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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time to the early days of the universe — and they spotted something unexpected. The space…
Interactive: Russia's war on Ukraine, one year on Source link
CNN — An Orlando television reporter was among the dead in a shooting spree in Florida that killed three on Wednesday, while covering one of the shootings, police said Mina told a news conference that the employees worked for Spectrum News 13. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said earlier on…
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Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce your eco-anxiety. CNN — A tough, bell-shaped fungus that grows on the rotting bark of trees has been used as a fire…
A large metal object appeared on a beach in Japan and shocked eyewitnesses and officials who have no idea what it is or where it came from. Source link
‘So many tears’: Ukrainian body transporter details process to give families closure CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward follows a volunteer who is a part of a group that provides closure to grieving families of Ukrainian soldiers. Source link
CNN — The man convicted in the shooting death of rapper Nipsey Hussle was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison during a court hearing on Wednesday. A jury determined that Eric Ronald Holder Jr. shot Hussle outside the hip-hop artist’s clothing store in March 2019. Prosecutors alleged that…
Here’s what to know about Nigeria’s presidential election Nigerians prepare to head to the polls in what will be the largest democratic exercise on the continent as Africa’s most populous nation picks a new president. CNN’s Stephanie Busari reports. Source link
CNN — The US Defense Department has released a selfie taken in the cockpit of a U-2 spy plane, as an airman flew above the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down by the US military earlier this month. The selfie, taken by the pilot of the U-2, shows the…
CNN — Here is a look at the life of Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army, sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes. Birth date: March 12, 1942 Birth place: Kalnovik, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) Birth name: Ratko Mladic Father: Nedja Mladic…
US President Joe Biden sits on a train as he goes over his speech after a surprise visit to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20. (Evan Vucci/AFP/Getty Images) Transporting US President Joe Biden on a highly-covert, 10-hour-each-way train ride across Ukraine was a massive…
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — When archaeologists uncovered the burial site of two brothers who lived during the 15th century BC in Israel, they were surprised to discover that one of them had…
CNN — One day after delivering a state of the nation speech before Russia’s parliament, President Vladimir Putin made an appearance before a flag-waving crowd at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium. It was a chilling spectacle. The Kremlin leader was essentially presiding over a militaristic pep rally aimed at drumming up public…
CNN — Meyers Leonard is returning to the NBA two years after he last played in the league after the Milwaukee Bucks announced on Wednesday he had signed on a 10-day contract. The 30-year-old center has been out of the league since 2021 after he used an anti-Semitic slur during…
CNN — The wreckage of Romain Grosjean’s Formula One car from his crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix will be displayed at an exhibition in Madrid next month. Grosjean was trapped in the flaming car for 28 seconds after colliding with the track wall at close to 120 miles…
CNN — Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered a search and rescue for 53 people trapped at a collapsed coal mine in Inner Mongolia, Chinese state media CCTV reported Wednesday. Two people have been killed and six injured in the collapse that took place earlier in the day on Wednesday…
CNN — More than a thousand flights were canceled in the United States on Wednesday morning as a winter storm hit the country. As of about 11:15 a.m. ET Wednesday, a total of 1,221 flights in and out of the US had been canceled, according to flight tracking site FlightAware.…
CNN — Arwa Damon is an award-winning journalist and CNN’s former Senior International Correspondent. After 18 years reporting from the world’s hotspots, she left the network last year to focus on the non-profit she founded: International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA). Her group helps people suffering from wars…
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Abu Dhabi CNN — At a major international defense exhibition in the United Arab Emirates this week, tucked away in a distant…
Seoul, South Korea CNN — North Korea is a “clear and present danger,” the foreign minister of South Korea has told CNN in an exclusive interview. Kim Jong Un’s frequent missile tests and repeated warnings that he would consider using tactical nuclear weapons were a display of aggression and the…
CNN — A teenage student killed a teacher at a school in southwestern France on Wednesday, authorities said. The 50-year-old female teacher died from injuries inflicted by the attacker, a 16-year-old student, said French government spokesperson Olivier Veran. The assailant was a teenager suffering from psychological troubles who claimed to…
CNN — At least 10 Palestinians, including two Islamic Jihad commanders, were killed Wednesday in a major IDF operation in the West Bank that also left more than 100 injured, Palestinian officials said. In an unusual daytime raid, Israeli military forces entered Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian…
Editor’s Note: Oleksandra Matviichuk is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and defender who heads the Center for Civil Liberties. The Center received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 for its work. In February 2022, she, together with other partners, created the “Tribunal for Putin” initiative to document international crimes taking…
CNN — As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intensifies his preparation for a White House bid, several of the wealthiest and most prolific Republican donors are already giving him a major financial boost. Trader and investor Jeffrey Yass donated $2.5 million to DeSantis’ state political committee on February 7, according to…
A general view of Russian military frigate ‘Admiral Gorshkov’ docked in the harbour in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 13. (AFP/Getty Images) Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate, armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles, arrived in the South African port of Richards Bay on Wednesday, ahead of planned naval exercises with South…
Bucha, Ukraine CNN — The body lay across the street from Ivan Fedorov’s house for several days. Fedorov didn’t dare to go outside, so he never found out who the dead man was. All he knows is that he was a civilian. “He was just a passer-by who got shot,”…
London CNN — Shamima Begum, who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15, has lost her appeal against the decision to revoke her British citizenship. Judge Robert Jay gave the decision on Wednesday following a five-day hearing in November. The ruling does not determine if…
Ukraine becomes a test of the US' two-front clash with China and Russia Source link
CNN — China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Wednesday said he expects to reach a “new consensus” on advancing bilateral relations with Russia as he visited Moscow just days before the first anniversary of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “Today I am willing to further exchange views with you,…
