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Year: 2021

Orbán wants a Chinese university in Hungary. Opponents see a chance to turn his nationalist rhetoric against him

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN A derelict plot on the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, might seem like an unusual epicenter for a political earthquake. But that was before Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s populist government announced a controversial plan for a prestigious Shanghai university to open its first overseas campus there in 2024

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Haitians hope ‘the truth will come out’ as foreign investigators probe assassination of their President

By Caitlin Hu, Etant Dupain, Stefano Pozzebon, Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallón, CNN Agents from the United States and other nations are joining the criminal inquiry into the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise following days of dizzying intrigue. Moise was killed Wednesday in his home in a shocking incident for which authorities are still

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Papa Francisco rezó desde la ventana del hospital en su primera aparición pública tras la operación

urielblanco (CNN) — El papa Francisco apareció en público este domingo por primera vez desde que fue operado por diverticulitis de colon la semana pasada, y lo hizo dando su oración semanal del Ángelus desde una ventana del hospital. “Estoy feliz de poder cumplir con la cita dominical del Ángelus, también aquí desde el Policlinico Gemelli”,

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‘New space age’: Hear what Branson said after his historic space flight

SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico — Richard Branson became the first person to ride into space aboard a rocket he helped fund. The supersonic space plane developed by his company, Virgin Galactic, roared into the sky over southern New Mexico Sunday morning, carrying Branson and three fellow crewmembers. Branson successfully returned to earth aboard Virgin’s rocket-powered plane,

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