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The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on various factors, from war with other territories to internal strife. Now, a Cornell University team has used tree ring and isotope records to pinpoint a more likely culprit: three straight years of severe drought. The…
The ground below your feet contains some 2,500 gigatons of carbon, approximately three times the amount of carbon held in our atmosphere and four times more than is stored in every living thing — trees, ants, whales, and humans included — on our planet. Despite this, the dynamics that drive…
Kahramanmaras, Turkey CNN — The body of a 4-year-old girl wrapped in a pink blanket was brought out Wednesday from the wreckage of a building in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras. She’s one of the latest young victims of Monday’s massive quake. Elsewhere, excavators dug out the body of man…
CNN — There are “strong indications” that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved the decision to provide separatists in Ukraine with the missile that shot down the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, Dutch investigators said Wednesday. Citing intercepted telephone conversations by Russian government officials, the Public Prosecution Service’s Joint…
London CNN — BP (BP), Chevron (CVX), ExxonMobil, Shell and Total (TOT)Energies raked in a record $199.3 billion in profits in 2022, benefiting from the surge in oil and gas prices that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. TotalEnergies capped off the historic series of earnings Wednesday when it reported annual…
Rescuers search through rubble in Salqin, Syria, on Tuesday. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images) Syria’s government has ramped up its calls for the removal of economic US and EU sanctions in the aftermath of Monday’s earthquake. Relief groups working from government-controlled areas in Syria have pinned the lack of…
Seattle CNN Business — Microsoft’s Bing search engine has never made much of a dent in Google’s dominance in the more than 13 years since it launched. Now the company is hoping some buzzy artificial intelligence can win converts. Microsoft on Tuesday announced an updated version of Bing designed to…
CNN — On the monumental day that Nancy Pelosi announced she’d be relinquishing her role as leader of the House Democrats, she didn’t mark the occasion with a gourmet meal. Instead, the 82-year-old reportedly indulged in the same lunch she eats every day: a hotdog with mustard and relish. This…
Towns across Italy are holding pageants and parades as Carnival season begins, but few people know the true origins of this festivity, writes Silvia Marchetti. Source link
CNN — It was a night of wild expectations and LeBron James, once again, delivered. With a mid-range fadeaway bucket, his 36th point of the night against the Oklahoma City Thunder, James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA’s all-time leading scoring, breaking a 39-year-old record to add another historic…
Sanctions against Syria from the United States and European Union are preventing urgent aid from reaching those in need following the devastating earthquake, the country’s representative to the United Nations said Tuesday. “Lots of the airplanes, cargo airplanes, refuse to land on Syrian airports, because of the American and European…
CNN — Hello, darkness, my old friend…. It’s Aaron Rodgers. As speculation swirls as to what the future holds for the Green Bay Packers quarterback, Rodgers is taking a unique route to figuring out his path, by entering a four-day “darkness retreat” not long after the Super Bowl. “I’ve got…
CNN — If you were asked to pick a sport to play without using your hands, which would you choose? Soccer springs to mind, as does running, but it is unlikely that golf would be anywhere near the top of the list. However, Brandon Canesi, the self-proclaimed “world’s best no-handed…
London CNN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will make his first visit to the United Kingdom on Wednesday since the Russian invasion of his country, Downing Street said. The surprise trip will see Zelensky meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, visit Ukrainian troops being trained by British forces, and address Parliament.…
Thinking of applying to become Italian? Here’s how many other people do it each year, where they come from and how they qualify. Source link
Hong Kong CNN — China is planning to offer free fertility treatment to citizens under its national insurance scheme in a bid to reverse its plummeting birth rate. The National Healthcare Security Administration said on Friday it would extend its coverage to help shoulder the costs for families trying to…
CNN — President Joe Biden starkly warned he will protect America against Chinese threats to its sovereignty and singled out President Xi Jinping – a striking escalation of a suspected spy balloon showdown during his State of the Union address. Biden called out Beijing on Tuesday before millions of viewers…
CNN — Mexico has banned shark-related tourism activities at a popular Pacific Ocean destination. Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California is a hotspot for great white sharks, with cage diving, sport fishing and “shark watching” from pleasure boats among the activities on offer in the area. Now, though,…
Seoul, South Korea CNN — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought a child believed to be his daughter to a lavish banquet at a military barracks on Tuesday, the latest sign the girl is possibly being groomed as his eventual successor in an authoritarian family regime dating back decades.…
Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake’s epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on February 7. (Adem Altam/AFP/Getty Images) Heartbreaking photos show a father in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, clutching the lifeless hand of his daughter…
CNN — King James is now the king of NBA scoring. LeBron James became the association’s all-time leading scorer in the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday, surpassing the record that six-time NBA MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had held for 39 years. With 10.9 seconds…
Ukrainian forces are doing all they can to save the eastern city of Bakhmut as Russia makes advances, a local official said. Follow here for live updates. Source link
‘Liar!’: Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupts Biden during State of the Union address President Joe Biden attacked the GOP over the debt ceiling standoff before singling out some unnamed Republicans, contending they are looking to slash and sunset Medicare and Social Security. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene jumped to her feet and…
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See image of a Chinese balloon hovering over Taiwan CNN obtained images of Chinese spy balloons, recently shot down in the US, hovering over Taiwan in recent months. China has long vowed to “reunify” the democratic island with the communist country’s mainland, by force if necessary. One of the Chinese…
CNN — CNN Opinion contributors weigh in with their tweets on President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union speech. This will be our first look at the new Republican majority, in which extremists like MTG, Boebert and Gosar have been emboldened and elevated. How will they respond tonight? —…
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. The 57 secret letters, from Mary Stuart to…
