season after Tropical Storm Alberto, Hurricane Beryl and Tropical Storm Chris, all of which formed in June. We're doing everything that we need to be prepared to face a tropical storm," Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said. "We've been in Florida our whole lives, in South Florida, so hurricanes are not really a big, big thing," Silverman said.

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☆ With a fire burning just miles away, residents of a Washington town dig in
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Evan Bush | Evan Bush Is A Science Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

“There’s a lot of mistrust going on there.”As fire behavior grows intense because of climate change and overgrown forests, doubts can fester in rural communities as fire managers operate more conservatively than in the past. “Now, we’re seeing fires act more radically, make their own weather and be more unpredictable.”This dynamic is playing out in rural communities elsewhere. Stasiewicz said that based on her own focus groups, surveys and interviews, sentiments like Courtney’s are becoming more common in rural communities. Evacuation often carries a stiff financial cost, she said, and some rural residents worry their properties won’t be prioritized. “We can sometimes see rural communities lose compared to more developed areas.

Persons: we’ve, ”, Amanda Stasiewicz, “, ” Stasiewicz, they’d, Brad Bramlett, ’ ” Courtney, Courtney, Johnston, Magnussen, Stehekin, Stasiewicz Organizations: University of Oregon, “, San Francisco Chronicle, National Interagency Fire Center, National Weather Service, ”, Tourists Locations: West, Northern California, Pacific, Oregon , Washington and Idaho, Lake Chelan, North, Stehekin, U.S

☆ Australia launches peanut allergy immunotherapy program for babies in world first
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Babies who have a peanut allergy are now being offered potentially life-changing treatment at hospitals across Australia in a world-first program aimed at building tolerance to them. The ADAPT OIT Program is open to infants under 12 months who have been diagnosed with a peanut allergy and who are under an allergy specialist at one of the ten pediatric hospitals across five states which are participating. “Australia is the allergy capital of the world and we have 5 million people with allergic disease and peanut allergy affects around 3 per cent of 12-month-old children in Australia. Adam Fox is a London-based professor of paediatric allergy and chair of the National Allergy Strategy Group in the UK. He has spent many years seeing patients with peanut allergy and regularly posts on social media about it.

Persons: Murdoch, MCRI, ”, Kirsten Perrett, ” Perrett, Perrett, “, Hunter Chatwin, Kirsten, Adam Fox, ” Fox, ” CNN’s Jacqueline Howard Organizations: CNN, Australia’s, Allergy, Excellence, Murdoch Children’s Research, Royal Children’s Hospital, National Allergy Strategy, American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP Locations: Australia, MCRI, Melbourne, London, United States, United Kingdom

☆ Anita Dunn to Leave White House in First Departure Since Biden’s Withdrawal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Peter Baker | Katie Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Anita Dunn, President Biden’s senior adviser, is leaving her White House post next week to move over to a super PAC supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s fledgling campaign, the first major personnel move in the West Wing since the president dropped his bid for re-election. Ms. Dunn, who coordinated communications strategy for Mr. Biden and has been one of his closest aides, will consult for Future Forward, the largest Democratic-leaning super PAC, which last week announced a $50 million advertising campaign to promote Ms. Harris in six critical battleground states. “It’s been an honor and privilege to serve in this White House, with this president and this team, during this transformational term,” Ms. Dunn said in a statement. “I am grateful to President Biden and Vice President Harris for their leadership and giving me the opportunity to be part of what they have accomplished for the American people.”In a brief telephone call, Ms. Dunn said she would be leaving the White House next Tuesday and not returning to her own consulting firm but would take on Future Forward as an independent consultant. Ms. Dunn has been part of Mr. Biden’s orbit for years and was credited with helping to turn around his campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2020 after early defeats and stabilizing his White House communications strategy.

Persons: Anita Dunn, Biden’s, Kamala Harris’s, Dunn, Biden, Harris, “ It’s, Ms, “ Organizations: Wing, Democratic, White

☆ French telecoms network hit by vandalism within days of arson attacks against national railways
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Normal train service had resumed on the French rail network by Monday — when authorities reported damage to telecoms infrastructure, which caused local power outages and raised the specter of further national disruption. Secretary of State for Digital Affairs Marina Ferrari that France's telecoms network was experiencing isolated outages due to damage carried out overnight in several regions. It was not immediately clear whether vandalism to the telecoms network was connected to the damage and arson carried out on the rail network last week. Disclosure: CNBC parent NBCUniversal owns NBC Sports and NBC Olympics. NBC Olympics is the U.S. broadcast rights holder to all Summer and Winter Games through 2032.

Persons: —, State for Digital Affairs Marina, Ferrari, Dmitry Peskov, Gerald Darmanin, Darmanin Organizations: Paris, Olympics, State for Digital Affairs, CNBC, NBCUniversal, NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC, Games Locations: Vandieres, France, Paris, Russia, U.S

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☆ South Korea introduced as North Korea during Olympics opening ceremony, top official ‘deeply sorry’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Xiaofei Xu | Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paris CNN —Olympics organizers have “deeply apologized” to South Korea over a “human error” that saw its 143 athletes wrongly introduced as North Korean at the opening ceremony. The mishap occurred on Friday, when the South Korean athletes made their debut on a boat cruising down the River Seine. Both the French and English announcements falsely identified them as being from the “People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.”That’s the full name of North Korea. South Korea’s Sports Ministry has said it “expresses regret” over the introduction of the South Korean delegation during the opening broadcast. Olympics organizers have “deeply apologized” to South Korea over a “human error” that saw its 143 athletes being wrongly introduced as North Korean at the opening ceremony.

Persons: ”, Thomas Bach, Yoon Suk, Republic of Korea …, Mark Adams, “ Organizations: Paris CNN —, South, “, Democratic, International Olympic Committee, South Korean, Olympic Games, National Olympic Committee, IOC, ” Reuters, Korea’s Sports, Paris Locations: South Korea, Korean, Democratic Republic of Korea, North Korea, Republic of Korea, Covid, Beijing, Japan, Pyongyang, Seoul

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