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CNN  —  Two of tennis’ most exciting young players, Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu, will face off in the Australian Open second round after they both won their opening matches on Monday. The 18-year-old Gauff comfortably beat the Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniaková, winning in straight sets 6-1 6-4. Elsewhere, Raducanu…

London CNN  —  Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine, one question has troubled European governments more than almost any other: What happens if Moscow turns off the gas? The threat of cutting Russian gas supplies for European countries, many of whom have relied on…

Video appears to show plane rolling on its side before crash in Nepal A video clip on social media appears to show the moments before an aircraft operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines crashed in the Nepali city of Pokhara leaving dozens dead. CNN reporter Vedika Sud has more. Source link

Europe's warm winter is robbing Putin of a trump card Source link

Dnipro, Ukraine CNN  —  In Dnipro, there is grief, exhaustion and anger. Early on Saturday afternoon, as families relaxed at home in the central Ukrainian city, a Russian cruise missile struck a nine-story apartment building overlooking a park near the river, killing at least 30 people. The core of that…

(CNN) — It isn’t every day that you spot a motorcyclist riding along the road with a German shepherd dog on the back of their bike. So it’s not surprising that the sight of content creator Jess Stone and her beloved dog Moxie cruising along together usually has onlookers doing…

CNN  —  Last fall, as Ukraine won back large swaths of territory in a series of counterattacks, it pounded Russian forces with American-made artillery and rockets. Guiding some of that artillery was a homemade targeting system that Ukraine developed on the battlefield. A piece of Ukrainian-made software has turned readily…

Feature · fashion Best red carpet fashion at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards See the best looks from LA’s Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, where stars are gathering for the 28th Critics’ Choice Awards. The Critics’ Choice Awards returns to its usual January time slot after 2022’s ceremony was delayed by…

An emergency worker views the site of a residential building hit by a Russian missile on Sunday in Dnipro. (Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images) The Russian missile that hit an apartment block in Dnipro on Saturday was “no doubt” a Kh-22 missile, the Air Force Command of the Ukranian Armed…

CNN  —  Romanian authorities said they have seized nearly $4 million worth of assets belonging to controversial internet personality Andrew Tate over the past week as he and his brother are investigated on allegations of human trafficking and rape. Roughly 18 million lei, equivalent to $3,942,700, has been seized, the…

Australian Open: Novak Djokovic chases Rafael Nadal's record Source link

How Ukraine became a laboratory for western weapons and battlefield innovation Source link

CNN  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Sunday slammed President Joe Biden and his team for their handling of classified documents, announcing on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he is requesting additional information about the situation. “We would never have known about the possession of the classified…

Two words no president ever wants to hear Source link

During the national costume segment of the Miss Universe competition, some contestants chose to make political statements including Miss Ukraine, Viktoria Apanasenko, who made an impact with her reference to the ongoing war. Source link

CNN  —  There has been a dizzying Brexit buzz in Northern Ireland this past week. A prime minister, two foreign ministers, another top minister and a major opposition leader have all visited the country, raising speculation of a long-awaited attempt to break the last major political logjam. The challenge is…

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner group founder, attends a meeting in St. Petersburg on June 16, 2016. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images/FILE) The founder and head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, posted a video Saturday claiming he visited Soledar after it was taken over by his mercenaries “in two weeks.” Kyiv has disputed Wagner’s claim…

During the corona epidemic many of us became amateur mathematicians. How quickly would the number of hospitalized patients rise, and when would herd immunity be achieved? Professional mathematicians were challenged as well, and a researcher at University of Copenhagen became inspired to solve a 30-year-old problem in computer science. The…

Helena Světlá, left, and Anna Rathkopf share a laugh in the hospital in 2021 as Rathkopf holds a mirror for her mother to apply lipstick. It was a small gesture — holding her mother’s hand — that opened photographer Anna Rathkopf’s eyes to the uncomfortable way in which her world…

Americans are spending an extra $72 a month on food because of inflation Source link

Russian strike destroys apartment building in Dnipro, killing at least 20 people, officials say Source link

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner group founder, attends a meeting in St. Petersburg on June 16, 2016. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images/FILE) The founder and head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, posted a video Saturday claiming he visited Soledar after it was taken over by his mercenaries “in two weeks.” Kyiv has disputed Wagner’s claim…

Kathmandu, Nepal CNN  —  At least 32 people were killed on Sunday when an aircraft crashed near central Nepal’s Pokhara, an official said. Seventy-two people – four crew members and 68 passengers – were on board the ATR-72 plane operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines when it crashed, state media outlet…

CNN  —  The vertically shot video published last November shows no weapons, battlefield atrocities or even soldiers. But the sound of a patriotic Russian song reverberating through a church on Kyiv’s famous Lavra monastery grounds seemed to open a new front in Ukraine’s war with Russia. The church belongs to…

Seoul, South Korea CNN  —  It’s an arms race bigger than anything Asia has ever seen – three major nuclear powers and one fast-developing one, the world’s three biggest economies and decades-old alliances all vying for an edge in some of the world’s most contested land and sea areas. In…

R’Bonney Gabriel from the United States was crowned the 71st Miss Universe on Saturday night. Gabriel, who last year became the first Filipino-American to win Miss USA, took the crown ahead of Amanda Dudamel from Venezuela and Andreína Martínez from the Dominican Republic. The pageant was held in New Orleans,…

Written by Hahna Yoon, CNNSeoul, South Korea One of last year’s most successful South Korean TV shows, “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” follows the story of a young autistic woman, Woo Young-woo, who navigates adulthood while winning cases at one of the nation’s top law firms. Already renewed for a second season,…

CNN  —  Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s proposed changes to the Israeli judicial system. Despite pouring rain over the city, police estimated that more than 80,000 people flooded central Tel Aviv’s HaBima square and surrounding…

The CNN film “Navalny” follows Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who was poisoned in August 2020 with a nerve agent during a flight to Moscow. The film paints an intimate portrait of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics and takes viewers inside the harrowing search for answers following his poisoning. When and where to…