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Hong Kong CNN  —  China has declared a “major and decisive victory” in its handling of the coronavirus outbreak that swept the country in recent months following an abrupt relaxation of its “zero-Covid” policy late last year. The ruling Communist Party’s top decision-making body made the assessment during a closed-door…

CNN  —  Mikaela Shiffrin won her seventh career Alpine world championships gold medal on Thursday, after winning the giant slalom in Méribel, France, in the Alps. The American took her overall tally to 13 medals from 16 career world championship races, making her the most successful skier in the modern…

CNN  —  “How is my mother and everyone?” the man on the stretcher asks, speaking calmly into a cell phone. Crying in disbelief, his friend replies: “Everyone is well… they are all waiting for you… I am coming to you.” This was the emotional exchange that followed the rescue of…

European leaders must “seriously consider” providing Kyiv with fighter jets, lawmakers in the European Union parliament said in a resolution adopted Thursday. The resolution marked nearly one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.   “They reaffirm their support for providing military assistance to Ukraine for as long as is necessary and…

Hong Kong CNN  —  China has imposed sanctions on two American defense manufacturers over arms sales to Taiwan, a day after Beijing pledged to take “countermeasures” in response to Washington’s handling of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that entered American airspace and was shot down by US forces earlier this…

CNN  —  The energy crisis triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine could push 141 million people worldwide into extreme poverty, according to a new report published Thursday in the journal Nature Energy. Researchers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, China and the United States modeled the impacts of increased energy…

‘I didn’t fight more, I didn’t scream more’: Michigan professor on shooting Michigan State University assistant professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz tells CNN’s Miguel Marquez about seeing the gunman who killed three students and critically wounded five others. Source link

Belarus claims it won't send troops to Ukraine unless it is attacked, as tensions escalate at border Source link

CNN  —  An Illinois-based club of amateur balloonists says one of its small balloons is “missing in action” after last reporting its location over Alaska on Saturday, the same day the US military shot down an unidentified object in the same region. While the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)…

Reporter says Putin is now traveling by armored train. Hear why Investigative reporter Ilya Rozhdestvensky shares what he’s learned about the armored train that the Dossier Center says Russian President Vladimir Putin is using instead of his private airplane. Source link

CNN  —  A senior FBI official warned secretaries of state from across the US Thursday that Chinese hackers pose a “growing threat” and said their willingness to target the infrastructure of political parties ahead of the 2022 election demonstrates that “we could see more significant Chinese cyber activity against your…

Body cam video shows Louisiana officer begging man to stay alive after shooting him A Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer was arrested on a charge of negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of Alonzo Bagley, an unarmed Black man, Louisiana State Police said. CNN’s Ryan Young reports. Source link

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen speaks to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. Source link

New York CNN  —  The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air, damning messages contained in a Thursday court filing revealed. The…

CNN  —  In February 1992, a sprightly 16-year-old golf prodigy by the name of Tiger Woods made his first PGA Tour start at the Riviera Country Club in California. Thursday – 31 years, 15 major triumphs and 82 PGA Tour wins later – a very different Woods, one pained by…

A woman in a billowy white dress runs through a bright green and yellow field, her long hair streaming behind her as she reunites with the man she loves in “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,” one of the most successful Indian movies of all time. It’s a scene that has been…

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Read this report in Arabic. Story highlights NEW: Chief of ADL says he’s “shocked, saddened but … not surprised” by the attack A teacher and 3 children are shot dead at a Jewish school in Toulouse Security in that region is at the highest possible alert level A French Jewish…

European leaders must “seriously consider” providing Kyiv with fighter jets, lawmakers in the European Union parliament said in a resolution adopted Thursday. The resolution marked nearly one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.   “They reaffirm their support for providing military assistance to Ukraine for as long as is necessary and…

CNN  —  The family of Bruce Willis has announced that the actor is suffering from a form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD for short. In a statement shared Thursday, the 67-year-old star’s family stated that while the news “is painful, it is a relief to finally have a…

On February 10, an unidentified object was shot down in Alaska airspace by a US F-22. This photo from August 2022 shows a similar F-22 Raptor taking off from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. (Airman Seleena Muhammad-Ali/US Air Force) The US military shot down another high altitude object over Lake…

Railcars are seen last week in East Palestine, Ohio. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) Five of the tankers on the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last week were carrying liquid vinyl chloride, which is extremely combustible. A controlled burn was conducted to mitigate the danger and it worked. Authorities assured…

CNN  —  The Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office is investigating FC Barcelona over allegations it made $1.5 million in payments over three years to a company owned by a then-leading official with Spain’s referee committee, CTA. Spanish radio station Cadena SER reported Wednesday that the club made a series of payments to…

Watch Dick Van Dyke stun judges during ‘The Masked Singer’ Fox’s “The Masked Singer” kicked off season 9 with a Sinatra-singing Gnome played by the iconic Dick Van Dyke, who left the flabbergasted Nicole Scherzinger in tears. 01:11 – Source: CNN Business Source link

Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, please call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 to connect with a trained counselor or visit 988lifeline.org. CNN  —  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center “to receive…

President Joe Biden walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. (Evan Vucci/AP) President Joe Biden is speaking now from the White House on the United States’ response to the unidentified high-altitude objects over North American airspace in recent weeks, following the US…

Railcars are seen last week in East Palestine, Ohio. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) Five of the tankers on the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last week were carrying liquid vinyl chloride, which is extremely combustible. A controlled burn was conducted to mitigate the danger and it worked. Authorities assured…

CNN  —  A 17-year-old was dubbed the “miracle girl” when she was pulled alive from the rubble 248 hours after a fatal earthquake that ripped through southern Turkey, as rescue efforts shift to recovery operations ten days on from the disaster. More than 42,000 people have died across Turkey and…